I was looking at the photos from a trip to Oslo a few years ago and came across a photo of Munch’s Scream, which triggered a mental process that made me think of Ghostface, the serial killer from the movie Scream, and the association with Halloween was automatic. 🙂
The Halloween celebration in Italy is not very popular, especially among older people, who are quite irritated by children ringing doorbells and rushing up and down stairs to get treats, throwing confetti on the doormat if the door isn’t opened.
To maintain good relations with my neighbors, I’ve always organized a small snack with some friends of my daughter for Halloween. 🙂
For me, this holiday has always been an opportunity to spend some time with the kids who are at school until 4 p.m. and then rush to the gym, pool, or catechism, making it difficult for them to spend time together chatting and laughing.
Usually, I organized a Halloween-themed pajama party, and my daughter’s classmates had a blast making sweets together.
The recipes I propose are all simple “recipes” that children can make independently, and the conclusion of the evening will be in sleeping bags watching fun, non-violent movies. Which ones? Find out in this article.
In addition to these recipes, I also wrote an article where you can find tips for creating invitations and ideas for making a scary mask to give our kids a great afternoon.
Tell me in the comments what you’ll do and if you’ll celebrate it.
- Cost: Economical
- Rest time: 1 Hour
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 2
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients for Screaming Halloween
- 4 lady's kisses
- 1.7 oz white chocolate (melted)
- 1 blue decorating pen (can be replaced with a smarties)
- 1 red decorating pen
- 1 black decorating pen
- 1/2 red apple (sliced not too thin)
- 0.7 oz white chocolate (melted)
- 0.7 squares candied orange (can be replaced with marshmallow)
- 1 lemon (juiced for its juice)
- 1 package focaccia (Buitoni)
- to taste ketchup
Tools for Preparing a Screaming Halloween
- 1 Baking Tray
- 1 Set
Steps to Prepare a Screaming Halloween.
Melt white chocolate in the microwave.
Dip the lady’s kisses in the melted chocolate, place them on parchment paper and put them in the freezer.
Take them out after an hour and decorate with the pens, making a blue circle (you can get the blue of the eye using a smarties, which should be inserted right before putting the eye in the freezer), draw a black circle inside the blue one, circle the blue circle with the black pen and finally stripe the eye with the red pen.
This recipe is designed to be easily made by elementary school children, but if you want to make it more “professional,” you can replace the pens with piping bags filled with colored chocolate.
White chocolate
Eyes ready for the freezer
Eye with blue circle
Eye with second black circle
Cut a half red apple into slices, pass them through lemon juice to prevent oxidation.
Spread a bit of melted white chocolate on the apple slice.
Insert the candied orange pieces, which will be the teeth of your mouth, spread chocolate on another slice of apple and place it on top of the first, being careful not to move the teeth.
Put in the freezer for half an hour.
If you want, you can replace the candied orange with a marshmallow cut into squares, the result will definitely be better.
Ingredients for preparing the witch’s bite
Squeeze the lemon
Apples soaked in lemon juice to prevent oxidation
Spread the slice with chocolate
Insert the “teeth” into the witch’s bite
Bite assembled ready to go into the freezer
Roll out the Buitoni focaccia.
Draw the face of Scream on a parchment paper, place the drawing on the focaccia and use a knife to cut the edges and shape the focaccia dough into the shape of scream, ghost, and pumpkin. Pay attention if the kids are very young.
Transfer to a baking tray and bake at 350°F for 25 minutes.
Munch’s Scream
The drawing to use on the focaccia
Roll out the focaccia
Cut out the Scream
Use a pastry cutter to form dough circles
Pumpkins ready to be baked
Here’s the fun result.
Halloween Trivia
Often, it’s mistakenly thought that Halloween is an American holiday, but in reality, its origin is Celtic.
Halloween is linked to the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain, which in Old Irish means “end of summer,” while in Modern Irish it is identified with the word “November.”
For the Celts, this festival marked the transition from the end of summer to the arrival of winter.
It was on this night that the veil separating the world of the living from that of the dead became thin and could be crossed by the dead who could return to their loved ones.
So, during this festival, they celebrated and honored their deceased, just as happens in the Christian holiday of All Saints.
