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    Halloween Sandwich Ideas

    Published: September 5, 2022 | Last Updated: April 25, 2024 | Lisa 3 Comments
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    Last Updated April 25th, 2024 at 11:51 am by Lisa

    Close up view of a large Halloween party sub sandwich made to look like a cute monster for kids with sliced cheese as teeth, radishes and black olive eyeballs, and loaded with deli meats and condiments.Pin

    Halloween sandwiches are the perfect fun food for a crowd of guests. Serve a big sub sandwich with spooky decorations like cheese teeth and edible eyeballs! Add any deli meat or sandwich filling, sliced cheeses, or toppings you like.

    There are also plenty of options to make this spooky sandwich your way for a healthy snack or lunch, or to have right before Trick-Or-Treating!

    There are lots of super spooky Halloween ideas out there, but this is an easy recipe perfect for Halloween night, not too scary, and totally adorable...

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    Halloween Sandwiches

    Healthy Halloween food can also be a lot of fun. These sandwiches are great for lunchbox ideas, after school snacks, or Halloween parties.

    • Bread: Use a large French bread loaf to make this for a big family or party. You can make these with plain slices of bread or English muffins for little kids.
    • Assorted Deli Meats: Make your own, or buy some sliced Smoked Ham, Roast Turkey, salami, Sliced Chicken, or Roast Beef.
    • Sandwich Spread: Dijon mustard, regular mustard, mayonnaise, Horseradish Spread, Remoulade, artichoke spread, or any sandwich spread you like.
    • Pickles: I used little cornichons, Dill Pickles or even sweet bread and butter pickles would be great.
    • Tomato: slice and pat it dry to keep the French bread from getting soggy.
    • Romaine Lettuce: Iceberg lettuce or a spring mix would be great.
    • Large Red Radishes: pick large red radishes, these will be your "bloodshot eyeballs".
    • Green Olives: with red pimentos, these also make your eyeballs pupils.
    • Whole Black Olives: these will become eyeballs with candy eyes inside.
    • Candy Eyes: can be ordered online, and are inexpensive and so much fun for this recipe. They can be used in many creative ways!
    • Pepperoncini's: sliced and pat dry a little.
    • Sliced Cheeses: sliced with a circle cutter wheel makes the "cheese teeth" for your sandwich. Cheddar cheese, pepper jack, Colby, swiss, provolone, or mozzarella all work.
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    How To Make A Halloween Sandwich

    Sub Sandwich Ingredients

    • 1 loaf of French bread or sliced bread
    • 6 oz Sliced Turkey
    • 6 oz Roast Beef
    • 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise optional
    • 4 tablespoons Dijon mustard or yellow mustard
    • 3 tablespoons Horseradish Spread optional
    • ¼ cup artichoke spread optional
    • ¼ cup cornichon pickles
    • 1 medium tomato
    • 5 leaves of Romaine lettuce
    • 6 large red radishes
    • 4 large green olives with red pimentos
    • 6-8 whole black olives
    • 12 candy eyeballs
    • ¼ cup pepperoncinis sliced
    • 5 slices of cheddar cheese
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    How To Build The Sub Sandwich

    1. Slice the french bread loaf and open so both sides are flat. Use your choice of spread: mayo, Dijon, mustard, horseradish, or artichoke spread. Add lettuce, sliced meats of your choice, tomato, and pickles.
    2. Next, lay the cheddar cheese (or cheese you like) on a board and cut pointed "teeth" using a round circle pizza wheel. Place the pieces of cheese on top of the other sandwich fillings, and place extra pieces of cheese on the lower part of the sandwich for lower teeth.
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    How To Make Edible Eyeballs

    1. Bloody Red Radish Eyeballs: Using a vegetable peeler, cut away the red skin in strips without going too deep, it leaves a "bloodshot" eye look to the radish. Work in strips from the front of the eyeball to the back leaving squiggly red lines.
    2. Using a ¼ measuring teaspoon, scoop out a place to put a cut piece of green olive with red pimento. Insert a toothpick, and stick into the top of the sub sandwich, it looks cute and holds your sandwich together! Slice and serve the sandwich cold.
    3. Black Olive Eyeballs: NOTE - Put these together right before serving your sandwich, as the candy does soften and melt in the olives. Push small candy eyeballs into the whole black olives, and insert a toothpick. Put the eyeballs on top of the sandwiches in pairs, or use single ones!
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    More Halloween Wraps & Snack Variations

