Freaky Faces
By OcadoLife
Published on 25 September 2023
“Let the kids be as creative as they like conjuring these Freaky Faces cracker ghouls out of veg, cheese and houmous. We’ve created a shopping list below but feel free to mix it up. Use fresh and tinned – whatever you have handy,” says recipe writer Charlotte Love. Looking for more halloween recipes? Look no further.Time and servings
20 minsTotal time
20 minsPrep time
Ingredients
- 1 (300g) pack oat cakes, rice cakes or crackers
- 1 (300g) tub houmous
- 1 (200g) tub guacamole
- 1 (160g) pack cheese slices
- 1 (340g) jar pitted black olives
- 1 (200g) pack radishes
- 1 (195g) tin sweetcorn
- 1 red pepper
- 1 (150g) pack sugar snap peas
- 85g tub peeled edamame soy beans
- 2 carrots
- 1 (200g) pack baby corn
- 1 (100g) pack pumpkin seeds
Method
Step 1
Spread oat cakes or crackers with houmous and guacamole.Step 2
For eyes, use a small bottle top to cut circles from cheese slices; and make pupils from pieces of black olive or radish (you can use the end of a metal straw to cut them out) or peas.Step 3
Make mouths from odds and ends, such as sweetcorn kernels and trimmed pepper – create toothy grins with sugar snaps opened to reveal their peas.Step 4
Edamame beans make good noses.Step 5
Add finishing touches – pointy ears, eyebrows, horns and hair – using sugar snaps, chopped pepper, radish, carrot, cucumber, baby corn and pumpkin seeds. Best eaten same day.