Halloween Party Food

Halloween Party Recipes To Make Great Halloween Desserts

Halloween Party Parfait Recipe

2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup orange juice
1 cup fat-free milk
1 (8 ounce) package reduced-fat cream cheese, cubed
1/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel
1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges
1 (20 ounce) can unsweetened crushed pineapple, undrained
1 (8 ounce) container reduced-fat whipped topping, thawed
1/2 cup chocolate graham cracker crumbs, divided

Combine gelatin and orange juice and let stand for 5 minutes. Heat milk until boiling and add to gelatin. Transfer mixture to blender and blend until well blended. Add cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, orange peel, and blend again. Drain oranges, reserving the juice in a small dish. Add pineapple and reserved orange juice to gelatin mixture and blend again. Fold in the whipped topping.

Divide half the oranges into 8 dessert dishes. Layer with half the gelatin mix and half the cracker crumbs. Repeat gelatin, crumbs, and top with mandarin oranges. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours. Before serving, sprinkle with more crumbs and maybe a large dollop of whipped cream topping and a Halloween candy on top.

SPOOKtacular Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe

Halloween party food at its best!

Crust Ingredients:

1-3/4 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted

Filling Ingredients:

3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3 eggs
1 (15 ounce) can solid pack pumpkin
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

Topping Ingredients:

2 cups sour cream
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Melted chocolate
piping icing in various colors
spider candies (optional)

Instructions:

Combine crushed wafer crumbs and butter. Press crumb mixture into bottom of and sides of your greased spring-form pan to form your cheesecake crust. In a large mixing bowl beat cream cheese and sugars until creamy smooth. Add in the eggs and beat on low speed. Whisk in the pumpkin, cornstarch, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice (a.k.a. your secret ingredient). Pour mixture into crust and bake at 350°F for 1 hour. Cool for 10 minutes or so before doing anything else to the cheesecake, but don't turn off the oven just yet.

Mix up the topping ingredients and spread this over top of the filling. Return cheesecake to oven for 6 minutes to melt. Carefully run a butter knife around the edge of the pan first to loosen the crust to make release easier later on. Allow to cool to room temperature and refrigerate overnight.

In the morning, remove the spring-form sides, pipe on spider web decorations, and place a candy spider in each little web (try to space them so that each slice has a spider). Pipe small spiders from brown or black icing if candy spiders are unavailable; tiny strips of black licorice can be cut and used for the legs.

You can slice the cheesecake before decorating, if you want to make all the decorated pieces appear even.

Halloween Party Mix Recipe

This recipe for party mix is also great for serving at fall football parties and Thanksgiving Day celebrations. The best part about this Halloween party food is you can make it in a crock pot, leaving the oven free for making other dishes.

4 cups Wheat Chex® or Shreddies® cereal
4 cups Cheerios® cereal
3 cups pretzel sticks
1 (12 ounce) can salted peanuts
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon celery salt
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt

Set the crock pot to low heat. Mix up the cereals, pretzels, and peanuts, and put in the crock pot. Combine butter, parmesan cheese, and salts; drizzle over the dry mixture and toss for coating. Put the lid on the crock pot and cook on low for 3 to 4 hours. Stir at least once each hour to avoid burning the mix and to ensure it all cooks evenly.

Crunchy Broomstick Appetizer Dip

1/4 cup mayonnaise
3/4 cup plain low-fat yogurt
2 teaspoons tarragon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1/8 teaspoon thyme
2 teaspoons chili sauce
1 celery stick, chopped

Simply combine all ingredients and chill for at least one hour before serving. This dip is perfect in the center of your veggie tray. To make the serving table appear extra festive for Halloween night, scoop the dip into a small hollowed-out mini pumpkin or squash for serving.

Besides veggies, use Halloween-shaped cookie cutters to cut mini finger sandwiches and use the dip as a spread on those. Delicious.