Kiddy food for Halloween

You don’t have to be holding a children’s party to give your kids a special treat for Halloween, just serve up a special meal, full of ghoulish and grim ingredients, and they’ll fall on it like werewolves.

The easiest thing of all to produce is blue spaghetti. Simply take some normal dried spaghetti and add blue food colouring to the water you boil it in. Don’t stint yourself on the blue, or it will end up a nasty grey colour, not ghoulish, just ugly! This is best served with something like a tomato and meatball sauce (see eyeballs below) to offset the colour.
Bat scones – use your usual scone or gingerbread recipe but cut the shapes by hand with a sharp knife or with a special cookie cutter; you’ll find plenty in shops at this time of year. Use currents for bat eyes and when the scones or gingerbread biscuits are cold, decorate them with painting icing, adding fangs, squinting eyes and other horrible details.
Eyeballs – for pasta dishes or just on their own for supper. Buy shop meatballs and cook as recipe, then cut them in half with a sharp knife and put them cut side down. On each half place a small oval of mozzarella cheese, cut with a knife, don’t worry if it melts, melting eyeballs are even more scary! Lay small pieces of red or green paper in the centre for pupils; if you put them at a variety of angles you can create scowls, squints and other fierce expressions. You can make eyebrows on the plate with tomato or brown sauce or mustard.
Gruesome jelly – make up ordinary jelly in glass tumblers but put some well washed plastic beetles and centipedes into it to float around.

Kiddy food for Halloween

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