Spider Spooky Pasta is a perfect savory Halloween dinner idea! This spooky recipe is made with black colored pasta, orange pumpkin sauce, a cream spider web and olive spiders. Vegetarian creepy Halloween themed food idea.
Make your Pumpkin Pasta Sauce per recipe directions. This takes about 35 minutes and can be done in advance.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. When boiling, add the black food coloring. Then add the pasta.
Cook per package directions until al dente, approximately 8-10 minutes.When done, drain and drizzle with oil, then toss, to prevent it from sticking.
Spiders and Spider Webs
When serving, put the black pasta on the plates or in serving bowls.
Top with the pumpkin sauce across much of the pasta.
Mix the sour cream with just a little bit of water in a small resealable bag. You want just enough to thin the sour cream without it being runny.
Cut a small tip off the corner of the bag and use as a piping bag to pipe two circles, like a target, in the orange sauce.
Using a toothpick, put the toothpick tip in the center of the web and pull it outwards, dragging it through the sauce and white circles. Repeat around the circles. This will give you the pointy web tips.
Cut the olives for the spiders.First cut a whole olive in half lengthwise.Then cut each piece in half lengthwise again, giving you 4 long pieces.Again, cut each piece in half lengthwise, ending with 8 long pieces. These are your legs! You need 8 legs (one olive) for each spider, a total of 8 olives cut as legs.
Cut the other 4 olives in half lengthwise just one time and these 8 pieces are the bodies for your spiders. Overall, for 2 spiders for each of the 4 plates, you want to cut 4 olives in half for the bodies and 8 olives into leg pieces. Make more or less spiders as desired!
Place two spider bodies on each serving/web, cut side down.
Place 8 spider legs on each body, 4 on each side.
Serve!
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Notes
This is enough black olives for two spiders on each of the 4 servings. Use more or less as desired.
An alternative to olive spiders is pepperoni or other vegetables/meats as desired cut up.
Get the pumpkin pasta sauce recipe by clicking on the ingredient name.