Spooky snacks for halloween

Makes four skull pizzas
2 150g / 5 oz ready-made pizza bases
1 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, chopped
2 tomatoes
1 tbsp tomato puree
salt and pepper
1/2 tsp mixed dried herbs
150g / 5 oz mozzarella, grated

Decoration
8 pitted black olives

Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan and saute the onion for five to six minutes. Blitz the tomatoes to a fine puree with a hand blender. Pour into the saucepan with the onions and add the tomato puree, salt and pepper and mixed dried herbs and cook for approximately eight minutes until the mixture is thick enough to spread.

Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F / Gas mark 6. Cut four skull shapes out of the pizza bases and place on a baking sheet. Spread the tomato sauce over the surface of each pizza base and sprinkle with the grated cheese. Decorate with black olives to make a scary skull face. Cook for about 10 minutes.

Green slime lemonade
This ghoulishly green drink will go down marvellously well with thirsty trick-or-treaters

Lemonade
Edible green food colouring
Jelly snakes

Add a few drops of edible green food colouring to lemonade or make green ice-cubes by filling an ice-cube tray with green coloured water and watch the cubes dissolve into the lemonade. You can decorate the glass with a slippery edible gummy snake hanging over the side.

All recipes from Annabel Karmel's Complete Party Planner, Ebury Press £12.99

Find more recipes at www.annabelkarmel.com Recipes and ideas from Annabel Karmel's Complete Party Planner published by Ebury Press #12.99.