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Satan’s Spawn – Halloween Deviled Eggs

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Satan is spawning! This Satan’s Spawn is a wonderful and creepy take on the deviled egg Sriracha gel is used as a bloody amniotic fluid and the little Satan fetuses are piped into the egg casing. Totally gross and amazingly delicious.

Many many years ago I received this rubber Devil in a gift basket from Screemers at work. I loved this adorable red monster so much that I held on to him and decided to work him into my costume one year. It was such a hit and I took home the first prize in a costume contest.

These deviled eggs were the next inspiration. I developed these so they look super creepy and there are many that have refused to eat them – after all, they aren’t for the faint of heart.

Over the years I have made these several times and this year I decided to remake the recipe and take better photos and video. It was absolutely a great co-incidence that my BFF decided to throw the best ever Halloween party so I got to dress up and make these delicious eggs as well. Make sure to watch the video as well for scenes from the party!

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Satan’s Spawn – Halloween Deviled Eggs

Ingredients

  • 12 hard boiled Eggs
  • 4 tbsps Mayonnaise
  • 1 tbsp Sriracha
  • Salt to taste
  • 24 Coriander seeds
  • 1/4 cup Sriracha
  • 1/4 cup gelatin soaked in water

Instructions

  1. Slice the eggs in half and reserve the yolks
  2. Mix the Sriracha and gelatin together and pour into the eggs and chill to set
  3. Mix the yolks well with the Mayo and the Sriracha
  4. Add salt to taste and try and get this as smooth as possible.
  5. Prep an icing bag and fill with the filling
  6. Using a 12 tip pipe the head and body into the eggs
  7. Switch to tip 4 and pipe the horns, arms, legs and a tail
  8. Add one Coriander seed for the eyes
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Stuffed Frankenstein Heads

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This Halloween, I take green peppers and stuff them with a delicious filling. With Frankenstein eyes and a broiled pepper head top, these are scary and tasty!

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Stuffed Frankenstein Heads

Ingredients

  • 4 Green Peppers
  • 1 lb ground Meat
  • 1/2 cup diced Onion
  • 2 tsps Cumin powder
  • Salt & Pepper to taste
  • 1 cup dices stewed Tomatoes
  • 1/4 cup chopped Coriander
  • 3/4 cup cooked Rice

Instructions

  1. Heat some oil and saute the onion
  2. Add the meat and break up the lumps
  3. Add the cumin, salt and pepper
  4. Add the tomatoes, cover and cook
  5. Add the coriander
  6. Add the rice and keep filling aside
  7. Prepare the green peppers - see video
  8. Stuff the green peppers and bake
  9. Add the eyebrows and mouth with food coloring
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Severed Mummified Fingers

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I’m crazy about Halloween – every year I love to think about spooky recipe ideas, but I realize that many people just want something super easy and quick to grace their Halloween table, and this recipe will do just that! Chicken Weiners are carved to look like fingers, wrapped in puff pastry bandages and painted with Sriracha blood. Simple. Easy. Creepy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Severed Mummified Fingers

Ingredients

  • 18 Chicken Weiners
  • 200 gms Puff Pastry
  • 2 Egg whites
  • 1/4 cup Sriracha
  • Siracha to serve as a dipping sauce

Instructions

  1. Cut the weiners in half and using a pairing knife, cut out the nail and ridges for the knuckles
  2. Cut strips out of the pastry and wrap it around the fingers
  3. Paint the fingers with the egg white, then mix the Sriracha with the remaining egg white and paint over the fingers
  4. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20 - 25 minutes
  5. Serve with Sriracha blood
https://kravingsfoodadventures.com/severed-mummified-fingers/

 

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Brain Drain

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Brain Drain

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
  • Brain
  • Sugar 1/2 cup + 1/2 tsp
  • 3 cups Almond Milk
  • 10 - 13 gms Agar Agar strands
  • A dot of pink or red food coloring
  • Blood
  • 6 oz Raspberries
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1/2 Lemon juice
  • Instructions
  • Cook the raspberries with the sugar and lemon juice and strain in a sieve and chill
  • Soak 10 oz of Agar Agar in the milk and bring to the boil till it dissolves
  • Add 1/2 cup of Sugar
  • Pour 1/2 into brain mold and allow to set
  • Keep the other half warm by setting it on a low flame so it doesn't set
  • Once the custard sets. remove the center and fill with the coulis
  • Cover with the set custard and fill with the other half
  • Allow to set for 6 - 8 hours

