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You can make food to look like anything, including things no one would ever eat. All these suggestions come with recipes and instructions. Remember, for a scary Halloween party, presentation is everything.
To start off your party, offer your guests some White Chocolate Sugar Skulls. Kathy designed these for Dia de los Muertos, but they work pretty well for Halloween, too. More cute than disturbing, they set your guests up for worse things to come.
The Bloody Brain is an appropriately gruesome cocktail. The recipe, from Flickr user boomette, contains schnapps, grenadine, and Irish cream. The trick is in pouring the cream to keep it in a “brain” shape.
Don’t these Eerie Eyeballs look delicious? They look amazingly like eyeballs, but the ingredients are marshmallow, gelatin, and cream cheese. Another recipe on the same page tells you how to make Awful Arachnids from icing.
Awful Edible Fleshworms make a great entree. Under the Alien larval appearance lies a delicious pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon!
What does a Kitty Litter Cake have to do with Halloween? Hmm, we decorate with black cats at Halloween, and it looks pretty gross. But there is nothing in this recipe that’s not edible. And of course it’s served in a brand-new “pan”. What you see is actually cookie crumbs and Tootsie Rolls. Kristian Hoffman has the recipe.
Barbara Jo and Barbara May love horror films and cakes, and have a website about each. Occasionally, they combine these hobbies to make masterpiece desserts, like this Killer Rats Cake, which comes with illustrated instructions. They also did a Zombie Cake and a Thorax Cake. See more cakes at Do It Myself, and horror movie reviews at They’re Coming, Barbara!
The Bleeding Human Heart dessert looks like something that should be in an organ-donor cooler, but it’s made of gelatin, with blood inside made of grenadine and corn syrup. The presentation is important; be sure to use a large butcher knife to slice the molded gelatin to achieve the proper flow of blood when serving. This recipe is part of a page with lots more ghoulish recipes.
If you serve any of these dishes, you may want to warn your guests about “surprising food” when you invite them. You don’t want people to leave hungry and possibly sick!
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OMG! These are beyond awesome! *Is looking up all the sites.*
posted by Yesenia on 10-18-2007 at 2:33 pm
These are GREAT!!
posted by Alicia on 10-18-2007 at 9:01 pm
I think this is great but then I have a warped since of humor… LOL
posted by Ernie White on 10-28-2007 at 1:57 am
Every year, for our Halloween office party, I make a Panna Cotta brain, which was featured on the show “Good Eats”. The first year, only a few bites were taken. The second year, about a quarter of it was gone. This year, all I had left was about a quarter of the left hemisphere. Totally awesome. Next year, I expect it to all be gone.
My supervisor made the Kitty Litter cake. It was gruesome, yet tasty!
posted by Stephanie on 11-2-2007 at 12:02 am
I tried the brain cocktail before…. i couldn’t choke it down.
posted by Laura on 11-14-2007 at 5:33 pm
Its not that gross.
In fact i think the only part that would disgust me about these is the painstaking effort it takes to make them…
I have to hand it to chefs… i never thought food could be so interesting.
Art for the soul
posted by Josh on 10-24-2008 at 8:41 am
When my youngest was in Kindergarten we saw the recipe for the litter box cake and he wanted me to make it for his school Halloween party. It actually tastes great, one little hint about making it — use soft fugge instead of tootsie rolls. The poop looks better, and you can make some “nutty”
posted by Lorelei on 10-24-2008 at 9:41 am
My mum used to have a brain shaped gelatin mold she got out of a medical gift supply catalog. For the substance we’d always use peach gelatin with cool whip mixed in, then stick large googly eyes on the front. Took it to a halloween party on year and nobody would touch it!!
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posted by Korin on 10-24-2008 at 1:09 pm
Cool, cool, COOL post!! This gives me so many good ideas! I love the Thorax Cake, the shading on the small intestine is incredible. While looking at the recipe for fleshworms, I found a whole cannibal-themed dinner and a cool way to make a skeleton look “charred”. Please keep the morbid posts coming!
posted by Anthea on 10-24-2008 at 1:42 pm
Grusome foods.
posted by PIZAZ on 10-30-2008 at 5:09 pm