Bug Themed Treats for Halloween!

Bug Themed Treats for Halloween!

With Halloween right around the corner, we are preparing to make some spooky snacks. Being in the pest control industry, of course our focus is on the creepy crawlies of the harrowing holiday. Here are some of our top picks of spooky bug-themed Halloween treats:  

Cobweb Cookies

Made with pancake batter, these delicate little cookies are a fun addition to any Halloween party. To create the web-like shape, a plastic squeeze bottle is used first forming the straight lines before connecting them with smaller bowed lines. Upon preference, the cookies can be topped with powdered sugar, giving them the white color more associated with webbing, and can even be displayed with little spider rings.

Bugs in a Blanket

These snacks are a super fun twist on the traditional ‘pigs in a blanket.’ After making your preferred version of the biscuit wrapped sausages, a few decorative additions transform the treats to little bugs. Using ketchup or mustard, two little dots placed at the end of the protruding sausage make for little beady bug eyes, and pretzel sticks, or potato sticks, inserted along the sides of the biscuit create the “bug’s” legs.

Stuffed “Roaches”

Don’t worry, this Halloween treat does not require any real cockroaches. It does, however, require a bunch of delicious dates and your choice of fillings. Here are some of the top stuffed date recipes we recommend:

• Chocolate-Covered Pretzel Date – Rest the pretzel nugget in the date before dipping the combination into chocolate or drizzling chocolate on top.
• Salted Peanut Butter Cup Dates – Stuff the date with your favorite peanut butter. Top with a sprinkling of sea salt and a drizzle of chocolate. (Alternatively, you can. Dip the bottom of the stuffed date into chocolate to coat the treat)
• Cheese Stuffed Dates – Using a soft cheese of your choice such as brie, feta, goat cheese, etc., stuff the date and top with your preferred herbs and spices.

To complete the Halloween aesthetic, we suggest decorating the plate with fake plastic roaches.

Worms in Dirt

This is a super easy-to-make snack that can even be made fairly healthy. Here are a few popular different versions of the treat:

• Chocolate pudding and crushed Oreos (or other chocolate cookies)
• Vanilla pudding and assorted crushed cookies
• Greek yogurt and granola or crushed cookies

No matter which version you decide to make, the key to making this a Halloween-themed snack is a hearty topping of wriggly little gummy worms.

Deviled Spider Eggs

After making your favorite deviled egg recipe, it’s time to crack open a can of black olives to make the transformative topping. Cut several olives in half, placing the halves on the center of the deviled eggs. Then slice the remaining olives into little rounds before cutting the rounds in half, making tiny arches. Place the arches alongside the half-olive, creating little spider legs for each deviled egg.

Spiderweb Soup

This fun food does not require any specific recipe and is super easy to make. All you need is a soup of your choice (we suggest thicker autumnal soups with a relatively uniform color such as butternut squash, tomato, or potato leek), a plastic squeeze bottle, a toothpick, and sour cream (or another thick cream-based topping such as yogurt, buttermilk, or coconut milk). Using the squeeze bottle with your cream topping, make a small dot in the center of the soup and surround it with a thin circle. Continue this pattern with consecutive loops, each one getting larger, until the loops are near the edge of the bowl. Next, take your toothpick and, starting from the dot in the center, pull out straight lines through all the loops to the edge to create the web pattern.