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The other day, I was at a party that my sister threw and she had some of the prettiest and most delicious party snacks that I have ever seen. As we know, I just don’t have that much finesse. So this is how to be a house party host, the Clumsy Cakes way.
Of course, for all these different types of parties you can make all these recipes or just some. There are no rules here.
Let’s Break It Down
How To Host Halloween House Party
Halloween parties are so much fun and I have always wanted to host a great one. These are a few things that I am including in my next halloween house party.
Food
When It comes to food there are a few recipes that I will make when I host my next halloween house party.
Halloween Buttercream Board
This is a variation of the viral tiktok Butter Board. This is the sweet version with buttercream frosting and homemade halloween themed cookies to spread your buttercream on.
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Horror Movie Marathon Popcorn
In this recipe, I show you how to make movie theater popcorn in 3 ways. A regular buttered popcorn, a cheesy popcorn and a sweet caramel corn popcorn.
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Ingredients
Halloween Snack Mix
This snack mix has normal snack mix ingredients like chex mix and pretzels but then it has halloween themed things like halloween M&M’s and bat shaped gummies. This can also be adapted for if you are hosting a different house party.
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Ingredients
Dirt Pie Graveyard
This is essentially a chocolate cake, decorated on top to look like a graveyard with candy and sugar cookies. This can also be adapted for other holidays.
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Witches Cauldron Bread Bowl and Spinach Dip Brew
This is actually a recipe in the bread category. This is a bread bowl with activated charcoal to make it black. In the bread bowl is spinach dip.
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Caramel Apple Slices
This may work for just a straight up autumn party. However, it could work for a Halloween party as well. This is essentially a caramel apples cut up into slices. Perfect grab and go party snack.
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Halloween Dirt Cups
These Halloween dirt cups are in the cake category on my website. I used Oreo crumbs and chocolate instant pudding for the layering. I also stuck a gravestone sugar cookie in the top.
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Drinks
Admittedly, these drinks are more comfy cozy than they a party drinks. So if you are hosting a horror movie house party, These are perfect. Especially combined with the horror movie popcorn.
Caramel Apple Hot Chocolate Bombs
This is a very easy 1:1 ratio of hot apple cider mix and hot chocolate mix, encapsulated in a caramel jack o’lantern shell.
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Copycat Dunkaccino
This recipe is a very simple copycat of a classic Dunkin Donuts Dunkaccino.
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How To Host A 4th of July/Summer Party
Summer is the best. Any excuse for a pool party is perfect and 4th of July? Even better. So how do you become the perfect house part host when it comes to a summer party. Here’s what I would include.
Food
For food, I have a few recipes in mind that would make your 4th of July/ summer party perfect.
Cheesecake Dip
This dip is a mixture of cream cheese, greek yogurt, sugar, heavy cream and vanilla extract. The dip can be accompanied by animal crackers, fruit and graham crackers for dipping.
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Cake Fries And Confetti Dip
This recipe is much easier than it looks. It starts with taking pound cake and cutting it up into matchsticks. Then crisp them up in the air fryer or oven.
The confetti dip consists of cream cheese, heavy cream, confectioner sugar, salt, almond extract and vanilla extract. Once that is all mixed up, you will fold in some rainbow sprinkles.
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Homemade Mcflurry
Have you ever had a Mcdonalds Mcflurry? They are so amazingly good. This is my recipe for a homemade one.
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Homemade Iced Cream Cake
This recipe is very customizable to what you like. For mine, I chose Ben and Jerry’s “Half Baked” for the iced cream and crushed up oreos for texture.
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4th of July Chipwich
This is a copycat recipe of the classic chipwich, 4th of July style. I first made homemade chocolate chip cookies and put a disk of store bought vanilla iced cream on top of a face down cooled cookie. hen topped that with another chocolate chip cookie. Then I rolled the sides of the iced cream in 4th of July sprinkles.
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Patriotic Iced Cream
This is a cheesecake flavor swirled with a cherry cheesecake flavor and a blueberry cheesecake flavor to get a red, white and blue appearance.
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Sour Grapes
For this appetizer, I took green grapes and covered them in sugar and citric acid for a sour and sweet treat.
