Recipe(tried): Halloween Dinner Ideas

Hi Sherri,

I found this on a party menu, kids love chicken tenders and then they will be full and hopefully not gorge themselves on candy!! I also posted a fall dessert for after dinner.

Maple Apple Crisp

5 apples - peeled, cored, and sliced
3/4 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup butter, softened

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

Place apples in an 8x8 inch baking pan. Toss apples with syrup. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, oats, sugar, and salt. Cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle mixture evenly over apples.

Bake in preheated oven for 35 minutes, until topping is golden brown. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Acrid Appetizers: Turn deviled eggs into deviled eyeballs by topping each one with a slice of green or black olive. Make an edible veggie head: buy a Styrofoam wig head and wash it well. Dry it and secure it to a square of plywood with a long nail. Now cover the head with bite-size vegetables or fruit speared with toothpicks. Use different colors and shapes to make facial features (red pepper or apple slices for lips, radishes peeled in strips to make bloodshot eyeballs). Don't forget the dip!

Mutilated Main Dishes: Cut slices of meatloaf with a bat-shaped cookie cutter, and serve with bat's blood (ketchup). Spaghetti and meatballs takes on a whole new 'life' when you announce it as nightcrawlers and eyeballs. Chicken strips can easily become witch fingers when served with slime sauce (ranch dressing dyed green) for dipping. Stuffed pasta shells have an awful appeal when you call them Snail Shells stuffed with Rat Spleens. Good side dishes include steamed maggots (rice), rotting teeth (corn) and lizard tongues (carrot sticks). For a less nauseating but still festive meal, scrape out small pumpkins and use them as individual serving bowls for black bean, split pea, or pumpkin soup.