Cooked Animal Head with eyeballs.

At your butcher shop (Hispanic, if possible), you can find cooked animal heads. Get your mad scientist to pluck out an eyeball and eat it... (have camera ready to record the squeals)). In reality, all eyes and meat are edible and are considered a delicacy in some cultures.

Our scientist says "Mmmmm...tastes like chicken!"

Eyeball Deviled Eggs

These deviled eggs are always a hit and take very little time to prepare. WARNING!! Always start with cold eggs and when transporting to a party, keep them in a cooler as the gel decoration will melt in the heat.

Ingredients;

• Eggs, filling ingredients for the deviling
• Various gel decorating tubes which are found in the baking section of your grocery. I use red more than anyone color.

Make your egg filling according to your favorite recipe. However, fill the eggs even with the egg hole as they will be turned over and you need them to lay flat. Now all you do is apply your gels to make eyeballs. I make a circle of color for the pupil and then use red gel to squiggle lines for a bloodshot appearance.

How to cook the perfect hard boiled egg

• Start with COLD tap water.
• Place the eggs in a pan of cold water and bring to a boil.
• When the water comes to a boil, turn off the heat and let set for 10 min. (only 10 min.!!!) While waiting exactly 10 min., prepare a bowl of ice water.
• Transfer the eggs to a bowl of ice water.
• Let the eggs thouroughly cool before working with them.

Cockroach puree

AKA "Walnut Dip with Garlic" this recipe looks absolutely revolting (especially when properly labeled) but tastes divine. The bit of texture from the pureed walnuts give it the perfect "crunchy bits of roach" character. Stir in a couple of tablespoons of chopped walnuts after pureeing for an extra cockroachy crunch.

Also, if you don't want to give your guests garlic breath, you may want to go easy on the garlic. Otherwise, let them know that these tasty roaches are great for keeping away the vampires that, hopefully, are running rampant at your Halloween party.

Cockroach puree

Ingredients:
3 slices of whole wheat bread, well toasted
1/4 C. walnut pieces
4 cloves of garlic, coarsely chopped
2 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
3/4 C. water
2 tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped
salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions:

1. In food processor (or by hand), crumble the toast into fine crumbs.

2. In food processor or blender, combine walnuts, garlic, and crumbs until all is finely ground.

3. Add lemon, oil, and parsley. Process until smooth. Add water as needed until desired consistency.

4. Add salt and pepper to taste.

5. This is one of those gross recipes for Halloween that's easy to make ahead of time. As it sits in the fridge, it gets a little darker-- a good thing for cockroach puree. The parsley may darken a bit and begin to look like bits of "cockroach skin".

6. Serve up in a bowl labeled "Cockroach Puree," "Roasted Roach Dip," etc.

Stuffed Roaches

What collection of gross recipes for Halloween would be complete without a nice selection of cockroach-based fare? These nasty, crispy-skinned looking roaches are gross Halloween food at its best. They taste really great... if your guests dare to eat them. The little bit of crunch from the walnuts give them the perfect crisp- roach texture. Mmmm.

Stuffed Roaches

Ingredients:
1/3 C. cream cheese, softened
1/4 C. walnuts, chopped semi-fine
20-30 dates, pitted

Instructions:

1. In a small bowl, combine cream cheese and nuts til well mixed.

2. Gently fill each date with cream cheese/nut mixture (you may have to split the dates slightly).

3. Serve in a festive pumpkin Halloween tray decorated with several rubber roaches (if desired). Label as "Stuffed Roaches," or "Fresh-caught Cockroaches," etc.

Tasty Turds

Fresh from the toilet, these tasty turds look so lifelike, they'll turn your stomach. This gross Halloween recipe is easy to make and eat... that is, once you make yourself take the first bite.

Yellow M&Ms can be used in place of the yellow candy corn tops, but as they are uniformly round they won't give the same, well... "undigested corn" appearance. Yuck. 'Nuff said.

