Prepare to get your spook-on with these vomiting potato monsters! Halloween is looking mighty scary with The Little Potato Company and my continued brand ambassadorship (plus another chance to win a month's worth of free potatoes!)
Okay, I will admit, today's recipe is kind of gross, but not as bad as some others I have seen online.
I mean, there are molds that literally look like human faces for solid dips/cheese balls, and don't get me started on the food that is topped with candy maggots... Shudder.
That being said, I want to do something crazy and Halloween-like using The Little Potato Company's #Creamerpotatoes. I hope these vomiting potato monsters translate well (and actually look like monsters!) You will not believe how much I struggle when it comes to creativity for specific holidays. Some people are just gifted, and I am not in this case, but I still think they turned out super cute and monster-like!
My favorite are definitely the olive-eyed ones. And I don't even like olives! They just represent monsters perfectly 🙂
I also think this recipe would be great for kids (sadly, my daughter has begun school so I do not have my partner-in-crime during the week anymore.) Plus, if you are using one of the varietals of potatoes from The Little Potato Company, you are safe to say these little monsters are gluten-free!
For vegan and allergy-friendly dip recipes, I am sure you can consult online, but I prefer my favorite brand of spinach artichoke dip! Makes the recipe a breeze!
I went with The Little Potato Company's BBQ Potatoes to save time and effort (pre-seasoned and complete in about 30 minutes.) In the past I have gone with their Microwave Ready packages and found no issues! However, Mr. TCW and I both agree that using any other of their varietals would work because the spinach dip is quite powerful and kind of masks the seasoning on the potatoes. Just boil some Creamer Potatoes in salt water, drain, rinse in cold water, and season with salt and pepper. That's it! Roasting them really adds depth, and let's be honest, some garlic powder, paprika, and cayenne has never hurt anyone 😉
Vomiting Potato Monsters (for Halloween!)
Fun, easy, and a great Halloween appetizer to get your little ones into the spirit!
Ingredients
- 1 lb Creamer potatoes (I used The Little Potato Company's Oven-Ready Package)
- 2 tbsp. butter or oil (for the potatoes)
- 1 (227g) container spinach and artichoke dip
Toppings for Monsters:
- Olives
- Food coloring if desired
- Carrots
- Snap peas
- Celery
Instructions
- If using the oven-ready package, follow the instructions listed on the box. If using another type of Creamer potato, toss potatoes in butter or oil. Season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika if desired. Place onto baking sheet and roast at 450F for 30 minutes, or until tender. Allow to cool.
Assembly
- Slice a small portion from the bottom of each potato so they can stand upright on their own. Cut out a slit in each potato to represent a mouth (you can change the shape up however you see fit: round mouth, smiling mouth, sad mouth, etc.)
- Arrange potatoes on plate and assemble with desired "monster-like" toppings! Olive slices, carrots cut thin, food colored spinach dip, etc. You can get really creative here! To get the items to stick, slightly moisten the food with the spinach dip and stick onto potatoes. To attach the ears and hair, make tiny slits with a paring knife and wedge vegetables in place. Finish by placing a desired amount of dip in front of each potato (you can also color the dip green or another color to create a truer sense of "vomit."
- Serve as is or with toothpicks!
Notes
Using LPC's oven-ready packages allows for less work (they come with their own seasoning!) Otherwise, leftover roasted potatoes would work here, too! Just season accordingly!
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 104Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 7mgSodium: 74mgCarbohydrates: 8gFiber: 1gSugar: 0gProtein: 1g
Love these vomiting potato monsters?! Try some of these recipes:
Kelly D
i would make the potatoes with the olive eyes !
Andre B
We would make the minions potatoes !
Kacey
My husband thought of the same idea when he saw these!
Kelly
I would dress them up like Barbie!
Kacey
Of course you would... Haha!
Linda
I would use olives to make cyclops eyes on my monster potatoes.
Faith (An Edible Mosaic)
Wow, this is absolutely perfect for Halloween!! My niece would go crazy for them and it would be a fun project to make together! 🙂
Kacey
It would! Thanks, Faith!
