Today we went to our first ever halloween party. Some friends of ours have two boys with birthdays falling in the weeks either side of October 31st, so it’s the perfect excuse for a halloween themed party.
Not having grown up with it, I think the concept of halloween is a rather scary affair for little ones. There is altogether too much blood / undead creatures / creepy crawlies for my taste. Though it was fun to see everyone dress up, we saw witches, ladybugs, vampires, dinosaurs and fairies and that was just the adults. The party was decorated with brilliant halloween flair. They even made a haunted house for the kiddies, which I was disappointed I was too big to crawl through myself.
So what to take as my food to share to a halloween party? I wanted to do something easy and not time consuming. These turned out really well, and were very quick and easy. Take an apple or pear, slice out a wedge for the mouth and use a melon-baller to make two eye sockets, (brush with lemon juice to stop the fruit going brown) poke in some slivered almonds for teeth and plonk in a couple of red raspberry eyes. All done, and halfway healthy too.