Tasty Turds

Ingredients:
1 recipe Rice Krispy treats or popcorn balls, still hot and unshaped
12 oz. semisweet chocolate
2 tbsp. shortening
1 small pkg. candy corns
wooden skewers (optional)

Instructions:

1. With a knife, remove the red and orange sections from candy corns, leaving only the yellow "corn" tops.

2. Prepare Rice Krispy treats or popcorn balls recipe as directed. (Rice Krispy treats are easier to shape).

3. Instead of shaping into balls or pressing into a pan, form the treats into oblong "turd" shapes. Let cool to set.

4. In a double boiler or in the microwave, melt together chocolate and shortening, stirring until well combined.

5. Using a wooden skewer (or a fork), skewer each "turd" treat and dip into warm chocolate.

6. Set on wax paper. While still warm, press 3-4 candy corn tops into chocolate.

7. Repeat. Let cool to set.

Truck Stop Toilet

Using either brownies or the "Tasty Turds" recipe above, this makes one of the most gross recipes for Halloween you'll ever see. Just looking at the photo induces my gag reflex-- very effective. I would suggest only making this for guests with a nice strong stomach.

In the photo, strawberry syrup blood was used. But it looks way more realistic with the peanut butter blood recipe included here. Plus, the peanut butter blood goes great with chocolate! Don't want to make your own blood? Just buy a bottle of cheap strawberry syrup.

If you do use brownies for this recipe, lots of walnuts combine with longer, rectangular slicing (as opposed to squares) will give them a more, well, realistic look.

Truck Stop Toilet

Ingredients/Supplies:
One brand new, UNUSED training potty/toilet (Really, do I have to tell you this?)
1 recipe Tasty Turds (above) or prepared brownies
1 tub prepared chocolate frosting

Peanut Butter Blood:
1/2 C. creamy peanut butter (chunky won't work!)
Light corn syrup, as needed
Red food coloring, as needed
Chocolate syrup, as needed (optional)

Instructions:

1. Thoroughly clean the new training potty with soap and water.

2. Prepare peanut butter "dried blood" by slowly adding corn syrup to peanut butter until you get your desired texture. Add red food coloring until you get a dark blood red. If mixture isn't dark enough, stir in a little chocolate syrup. Set aside.

3. Place brownies or Tasty Turds in bowl of toilet.

4. With lid opened, "decorate" your toilet with prepared "dried blood" and gobs of chocolate frosting. Dangle a length of toilet paper from one of the gobs of chocolate frosting, if desired.

5. Watch your guests get really disgusted by this gross Halloween recipe.

Adult Version: While this is generally for older party goers anyway, here's an idea for making it even more disgusting... but strictly for adults only. To do this, drape the toilet with a couple of condoms (I don't have to tell you they should be unused!) and drip melted white chocolate on the toilet and condoms in, um... strategic locations. Ick. But funny.

Note on Finding a Toilet
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any training toilets online like the plain white one pictured here! I guess they don't make them anymore. I've searched everywhere online and this is the closest I could find to a plain white toilet: Safety 1st $9 Potty that doesn't cost a bazillion dollars. It has colored parts on the inside which is a shame, but I'm betting you could spray paint that part white and set your brownies or cookies on a few layers of toilet paper for a nice effect.

Edible Ashtray

This recipe, based on an idea by Chuck T. at a craft forum I visit (thanks Chuck!), is one of those gross recipes for Halloween that doesn't look at all edible-- but is. It's a bit too sweet on its own (even for kids, I think!), but tastes pretty good as a dip for apples and other types of fruit. Even better, you could think about doing individual servings of chocolate pudding served in disposable aluminum ash trays with this as a topping-- really funny!

Note: Candy cigarettes aren't generally marketed as candy cigarettes anymore, but as "candy stix" or something similar. Also, if you can't find pre-crushed oreo crumbs, you can simply make your own.

Edible Ashtray

Ingredients:
1/3 C. oreo cookie crumbs (approximate)
1/3 C. powdered sugar (approximate)
Candy cigarettes
1 large, never used ashtray

Instructions:

1. Clean ashtray with soap and water and dry thoroughly.

2. Pulse oreo cookie crumbs in the food processor until very, very fine. You want the crumbs almost as fine as the powdered sugar.

