Halloween Watch Party Recipes to Share With Your Skeleton Crew

One of our favorite Halloween traditions is the watch party, where we get together to watch something spooky (say, Ghostbusters or Scooby-Doo) or costume-focused (like the Marvel Cinematic Universe). In the Before Times, those watch parties would be in person, but they’re typically online now. (The Verge and Wired have some recommendations on how to do that.) But no matter where the watch party is hosted, making the right food and drink is critical. I mean, that’s important for any party, as far as I’m concerned!

So for this Halloween, we whipped up some themed food and drink recipes and made printable recipe cards to go with them. We hope you enjoy the recipes — and if you’re just after the printable cards, you can find a link at the very bottom of this article.

Happy Halloween!

Ghostbusters Watch Party Ideas

The Ghostbusters films are perfect for watch parties, whether in person or virtual. They’re funny, quotable, and they appeal to basically anyone with a sense of humor.

Slimed Food Recipe

Ingredients

• 9 oz. (or more) Lime Jello
• A variety of candy shaped like food

Directions

1. Choose a clear container that will hold at least 6 cups of green (lime-flavored) Jello. Note that a 3 oz. box makes 2 cups of Jello, a 6 oz. box makes 4 cups, and so on.
2. Prepare 2 cups of Jello according to the directions, pour into the container, and chill to set.
3. Sprinkle food-shaped candy across the layer of Jello.
4. Prepare 2 more cups of Jello, pour into the container, and refrigerate to set.
5. Continue making layers of Jello and adding candy until the container is full.

Note: The trick with Slimed Food is to alternate Jello and candy layers. If you mix all of the Jello and candy at once, the candy will just sink to the bottom!

Slime Cocktail Recipe

You can make a Slime Cocktail with your choice of green liquors and green or clear mixers. Here are some cocktails that match the Ghostbusters theme:

• An Apple Martini with apple schnapps, vodka, and apple or lemon juice.
• A Green Martini with Green Chartreuse, an herbal liqueur that pairs with whiskey and other spirits.
• An Emerald Isle with green crème de menthe and gin.
• Any fruity cocktails with a melon liqueur like Midori Melon.

Scooby-Doo Watch Party Ideas

You’ve got options when it comes to a Scooby-Doo watch party. Are you going to watch the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and The New Scooby-Doo Movies cartoons?

Scooby Snack Biscuits Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp. vanilla
• Bone-shaped cookie mold

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Mix dry ingredients (flour, oatmeal, sugar, and cocoa) together.
3. Mix wet ingredients (butter, eggs, and vanilla) together.
4. Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients.
5. Pour batter into bone-shaped molds.
6. Bake for 10 minutes.

Recipe courtesy of Hungry Forever.

Scooby Snack Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 part coconut rum
• 1 part melon liqueur
• 1 part creme de banana
• 1 part pineapple juice
• Whipped cream
• Ice

Directions

1. Mix rum, melon liqueur, creme de banana, and pineapple juice.
2. Add ice to taste.
3. Top with whipped cream.

Beetlejuice Watch Party Ideas

We’ll watch a Tim Burton movie any day of the week, but there’s something special about experiencing them in a group. They have a delightfully quirky style and plenty of fun songs, too. Beetlejuice is no different.

Zagnut Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup peanut butter
• 2 tbsp. coconut oil
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut flakes

Directions

1. Mix peanut butter and coconut oil in a microwave-safe bowl.
2. Microwave for 30 seconds.
3. Mix in vanilla.
4. Mix in coconut flakes.
5. Form into cookie shapes and freeze.

The Zagnut bar in Beetlejuice is a real candy bar made by The Hershey Company, though it isn’t available everywhere. A Zagnut is simply a peanut butter and coconut cookie, so we used this recipe from Tasty.

Beetlejuice Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 parts apple brandy
• 2 parts apple cider
• 1 part simple syrup
• 1 part lemon juice
• Beetle/bug-shaped candy for garnish

Directions

We based this cocktail on the Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice by Bryan Galligos from the Bacchus Bar, as reported by Wine Enthusiast. The original recipe included charred rosemary, basil leaves, and a real beetle. Give that version a try if you’re ready to see what shakes loose!

The Avengers Watch Party Ideas

So far, we’ve been throwing out watch party ideas, but we’re getting into watch marathon territory here. That’s because we’re talking about The Avengers and potentially the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). If your crew is only going to watch 2012’s The Avengers, you’re looking at just over 2 hours and 20 minutes. That’s easy. If you choose all 4 Avengers movies, now we’re talking 10 hours and change. But how about the MCU in full? Well, that’s going to take several days. How dedicated are you?

Rock Candy Infinity Stones Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 cups water, in 6 parts
• 12–18 cups sugar, in 6 parts
• Food coloring (orange, red, blue, purple, yellow, green)
• 6 wooden skewers or 3 pairs of chopsticks
• 6 tall glasses or jars, preferably clear
• Clothespins

Directions

1. Clip a clothespin onto a wooden skewer or chopstick to form a “†” shape. When you rest the clothespin on the edges of a tall glass or jar, the skewer or chopstick should hang freely inside the glass to about 1 inch from the bottom. If it’s too close to the bottom, the sugar crystals might connect the skewer to the glass. Set the clothespin/skewer and glass aside for now.
2. Boil 1 cup of water.
3. Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar to the boiling water and stir until it dissolves. Keep doing this until you can’t dissolve any more sugar. This usually takes about 2–3 cups of sugar in total. Near the end, it will take longer for the sugar to dissolve. When you reach this point, we recommend adding less sugar each time.
4. Stir in 1 color of food coloring. You’ll get better results with darker, richer colors.
5. Remove the sugar water from the heat and let it cool for 20–30 minutes.
6. Pour the warm sugar water into the tall glass or jar. It should be almost full.
7. Place the clothespin back on the edges of the glass so that the skewer hangs into the sugar water. Make sure that it doesn’t touch the sides or bottom of the glass.
8. Put the glass somewhere where it won’t be disturbed.
9. Repeat for the 5 other colors.
10. The crystals will start growing soon but it can take a week for large crystals to form.
11. Once the crystals are large enough, remove the skewer from the water and break into individual Infinity Stones.

Recipe adapted from ScienceBob.

Black Widow Martini Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz. black rum
• 3/4 oz. creme de cacao
• 1 cup ice
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• Black food coloring
• Red food coloring
• Optional: red cocktail sugar

Directions

1. In a small bowl, mix sugar and 1 drop of red food coloring. Alternatively, you can use red cocktail sugar.
2. Wet the rim of a martini glass with water and dip into red sugar mixture.
3. In a separate bowl or martini shaker, mix black rum, creme de cacao, and 1–2 drops of black food coloring, then add ice to taste.
4. Pour drink into martini glass.

Recipe courtesy of Betty Crocker.

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Originally published at https://www.halloweencostumes.com.