When a couple of kids barged into my neighbour's house screaming ‘Trick or Treat’, the 60-year-old Ms. Sarin was baffled. These are kids who are usually on the best of their behaviour, why would they suddenly pull such a ‘prank’, and secondly, why did they have kajal smeared all over their face in the most ghoulish fashion. Utterly confused, she smiled at them and gave them a few cashews along with a bar of Cadbury chocolate, and said “Happy Diwali”. The next day when I heard about the incident, I couldn’t help but laugh. This cannot be passed off as a mere episode of ‘generation-gap’. We love festivals, and when they don’t belong to us, we don’t mind adapting them to our ways.
31st October is celebrated as Halloween in many parts of the western world. Thanks to pop culture, a lot of urban Indians have learned a fair amount about the holiday. For instance, it is celebrated to remember the dead and the departed, the saints (Hallows), and martyrs on the eve of All Hallows Day (1 November). On this day, people don their spookiest outfits and kids run around house-to-house in search of candies. Another cool feature about the festival is making delicacies that could scare the daylights out of you. Carved pumpkins, spider cupcakes, boogie man cookies, you name it. Most of these delicacies are not even that time-taking if you think about it, and they look so pretty on your Instagram.
Here are five of our quick, Insta-worthy Halloween recipes you must try this weekend.
1. Halloween Potato Pizza Mummies
Potato pancakes topped with all things eerie...and delicious. Marinara sauce for blood, olives for eyes, cut strips of cheese as bandages, there are so many elements to play around with here.
2. Halloween Boo Brownie Pops
You have tried to win everyone’s affection with your brownies, now scare them. Don’t worry, they are so soft and fudgy that they are equally impressive, if not more. The pops are easy to handle and distribute too, so if you have someone coming over, this is a perfect dessert.
3. Halloween Peanut Butter Eyeballs
Easily the quickest item on our list. Peanut butter, butter, sugar and vanilla essence rolled up like and decorated as eyeballs. Creepy much?
4. Halloween Bat Cookies
The mere mention of bats in the post-pandemic world is scary in itself, now can you imagine on top of your cookies? You don’t have to fetch real bats for this. Dark chocolate melts and white icing will do the ‘trick’ and give you the most ‘ gram-worthy cookies.
5. Halloween Biscuit Fingers
Finger food got a whole new definition. These biscuits baked in shape of human fingers taste similar to shortbread, the strawberry jam adds an extra gory touch.
Here’s wishing you all a very Happy Halloween! Try making these spooky and yummy treats and don’t forget to share the pictures. We are all eyes.