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Rummy Bears
These are a very simple summer candy. All that you have to do Is take gummy bears and soak them in rum overnight. For a non alcoholic version just soak your gummy bears in you favorite lemonade.
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Drinks
As far as drinks, I do have a couple that would be great for a summer party.
Smoothie
This is just a very basic fruit smoothie. I used berries like strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.
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Horchata
Horchata is a mexican rice milk drink that is very refreshing for summer. You can also add rum for a great alcoholic refreshing drink.
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How To Host a Christmas House Party
Christmas parties are among the most fun in my opinion. Here are a few treats that I would definitely include.
Food
The edible treats that I include when I host a Christmas house party span a lot of categories in my blog.
Charcuterie Chalet
This Charcuterie Chalet is the savory version of a gingerbread house.
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Christmas Tiramisu
Tiramisu is a layer dessert cake that has coffee soaked lady finger cookies, a sweet vanilla cream, and cocoa powder.
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Christmas Crack
This is a very simple candy/treat that is a mixture of brown sugar and butter, poured over a bed of saltine crackers and topped with chocolate and your favorite Christmas candy.
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Christmas Tree Brownies
This is a fudge brownie with hazelnuts that is cut into triangles and covered in green frosting and sprinkles to look like Christmas trees.
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Hazelnut Chocolate Truffles
These little chocolate candies are balls of thick chocolate ganache coated in crushed hazelnuts.
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Nut Clusters
These candies can be made with any kind of nut but I personally used almonds. Hazelnuts would be great too.
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Christmas Cookies
These cookies all use one dough and it’s all to make 4 cookies: Linzar Cookies, Peppermint Nutella Thumbprints, Candy Cane Cookies, and Pecan Pie Pinwheels.
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Christmas Peanut Butter Fudge With Chocolate Swirl
This is a very simple fudge recipe that has a peanut butter base and chocolate swirl. Topped with candy cane pieces on top.
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Gingerbread Gnome Cottage Cheesecake
This festive christmas cheesecake would be a great thing to go next to the charcuterie chalet as a fun little village scene.
This is very simply, a gingerbread flavored cheesecake to act as the sides of the house and then a roof that is made out of gingersnaps. Then decorated with royal icing.
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Hot Chocolate Mini Cheesecakes
These mini cheesecakes have hot cocoa mix in the batter to create creamy mini cheesecakes, packed with hot chocolate flavor.
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Drinks
There are a few drinks on this blog that I would serve if I were to host a Christmas house party.
Christmas Mudslide
A mudslide is basically an alcoholic milkshake. It combines Bailey’s, Vodka, Iced Cream, Almond Milk, Chocolate Syrup, and candy cane and top with whipped cream and more crushed candy cane if you like.
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Christmas Hot Cocoa Bombs
These hot chocolate bombs are just the ingredients used to make hot cocoa encased in a chocolate ball. When dropped in a mug of warm milk, the ball melts creating the hot chocolate.
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How To Host a General House Party
Lastly, when hosting a general house party I have many recipes on my blog that would be perfect. This could be a Super Bowl Party, Birthday Party, Even a Baby shower or bridal shower.
Food
Again the food at a house party spans across many categories of my website.
Salty and Sweet Dessert Nachos
Dessert nachos start with potato chips and salted pretzels as the chips.and then topped with chocolate, caramel and M&M’s The toppings are totally optional
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Soft Pretzels
These pretzels are very soft, pillowy and have a hint of salt. Perfect for a movie watching party or really any type of party. There is also a really great honey mustard recipe on the same post.
This dough can be made into little pretzel nuggets or full pretzels.
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Jalapeno Cheese Ball With Bacon
This is a dip recipe that is essentially a savory cheesecake swirled with jalepeno jelly. This can be served with crackers for dipping or veggies.
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Cheez Itz
These salty cheese crackers are exploding with cheese flavor and such a great snack on its own with no help from any though food.
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Pizza Dough
Once you make this pizza dough, the toppings that you choose are up to you. Pizza is a wonderful thing to feed a crowd and while delivery is an option, there is nothing better than homemade.
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Phew…. that was a lot. If you have made it this far, thanks you so much for reading and I hope this gave you some great ideas for recipes for a party.
Hosting a house party and being the “hostess with the mostest” as they say is easier than you think with these recipes.It just takes some trial and error.
If you have any additional questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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