Four Kooky Halloween Recipes Your Kids Will Love

Halloween, and the weeks leading up to it, are a great time to have fun in the kitchen. Here are four Halloween-inspired meal ideas that are easy, fun to make, and certain to thrill your kids:

Yummy Mummy Chicken Patty

• Place a partially-cooked chicken patty on an unrolled roll of crescent or pizza dough and cut to size, leaving enough to fold over the top. 
• Make slits in the top randomly across the chicken patty. 
• Slice string cheese into discs for the eyes, and use an edible pen to make the black dot. 
• Be sure to cook the chicken patties about halfway through before placing in the crescent dough so it cooks through thoroughly when you bake the dough.

Spider Sandwich

This example is a PB&J, but any sandwich filling will do!

• Cut sandwich it in a circle.
• Add pretzel spider legs. 
• Depending on what kind of sandwich you're making, you can use anything from grapes to olives to chocolate candy for the eyes! 

Green Mac & Cheese

What kid doesn't like mac and cheese? 

• Simply add a little green food coloring and you've got a kooky Halloween meal!

Snake and finger bread sticks

• Cut crescent or pizza dough into slices, then roll and shape it into the appropriate shapes. 
• Use a toothpick to create shapes of knuckles and fingernails and extra dough to make a snake tongue.
• Color the fingernails with red edible pen or use pieces of a red bell pepper. Make eyes from small candy sprinkles.

From my kooky kitchen to yours, have a fun and safe Halloween!