3. Place crumbs in the bottom of your clean, dry ashtray.

4. Sift powdered sugar over cookie crumbs. Mix gently until half mixed and half marbled.

5. Dot with candy cigarettes that have been "put out" in the ash.

Slimy Worms

These fun little Halloween finger foods are slimy, sweet and oh-so tasty. Watch kids (and adults!) squeal with disgust and delight at the sight of a big bowl of these lifelike gelatin worms. So cute. SO gross. Slimy Jello Worms Halloween Gross Food

Note: For this recipe, it's important to use a tall, slim container to hold the straws, such as a 1 liter orange juice or milk carton (be sure to use something with a 4 cup capacity). The straws should fit tightly together. If you use too large a container, the gelatin will run right back out before it sets. Also, be sure to buy the straws with the flexible neck, as they give the worms the most realistic "earthworm" appearance. Recipe makes about 100 long worms.

Slimy Worms

Ingredients:
1 pkg. (6 oz) purple gelatin (raspberry or grape work well)
3/4 oz. unflavored gelatin
3 C. boiling water
3/4 C. whipping cream
green food coloring, as needed
100 plastic straws

Instructions:

1. In a medium, heat safe mixing bowl, stir together plain and flavored gelatin powders.

2. Pour boiling water over, stirring until gelatin is fully dissolved.

3. Allow gelatin to cool til only slightly warm.

4. Stir whipping cream into the gelatin mixture. Stir in green food coloring (you'll probably need 10 drops or more) until your gelatin gets that purpley-brown-grey color of earthworms.

5. With your 100 straws fully extended and snug in your chosen container, pour the gelatin mixture over the straws, filling the container.

6. Cover container and chill at least 8 hours. You can make them and store them this way up to two days in advance of your Halloween party.

7. Remove straws from their container (cutting or ripping a disposable container away is easiest).

8. With hot tap water running, place batches of 4-5 straws under hot running water for a couple quick seconds.

9. Remove "worms" from their straw casings, pressing with fingers. Set on waxed paper to set up.

10. Repeat until all worms are removed.

12. Chill, covered, on waxed paper at least 2 hours.

13. Serve in a chilled bowl, as pictured. Then watch all the kids gobble up this fun Halloween party food.

Brain

Jello brain molds are a lot of fun, and jiggly human brains have become a Halloween party food classic. But outside of the year 1958, nobody really gets excited about eating stiff, shaped Jello... even if it is in the shape of a brain. So we've got an updated version here. While I don't think you can ever call a gelatin brain "elegant," this is definitely a tastier, more elegant version of the original. But since this is a relatively easy Halloween party food to make, you can make it both for a nice Halloween dinner party or a casual Halloween party.

If you really want to up the "ew" factor, surround your brain with "severed" body parts on cabbage-leaf-line platters. SO funny!

Now, if you've never tried Italian panna cotta, you're missing out. Sort of like an ultra-creamy Italian version flan, it's a heck of a lot better than any gelatin brain recipe you've tried in the past, I promise. This recipe is based on one by Alton Brown (but with some changes to make it easier), and is good for a 6-cup capacity gelatin brain mold.

The whiskey is optional, but there's not much of it so I wouldn't suggest leaving it out-- it tastes wonderful in this. But if you really want to make this Halloween party food kid-friendly, it's also good whiskey-free.

Like the idea of a gross brain recipe for Halloween, but want a savory brain? Try this really realistic Cajun shrimp brain recipe.

Brain

Ingredients:
3 (12 oz.) cans evaporated milk, divided
4 (1/4 oz.) pkgs. unflavored powdered gelatin
1 1/2 C. whipping cream
1 C. sugar
2 tbsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. salt
2 oz. whiskey
Black paste food coloring, as needed

For Cranberry "Gore" Glaze:
8 oz. cranberry juice
2 tbsp. cornstarch

Instructions:

1. In a medium heat-safe mixing bowl, stir together 4 envelopes of gelatin and one can of evaporated milk. (This mixture needs to sit at least five minutes.)

