The most important part of Halloween, at least for me, are all the treats and goodies! The Periodicals Department has several magazines that offer creative and tasty party food ideas.

Taste of Home’s Halloween Food & Fun includes recipes for Witch’s Hairy Finger Breadsticks, Mounds of Bugs and Ghoul-Ade among many other treats.  They also give ideas for no-sew costumes such as pizza pie and tin robot. There are face painting instructions for a crazy clown, a beautiful butterfly, a super spider web, a way easy rabbit and a lovely lioness.

Pillsbury’s Halloween Food Parties Fun has over 203 recipes and tips for Halloween. The hot dog mummies featured on the cover are pretty cool. I’d like to try making the Cheesy Ham-witches using refrigerated biscuit dough to make a witch’s face. There are some ghoulish dessert ideas as well, including a graveyard cake, a Bride of Frankenstein cake and wormy apple bars. The magazine also offers suggestions for how to set an awesome Halloween party table.

Better Homes and Gardens Halloween Pumpkins and Parties offers 101 “spooktacular” ideas. There’s a whole section on pumpkin carving, including a mummy face and Willard the Warlock. But lets get back to the food! Recipes for such goodies as Golden Beetle Juice Slush, Spooks on a Stick, a rat cake and Constricting Snake Bites are offered.

Woman’s Day Halloween Celebrations includes recipes for such “ghostly goodies” as Vampire Bites Nut Mix, Brownie Pop Eyeballs, Chocolate Flies and Crunchy Insect Brittle.

We've put all these great Halloween seasonal issues in a display near the Periodicals Desk.  Drop by and take a look at our monstrous magazines, spooky serials and icky issues!