Halloween Treats

Halloween will be here soon. Not only am I excited about Halloween but Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have decided to host a rally and march in DC that weekend which is going to be tons of fun. And when that weekend couldn't get more awesome, it did when Rachel decided to come visit! Me, Rachel, and my roommate Moriah got Star Trek costumes to wear that weekend, which will be cute. My friends in DC also have other friends coming in that weekend so it's going to be a crazy few days. I'm looking forward to it!

Even though I don't have anything to cook for this Halloween, I thought I would share two things I've made for parties near Halloween in the past for anyone still trying to figure out fun dinner items!

These cake pops are adapted from Bakerella. I'm not going to post the recipe so hop on over to her fantastic website for it, but these are super easy and fun to make. I didn't have lollipop sticks so I used popsicle sticks and while not as good looking, they did the job. There are so many different things you can do with these but I, obviously, made vampires. I think this was actually for a Twilight part, haha.

 

Another Halloween party that I went to had asked me to bring a salad. I searched and search for some type of salad that I could make Halloweeny. I finally found this idea for eyeball caprese salad and they turned out great! I don't have a link because I don't remember where I found the idea - but they are made with a basil leaf, tomato slice, sliced mozzarella cheese balls (the kind you can get at an olive bar at the grocery store), and topped with two kinds of olives to make the eyeballs. I used a straw to poke holes in the halved green olives and in the black olives. I took the inner part of the hole out of the black olive and placed it into the hole I made in the green olives. I topped them with olive oil and pepper. I was quite happy with how cute these little guys were :)