Instructions

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  2. Cook the raspberries with the sugar and lemon juice and strain in a sieve and chill
  3. Soak 10 oz of Agar Agar in the milk and bring to the boil till it dissolves
  4. Add 1/2 cup of Sugar
  5. Pour 1/2 into brain mold and allow to set
  6. Keep the other half warm by setting it on a low flame so it doesn't set
  7. Once the custard sets. remove the center and fill with the coulis
  8. Cover with the set custard and fill with the other half
  9. Allow to set for 6 - 8 hours
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Feetloaf

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Oh the gore of Halloween I know and love. This year I literally put my foot in my mouth .. and it is delicious. Meatloaf fashioned as a foot aka Feetloaf is super delicious and stuffed with eggs.

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Feetloaf

Ingredients

  • Foot
  • I lb (500 gms) lean ground Beef
  • 1/2 Onion
  • 4 cloves Garlic
  • 1 tsp each Cumin, Chilli & Garam Masala
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 beaten Egg
  • 4 boiled and peeled eggs
  • ¼ cup Coriander
  • Onion for nails
  • Cow bone (optional)
  • 1.5 tsps Salt
  • Blood
  • Condensed soup can 384 ml
  • Water 384 ml
  • Salt
  • Hot sauce

Instructions

  1. Process the Onion and Garlic
  2. Add the ground beef, spices, salt & egg
  3. Add the coriander and process again
  4. Remove and chill the meat for best results
  5. In an oven proof dish, put down three boiled eggs
  6. Just shave the boiled egg a little bit so it has a flat edge to stand on
  7. Remove ½ the meat and cover the eggs making an oblong shape
  8. Take ¼ of the mixture and form the toe area
  9. Make a hole in the heel area and insert the 4th egg
  10. Using a butter knife smooth out the surface and sculpt the toes
  11. Take the last ¼ of the meat mixture and cover the exposed egg in the heel to form an ankle
  12. Using an onion layer, carve out the toe nails
  13. Using a beaten egg cover the toes with egg wash and insert the toes cut out on onions
  14. This is optional, but using a beef bone would look more realistic and creepy, pour some egg to secure the bone and insert it in the heel
  15. Push the ankle meat right around the bone
  16. Brush the foot with egg wash for a smooth finish
  17. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hr
  18. Prepare the blood by heating together the condensed soup and water
  19. Add salt and hot sauce
  20. When the foot s out of the over, cover in sauce
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Zombie Eyeballs

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Happy Halloween to all friends of Kravings Food Adventures. Next to Christmas, Halloween is one of my favorite celebrations. There’s all the cute little kiddy costumes and then there are the fun adult costumes that make us feel like kids again … and let’s not forget the food! At this time of year, I love to make really creepy looking food. I get a great kick out of people saying ‘eww that’s gross’ or ‘that’s nasty’. As a food creator, you never want to hear those type of comments 🙂 except on Halloween 🙂

 

In this recipe I’m making Vegan Zombie Eyeballs. This can easily be made with milk as well, but the gelatin I’m using is made out of seaweed and is called Agar Agar. This is called China Grass among the Christians in India, perhaps because it comes from China and looks like grass. In muslim households they make a similar preparation and call it Falooda. Whatever the name, I know this will be perfect to set my zombie eyeballs.

 

This very simple recipe is made using 6 ingredients

Agar Agar

Sugar

Almond Milk

Raspberries

Lemon

Food Coloring

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Zombie Eyeballs

Ingredients

  • Eyeballs
  • Sugar 1/2 cup + 1/2 tsp
  • 3 cups Almond Milk
  • Food Coloring - dot of black & blue
  • 10 - 13 gms Agar Agar strands
  • Blood
  • 6 oz Raspberries
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1/2 Lemon juice

