Anyone planning to do a Halloween tea for DGC?

I did one for my own children and friends, years ago. Worms (spagetti cooked with red colouring), witch's fingers (sausages), Witch's teeth (white cheese cut into tooth shapes), witch's brew (lemonade with purple colouring) and some other things - can't remember all, but it was very popular. Food colours are very useful!

No plans as yet for this year, but I have in the past made mummies from hotdog sausages wrapped in puff pastry strips and broomsticks from twiglets with cut up cheese slices wrapped round and tied with chives. Witches’ blood tomato soup served in the plastic cauldron. Ghoulish faces on mini pizzas. Pinterest has some great ideas.

What a lovely idea! And such fun for children. I think I'll try the "mummies" and the "witches' fingers.

You can also make witch's finger cookies! A friend of my parents' used to make them. While I don't have an exact recipe, I recall them as being similar to a sugar cookie, in a log shape, with some pink food colouring smeared at one end (simulate blood) and an almond sliver at the other (fingernail).

Hadn't thought to, but a great idea! I have GD for tea once a week & always try to do something different.
I vaguely recall something in jelly in a magazine for dessert?

No - but I think the sons and their families are doing something - I think I’ve been invited but no time given yet ?

As a Hallowe'en party game one year we made spiders out of plastic golf training balls (the hollow ones with holes in), pipe cleaners and sticky eyes.
The children really enjoyed it ?️

We’ve been invited over to theirs. Two excited children will be dressed up and ready to ‘spook’ us once we’re in their hallway!
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My DH birthday so we will have a cake etc but nothing to do with Hallowe’en. My daughter tricks up their house and hands out lollies to the local kids, too American for me. I prefer the Christian festivals personally.

I used to have lots of Halloween parties when my daughters were growing up,many happy memories!
There are so many brilliant ideas online. Two of my favourites are.
Tea cake spiders. All you need are a pack of the chocolate tea cakes with the marshmallows in the centre and some strawberry laces. The more solid laces are best.
Simply cut the laces to the right size and attach to the tea cake as legs with either some icing or melted chocolate. Draw the eyes and mouth of the spider with an icing pen. Leave to set.
For a ghost cake cook a sponge in a pudding basin and drape with white fondant icing. The eyes/ mouth can either be drawn on with black icing or cut out of black fondant icing.
For savoury the mummies fingers are yummy. You can also decorate mini pizzas with scary faces using olives/pepper etc.
Particularly nice is pumpkin soup. Fry pumpkin in a little butter with onion,garlic and a red or yellow pepper. Add fresh or dried chilli to taste . Add stock ,simmer until tender and then blend until smooth.

Hadn’t thought about doing this but DD and little family coming to stay for a couple of days so think I will do a gruesome tea for DGS!

Absolutely not! Am sick of the way this ghastly American has become such a big thing. It’s not celebrated in any way in our family. When our children were little DH used to entertain them at the back of the house with “no trick or treat” poster on the door while I sat in with an elderly Neighbour who was so frightened by children coming to her house after dark.
We have no trick or treat posters for our door and our lovely young neighbours leave us alone.
Why celebrate evil? We need good even more so at the mo IMHO

No...absolutely don’t acknowledge it at all.

My GC ' celebrate' it . Not my thing though!!!!!

Evil? A fun little tea for the children? I don’t think so for a moment.
Thanks to all who have suggested food items, I now have some good ideas.??

And it’s not American either (not that I can ever understand why “American” is often seen as a negative concept). Halloween, or a similar festival at this time of year, has been marked in one form or another in the British Isles for centuries!

Hope your party goes well, lemongrove.

We ducked for apples at our parties as well, something I remember doing as a child. It might be a bit messy, though!

Dunno lemongrove, I make spider cookies topped with Maltesers, I ate 3 at once last year, obviously the devils work.

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Absolutely not! Am sick of the way this ghastly American has become such a big thing. It’s not celebrated in any way in our family. When our children were little DH used to entertain them at the back of the house with “no trick or treat” poster on the door while I sat in with an elderly Neighbour who was so frightened by children coming to her house after dark.
We have no trick or treat posters for our door and our lovely young neighbours leave us alone.
Why celebrate evil? We need good even more so at the mo IMHO

It’s really not evil - just a bit of spooky fun for the children, with sweets thrown in.

I did it a couple of years ago. I served hot dogs, frankfurters and lots of tomato sauce - described as Finger Food -.

Also served a dish which has become a Halloween standard for some reason. Blackberry and apples stewed together and served with custard with green custar, ordinary custard and green colouring,. I named it 'Slime and Grime'.

Names are very important with Halloween food.

'with green custar', text surplus to requirements.

We don't have anyone in the family close by at the moment so no Halloween parties but some great ideas on here for food. Our Halloween parties used to be a highlight of the year - everyone all dressed up and children allowed to stay up and about in the dark. Somewhere we have a hilarious picture of two ghosts, a witch and a devil disappearing down our neighbours' garden path, holding plates of burgers, baked potatoes and stuffed apples and the witch balancing her broomstick over her shoulder and under her chin to leave her hands free.

I don't mind Halloween at all, but have no time for Trick-or-Treating - I might be a bit biased after having my windscreen showered with eggs one night some years ago when I was driving home from work on a busy road. It was a nightmare to get clean.

Thank you maggie ? I think the children will really enjoy it, and the adults may do as well.
Galaxy ah the old excuse ‘twas the devil made me do it’!?
I think maybe you are well named for eating chocolate at any opportunity.???
In fact, a Halloween tea is a better idea than children knocking on doors really, and they will still dress up.
Thought I would download a few spooky songs too, Monster Mash etc.

Monica ?