"halloween food" news and stories

When I think of Halloween, I think about candied apples, candy corn, and chocolates. This holiday drives my sweet tooth crazy!

One of my favorite activities during every holiday is discovering the many festive ways to celebrate using food. With all the candy you can want at your disposal, Halloween is the perfect time to concoct sweet gastronomical delights. Whether or not you're going to a Halloween party, you won't want to miss these fun delicious candy creations and ornaments:

1. Candied apples
2. Haunted gingerbread house
3. Owl brownie pops
4. Pumpkin brownie pops
5. Caramel-dipped apples
6. Bat and cobweb cookies
   
7. Martha Stewart's boo-tiful cake
8. Shrunken pears

What are some of your favorite homemade sweets during Halloween?

For me, pumpkins conjure up memories of going pumpkin picking, and going on hay rides, drinking hot apple cider, and eating as many candy apples as possible. When I reminisce the days of my childhood when I'd paint faces on Halloween pumpkins, I think about how unfortunate it was that I never cooked them.

Growing up, pumpkins were merely symbolic of the season. Many people, like myself when I was younger, are not aware of the many different ways pumpkins can be consumed besides in a pumpkin pie. Pumpkins are a type of squash. They're pleasantly sweet.

Below are 8 culinary approaches to the pumpkin:

1. Pumpkin and yellow split pea soup
2. Pumpkin lasagne
3. Pumpkin flan with spiced pumpkin seeds
4. Pumpkin nutmeg dinner rolls
5. Pumpkin seed brittle
6. Pumpkin risotto
7. Oven-roasted pumpkin
   
8. Pumpkin custard profiteroles with maple caramel

I used to love those plastic vampire teeth when I was a kid. Of course, this was before we had the technology to make them glow in the dark. They were just white. I think if I had glow in the dark ones I would have warn them all year round and not just around Halloween.

This recipe comes from CupcakeRecipe.net, and it's for Punk Glow in the Dark Halloween Cupcakes. She takes two flat-topped cupcakes, lots of icing, a jelly bean, and those white fangs to create a rather wild looking punk rock vampire cupcake. And Punk Rock Vampire Cupcake would make for an awesome band name.

This is finger food.

Literally.

From Boston.com (adapted from CDKitchen), a recipe for Frightful Finger Cookies are perfect to serve at a Halloween-themed party )and freak your guests out). I think they're almond-flavored, considering the recipe includes almond extract and almond slivers. The slivers are for the fingernails, by the way.

I'll usually think of any excuse to eat pizza. New episode of my favorite TV show is on tonight? I'll order a pizza! Won $50? Order a pizza! Arbor Day? Pizza time!

So Halloween is just a perfect a night as any other to have some pizza. This one from Betty Crocker you make yourself. The giant slab of cheese in spider-shapes placed on top of each slice gives it that Halloween look. Maybe you can add some black olives so it really looks Halloweeny.*

Note: you'll need Halloween cookie cutters for this recipe, unless you're really handy with a knife.

*Halloweeny?