2. Pour remaining evaporated milk and whipping cream into a heavy sauce pan. Slowly bring to a boil.

3. Add sugar, salt, and whiskey to boiling milk mixture. Stir til dissolved.

4. Remove from heat and pour boiling milk mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into the gelatin-evaporated milk mixture.

5. Stir in vanilla extract. Add a touch of black paste food coloring for a realistic "grey matter" color.

6. Following the manufacturer's directions for your gelatin brain mold, pour mixture into your brain mold and refrigerate overnight.

7. Top with cranberry "gore" glaze just before serving.

Instructions for Cranberry Glaze: 1. In a small, heavy saucepan, combine cranberry juice and cornstarch.

2. Bring gently to a boil. Boil, stirring, until thickened.

3. Remove from heat and allow to come to room temperature. Stir with a wire wisk.

4. Spoon over set, unmolded brain.

5. Mixture will get slightly lumpy and strange-looking upon cooling-- this is just what you want and makes the final product look that much more gory.

Tapeworm Sandwiches

While I think just about anybody would find these "Tapeworm Sandwiches" (or just plain "Worm Sandwiches" if you prefer) sufficiently disgusting to be funny for Halloween, this is a particularly fun Halloween recipe for kids. They're ridiculously easy to make, but you get a lot of bang for you buck-- they look really gross when you're done. A great addition to any Halloween party food table.

Want to save time? Slice the hot dogs up ahead of time, and boil when you're ready to eat. Serves 8.

Tapeworm Sandwiches

Ingredients:
8 hot dogs
8 hot dog buns
1/4 C. ketchup

Instructions:

1. Bring a pot of water to a boil.

2. Slice each hot dog into long, worm-like strips.

3. Dump hot dog strips into boiling water and cook until they begin to curl a bit.

4. Drain.

5. Return cooked hot dog worms to pan and toss with ketchup until thoroughly mixed.

6. Serve in hot dog buns.

Kitter Litter Cake

The Kitty Litter Cake is a quicly becoming asort of Halloween party food classic. It tastes great, it looks gross, and just watching your guests try to decide whether or not they should try it is great for a laugh. It takes a little while to assemble, but this Halloween cake recipe is one of the best-- and you'll be surprised at how good it tastes. It's also pretty flexible-- you can use just about any cake mix you like.

Kitter Litter Cake

Ingredients:
1 pkg. (18 oz.) German chocolate or devil's good cake mix
1 pkg. (18 oz.) caramel cake mix
1 pkg. (6 oz.) instant vanilla pudding
1 pkg. (16 oz.) vanilla sandwich cookies
1 pkg. small-sized Tootsie rolls (as needed)
Green food coloring, as needed

To serve:
1 new medium sized litter box
1 new litter box scooper

Instructions: 1. Wash clean, new litter box and pooper scooper with soap and water and set aside to dry.

2. Prepare both cake mixes per directions on box, in separate pans. Let cool to room temperature.

3. Prepare pudding and refrigerate until needed.

4. In a food processor, crumble vanilla sandwich cookies, filling and all. You'll need to scrape the container often to keep them from sticking.

5. Remove 1/4 cup of your cookie crumbles and place them in a small bowl. To the 1/4 C. of cookies, add a few drops of green food coloring at a time, mixing with a fork. Set aside.

6. In a large mixing bowl, coarsely crumble the cooled, prepared cakes. Add about half of the uncolored cookie crumbs. Stir to mix.

7. Gently add pudding in several batches, until a moist mixture results. You will probably not use all of the pudding; you just need a moist mix, not a soggy one.

8. Scoop cake mixture out into a clean, dry litter box.

9. Create 7-8 tootsie roll "poops" and place them (burying some slightly) in the cake mixture. To make Tootsie Roll poops, cook several Tootsie Rolls in the microwave until nicely softened. Shape into small poops, curving slightly and pulling out blunt edges.

10. Cover "poops" and cake in almost all remaining uncolored cookie crumbs (save a tiny portion for the very end). Sprinkle green cookie crumbs on top.

