I know I mentioned this before, but October is one of my FAVORITE months! Halloween is a favorite holiday of ours and I am also a fan of all things zombies, so it only makes sense that I got creative with all sorts of brains and other body parts for this festive fare!

• I used a bottle of Italian dressing (roasted red pepper Italian to be exact) as the base on the plate.
• Topped the sauce with mozzarella balls – premade or make your own.  
• Top your eyeballs with thinly sliced olives. I used green olives with a pimiento pupil, but black olives would work great too!
• I think next time I’ll marinate the mozzarella balls in the dressing overnight for a more bloodshot look!

• For the main course, we have these CRAZY looking bloody hot dogs fingers.
• I used a small paring knife to make a few slices along the hot dog to resemble two knuckles.
• I simmered the hot dogs in water for about 10 minutes and then used a vegetable peeler to peel the “finger nail” for the finger. EW, right?

• A smattering of ketchup really brings the bloody fingers together on the bun.

• Make cupcakes.
• Inject cupcakes with the raspberry jam for a little surprise when you bite into it. I wish I had cut the centers out a bit more to add more jam so go ahead and do that if you want them deliciously oozy!
• Add 2 heaping tablespoons of powdered sugar to your store bought tub of vanilla frosting to stiffen it up and just a dab of red food coloring to get that pinky brainy color.  

• Frost a base layer on top of the cupcake.
• Pipe two lines down the center of each cupcake and then two rows of squiggles on each side.
• If you don’t have a piping bag and tips, you can use a zipper bag with the corner cut off. EASY!

This dinner and dessert combo was so easy to put together and so much fun to eat. My kids are aware of the zombie craze, so to ask for dessert, I made them walk like zombies and ask for “Brrraaaiinnnsssssss.” It was AWESOME! BONE Appétit my little zombie friends!

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