Katie @ Recipe for Perfection
Wow, those are some freaky looking little monsters! Wouldn't the kids just love these.
Kacey
Thanks, Katie!
Erin @ Texanerin Baking
These are so cute! I don't know what you mean with not being creative because I've never seen anything like this. I've seen other puking food, but not cute little potatoes. 😉 Cool giveaway! Wish I still lived in the US. 🙂
Kacey
Thanks, Erin! Wish you could enter 🙂 But the kind words are good enough for me!
Katerina @ Diethood
I love love love IT!! This is so adorably-gross!! hahaha
I'd eat it! 😀
Kacey
Ahahaha! I mean, it is just spinach dip and potatoes so we just need to get past the vomit aspect 🙂
Amy @ Accidental Happy Baker
Gotta love a gal who's not afraid to start a recipe off with vomiting. And, no I'm not being facetious, I talk about fart jokes on my blog! I love these little monsters! They look really yummy. My little helpers would really get into decorating these.
Kacey
Amy, you are the best! Coming from a household where farts show no mercy, I applaud you for sharing that information on your blog 🙂
Christie
These are absolutely adorable. What a great idea for a Halloween Party
Kacey
Thanks, Christie.
Emily
Oh my gosh, these are disgusting and so awesome! We are big halloween-loving family and I can't wait to make these! My four year old boy will especially love them.
Kacey
That's what Halloween is all about: having fun and being disgusting with reason 🙂 Thanks, Emily!
Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious
I ADORE the photo where you are picking up the spud and scooping the barf back up with it. That's just disgustingly wonderful! I would decorate them, or at least TRY to, just like you did. I think yours is genius!
Kacey
Ahahaha, thanks, Dorothy! I will admit, I was super happy when that shot came to mind!
Kristyn
Such a cute idea for Halloween! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Kacey
Thanks, Kristyn 🙂
Michelle @ A Dish of Daily Life
These are awesome...such a clever idea! My boys would definitely get a kick out them!
Kacey
Thanks, Michelle, I think kids all around would love these!
Laura @ Petite Allergy Treats
Kacey, this isn't gross at all! Such a cute and super FUN idea for Halloween!
Kacey
Laura, I totally agree, but at the same time I think when you see vomit in a food recipe you start to get a bit leery, haha!
Joanie @ Zagleft
What a fun recipe for Halloween, not gross at all - very cute and delicious!
Kacey
Thanks, Joanie 🙂
andrea amy
I would try to make them look like monsters and I would use broccoli for wild green hair!
Kacey
That would be a lot of fun!
Brenda Penton
I would make legs out of black olives to make little spiders
Kacey
Ohh, this is a neat idea, too!
Amy Heffernan
I would make them into minions! 🙂
Judy Cowan
I would cute them in half and melt cheese over them. Them using black olives try and cut shapes out so I could decorate them like jack-o-lanterns.
Susie Fox
I would do olive eyes & spinach artichoke dip
Mary
Id do bacon legs with cheese hair! Lol cute idea
Crystal Porter
Monsters with beady red siracha eyes and spinach dip and chives for hair
Jenny
id do asparagus legs
Nicole
My son & his friends would love these - I'd decorate them just as you have.
Doris H
This is a great recipe the family would enjoy.
Rebby
I would decorate them in sour cream, and green onions for eyes!
Cindy Peterson
I wonder if you could put a bit of shredded cheese on top to resemble hair.
Liza Vladyka
i would have to make bloody we are picky but i think bloody would be cool
David
My wife makes salt crusted potatoes that have a white appearance, which would help in making ghost monsters.
Angelica
Your little monsters are so cute! I'd make mine vomit rosemary and garlic mashed potatoes, with a little paprika to make it "bloody". I love the olives for eyes!
anna key
I would make mummies and Frankenstein's monster using chopped veggies
Jessica To
I would try to decorate them as little pumpkins!
Jennifer Scheldberg
Maybe jack o lanterns for Halloween?
Jill H
Maybe peas for eyes & carrots for ears, these are cute & what a fun way to get children to enjoy & get their veggies.