11. Make several more, softer Tootsie Roll "cat poops" by microwaving Tootsie Rolls until almost melted. Scrape off onto cake. Placing one softened Tootsie Roll on the side of the box like a poorly aimed cat poop.

12. Sprinkle exposed "poops" lightly with a small amount of cookie crumbs.

13. Serve this Halloween cake recipe with the pooper scooper.

Bat Wings

With black food coloring added, these "bat" wings look really gross, but taste absolutely wonderful. Based on a recipe for 5-spice chicken wings, they're moist, crisp, and full of flavor. They're also baked instead of fried, making these tasty little Halloween finger foods healthier than you might think. If you make these as snacks for a Halloween party, be sure to make plenty-- they go fast.

Also, be sure to use food coloring paste instead of liquid to avoid a bitter aftertaste. Serves 10 as a Halloween party food, or 4-5 as a main meal.

Bat Wings

Ingredients:
4 lbs. chicken wings

Marinade/Sauce:
4 tbsp. soy sauce
4 tbsp. black bean sauce
2/3 C. ketchup
4 tbsp. honey
2 tsp. hot sauce, or to taste
2 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tbsp. white wine vinegar
4 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/2 tsp. Chinese five-spice powder
2 tbsp.sesame oil
Coloring: Black, blue, and green paste food coloring, as needed

Instructions:

1. Combine marinade ingredients in a small mixing bowl.

2. Add black, blue, and green paste food coloring as needed to make a dark black sauce.

3. Place cleaned wings in a large ziplock bag. Pour marinade over.

4. Marinate wings 3-24 hours. Longer is tastier, of course.

5. Remove wings from fridge, line a large baking sheet with heavy-duty foil, and preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

6. Remove "bat wings" from marinade and bake one hour, till cooked through. Baste occasionally with marinade. Finish under broiler for extra crispness, if desired.

Creepy Puff Pastry Intestines

Make sure that you display this dish as a dessert or your guests will not know that this is a sweet.

Creepy Puff Pastry Intestines

Ingredients;

1 package (17.3 ounces) frozen puff pastry
3 cups filling of your choice (savory or sweet)
1 egg, beaten
red food coloring
small paintbrush

Directions;

1. Thaw puff pastry according to package’s directions. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line a 9? x 13? baking pan with parchment paper.
2. Divide each sheet of puff pastry lengthwise into 6 strips.
3. Lightly flour an expansive counter or other surface and lay each strip next to one another.
4. Press and seal the seams between strips.
5. Spread your filling of choice down the entire length of the dough, leaving a bit of space on each side to pinch closed.
6. Pinch the entire length of the dough closed, stretching the dough slightly around the filling as you go.
7. Carefully lift intestine onto baking sheet, seam-side down, and form an “intestine-like” pattern.
8. Brush puff pastry with beaten egg.
9. Dip small paintbrush into red food coloring and draw ”blood” in the creases.
10. Bake about 20 minutes, or until golden brown.

Mac & Cheese Coffin

Ingredients

4 mini bread loaves, unsliced (I use Mini White Flour Loaf from Bakers Delight)
1 cup macaroni pasta
30 g butter
2 tbsp plain flour
1 1/2 cups milk
3/4 cup grated tasty / cheddar cheese

Directions;

Slice the white loaf lengthway to create the coffin cover and cut out the centre to make a hollow of about 5 cm (2 inches) deep. Repeat with the other three loaves. Set aside.

Bring large saucepan of water to boil, gradually add macaroni, boil, uncovered, for about 12 minutes or until macaroni is tender; drain well.
Melt butter in a large saucepan, stir in flour. Stir constantly over medium heat for about 2 minutes or until mixture is bubbly; do not allow mixture to brown.
Remove from heat, gradually stir in milk. Return to heat, stir constantly over medium heat until the sauce boils and thickens slightly.
Add cheese, stir until melted.
Gently stir in macaroni.
Divide macaroni into the hollow loaves, butter the edges of the loaves and sprinkle top with a little extra cheese.

