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Disgusting recipes? Halloween is the time to dust off your disgusting recipes book!
The celebration of Halloween is marked by children, going out at dusk and in to the evening, making the rounds of the neighborhood to search out treats. Parents host Halloween parties, with a pizza or hot dogs for dinner, to offset the anticipated large amounts of sugary sweets, coming home in the kid’s full Halloween baskets, for dessert.
While there’s got to be some appealing and nutritious food, part of the Halloween fun comes in serving some food items from your ‘disgusting recipes’ repertoire. Don’t have any disgusting recipes? Well, we do! While these dishes are perfectly good to eat, they are intentionally revolting in appearance. Typically, kids dare one another to partake of one of these … all part of the celebration. Try these out, one more revolting than the next!
Each of these disgusting Halloween recipe ideas are easy to make. All you’ll need are a box of assorted food colorings, a visit to the Halloween decorations section of the drug store or supermarket, for a few ‘garnishes’, and a package or two of ready to bake cookie dough. The rest of your disgusting recipe ingredients are probably already in the frig or cupboards.
I was introduced to green milk one Halloween by a friend’s Mom. She was really into the Halloween trickery. She served up a plate of cookies and got a carton of milk and clear glasses. Imagine our horror when the milk came out of the carton, green! We were just 12 and we thought this was some festering science project. Her secret? Just a few drops of green food coloring. For best effect, don’t lace the milk too heavily with the coloring. You want it to look genuinely bad.
Blue tapioca pudding cups, garnished with a plastic ‘bloody eyeball’ meets all of the criteria for Halloween disgusting recipes. Some kids, who aren’t fans of normal tapioca pudding, usually object to the tapioca’s ‘fish eyes’. The blue tint and garnish will probably put off the rest of the kids who normally enjoy this treat.
Our next idea: bake up a batch of (or buy) some plain sugar cookies. With a tube of red cake decorating gel, paint the cookies with ‘drops of blood’, allowing some of the drops to slide down the edge of the cookie. This enhances the effect, as the kids will have to pick up the cookie by its edge.
Punch: made with a combination of orange and yellow juices, this punch tastes great! Once you cook up a package of fine Japanese rice noodles (look in the Oriental food section), divide them into three portions, using your food coloring to dye these threadlike noodles a fire-engine red, a deep green and vibrant blue, your lovely punch recipe is transformed. These noodles are somewhat transparent and tend to float eerily around and through the liquid, like little worms. Toss in blue dyed ice cubes and stir the punch well and often, with each serving. A couple of plastic eyeballs and spiders floating on top completes this disgusting recipe.
As easy Halloween party food goes, these disgusting recipes can’t be beat. They’re all safe to eat and provide the right Halloween spirit to your party. The plastic eyeballs, spiders and such double as party favors. Happy Halloween!
