The food for the twins' party last year was so fun! I got loads of ideas from Pinterest and some were easier than others! The banana ghosts were the easiest, just chop them in half, draw some spooky faces on and stand them up on a plate. Job done. Same with the hard boiled eggs - boil them, draw on faces and they're ready to serve.
The witches broomsticks were tricky - Nik made these out of cheese strings (NOT my first choice of cheese but this was style over substance clearly), shredded to make the broom ends and straight pretzels inserted in, tied with a chive. The pretzels were hard to find, good old M&S came up trumps there and the cheese kept splitting where he pushed them in but he did such a great job! I made the witches fingers out of cocktail sausages with flaked almonds stuck on with tomato chutney to make bloody fingernails. The vomiting watermelon was easy, just chop off the top, scoop out the melon and turn it upside down, carve a mouth and place the watermelon bits and other fruits coming out of the mouth on a big plate.
I've already written about the epic saga of the cakes - they looked pretty awesome though and took me ages so I'm sharing them again!
I had cheese balls in a big bowl with a scary ladle, Twiglets in a skull goblet and I cut pumpkin shapes out of raw carrot which was really easy too, just cut the shape out of one side before you slice them. I ran out of time to carve the big pumpkins though!
Oh and we also had a "poison" bar for the kids and grown ups. Coloured orange juice for kids and green dyed gin or blue vodka for the adults! The red one is some Christmas liqueur I made long ago!
I just love coming up with spooky ideas for Halloween! Tell me if you have any great ideas to share, I'd love to see photos if you try any of these too!
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