Place under hot grill for a few minutes or until lightly brown.

Place a skeleton skull on top of the macaroni cheese bake and gently push it in.

Brain Cupcakes

These are simple enough to make, and you can really use whatever recipes you like for cake, frosting and filling – only the method is important. Bake whatever cupcakes you wish – I used Dorie’s Perfect Party Cake – hope she doesn’t mind:). I decided to use canned cherry pie filling for the blood clot and though I had intended to puree it, I thought the cherries would give it a more clotted look (haha!) I suppose you could puree it and call it a hemorrhagic stroke. I used my usual vanilla buttercream for the icing, and colored it with very small amounts of red, brown and black to achieve that cerebral cortex color. Then just squiggle on top to get the effect of the gyri and sulci of the brain. (I cannot tell you how much it pains me that these are not even remotely anatomically correct, but it would have been impossible.) To help get the look of a brain, try to decorate in two halves to give the look of hemispheres, try to give it a domed shape, and make the sides as symmetrical as possible.

Apple Smiles

Ingredients

smooth peanut butter
1 red apple, cored and sliced into eighths
squeeze of lemon juice
miniature marshmallows

Directions

Spread peanut butter on one side of each apple slice (squeeze a little lemon juice over the apple if not serving immediately).

Place four miniature marshmallows on one apple slice and then lay another apple slice, peanut butter side down, on top.

Dead Man's Fingers

Ingredients;:

Thin sliced white bread, crusts removed
Soft margarine
Cream cheese or peanut butter
Almonds
Strawberry Jam

Directions;

Gently flatten the slices of bread with a rolling pin to make them more pliable. Spread with a little margarine and some cream cheese or peanut butter. Roll up the sandwiches and make three indentations with a blunt knife to form the finger joints. Trim the ends of the fingers into a 'V' shape and stick an almond on to each tip with a little cream cheese to form the nails. Now for the gruesome bit - add a dollop of strawberry jam over the end of the finger for the blood !

Eye-Scream Sweets

Yield: 4 pairs of "eyeballs"

1 quart vanilla ice cream
Strawberry syrup (such as Hershey's)
8 M&M's (blue, green, or brown)
Black decorating gel

1. Scoop ice cream into balls and set on wax-paper-lined cookie sheet. Freeze until ready to serve (at least 20 minutes).

2. Place two ice cream balls on each serving plate, an inch apart.

3. Drizzle syrup onto each ball to create a bloodshot effect. Put an M&M (logo facing down) at the center of each and top with a drop of black decorating gel to form a pupil.

Frightful Fingers

Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 2 minutes
Refrigerate: 2 hours

Two 11-oz bags white chocolate chips
4 drops green food coloring
3 powder-free latex gloves
15 M&Ms or almonds

1. Microwave chips in a bowl on medium power for 75 seconds. Stir until smooth. Stir in green coloring.

2. Drop an M&M or an almond into the bottom of the fingers of each glove. Fold down the end of the glove and, using a funnel, pour the melted white chocolate into each glove, using the end of a wooden spoon to push it through the funnel. Add just enough to fill each finger, pressing the chocolate into the fingers and thumb to work out any air bubbles.

4. Tie the end of the glove or close it with a rubber band. Refrigerate until set, about 2 hours. Carefully peel off glove.

Severed Fingers

This fun but disgusting Halloween food looks totally realistic, tastes great, and cooks up in about 5 minutes. It amazes me that something this easy can make such a gross Halloween food! Really fun.

You can also try a small piece of onion for the nail, if you like, but I think the yellow bell pepper gives the best impression of thick, gross-looking yellow nails. Recipe below is for one serving-- just multiply to make as many as you need.

Severed Fingers

Ingredients:
3 cocktail sausages
3 triangles of yellow bell pepper
Ketchup or BBQ sauce, as needed

Recipe:

1. Bring a pot of water to a boil.

2. To make each serving of three fingers, create 3 shallow horizontal slices about halfway up each cocktail sausage for "knuckles."