    • Halloween Twist Lunch Box Ideas: Use an edible marker pen to draw on sandwich wraps using green tortilla wraps from the grocery store. Try my popular Italian Tuna Salad wraps, and decorate a fun Frankenstein Halloween monster with hair cut out of cheese, mini pickles for eyebrows, olive slices for eyes, and a stitched mouth made from sliced salami!
    • Ghost Sandwich: Cut each piece of bread (sliced white bread) with a ghost cookie cutter, and for the kiddos make a cheese sandwich, or peanut butter and jelly sandwich. On the top lid of the sandwich make eyes with black icing or stick on candy eyes with a piping bag. Or cute tombstones the same way and write RIP on them.
    • Pumpkin Sandwiches: Or cut tiny pumpkin shapes from sliced bread or colorful tortillas, and make cucumber sandwiches for a Halloween snack idea!
    • Breakfast Sandwiches: Reheat Egg Muffins in the microwave or in a pan over medium heat in a pan. Or pan fry eggs then load them on a breakfast sandwich with cheese, ham, and fried eggs.
    • Sandwich Fillings: Another idea is to use a chicken salad, Egg Salad, or Ham Salad spread! You can add your cheese teeth and eyeballs on the top and outside too!
    • Spider Sandwiches: cut bread with large circle cookie cutters, and use black or white icing to draw a web, and make it into any kind of sandwich you love and add a little plastic spider. Or place stick pretzel sticks in for legs and add candy eyes and candy corn fangs.
    • Cute Pumpkin Wraps: use an orange tortilla, and draw a Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin face on it with an edible black marker!

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    Serve a "pumpkin-shaped" Everything Bagel Cheese Ball as your Halloween party appetizer, it's always a hit! Easy to make ahead in 15 minutes, chill, and take to a gathering.

    Bake a spooky Halloween Cake for your party with orange and chocolate marbled cake inside, and a cemetery all made in chocolate!  The decorations are so fun to create with melted chocolate chips, I show you every step with a free design template. Or make some Graveyard Halloween Cupcakes with chocolate bones and tombstones.

    A Black Vodka Martini is the perfect frightening Halloween drink for parties. Make these dark mysterious black cocktails for your friends!

    Halloween Bark is an adorable sugary treat dessert to make with candy, Halloween sprinkles, cute candy eyeballs, licorice, and chocolates and would be great to put out on a Halloween theme snack board.

    For a spooky Halloween Dip, make this tombstone in a graveyard and serve it with crackers. Kids and adults love this savory cream cheese dip recipe, it is a great addition to easy Halloween appetizers for a party!

    Everyone loves easy Halloween finger food! These savory salty-sweet Easy Halloween snacks are loved by kids and adults. Build a fun treat snack board tray with your favorite chips, crackers, pretzel sticks, sweet treats like peanut butter cups, and spooky candy eyes! Candy Corn Martinis are the perfect Halloween drink for parties, have lots of fun chilling out with these, oh and homemade candy corn vodka is super easy to make!

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    Halloween Food Sandwich Ideas

    Halloween sandwiches are the perfect party food for a crowd. Serve a big sub sandwich with spooky decorations like cheese teeth and edible eyeballs! Add any deli meat or sandwich filling, sliced cheeses, or toppings you like. There are plenty of options to make this sandwich your way for a healthy snack or to have right before Trick-Or-Treating!
    Prep Time 25 minutes minutes
    Cook Time 0 minutes minutes
    Total Time 25 minutes minutes
    Servings 8
    Calories 323kcal
    Author Lisa Hatfield

    Equipment

    ¼ Measuring Teaspoon
    Wood Toothpicks
    Candy Eyeballs
    Pizza Wheel
    Vegetable Peeler

