Thread: Southern Finger Food Ideas

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Ok, so since our Haunt/Party this year is going to be a cross of Haunted Mansion style, and Nightmare Before Xmas (very disneyland if i do say so myself), we decided that we wanted to do Southern Style Food....

But it needs to be Finger Foods. We want to eliminate spoons, forks and knives, as last year they ended up in the weirdest places....

We keep coming up with ideas, but nothing seems to fit, and frankly I didn't like anything that was put on paper. We need like 1 meal-type-food, 2 snacks, and 2-3 desserts. We want something that isn't messy, but at the same time, looks and feels halloween. We are definitely having cupcakes for one of the desserts. Those were a HUGE hit last year.

Any ideas? We were gonna do a pulled pork sandwich, but it doesn't feel... Halloween. Ya know. It's really the ONLY area of this party that we haven't covered yet. HELP!

Put your pulled pork inside of a skull, then have tongs to dip in and remove the shredded brains. Have your BBQ sauce in some type of container listed as type O blood (mild sauce) Type AB blood (hot sauce).

I live in the south and trying to think with a headache, some really good finger foods for you..

Coleslaw, with red food coloring, or green.

I am thinking of a 3-4 tiered white cake, you cut into it and blood oozes out... Google jelly filled cake.

We drink A LOT of sweet tea here in Mississippi, there is a new alcoholic drink called sweet tea, believe it is a rum product... I tried it once and it isn't my fav, but your guests might like it..

ritz cracker, piece of pepperoni, cheese and small slice of tomato. Pop in oven for a few min, melt cheese (ummm)

Deviled eggs, take a toothpic and dip into red food color, then draw on veins, into the white part of the egg.

Ribs, make a huge batch of ribs, pull the meat off, put meat in the middle of a tray. The take the bones (after cleaning very well) and put around the edges of the plate. Goes great with blood wine..

Have you thought about hot wings? They don't require a fork and they are deep fried, just like most of the things I cook here in the south. Sloppy Joes (some call it Manwich) are good too. They are really easy to make and don't require a fork. You could buy the big package of dinner rolls, cut them in half and make a small bun for the meat. Guests could just pick one up and walk around eating it.

For dessert, you could go as simple as buying Peanut Butter cookies (the ones that are shaped like a big peanut) and dip them in white chocolate then use 2 milk chocolate chips on top for eyeballs, making them look like little ghosts.

As a former southerner, I'll second Alucard's suggestion for wings (a lot of people call them bat wings for Halloween). The only other "finger foods" I can come up are: corndogs, stuffed celery, the "mummy" little hotdogs - they're wrapped in some sort of bread and then cooked and they look like mummies - the recipe is on this forum somewhere; deviled eggs, chocolate dipped pretzels, ribs, meat roll-ups (with or without cheese), mini-shrimp cocktail, fried gator bites, raw oysters, corn cob on a stick... wait I think I'm off track...now I'm hungry - if I think of anything else I'll post again.

I don't know if these will be any help but I thought I would post my food table from years past. You may get some ideas!


















BW

Found a couple more!












Hope they are of use!

BW

Hey British,

You must still be eating on that spread! LOL! Nice job. You must have had a lot of guests?

Thank you

Yes Last year was the biggest ever get together, I had about 50 people in total.

BW

Oh Your tables looked just beautiful! What a terrific & colorful spread. Any chance you might elaborate a little more as to specifically what your dishes are in those photo's? I see alot more there than just finger sandwiches & deviled eggs!

Muffy

Hi Muffy

Of course I will....if I can remember,

There were all different types of finger sandwiches, meat (flesh of course), strawberry jam (blood), chocolate spread (soil) and cheese (grated skin).

There were ham & cheese croisants, sausage rolls, bread sticks, mini pizzas, savoury Witches fingers, sweet Witches fingers, lots of sweet peppers celery and cucumbers for dipping. Mini cocktail sausages, cherry tomatoes, chicken dippers, cheese biscuits and roasted pumpkin seeds. Various Mini quiches and vol-au-vonts.
Salami filled with cream cheese. Minis spring rolls, savoury pastry bats & witches hats which were cheese and paprika (They were really yummy!)

There was (Sweet) mince meat pasties and apple and sultana pasties. Meringue ghosts which I made, various cupcakes some bought some made.
Most of the savoury foods I made myself, The cupcakes were bought plain and I did all the decorating on them. The orange cakes with chocolate drizzling are what we in the UK know as "Fondant Fancies", but these were a special "Halloween Edition" as they are normally pastel colours not orange.

Various types of sweet biscuits and Oreo cookies.

The "Tarantular Flan" I made from a sponge flan case, designed the spider from Black Grapes and then covered in a fast setting jelly (Jello).

The large graveyard cake I made myself as the Halloween offerings of cakes over here are rather sad. Everything on it was eadible except the skeleton and the tree.

I think that about covers it.

As you probably guessed, the food is the most important part to me....hubby worries about the decorating and I do the food.

I start about two days before the party with the things that I know will keep but the majority is done on the day so it is always an early start that day but I wouldn't change it for the world.

BW