Happy Halloween weekend! We celebrated Halloween with a WICKED dinner party for twelve. Cooking for twelve can be daunting – so we hosted a potluck party with a FRIGHTENING menu. Our guests were just as excited as us to create a SPOOKY dish, fit for ghosts, goblins and witches. We are very excited to share our Appalling Apps, Menacing Mains, Sinister Sweets and Creepy Cocktail with you. Bone Appetit!
We created an elegant table scape featuring Williams Sonoma’s Macbeth inspired dinnerware. We love the HAUNTING images of Hemlock Root, Toe of Frog, Witch’s Brew and Wool of Bat on the plates, platters and napkins. Bed Bath and Beyond’s bat shaped table mats and Pottery Barn’s bat shaped dipping bowls complemented our dinnerware perfectly. The spiderweb place card holders featured OMINOUS tombstones with guests’ names. We added orange daisies, black calla lilies and candy corn to incorporate the traditional Halloween colors on the dining table.
We used Must Have Menus to create our SPOOKTACULAR menu featuring Horror d’oeuvres, Erie Entrees, Devilish Desserts and Deadly Drinks. We served SCARY quesadillas with Bloody Tomato Salsa and Ghoul-a-mole. These are easy to make with Halloween cookie cutters and our guests LOVED them. We also served Hazardous Hummus and a Cemetery Cheese and Fruit Spread. Our guests had a lot of fun molding Brie into coffins, Cheddar into crosses and Fontina into tombstones. Another guest created a skeleton out of vegetable body parts. For the mains we served a Lasagna with Mozzarella Ghosts and Eyeball Turkey Meatballs.
We adorned the dessert table with a CREEPY banner from Williams Sonoma and orange daisies. We had a lot of fun composing the dessert menu with Graveyard Brownies with Sugar Cookie Tombstones and Coffins, Monster Apple Bites, Candy Corn Krispies, Broken Bones, Vampire Fangs and Gummy Skulls.
Even our wine arrived in costume with these whimsical bottle toppers from Pottery Barn! We believe every party should have a signature drink. Our creepy cocktail this year was InStyle Parties’ Orange Satin Cosmo.
Our special guest was the pope who blessed our meal, gave communion and even officiated Miss Piggy and Kermit’s wedding. We had an AMAZING time at the party!
“When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.” ––Anonymous
Recipes From This Post:
Hummus: Rachel Ray
Guacamole: 4 avocados, sea salt, 3 tomatoes, lime juice, cilantro, 1-2 chopped onion, 1-2 serrano chillies or jalapeno chillies
Graveyard Cheese Plate: Brie (coffins), Cheddar (crucifix), Fontina (tombstones), assorted crackers, grapes, apricots
Quesadillas: Flour tortillas, shredded Mexican cheese and cookie cutters (butter pan before pan frying)
Skeletor’s Crudite: Yogurt dip (yogurt, fat free sour cream, onion puree, garlic & dill), red and green bell peppers, mushrooms, cucumbers, carrots
Spinach and Turkey Lasagna: Health.com plus homemade tomato sauce: Epicurious and sprinkle fresh cilantro and crushed red pepper
Sugar Cookies: Karen’s Cookies
Brownies: Thomas Joseph (double recipe)
Glaze Icing: JBS Box (I needed to triple the recipe for my cookies)
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting: Toba Garrett
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting: Toba Garrett
Glaze Icing: Sally’s Baking Addiction
Monster Bites: Apples, peanut butter and candy corn
Broken Bones: Pretzels, marshmallows and white chocolate
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Vampire and Skull Candy: Sockerbit
Ceramic Pumpkin and Spiderweb Bowls: Michaels
MacBeth Inspired Dinnerware and Napkins: Williams Sonoma
Bat Placemats: Bed Bath and Beyond
Halloween Candy: Williams Sonoma
Wine Bottle Covers and Bat Serving Dish: Pottery Barn
Stand Mixer: Kitchen Aid Tilt Head; Kitchen Aid Bowl Lift (we prefer the bowl lift model, but it’s more expensive)
Bakeware Set: Calphalon 10-Piece; Calphalon 5-Piece
Wine Glasses: IKEA
Champagne Flutes: IKEA
Your planning details are really helpful dear. This year I had planned my Halloween party at LA venues. I invited few of my close friends and family there. We all had great time there at the party and everybody loved the arrangements.
thank you curtis03 Lewis- stay tuned for many more exciting parties in the new year!
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I would love to have the MacBeth-inspired dinnerware as I am a big Shakespeare fan. Looks like you really nailed the Wicked theme!
Your Wicked Dinner Party looks like such a fun and spooky event! The attention to detail in the menu and decorations, from the eerie entrees to the creepy cocktails, is truly impressive. The Macbeth-inspired dinnerware and bat-shaped table mats add a perfect touch. Thanks for sharing these creative ideas and recipes!
I do love the apple teeth dessert. This post has inspired my Halloween party for this year.
Love this idea. Still too soon for Haloween for me but I love how much attention to detail you have paid. Some great ideas.
So many cute ideas. I like the mozzarella ghosts on the lasagna.
I am so on love with this idea. Thanks for sharing your bone-chillingly awesome party with us!
OMG I love this!! That is such a “wicked” theme for a dinner party. I love the idea of the themed foods. Those can be so much fun to make.
This is a cool idea, and the food looks so wonderful. There can be a lot of fun can be made there.
WOW, I LOVE THIS Wicked Dinner Party idea, I love seeing your table and party decorations. Your ideas are so cool and fun, and I bet your guest really enjoy them as well. Everything from the decorations to the food looks amazing.
You are so creative with all of the holidays. The snacks all look wonderful and unique. Such a fun celebration! I’ll have to plan out something special for this Halloween.
saving this for wicked parties at any time in the future !! so much fun and so many cool ideas
Wow! Your Wicked Dinner Party theme is absolutely spellbinding! Love the creative, spooky touches throughout!
I’m excited for Halloween to roll around in 3 months. The theme, food and decor of your Halloween party is wonderful!
Love all the fun Halloween decor and food ideas. I would like to host a wicked dinner party someday.