    Ingredients

    • 1 loaf French bread or sliced bread
    • 6 oz sliced turkey
    • 6 oz roast beef
    • 3 tablespoons mayonnaise optional
    • 4 tablespoons dijon mustard or sub yellow mustard
    • 3 tablespoons horseradish spread optional
    • ¼ cup artichoke spread optional
    • ¼ cup cornichon pickles
    • 1 medium tomato
    • 5 leaves romaine lettuce
    • 6 large red radishes
    • 4 large green olives with red pimentos
    • 6-8 whole black olives
    • 12 candy eyeballs
    • ¼ cup pepperoncinis sliced
    • 5 slices cheddar cheese
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    Instructions

    Halloween Sandwich

    • Slice the french bread loaf and open so both sides are flat. Use your choice of spread: mayo, Dijon, mustard, horseradish, or artichoke spread. Add lettuce, sliced meats of your choice, tomato, and pickles.
    • Next, lay the cheddar cheese (or cheese you like) on a board and cut pointed "teeth" using a round circle pizza wheel. Place the pieces of cheese on top of the other sandwich fillings, and place extra pieces of cheese on the lower part of the sandwich for lower teeth.

    Edible Eyeballs

    • Bloody Red Radish Eyeballs: Using a vegetable peeler, cut away the red skin in strips without going too deep, it leaves a "bloodshot" eye look to the radish. Work in strips from the front of the eyeball to the back leaving squiggly red lines.
    • Using a ¼ measuring teaspoon, scoop out a place to put a cut piece of green olive with red pimento. Insert a toothpick, and stick into the top of the sub sandwich, it looks cute and holds your sandwich together! Slice and serve the sandwich cold.
    • Black Olive Eyeballs: NOTE - Put these together right before serving your sandwich, as the candy does soften and melt in the olives. Push small candy eyeballs into the whole black olives, and insert a toothpick. Put the eyeballs on top of the sandwiches in pairs, or use single ones!

    Notes

    Eyeballs

    Put the black olive eyeballs together right before serving your sandwich, as the candy does soften and melts in the olives.

    Halloween Sandwich Ideas

    Healthy Halloween food can also be a lot of fun. These sandwiches are great for lunchbox ideas, after school snacks, or Halloween parties.
    • Bread: Use a large French bread loaf to make this for a big family or party. You can make these with plain slices of bread or English muffins for little kids.
    • Assorted Deli Meats: Make your own, or buy some sliced smoked ham, turkey, salami, sliced chicken, or roast beef.
    • Sandwich Spread: Dijon mustard, regular mustard, mayonnaise, horseradish spread, artichoke spread, or any sandwich spread you like.
    • Pickles: I used little cornichons, dill pickles or even sweet bread and butter pickles would be great.
    • Tomato: slice and pat it dry to keep the French bread from getting soggy.
    • Romaine Lettuce: Iceberg lettuce, or a spring mix would work well.
    • Large Red Radishes: pick large red radishes, these will be your "bloodshot eyeballs".
    • Green Olives: with red pimentos, these also make your eyeballs pupils.
    • Whole Black Olives: these will become eyeballs with candy eyes inside.
    • Candy Eyes: can be ordered online, and are inexpensive and so much fun for this recipe. They can be used in many creative ways!
    • Pepperoncini's: sliced and pat dry a little.
    • Sliced Cheeses: sliced with a circle cutter wheel makes the "cheese teeth" for your sandwich. Cheddar cheese, pepper jack, Colby, swiss, provolone, or mozzarella all work.
     

    Nutrition

    Serving: 8g | Calories: 323kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 43mg | Sodium: 1197mg | Potassium: 374mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 1855IU | Vitamin C: 15mg | Calcium: 231mg | Iron: 3mg
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    1. nancy says

      October 23, 2019 at 2:05 pm

      5 stars
      This sandwich is above adorable - absolutely LOVE the concept!!!

      Reply
      • Lisa says

        October 23, 2019 at 3:47 pm

        Thank you so much Nancy!!! I had a great time putting this recipe together, fun right?

        Reply
    2. Jessica Robinson says

      October 18, 2019 at 11:02 am

      5 stars
      Lisa this sandwich is ADORABLE for Halloween!! Such a cute idea!

      Reply

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