Stop and think about your guests when you’re making all those ghoulish foods this year. Halloween rolls around, and people throw huge parties, and that means lots of creepy foods and treats. But do you really want to serve a buffet where every guest has to ask you what each gory food is? Or, do you want to have to stand up small signs beside each dish to describe it? This is guts in wizard blood (meatballs in sauce), or that is bat droppings (raisins covered in dark chocolate). Even if the foods are sinister shouldn’t your guests be able to see what they are without asking? Okay, go ahead with your creepy foods but at least throw in one which the guests will recognize. When you make apple smiles they can see exactly what the food is and they’ll already know that it’s scrumptious.
Use a red apple to create four ghoulish but edible smiles. Wash the apple but don’t peel it. Core the apple and cut it into eight equal-size pieces. If you’re not going to serve the apple smiles right away, squeeze a tiny bit of lemon juice on each piece, and that will keep the smiles from turning brown. But you might prefer the brown look for Halloween smiles and, if that’s true, make the apples hours before serving.
Spread a thin layer of creamy peanut butter on one apple piece. Align four or five miniature marshmallows across the apple piece, pushing them slightly into the peanut butter. Set the marshmallows so that their flat sides are in the peanut butter. Space the teeth equally across the apple slice.
Spread peanut butter on another apple slice and stack it on top of the marshmallows. Make sure the red skin of each apple piece is facing in the same direction, and are aligned. For best results when serving, position the smiles so that the red sides are facing the guests.
You can give the smiles various looks by using yellow or green apples, or by using other colors of marshmallows, like orange or green. With choices of apple colors, and choices of marshmallow colors, you can literally make dozens of different types of edible smiles for your Halloween party. So, you’ll be able to make red and white smiles for a sweet look, or green lips and green teeth, for a more ghoulish appearance. They taste great and fit right in with any Halloween-theme gathering.
Apple Smiles