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These Halloween finger foods are a festive appetizer, snack, or main course perfect for the kids, though adults always enjoy them, too.
Sliced sausages are rolled with pizza dough and topped with candy eyes to create spooky finger, bone, and mummy shapes. Serve them on their own or with pizza sauce for dipping!
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays simply because of how much fun I have in the kitchen. Every year, I prepare a variety of festive Halloween food like my Halloween potato fries, Halloween cheese ball, and Halloween chocolate apples. With so many options, I tend to rotate through different recipes each year, but these Halloween finger foods are one item that everyone in my home requests again and again.
Recipe Tip
Add plastic spiders for a spooky effect, and serve!
They’re the perfect addition to a Halloween charcuterie board, lunchboxes, and Halloween parties, providing a delicious savory option to break up all the sweets.
Halloween Finger Foods Ingredients
- Pizza dough: I use a ready-to-bake rectangular sheet from the fridge section.
- Sausages: I prefer Frankfurter sausages for this recipe.
- Egg: Whisk together to brush onto the sausage rolls before baking.
- Candy eyes: I buy these online or in baking shops. You can omit or even make them yourself with dark and white chocolate.
Tips for Success
- The sausage rolls are best on the same day.
- Wait to top the candy eyes onto the sausage rolls until after baking.
- Don’t skip on the egg wash for that glossy sheen.
Possible Variations
- Pizza dough: Crescent dough or readymade rolled puff pastry (do keep an eye on the baking time, as it may differ slightly).
- Sausages: Use any chicken, beef, vegan, or pork sausages you like.
- Egg wash: Swap for milk, cream, melted butter, maple syrup, or oil.
- Candy eyes: Use a dollop of mayo and black sesame seeds instead.
- Presentation: Add ketchup details onto the sausage rolls before baking for a spookier touch.
Best Served with
- Red dips and sauces: Tomato salsa, chili sauce, barbecue sauce, or ketchup.
- Other: Chutney, HP sauce, mustard, guacamole, hot honey, soy sauce, or mayo.
- Other Halloween appetizers: Skull toast, spider treats, mozzarella eyeballs, or mummy hot dogs.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep them in an airtight container in the fridge. Enjoy them with 2 days.
FAQs
Preheat your oven to 100°C (212°F). Place the rolls in an oven-safe dish and warm them up for 5-8 minutes until heated through.
Yes, you can freeze them for up to three months. To reheat give them about 20 minutes in a preheated oven set to 100°C (212°F).
They are definitely best on the same day.
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Halloween Finger Foods
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 sausages, long
- 280 grams storebought pizza dough, 1 roll
- 1 egg, beaten
- 14 candy eyes
Instructions
- Turn on the oven to 190°C / 374°F.
Sausage Roll Bones:
- Halve two sausages.
- Trim the pizza dough into a long rectangular strip an inch wider than the length of the sausage to each side.
- Roll the sausage into the dough and trim away the excess.
- Use your fingers to expand the dough sticking out at each side.
- Shape four spheres of dough.
- Stick two spheres at each end of the sausage and secure the dough between the spheres to hold it together.
- Repeat at the other end.
- Place the sausage roll bones on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Use a pastry brush to top them with the egg wash (beaten egg).
Sausage Roll Fingers:
- Cut a sausage into thirds.
- Trim pizza dough into a strip that is 1 cm (0.4 inch) wider than the length of the sausages to each side.
- Roll the pieces of sausage into the dough.
- Cut off the excess dough.
- Secure the edges and smooth the dough over the top and bottom of the ‘finger’.
- Use a sharp knife to shape a nail at one end of the sausage roll.
- Trim finger creases with a knife.
- Place the sausage roll fingers on a lined baking tray.
- Top with an egg wash.
Mummy Sausage Rolls:
- Cut a sausage into thirds.
- Trim pizza dough into three rectangles that are 1-2 cm (0.4-0.8 inch) wider than the width and length of the sausages.
- Lift the dough over the sausage at both ends and twist the dough to secure it along each side of the sausage.
- Trim long, thin strips of dough to wrap around the mummies, leaving a space free for the eyes.
- Place the mummies on a lined baking tray and top with an egg wash.
To bake:
- Bake for 12-15 minutes until they are golden.
- Once cool, top with candy eyes. You can use a bit of water or edible glue to make them stick.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
