Big on Halloween spirit but short on time and money? These simple Halloween food and drink tips can help put pizzazz in your party.
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Waiter, there’s a fly in my drink! — Freeze ice cubes with edible “insects” inside by filling a tray half full and freezing, then adding a gummy critter or a couple of raisins. Fill the rest of the way with liquid and re-freeze.
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Fill a new plastic household glove with lemonade, limeade or other liquids to create an eerie floating hand in your punch bowl. Use heavy-duty rubber bands to secure the top of the glove, leaving a little room for expansion. Use a small plastic dish to prop up the secured end of the glove in the freezer. Freeze until solid, peel away the glove and float the hand in the punchbowl.
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You can use a ring mold or bundt cake pan to freeze a creepy ice ring for your punchbowl. Fill 1/3 with liquid and freeze, arrange a layer of gummy worms on frozen ring, fill to 3/4 full and re-freeze. To un-mold, simply run hot water over ring for a second or two.
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A wonderful tip, from the fine folks at the House of Blues, is to use plastic light sticks as swizzle sticks; it gives the drinks an eerie, mysterious glow.
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Make Halloween-shaped tortilla chips by using cookie cutters to cut shapes out of tortillas, then deep fry until crisp. You can also make low-fat tortilla chips by baking your cutouts in a 350ºF oven. In either case, sprinkle with salt. Chips made of blue-corn tortillas look especially spooky.
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Use cookie cutters to cut out small sandwiches in Halloween shapes.
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