Instructions

  1. Heat a few tbsps of water, add 1/4 tsp of sugar and dissolve a few strands of Agar Agar
  2. Add black food coloring
  3. Add a drop to each 3D mold
  4. Follow the same process and add blue colouring
  5. Let it cool and then pour over the black pupil
  6. Soak 10 oz of Agar Agar in the milk and bring to the boil till it dissolves
  7. Add 1/2 cup of Sugar
  8. Allow to cool and spoon 1 tsp over the pupil slowly so it doesn't heat up the blue pupil and bleed color
  9. Once that seal has been made fill up half of the sphere
  10. Put the lid on and using a squeeze bottle, fill in the other half of the sphere
  11. Allow to set for 6 - 8 hours
  12. Cook the raspberries with the sugar and lemon juice and strain in a seive and chill
  13. To serve, unmold the eyeballs and serve with a few tbsps of the raspberry sauce
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Halloween Party Ideas

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There’s nothing more magical or ghoulish about the magic of Halloweeeeeeen and if you want to throw a costume party, you’re sure to have a howling’ good time. Here are some suggestions on how to make your party extra fun!
Every good party starts with a really clear plan. If you’re like me, you’ll have a lot of bits and pieces of theme parties tucked away in your basement. If not, just take stock of what you have, what you can borrow and what you can buy. You don’t have to break the bank, just be super creative! Make a list, hell make several lists and check them and update them as required. If you suddenly get hit with a great idea, write it down or record it on your phone so you don’t forget.

At my parties, I like to serve a variety of themed appetizers and follow it with a dinner menu that is served much later. When appetizers are planned, I like to balance the items with some that can be prepped ahead so I don’t have a crazy schedule the day of the party. I also like to balance the items need to be fried with ones that can just be baked so I can heat up multiple apps at the same time. Here are some suggestions

Mummified Wieners
Cut wieners in half, using a pasta cutter, cut pasta in thin strips and roll around the wiener. Bake. Similar recipe
Satan’s Spawn
Fill egg halves with a sriracha mixture and pipe in the yolk and mayo mixture to look like Satan fetuses. Full recipe
Under the Sea
Mix canned Tuna with chives, mayo and gelatine and set in a plastic mold.
EggSTARvaganza
Top regular Deviled eggs with a star cut out of a cheese slice
LadyBUG’s life
Top a cracker with cream cheese and herbs and add a quartered cherry tomato and half an olive as the head
For libations serve a cocktail like Black Magic Gin – Blackcurrant, Gin & GingerAle or a Bloody Caesar.
Apps and libations naturally morp into a dance party. Make sure you have plenty of great dance music to keep your witches and goblins on the dance floor. And when they’re ready for dinner I like to follow with more themed food
Pirates Scurvy Stew
Crab, Fish and Shrimp cooked in a Thai red curry. Made with this Red Curry Paste.
Cowboy Chilli
Meaty Texas style chilli
The whole Empanada
Mexican style Empanadas – full recipe
Moroccan Tagine Chicken
Arabic style chicken cooked in a tagine
Dino poop
This is a great name for a popular dish that you can reinvent for something else. I cooked kebabs on the BBQ and then tossed it into a delicious tomato based gravy.
TexMex corn
Make a compound butter with TexMex flavours, and brush the corn with it before and after cooking it on the grill.
Enchanted Forest
Something for the Vegetarians

Selection of stir fried veggies.

Dessert – and of course it’s time for something sweet.

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Lychee LemonEYEd

 
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Halloween is upon us and if you’re hosting your own spooktacular party, here is the perfect simple bevvie for you – Lychee LemonEYEd. This recipe is super simple, you can serve it to the kids or spike it up for the adults. I’m going to use canned Lychees in this recipe to take the Lemonade to an exotic level. Reserved the firm ones for the garnish, pop a black grape in the centre and keep it aside. Throw the rest of the Lychees into the food processor with some of the juice and puree it.
 
This Lemonade is flavoured with this Lychee puree and garnished with the eye as well as some bloomed Sweet Basil or Chia seeds. This is such a simple recipe but will compliment your other spooky snacks so beautifully!
 
