Help I need a good appetizer recipe for a halloween party?!
Answers: I need a recipe for some sort of dip or something that is finger food!!
HALLOWEEN HERMITS
1 1/2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. each cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg
1 cup currants or dates, chopped
1 cup raisins, chopped
1 cup any kind of nuts, chopped
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons bourbon, rum (or milk for the kiddies!)
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cream together butter and sugar, until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add dry ingredients and baking soda.
Stir in nuts, raisins and chopped currants or dates. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto silicone or parchment-lined baking sheets.
Bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes
Try this
ROCKY ROAD HALLOWEEN SQUARES
1 (12 oz.) pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups dry roasted peanuts
1 10 1/2 oz. pkg. white miniature marshmallows
Assorted soft Halloween candy pieces such as candy corn or M&M'S?
In top of double boiler melt chocolate with milk and butter, remove from heat. In a large bowl, combine nuts and marshmallows. Fold in chocolate and press into a waxed paper lined 13x9 inch pan. Top with candy pieces.
Chill until firm and cut into squares.
Store at room temperature.
or Try this
HOT CRAB DIP
8 oz. Philadelphia cream cheese
3 oz. canned crab (or fresh)
Tabasco sauce or hot pepper sauce to taste
1 tbsp. Rose's lime juice
Sourdough bread cut in chunks for dipping
In saucepan on medium temperature, melt cream cheese. When melted, add drained crab meat and stir. Watch so mixture doesn't scorch. Add hot sauce to taste; add lime juice. Cook until bubbling.
Serve mixture in a fondue to keep warm. Dip bread chunks (skewered). You can make as much as you like by keeping equal parts of crab and cream cheese.
Try a Punch
AWESOME PARTY PUNCH
1 can frozen orange juice
1 can frozen fruit punch
1 can frozen lemonade
1 can frozen rasberry juice
8 cans water
2 (2 l) bottle of ginger ale
Mix together all frozen juices. Add the 8 cans of water. Refrigerate until ready to use.
In punch bowl, fill halfway with punch mixture and top other half up with ginger ale. Add ice, if desired
or
CHICKEN NACHO DIP
4 large cans white chunk chicken breast, drained
1 package cream cheese
3/4 large container of sour cream
1/2 cup salsa
1 small bottle of Ortega Taco Sauce
1 8 oz bag of shredded taco or Colby cheese
pinch of hot cayenne pepper and garlic powder (optional)
nacho chips
Preheat oven to 375F.
Combine chicken, cream cheese, and sour cream in bowl. Spread mixture in an 8X12 inch baking pan. Sprinkle lightly with a pinch of hot pepper and garlic powder, if desired.
Pour salsa and Ortega sauce over chicken mixture and top with cheese.
Bake in oven until cheese is melted. Serve warm or cold with nacho chips.
Servings: Makes 12.
deviled eggs with capers and tarragon(its a namenot how its make)
ingredients:
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Ingredients6 hard-boiled eggs
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 1/2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons minced celery
4 teaspoons chopped fresh tarragon
1 tablespoon minced drained capers
2 teaspoons minced shallot
method
Sliced celery PreparationShell eggs, then cut in half lengthwise. Transfer yolks to small bowl and mash with fork. Mix in oil, mayonnaise, and mustard. Stir in minced celery, tarragon, capers, and shallot. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Spoon yolk mixture into whites. Garnish each with celery slice. (Can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover loosely and refrigerate.)
You can mix salsa and sour cream for Nacho or Tortilla chips...mix the two together but save a dolop of sour cream for the middle, then put an olive or something on top to make an eyeball dip!
I would do these they are sooo cute
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Cheese Pumpkins-
8 tablespoons smoked Cheddar cold pack cheese food (from 8-oz container), well chilled
2 teaspoons finely chopped peanuts
4 butter-flavored pretzel spindles or sticks, broken in half
16 tiny pieces fresh parsley leaves
1 . Line small serving plate with waxed paper. Roll each level tablespoon cold pack cheese food into a ball; place on waxed paper-lined serving plate. Refrigerate 10 to 15 minutes for easier handling.
2 . With end of toothpick, draw ridges around balls to resemble pumpkins. Dip bottoms of cheese balls in chopped peanuts.
3 . Just before serving, insert pretzel halves into cheese balls for pumpkin stems. Decorate with parsley for leaves. Store in refrigerator.
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You can make any dip Halloweeny by serving it out of a small pumpkin that's been hollowed out.
Festive Pumpkin Dip -
12 ounces cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup canned pumpkin
2 tablespoons taco seasoning mix
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1/3 cup chopped dried beef
1/3 cup chopped green pepper
1/3 cup chopped sweet red pepper
1 can (2-1/4 ounces) sliced ripe olives, drained
1 round loaf (1 pound) Italian or pumpernickel bread
Fresh vegetables, crackers or corn chips
In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, pumpkin, taco seasoning and garlic powder until smooth. Stir in beef, peppers and olives. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Just before serving, cut top off bread; scoop out bread from inside, leaving a 1/2-in. shell (save the bread from inside to make croutons or bread crumbs or save for another use). Fill shell with cream cheese mixture. Serve with vegetables, crackers or corn chips. Yield: 3 cups
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Smoky Cottage Cheese Dip-
1 c creamed cottage cheese
1 (3 oz) pkg cream cheese
2 TBS milk
1 tsp minced onion
1/2 c minced ripe olives
1/2 tsp liquid smoke
1/4 tsp garlic salt
Beat together cottage cheese and cream cheese and milk. Blend in remaining ingredients.
Here's a great appetizer plate for Halloween. Bean dip is topped with guacamole and sour cream forms a spooky spider web design. Serve with tortilla chips.
You can easily make this a low fat snack by using Low Fat Guacamole , low fat sour cream and baked tortilla chips.
Tip: Make Halloween shaped tortilla chips by using cookies cutters to cut shapes out of tortillas, then deep fry them until crisp. You can also make low fat tortilla chips by baking your cutouts in A 350° F oven. In either case, sprinkle with salt. Chips made of blue corn tortillas look especially spooky.
Ingredients:
double batch of Mexican-style bean dip
single batch guacamole
or single batch low fat guacamole
1/4 C sour cream
or low fat sour cream tortilla chips
or baked tortilla chips
Directions:
Spread a layer of bean dip over a large round plate. Carefully spread a layer of guacamole over this. Put sour cream in a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip and pipe concentric circles on the guacamole. Take a toothpick or wooden skewer and drag it through the sour cream from the center outward to make spider web design.
Note: If you don't have a pastry bag, put sour cream in a small plastic Ziplock bag, cut off a small piece of the corner and pipe sour cream this way.
go to costco they have tons of them in the freezer section and they have trays there as well that would serve well for a party. good luck .