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Spooky Lunch Ideas

Spooky Lunch Ideas

WITCH'S BREW LUNCH

Not the prettiest lunch, but certainly the most potent! 

 

Biscuit Bones

Ingredients:

1 can Pillsbury Crescents


Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 375°F. Prepare baking pan with parchment paper.
  2. Unroll dough and cut ¼ inch wide strips at various lengths (consider which box you will be packing these in). 
  3. Loosely tie a knot on both ends of each strip.
  4. Place on baking sheet and bake for 11-13 minutes, until golden brown.

Hotdog Worms


Ingredients:

1-2 hotdogs

Barbecue sauce


Directions:

  1. Boil water.
  2. Cut hotdogs in half lengthwise. 
  3. Cut each half to create 4 long strips.
  4. Cut each strip into thirds.
  5. Boil for 3-4 minutes and drain.
  6. Mix in barbecue sauce, to liking.

 

*In the lunchbox: preset jello, biscuit bones, hotdog worms in barbecue sauce, rambutan monster eyes


MONSTER MUNCHIES

This lunch will give you the goosebumps!

 

Franken-weenies


Ingredients:

Frozen corn dogs

1 egg white

Green food coloring

Icing

Blue corn chips, smashed

Pretzel sticks

Olives, thinly sliced

Candy eyes


Directions:

  1. Whisk together egg white, 1 tablespoon water, and green food coloring.
  2. Brush corndogs with egg wash.
  3. Bake according to directions (375° for 11-13 minutes).
  4. Let cool. Spread icing on top of corn dog and dip into smashed corn chips to create hair.
  5. Use icing to secure two eyes. 
  6. Cut a small incision into lower half of corn dog and insert an olive slice to create a mouth
  7. Press a pretzel stick into each side of Frankenstein’s head.


Marshmallow Ghosts


Ingredients:

5 ounces melted white chocolate

1 cup mini marshmallows

Candy eyes


Directions:

  1. Melt white chocolate.
  2. Stir in mini marshmallows.
  3. Use 2 tablespoons to scoop onto parchment paper and spread mixture out in the form of a ghost.
  4. Add eyes.
  5. Let cool and store in an airtight container.

 

 

Spider Web Pretzels

 

Ingredients:

Pretzel sticks

Melted chocolate

 

Directions:

  1. Transfer melted chocolate into piping bag or plastic baggie & cut the corner off for piping.
  2. On parchment paper, assemble a stack of 3-4 pretzel sticks in a criss-cross fashion.
  3. Pipe melted chocolate on each stack in a circular motion, making one smaller circle and one larger circle.
  4. Let cool.

 

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