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DEL.ICIO.USDo you eat ghoulish Halloween treats?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This weekend my son, Alex, turned 14. He decided to have a costume party and invited most of his class, so we knew we were going to have a full house. To get into the mood, he and my husband decorated the house, downloaded music and planned activities while I worked on the menu.
While we opted for pizza for convenience, we wanted some Halloween-oriented items appropriate for teenagers. I made a simple punch, but filled it with gummy worms and ice frozen in gloves to look like hands. I also had seen a recipe that I thought would be great although it was decidedly not for the faint-hearted. It’s a cake decorated to look like a rather “used” litter box. Served in a litter box with a plastic scoop and placed on newspaper for added authenticity, it’s basically crumbled cake (I made both a chocolate and vanilla layer cake but you can choose your favorite) mixed with instant pudding for a soft and mushy consistency. It’s topped with crushed vanilla cookies; some tinted green to look like a layer of kitty litter. The “piece de resistance” is that it’s garnished with softened tootsie rolls shaped to look like….well, let’s leave that unsaid.
I have to admit, we debated about how many kids would want to eat it considering how realistic it was. Luckily one of the “cool girls” went, “Oh wow, a littler box cake!” basically giving it the “official” seal of approval.
Do you get in the Halloween mood with scary food? Would you eat something that purposely was made to look a little unappetizing or would that be enough to dissuade you?
For more halloween ideas, some spooky, some not, check our Halloween recipe photo gallery and a second gallery of reader-created Halloween goodies
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By Stacey
October 27, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this
I don’t have a problem with what food is called, but I will not eat it if it looks disgusting. The litter box cake sounds cute for kids and though I might would make one for a cat loving kid, I don’t see myself eating it. My son (like most kids) will try anything with a disgusting enough name though. My nephew wouldn’t eat cauliflower but he gobbled it up when my sister-in-law called it brains.
I have a weakness for sour gummy worms but I doubt that I would eat them if they were brown instead of bright pastel colored. Just a mental thing.
By FCM
October 28, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
Dirt Cake I would eat…but a Kitty Litter one? Probably not.
I do go through the Halloween collection and try to do something ‘fun’ if not scary for Halloween.
I saw a punch bowl with ‘withches hands’ (Black cherry Jello) that was cool…But I am thinking of doing lemonade with worm ice after reading your blog. (Time starved Mom here).
I was going to do Mummy dogs but 2 of the kids don’t eat hot dogs….so I guess it will be boring Pizza again. Maybe I will do chicken fingers (again boring but at least calling them fingers makes them more Halloween).