If You're Throwing A Halloween Party, You Need To Make These 7 Treats

Make it a graveyard smash.

Serve up a freak show with these shockingly easy Halloween treats!

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1. Pumpkin Head Dip

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MATERIALS
Carved pumpkin

Parchment paper

Toothpicks

Bowl of salsa

Guacamole

Dry ice

Chips

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut the top off a pumpkin just smaller than a serving bowl. Scoop out the inside and carve out a face with a large mouth.

2. Place the pumpkin on a large cutting board and slide a piece of triangle-like piece of parchment paper through the mouth. Secure it with a toothpick.

3. Fill the serving bowl with salsa and place on top of the pumpkin.

4. Line the parchment paper with a layer of guacamole. The jack-o-lantern should now look like it's throwing up (what a jackass, amiright). Scatter a generous amount of chips around the guacamole.

4. Place a cup of dry ice inside the pumpkin.

5. Just as the guests are beginning to arrive, lift up the serving bowl to pour water over the dry ice for a steady flow of spooky fog.

2. Bleeding Vampire Drink

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MATERIALS

1 cup water

2 tablespoons grenadine

1 tablespoon red food coloring

Plastic vampire teeth

Pipette or eyedropper

Lemon lime soda

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Combine water, grenadine, and food coloring.

2. Using a pipette or an eyedropper, fill the inner chamber of plastic vampire teeth with the grenadine mixture.

3. Freeze the filled vampire teeth.

4. Fill a clear glass with lemon lime soda or any other clear carbonated beverage.

5. Balance the fangs of the frozen vampire teeth on the rim of the glass.

6. The grenadine ice cube will melt into the drink and slowly turn the drink red.

3. Shattered Glass Cupcakes

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MATERIALS

2 cups sugar

¾ cup water

⅔ cup light corn syrup

Food thermometer

Baking tray

Parchment paper

Red velvet cupcake

Red gel frosting

INSTRUCTIONS

1. In a medium-sized pot combine sugar, water and light corn syrup.

2. Bring the mixture to a boil and stir. Once it reaches 300°F (148°C), take it off the burner.

3. Carefully pour the hot sugar mixture onto a pan covered in parchment paper. Smooth with a spatula.

6. Let the sugar mixture cool for at least 2 hours.

7. Slam the sheet pan on the counter to shatter the sugar glass.

8. Carefully insert the sugar shards into red velvet cupcakes.

9. Garnish the sugar glass shards with red food gel.

4. Meathead Charcuterie

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MATERIALS

Plastic skull

Plastic wrap

Prosciutto

Pickled olives

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cover a plastic skull with plastic food wrap.

2. Use thin slices of prosciutto to cover the plastic skull. Leave the eye sockets, nose hole, and teeth uncovered.

3. Carefully make an incision on the plastic around the eye sockets. Insert pickled olives in the sockets to create the eyes.

4. Place the meathead on a platter and add cheese and crackers.

5. Rotten Deviled Eggs

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MATERIALS

8 hard-boiled eggs

Large storage bag

2 tablespoons black food coloring

1 cup water

3 tablespoons mayonnaise

1 tablespoon mustard

1 tablespoon green food coloring

Black olives

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Use a spoon and carefully create cracks on eight hard-boiled eggs.

2. Place the cracked eggs in a large bag. Add black food coloring and water.

3. Close the bag, mix around and set aside for 15 minutes. Be careful not to break the eggs further.

4. Dip the eggs in clean water to clean off the excess dye and peel to reveal the cracked design.

5. Cut the eggs in half and separate the egg yolks from the egg whites.

6. Combine the egg yolks with mayonnaise, mustard and green food coloring.

7. Pipe the egg yolk mixture into the egg whites.

8. Cut black olives in half. Reserve one side to create the body of a spider and then slice the other to create legs.

6. Skull Candy Apple

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MATERIALS

Delicious red apple

Cake pop stick

Melted white chocolate

Red gel frosting

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Insert a cake pop stick through the top of an apple.

2. Using a piping bag and thin round nozzle, draw the outline of a skull's eyes and nose, then a squiggly line underneath. Fill in the outlines.

3. Drip red gel frosting around the top of the apple to create the look of oozing blood.

7. Hot Dog Fingers

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MATERIALS

Hot dogs

Small knife

Ketchup

Hot dog buns

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Carve out dashes across your hot dogs with a paring knife to make the knuckles.

2. At the top, draw a square with the paring knife and gently slice that square out to make the fingernail.

3. Cook the hot dogs and serve in a ~bloodied~ bun (it's ketchup, don't be gross).

Watch how to make all seven treats here.

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