Add a sauce for a delicious and hearty meal before trick or treating, or use these colourful noodles for spooky sensory play! There’s so many pasta-bilities (haha)!
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What sauce can I serve with this Halloween pasta?
You can leave the pasta plain and serve it with butter and garlic and/or parmesan cheese. Or add a tomato sauce, with or without meat. Pasta sauce adds a perfect “bloody” touch to this Halloween pasta recipe. You can also add a homemade alfredo sauce, or make a creamy avocado sauce. The avocado sauce tastes delicious, and it adds another green colour to this spooky pasta!
Are those plastic spiders?
Yes! We love how totally CREEPY the Halloween spaghetti looks with plastic spiders on the side of the bowl! These spiders aren’t edible, of course, but they add such a fun element to the dinner plate. Wash the spiders with soap and water before adding them to your plate of pasta. Make sure everyone understands that the plastic spiders aren’t edible, and do not give them to children under 3.
How can I make orange, green, and purple food colouring?
You can buy packs of food colouring with all kinds of different shades, including, orange, green, and purple. If you only have the basic colours, though, you can combine them to make your coloured Halloween spaghetti. Orange: 15 drops yellow, 5 drops red Green: 15 drops yellow, 5 drops blue Purple: 10 drops blue, 10 drops red Play around with the number of drops to reach the exact colour you’re looking for. Keep in mind that the food colouring in the bag will be darker than what your pasta turns out as.
Can I make this Halloween pasta without food colouring?
If you don’t want to add food colouring to your pasta, there are a lot of ways you can still have fun Halloween coloured pasta. Tricolour pasta is a fun way to add colour to your meal, and the pasta is made with natural food dyes. You can even have spooky black pasta if you purchase pasta made with squid ink! You can also make an orange pasta dish by adding a pureed pumpkin or squash sauce to your regular pasta. For a green pasta, add a different type of sauce, like pesto. Or you can make regular pasta and add Halloween colours with your veggie choices. For example, orange peppers or squash, green peppers or spinach, purple eggplant or beets, and black olives.
Do I have to use spaghetti to make these Halloween noodles?
We love the look of spaghetti for making Halloween pasta. The long noodles perfectly resemble worms, brains, or guts (yuck, I know…). But you can definitely use whichever different pasta you’d like. Try making bow tie pasta for Halloween — the shapes look like little bats!
How can I use this Halloween spaghetti for sensory play?
This Halloween pasta recipe is also perfect for a fall sensory bin. Pasta is an edible, taste safe way to explore squishy texture and the Halloween colours are great for sorting or colour matching. Add plastic spiders, bugs, and/or eyeballs for creepy Halloween fun. Be sure to add water or oil so the spaghetti doesn’t stick together. It’s such a fun, hands-on sensory activity!
This spooky Halloween pasta is super easy to make, and it looks so cool! Use the same technique to make pasta in a whole rainbow of colours — or even make red and green pasta for Christmas.
Here’s even more Halloween recipe ideas:
Rice Krispie Treat Pumpkins
Halloween Harvest Hash Chex Mix
Candy Melt Pumpkin Bowls
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