Designing an entire menu for a Halloween meal isn’t that difficult with the right recipes and tips.
How to make a Halloween meal from starter to dessert?
Most of the time on Halloween, it’s the decor that gets us into the spooky mood of the Day of the Dead, minus the plates. Indeed, it can sometimes be difficult to create terrifying dishes from starter to dessert that perfectly combine taste and ultra-slick visuals. However, sometimes all it takes is a few little tricks to invite zombie eyes, evil pumpkins, or bloody fingers to your Halloween party.
Ideas for an Easy Halloween Meal
As a starter, we start strong with radish eyes and crushed brains. The right tip? Dig out round radishes to slip in pieces of olives to resemble eyes, and add a drizzle of red food coloring to your Greek yogurt-based dip to give the illusion of blood.
Next are hot dogs garnished with cut fingers. Here, the trick couldn’t be simpler, you just need to dig a nail into a Knacki type sausage, removing the surface layer from it. For the joints, simple incisions are sufficient. Also, the more ripped the base of the sausage looks, the better! We don’t forget that on Halloween, torture surgeons are at the top of the bill. So we think more of the world of Tim Burton than ER.
For the main course, we rely heavily on the pumpkin head pie. Nothing very difficult here, since you just have to dig holes in its upper paste to form a visual of a demonic cucurbit. Where this recipe is good is that you can vary the appearance and face of the squash as you wish. Laughing eyes, rounded, triangular, with a pupil, or even a toothless mouth, all the options are possible.
Finally, for a stunning dessert, why not slip cat’s tongues labeled “RIP” into simple glasses of chocolate mousse like tombstones? To complete the story, don’t forget to grate dark chocolate on top of the mousse to recall the earth.
And since images are often worth more than words, here are photos of your next Halloween menu, which will make your guests shiver.
Read also: 15 bewitching Halloween cocktail ideas
Aperitif eye of radish and crushed brains
- 4 people
- Level: Easy
- 20 minutes of preparation
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- See the recipe: Eye of radish and crushed brains aperitif
Halloween Finger Hot Dog
- 6 persons
- Level: Very easy
- 15 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Halloween Finger Hot Dog
Pumpkin head pie
- 6 persons
- Level: Easy
- 15 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Pumpkin head pie
Tombstone-style chocolate verrines
- 6 persons
- Level: Easy
- 30 minutes of preparation
- Cheap
- See the recipe: Tombstone-style chocolate verrines