For those who like the idea of charcuterie, this stars a liver pate liver … Actually, I’m thinking that the entire thing could be made of meat. Except the pickle gallbladder. And more organs. Maybe kidneys made of fish?
I’m thinking that after Finger Food, a second “food section” could be Medicalia, or Laboratoria, or something like that. Pickled punks, anyone?
There are so many different types of severed fingers that one could have an entire section of the table for finger food alone. These are cookies with almond nails.
These are little sausages.
These are little hot dogs with onion nails.
These are soft pretzel sticks…
And these are thin pretzels dipped in white chocolate.
If you’re not content with only fingers, here’s a whole hand made of meatloaf with onion nails and wristbone.
Can’t have too many deviled eggs. The spiders are entirely made of olives.
There are also these:
Looks almost like an offering to Baphomet…
Actually, we’re going to try a bunch of baby Cthulus – Cornish hens with little octopi and crab legs.
First suggestion: Cockroach platters!
Stuffed with cream cheese and chopped nuts.
Dipping them partly in chocolate helps complete the look.
These roaches use pecans as little wings. (We have fake roaches to add in between if anyone wants to try these.)
While some of us can’t have food dyes, they are not forbidden in potluck.
Bat wings – dye the sauce black, and carefully stretch the chicken wings out.
Apparently, you can get naturally black gourmet pasta, made with squid ink or black bean.
Green is also effective:
Pretty much any chunky & gooey food would work for this. Doesn’t have to be dip. Could be stew or maybe cooked spaghetti squash.
Surely, one of us has boxes for slides to display these in. (Or ebay)
I don’t know if you could make sugar glass thin enough for cover slips.
This will leave you with lots of spare shards of sugar glass, which should go into another creation.
(Third recipe on the page.)
To make it more disturbing looking, you could do a chocolate-cherry filling. Here is another recipe, with a less interesting chocolate filling, but better assembly instructions.
Kind of fussy, rolling all that puff pastry into tubes, but still cool. The golden-brown flaky intestines are delightful looking. (Super easy version just uses canned biscuit dough, topped with cherry pie filling.) Bonus points for a more anatomically correct arrangement.
For puff pastry with a chocolate-cherry filling, here is what I’d do: Pour off most of the cherry syrup, and mix the remaining cherries with a similar amount of chocolate sauce. Mix powdered cocoa into the cream cheese before spreading. After assembly, drizzle with the reserved cherry syrup.
Puff pastry around a meat filling , or other fillings, would also be good, but chocolate cherry is my favorite.