• Halloween is a time for fun, costumes, ghosts and ghouls. It's also the perfect time to experiment with the creepiest, spookiest foods you can conjure up for the big day. These treats are as entertaining to make as they are to look at and then eat. You don't have to have great culinary skills to make any of these Halloween delights.
  
  

Spiders

• Remember those gelatin jigglers every mom brought to class parties--frozen, yet wiggly delights make great Halloween treats. Use cookie cutters to cut out circles for your spiders. Use whipped cream to attach licorice legs around the circle. Small, red gum drops, pasted on the top of the circle with the whipped cream become menacing black widow eyes.
  
  For another spider treat, spread peanut butter between two round butter crackers then attach four pretzels on each side for the legs. Use a couple of dots of the peanut butter to hold the raisin eyes in place for your salty, yet tasty, spider treat.
  
  

Body Parts

• Several sticks of mozzarella string cheese become scary fingers on a platter with just a little work. Carve out a small portion of the tip of the cheese with a small knife then fill it with cream cheese. Place half of a pitted olive on top of the cream cheese to create the fingernail. Make a few slices across the upper and middle part of the cheese to mimic knuckles.
  
  Creepy apple bites require a few minutes of your time, but are a real crowd pleaser. Core a red apple then cut it into four sections. Cut out a wedge from the middle of each piece to form the mouth. After you have finished that step insert slivers of almonds, or "teeth" in the top and bottom of the opening.
  
  Sweet, ghoulish eyeballs can be made for those with a sweet tooth. Frost the rounded portion of vanilla wafers with white frosting. Stick Life Savers on top; they can be in the middle or to the side of each wafer. Place a chocolate chip in the center then draw squiggly red lines to concoct creepy, bloodshot eyeballs.
  
  

Centipede

• Cut a piece of wax paper the length of the table, but cut it into subtle curves. Secure it with tape on either end of the table. Now, make a line of peanut butter in the center of the wax paper from beginning to end. Using cut celery, lay each piece, end to end, directly on top of the peanut butter. Stick narrow carrot sticks in the sides of the celery to create centipede legs. Use two raisins for the eyes. You can place the celery curved side down and fill the pieces with peanut butter, or lay it curved side up for a basic green crawly, but nutritious snack.