Butchered Snake Bits with Barbecue Sauce
Submitted by steph1
Creepy cheese-stuffed rigatoni shaped into slithering snakes with BBQ sauce markings and peppercorn eyes. A kid-friendly Halloween party snack that’s equal parts gross and genius.
YIELD
1 batchPREP
15 minCOOK
10 minREADY
25 minHalloween calls for food that makes kids shriek with glee and adults do a double-take.
These “butchered snakes” are rigatoni tubes stuffed with squirtable cheddar cheese, lined up end-to-end to form slithering serpents across your serving platter.
Barbecue sauce gets painted on as snake markings, black peppercorns become beady little eyes, and carrot peels get snipped into forked tongues.
The best part? Arrange a few belly-up for maximum creep factor.
Kids will lose their minds. Adults will sneak seconds.
Pro Tips
- Use squirtable cheese spread for easy filling; block cheese won’t pipe into the tubes
- Press carrot-peel tongues into the cheese at the head end so they stick
- Arrange snakes in curvy, realistic shapes for the full gross-out effect
- Make these right before serving so the pasta stays firm and the snakes hold their shape
Ingredients
Directions
Cook pasta according to package directions, rinse and drain.
To make snakes: Covering one end of the rigatoni with your finger (to prevent leakage), carefully fill each piece of pasta with cheese spread. Place six to eight cheese-filled rigatonis end to end on a serving platter, in a realistically curvy snake shape Using a toothpick, spread lines of barbecue sauce along the top of each snake for markings. To form heads, use barbecue sauce to glue two black peppercorn eyes onto the end opposite the tail of each snake.
Wash, dry and carefully peel skin off carrot. When completely clean of skin, make one more peeling for each snake you have formed. At the narrow end of each peel, carefully cut out a long, thin triangle. These are your snakes forked tongues. Position tong Sicko serving suggestion: Assemble two or three snakes lying on their backs, as if they died in agony! Belly up snakes have no markings drawn on them, as snake bellies are generally a solid color. Allow one or two sidewinders to wriggle over the edge.
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