My favourite season is here and I have shared many easy Halloween recipes with you over the years so I’m back with yet another! My Halloween food table is never complete without an edible hand and I’ve tried many different versions. I’m going to share two different edible hands for your Halloween party and you can tell me which one you prefer! You don’t need any molds so trust me when I say, this Halloween recipe is super easy and works well for a Halloween party appetizer or you can make it for Halloween dinner because the kids are going to love it!
Bloody Hand Halloween Recipe (Creepy Party Centerpiece)
For the most gruesome looking bloody hand recipe you simply need BBQ sauce and ground meat. What type of meat you use is up to you – I prefer lean ground beef but ground turkey, ground chicken and even ground soy meat would just as well. Which means you can make this a vegan Halloween recipe if you wish because I don’t use eggs either! Simply gather your ground beef in a bowl and add some spices ( I like garlic powder, coriander, salt and pepper to keep this edible hand recipe kid friendly) and then you shape it like a hand and bake. Half way through baking while the meat is still malleable, pop some almond nails on, slather the sauce and finish baking your bloody hand. At the end you slather more BBQ sauce and VOILA! You have yourself a delicious bloody hand that would complete your Halloween party menu with something hearty. I just leave it for guests to cut as they want but you could serve it with some mashed potatoes if you’re doing a sit down Halloween dinner.
Pro tip : Don’t keep it in oven too long unless you want it looking like a burnt hand – that’s also a gruesome food idea so you can go with it! If you find it hand to shape your hand you can trace an outline of your own hand on parchment paper and use that as a guideline!
Scary Halloween Food Idea: Bloody Hand You Can Eat
Here's an edible beef hand recipe that can be adampted to any ground meat including vegan ground 'meats'
Ingredients
- 1 KG ground beef
- 2 Tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 Tablespoon salt
- 1/2 cup BBQ Sauce or Ketchup
- 5 almonds
- *Any additional dry spices you'd like
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients together except for the BBQ sauce or Ketchup and almonds
- Shape into hand on an oven proof tray or pan
- Place in pre-heated oven (350C) for 20 minutes
- Take hand out of oven and place almonds on finger tips. Brush BBQ sauce or ketchup generously and place back in the oven for 20 minutes
- Ensure meat is fully cooked, drizzle more sauce as desired and serve
Notes
You can flavour this any way you want. I've done taco seasoning, kebab mixins and Kalbi flavour in the past.
How to Make a Bloody Edible Hand for Halloween
For a different spin on your edible hand try this pork recipe with “edible skin”. Once again, I promise you, it’s an easy one. All you need is a pork loin, some soft cheese, cheese string and prosciutto. For the soft cheese I like to use some Boursin because you can buy the herbed one for extra flavour. You can serve this with some crackers and place a knife so people can cut chunks of the arm!
Scary Halloween Food Idea: Pork Loin and Cheese Hand with Edible Skin
This edible hand has pork loin arm and cheese hand with prosciutto skin
Ingredients
- 1 Pork tenderloin (usually about 1.5lbs)
- 300 grams of soft cheese (Like Boursin)
- 5 Cheese strings
- 100 grams of procuitto
Instructions
- Baste your pork tenderloin with any spices you like. Chimichurri is a favourite of mine
- Cook the pork for 20 minutes at 350 F and check that the internal temperature is at least 175 F before taking it out.
- Once the pork has cooled place it on your serving tray
- Place the soft cheese above the pork and shape it like a palm
- Add the string cheese into the cheese palm so it looks like fingers
- Drape procuitto over the cheese and pork
Notes
Flavour the pork to your liking - mustard, soy, etc
And there you go! You have two edible hand recipes to choose from!
Which is your fave?
Stay tuned for more Halloween food ideas!