Also check out some of my other Halloween delights
 
 

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Lychee LemonEYEd

Ingredients

  • 1 can Lychees
  • Black grapes
  • Lemonade
  • 2 – 3 bloomed Sweet Basil or Chia seeds

Instructions

  1. Insert the grapes in the cavity of the Lychees to look like eyes
  2. Puree some of the Lychees
  3. Add 2 tbsp Lychee Puree to the glass
  4. Top with Lemonade
  5. Top with bloomed Sweet Basil or Chia seeds
  6. Insert the Lychee Eye and serve
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Finger Lickin’ Cauldron Curry

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 I love this time of year, when you get to dress up and be someone totally different. Not that I think being a witch is too far from my real personality. Every Halloween I try to think up spooky and creepy ways to present something tasty. In the past I’ve made Deviled eggs look like Satan’s Spawn and White Chocolate mice with gummy centers. This year I’m decided to make a Finger Lickin’ Cauldron Curry, I’m going to fashion witches fingers out of ground meat. Bake them till they are a bit firm and then immerse them in a blood stained curry … finger licking good!
The whole idea was inspired by a purchase of a cooking pot in the summer. I happened to find a Chinese soup pot that looks so much like a cauldron, that I snapped it up. I’ve piped meat before to fill pastries and spring rolls before, so I figured this technique would be well suited to creating fingers as well. Using egg white to secure the almond flakes worked really well and this concoction turned out creepier that I envisioned. Make sure to watch the video where I don the make up and work the Witch’s hat!
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Finger Lickin’ Cauldron Curry

Ingredients

  • 1 lb lean ground Beef(Mutton or Lamb)
  • 2 cup finely diced onion
  • 4 tbsps Garlic paste
  • 3 tsps each Chilli & Cumin powder
  • 1tsp Garam Masala
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 1 egg
  • 1 beaten egg white
  • Almond flakes
  • 1/4 cup Oil
  • 400 ml(3 cups) canned whole Roma tomatoes pureed
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 tsp Soaked Tapicoca pearls optional

Instructions

  1. Add 1onion(roughly a cup) to a food processor and process till fine
  2. Add the ground meat, 2 tbsps Garlic paste, 1 tsp of the Chilli & Cumin powder and 1 tsp of Garam Masala
  3. Add salt and pepper to taste, one egg and process till the meat mixture comes together and the onion mixed in well
  4. Using a disposable piping bag and a tip that’s about a cm in diameter, pipe finger lengths onto a baking mat
  5. Using your fingers, shape them and make depression in each finger nail
  6. Add some egg white in each depression and add a almond flake to each to look like a nail
  7. Brush the top of the nail with more egg white, to further secure and prevent discolouring in the curry
  8. Bake in a 350 degree over for 10 – 15 mins, till cooked. Cool and remove
  9. In a pot, add 1/4 cup oil and sauté the onions
  10. Add 2 tbsps of Garlic paste and 2 tsps each of Chilli & Cumin powder
  11. Add salt
  12. Add the pureed canned tomatoes and add a I/2 cup of water to your blender to free the left over tomato puree and add this in as well
  13. Let bubble for a few minutes before carefully adding the as many fingers as you like in the curry and some can be served on the side
  14. Let cook for another minute or so
  15. Garnish with some Tapioca pearls just before serving to look like pus balls
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Creepy White Chocolate Halloween Mice

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To say I love Halloween is an understatement. Every year I think of something interesting to wear and serve! Even if I’m not throwing a crazy Halloween party like I did last year, there’s always a potluck or event to show off your creations. This year I settled on the idea of making some creepy yet delicious mice. They are covered in white chocolate and have a gummy center for a maximum gross factor.

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Creepy White Chocolate Halloween Mice

Ingredients

  • 4 oz white chocolate
  • 4 oz cream cheese softened and at room temp
  • 2 tbsps cookie crumbs
  • Wooden skewers
  • 4 oz white candy melts or white chocolate for dipping
  • Gummy candies
  • Red candies for eyes
  • Oatmeal for ears
  • Red laces for tails
  • 2 tsps oil

Instructions

  1. Melt the white chocolate in a double boiler and once melted add the cream cheese
  2. Mix well and add the cookie crumbs
  3. Transfer to a smaller bowl, cover and refrigerate for 2 hrs or till firm
  4. Using two spoons divide it into 6 - 7 portions and drop onto a plate sprinkled with cookie crumbs
  5. Roll into a ball and insert a gummy candy in the center and skewer it from one end
  6. Pinch the other end to give it a mouse shape
  7. Heat up the chocolate in the microwave and add a bit of oil to make it more fluid
  8. Using a spoon, drop the chocolate over the mouse and cover completely allowing all the excess coating to drip off
  9. Once the chocolate is still tacky, insert the eyes and the ears and when the mouse is dry enough to touch, remove the skewer and insert the red tail.
https://kravingsfoodadventures.com/creepy-white-chocolate-halloween-mice/

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