Fiendish Finger Foods
Peeled grape eyeballs and brain-shaped Jell-O molds are just the beginning. Use black olives to shape spiders on deviled eggs. Cut jicama sticks into bone shapes for a vegetable platter. Make pretzel "fingers" with blanched almond fingernails.
Eerie Entrees
Watch the cheese ooze out of this Spooky Calzone Snake when you cut into it--or gross your guests out completely with Bloody Baked Rats. For a less creepy but equally seasonal feast, serve pumpkin chili or pumpkin soup.
Sickening Sweets
Make a pirate's hoard of spiderweb cupcakes, graveyard cakes, pumpkin cookies, and pumpkin fudge.
You'll find more decorating tips and recipes in our Halloween Cookies and Halloween Cakes articles.
Swamp Thing
Learn how to make bubbling, steaming cauldrons of witches' brew in our Spooky Sipping article.