3. Boil sausages until cooked, about 2-3 minutes. Let cool slightly.

4. With a sharp knife, cut a small flat space at the tip of the sausage for a "nail." Using a bit of ketchup, mayonnaise, or bbq sauce, press a nail into each finger.

5. Fill a cup (in the photo it's a plastic muffin cup, but you can use a ramekin, a little clear glass, or whatever) with a couple tablespoons of ketchup, bbq sauce (these recipes are great!), or any other red-colored sauce. Place assembled fingers in the cup, burying the ends slightly in the sauce. Serve hot.

Tip: Heating the sauce helps keep this digusting Halloween food from cooling down too fast.

Coagulated Blood Dip

This creepy Halloween dip is bound to make an impression. Made with beets, it's a deep, dark red in color, it's thick and strange-looking... and it tastes really good. If you're health-conscious, it's also pretty darned healthy. Maybe not a dip that kids will go nuts over, but the adults I serve it to always love this dip with toasted pita wedges and crudites. It always surprises everybody --including people who think they don't like beets-- with how great it tastes.

This disgusting Halloween recipe is also an easy one. I simply buy pre-roasted, peeled beets and use those. The hard (and messy) part is done.

To make this dip look even more gory, garnish it with radish eyeballs or severed fingers and serve it in a creepy dish.

Coagulated Blood Dip

Ingredients:
6-8 medium beets, cooked, peeled, and coarsely chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/3 C. extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp. tahini
3 tbsp. fresh mint leaves, minced (or to taste)
2 tsp. red wine vinegar
1/2 medium lemon, juice of
sea salt, to taste
freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Instructions:

1. In a large food processor, combine the chopped beets, garlic, olive oil, and tahini. Process until mostly smooth.

2. Transfer to a serving bowl.

3. Stir in the chopped mint, vinegar, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste.

4. Cover and refrigerate at least an hour before serving, and up to 24 hours.

Pukin' Pumpkin

A pumpkin and some guacamole.......that's it!

Disgusting Diaper Dip

Some of my favorite presentation ideas for this dip are placed in a clear bowl (or scooped out onto a cut-out piece of plastic plate) and served on a clean opened diaper, or on a tray with a baby doll, as pictured (the photo was created with chocolate pudding, but the concept is the same!). REALLY gross, really funny, and really, really easy.

Recipe serves 6-8 people, and tastes great with veggies or pita chips.

Disgusting Diaper Dip

Ingredients:
1 can (15 oz.) black beans, drained
1 C. cooked, drained chickpeas (garbanzos)
2 tbsp. tahini
1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 C. chopped fresh cilantro
1 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. paprika
2 tbsp. olive oil
2 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
Salt, to taste
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Greek yogurt or olive oil, if needed to thin

Instructions:

1. In the bowl of a food processor, combine all of the ingredients.

2. Process until smooth. If mixture is too thick, thin out with a bit of Greek yogurt or some more olive oil.

3. Transfer to a bowl and refrigerate, covered, at least an hour before serving and up to 48 hours.

Used Tampons

Now, this recipe is disgusting Halloween food at its most basic. It only has two ingredients (if you don't include the string), comes together in about 5 minutes, and has maximum "gross out" potential. Really.

Place this nasty-looking (but yummy tasting) gross Halloween food on a platter and decorate with tampon wrappers if desired. Then watch your guests --especially sqeamish male guests-- get totally grossed out. Recipe make 5 large tampons.

Used Tampons

Ingredients:
20 large marshmallows
1 can sour cherries in juice (not cherry pie filling!)
5 8-9" lenghts of food-safe string

Instructions:

1. String four marshmallows on each of your five strings. I find the easiest way to do this is wrap the string around a wooden skewer, skewer the marshmallows, and pull the skewer out. You can also tie one end of the string around a toothpick.

2. Line the marshmallows up on one end of the string. Knot the bottom of the string.

3. Place marshmallow "tampons" on a serving tray.

5. Pour an undrained can of dark, sour cherries (it's best if you cut up the cherries a bit) over. Or use cranberry juice and dried cranberries.

6. Enjoy!