Michelle
I would put googly eyes and a tuxedo on them!
Karla Sceviour
I would decorate them with sour cream,cheese and green onions!
MrsWhite
With some fangs...and guacamole!
Rebecca
SUCH a cute idea!!! I would try to give them little horns I think, maybe out of bits of celery?
latanya
ranch and bacon bits
Robyn Bellefleur
I would use some black olives for eyes and slivers of carrots for hair.
lana simanovicki
I would do it the same way you did
heather fox
adorable recipe
Doreen Lamoureux
I would use them as a body and have light brown spider legs coming out of them. And have big black eyeballs. Just have to figure out what to use.
Danielle Nantau
I'd try my best to make them look like little pumpkins 🙂
Liberty
I love the olive eyes i would do that 🙂
tanyab79
I am not that creative so I would borrow you work. 🙂
Margaret H
olives for eyes lots of vegies carrot hair the kids would love doing this
Stephanie LaPlante
I would decorate mine with sour cream, cheese & chives. These are so cute!
Mary Warner
I love the Olive Eyes.
Edmond
Yay, I would use the same method. Divine. Starving artist here desperately needs the month of potato to eat. A life changing exp. Thank you for the awesomeness, the contest, and generosity. 🙂
Sharyn
I like the olive eyes because, in addition to the creativity, olives and potatoes look great together! I was thinking that mashed potatoes would be good for the vomit!
Maegan Morin
I would make little snowmen!
Danielle
I'd make little witches
john hutchens
I would decorate them to look like minions. My kids love the minions
Stephanie Grant
Since my son loges veggies I would top my potato monsters with broccoli sticks, carrot sticks and Brussels sprouts: )
Brenda Witherspoon-Bedard
I really dont know - your ideas are sooooo cute - much more creative than me 🙂
ivy pluchinsky
We would make the minions potatoes !
Marlene V
I would like to make spiders and witches.
mycraftingworld
I would make some kind of white covering for ghosts.
KellyPC
I love the olive eyes! I think these would be great fun.
Maria
Bacon, mushrooms & sour cream
Wanda Bergman
I would make little hats from various colourful veggies.
Barrie
I'm not too creative so would make vomiting potatoes. I love the idea and they're so "cute"!
Kacey
They are cute in a weird way 🙂 Thanks!
Julie
I really like the olive eyes, would probably use broccoli, spinach and peas for some fun monsters!
Sarah Cool
I would copy your idea! Such a cute idea for Halloween
Nicole Carter
I'm really not sure. I do like the Minion idea but yours is great! Maybe I would incorporate artichokes some how.
Laurie W.
I would give them scraggly spaghetti hair.
Annamarie V
I would make my potato monsters with a bacon tongue and maybe some sour cream mixed with paprika to look like blood.
Eva Urban
Exactly as illustrated. Visually couldn't match the presentation. Great job !
Eva Mitton-Urban
Sheila K.
I am not at all creative when it comes to this sort of thing—I would have to copy the ideas of others!
Margot C
I think black olive eyes and spinach vomit would be pretty cool.
Amber Y
I would decorate my little potato monsters with colourful hair. Green coleslaw mohawks and red cabbage afros. A creamy garlic mummy wrap might be in order too! Yumm!
Wendy Jensen
I am not that creative so I think I would just add some basil for ears, peas for eyes, a kernal corn for a nose and a carrot stick for the mouth.
Betty S
I don't usually decorate them, but I think that these are great ideas. maybe some salsa
Lushka Smith
I would make olive eyes
lynn clayton
i would die the potaoes orange and amke pumpkins
Thalia H
i wouldnt even get the chance to decorate them, my daughter loves these and she would eat them as soon as they were cool enough to go in her little mouth 🙂
maria
Probably the same way you did!
Tammy Dalley
I woulduse olives for the eyes and add some sour cream
Valerie Mallette
I would decorate my Little Potato monsters as vampires. I would use olives for eyes, carve in the fangs and use ketchup for blood.
Rom Kruse
like bloody eyeballs