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Calling All Ghouls and Ghosts
Throw a Halloween Party Adults and Kids Will Love
By Donna Smith
Kids Love Sandwiches
Sandwiches are always a welcome addition, especially at parties with children on the guest list. With a cookie cutter, cut the bread into spooky shapes like pumpkins, bats, cats, moons or ghosts. Great fillings would include chicken salad, pimento cheese, ham and cheese or peanut butter and jelly. How about taking a hollowed out round loaf of bread and filling it with chicken or tuna salad? When cutting the bread, save the round top to serve as a lid. With a sharp knife, cut a jack-o-lantern face on the front of the bread (make sure not to cut all the way through). Place the "pumpkin" in the center of a tray and put the bread you've cut into shapes around it.
A Creepy Vegetable Tray
Make a ghoulish vegetable tray with edible fingers, eyeballs, brains and bugs. For "fingers," take baby carrots and put a dab of cream cheese on the tip, then press an almond into the cream cheese. For the "brains," simply take a head of cauliflower and separate into florets. The "eyeballs" are made from a radish and a raisin. Simply peel away the red part on one side of the radish. Make a small hole with a toothpick in the end and push a raisin firmly into the hole to make a great bloodshot eyeball!