Weekly What’s Cooking with Melissa

I believe Halloween and harvest parties require fun food. I say “fun food” because the snacks and treats don’t need to be scary or gross. This week I’d like to share some ideas to change ordinary kid-friendly foods into fun Halloween foods without recipes!

1)  Candy Corn Cocktail – You will need: clear cups, 1 can of pineapple chunks, 1 can of mandarin oranges and whipped topping. Drain fruits then layer: 1st layer pineapple chunks and 2nd layer mandarin oranges then spoon on whipped topping. If you’d like, garnish with a piece of actual candy corn.

2)  Hard boiled ghosts – Hard boil eggs. When cooled, draw ghost faces on them with sharpies.

3)  Ants or spiders on a log – Cut celery into 3 inch pieces and then fill with peanut butter or any nut butter. Place a few raisins on top.

4)  Jack-O-Lantern Clementines – With a sharpie, draw faces on them to resemble carved jack-o-lanterns.

5)  Deviled egg spiders – Make deviled eggs as normal. Cut pitted black olives in half and place one half, cut side down, onto the center of the yolk mixture. Cut the other olive half into 6-8 slices. Put the slices on each side of the half black olive on the deviled egg half to make spider legs.