It’s that boo-tiful time of year again - when pumpkins glow brighter than our social lives and everyone suddenly becomes a part-time vampire. Halloween: the only night you can eat an entire bag of candy and call it ‘research’.
Ghosts moan about haunting rent prices, skeletons can’t stop rattling about inflation and witches are still brewing over last year’s broomstick fuel costs. If you see a zombie, don’t panic - it’s probably just someone before their morning coffee.
So, grab your ghoul-friends, carve out some fun, and remember: if you’ve got it, haunt it!
Here are five frightfully delish recipes to make this Halloween:
This topsy-turvy spider web cake spins your dessert world upside down - three stacked orange-tinged layers, iced in creamy orange and laced with a white chocolate spider-web. With pops of coconut, sour cream tang and a scenic ‘web’ finale, it’s spooky, silky and sweetly theatrical. Dare to slice?
Spooky sushi balls brew a frightfully fun bite: sticky sushi rice transforms into ghosts, Frankenstein logs, black-cat balls, jack-o’-lantern or mummy shapes. Smoked salmon, nori, avocado and ham lend eerie details. This Halloween twist on sushi is equal parts creepy and cute - no tricks, just tasty treats.
Tombstone cupcakes are the grave-est treat: red velvet cakes topped with creamy icing, dipped in chocolate-crumb ‘dirt’ and finished with mini cookie tombstones. With each bite, expect a deliciously spooky crumb and eerie elegance - funeral food you actually want to devour.
Mummy sausage rolls wrap flavour in fright: grilled chipolatas encased in golden puff pastry ‘bandages’, with cheese-disc eyes affixed and writing icing for scary smiles. Serve warm with tomato sauce! These spooky snacks are sure to un-roll drools, not ghouls.
Eyeball spaghetti serves screams on a plate: spaghetti swirled in rich tomato sauce, then topped with bocconcini and stuffed peppers arranged as bulging ‘eyes’, with sliced olives for pupils. It’s gooey, gory and gloriously ghoulish - just the kind of dish that’ll make your dinner guests lose sight of restraint!
