Unique Gourmet Halloween Cakes

Black Spider Cake - Conjured by a pastry wizard, this luscious cake consists of dense chocolate layers cushioned with orange-chocolate mousse, covered with vanilla buttercream and cloaked in mystery and tinted white chocolate. A dark chocolate spider spins a shimmering silver- dusted web all over.

 Ghost Cake - The baking magicians at Cakework have done it again, this time sculpting a ghost out of their signature Chocolate Killer Cake. Dense chocolate cake layers are cushioned with chocolate truffle decadence and chocolate mousse filling, then cloaked in white chocolate. Dare we say it's hauntingly good?

Vampire Cake - Who says vampires don't have heart? Our vampire cake—made of moist red velvet cake, covered in buttercream and wrapped in tinted white chocolate—has a luscious heart of cream cheese filling swirled with sweet raspberries. Ve vant to bite it; you vill too.



Easy Halloween Appetizers and Treats

Apple Bites

Ingredients:

Apples

Slivered almonds

Preparation:

Just quarter and core an apple, cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter, then press slivered almonds in place for teeth.  Tip: If you're not going to serve them right away, baste the apples with orange juice to keep them from browning.

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Haunted Graveyard Appetizer

Ingredients:
1/2 cup fresh spinach
10 ounces hummus
Vegetables (we used broccoli and celery)
Pretzels
Hard-boiled eggs
Crackers
Black olives
Edible marker
Carrot sticks


Preparation:
In a food processor, puree the spinach and hummus.

To make the boiled-egg ghosts, cut slits and insert black-olive facial features. Use an edible marker to turn crackers into tombstones.

Mound the dip on a tray and top it with veggie trees, a pretzel fence, boiled-egg ghosts, and cracker tombstones.

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Melon Brain

Ingredients:
1 small seedless watermelon


 
Preparation:
Use a vegetable peeler to remove the entire green rind, exposing the inner white rind.
Slice off the bottom of the melon to create a flat base that will keep it from rolling. With a toothpick, outline squiggly furrows that resemble the folded surface of a brain.
Finally, carve narrow channels along the tracings with a sharp paring knife (a parent's job) to expose the pink fruit beneath the rind.

Halloween Treat Bags by Martha Stewart

Get your Halloween party planning started with these cute halloween treat bags by Martha Stewart featuring monster, black cat and frankenstein faces and decorative accents. These Halloween Cello Treat Bags and perfect as halloween goodie bags, halloween gift bags, and more.

Halloween Paper Treat Bags with Monster Faces

Halloween Cello Treat Bags