Halloween Toast!
It’s finally here: HALLOWEEN!!! In honor of the holiday, Winter and I made Halloween Toasts (AHHHHHHHHH THEY’RE SO SCARY!!!! RUN!!!!!)
Here are the four types of toast we made: A dark scary monster, a Jack o’ Lantern, a robot, and an orange kitty cat for Winter.
Here’s what you need to make the toast: Any kind of milk-enough for as many colors as you want (we chose three colors and each bowl has 1/4 cup of milk), small bowls for each color of milk paint, food coloring for the milk paint, bread slices of your choice (we had a light wheat, white would look even better!), and paintbrushes to create your Halloween toast.
These Halloween Toasts are super cute, fun to make, and very easy-great for all ages! Winter and I had an absolute blast making them! You just start with bread on a plate, bowls for the milk paint, milk, food coloring, and paintbrushes for everyone. They really are a great Halloween breakfast and really simple to make. You create the milk paint, get the supplies ready, paint your toast however you want, and then pop it in the toaster on the lowest level or just until it is barely toasted. After that, you can slather them with some butter and jam if you want or just enjoy them as they are-either way, they are adorable and fun for all ages!
Winter getting ready for Halloween painting!
First, lay out all your supplies and set up a nice area to do the painting with the kiddo. Next, pour 1/4 cup of milk into each bowl and add one drop of gel food coloring to each bowl. I ended up having my first colors being a bit too dark and decided to add another 1/8 cup of milk to make my colors lighter. You can add more drops of food coloring if you want your colors darker or add more milk like I did for lighter colors. I used gel food coloring for this and think it worked well, but you can use whatever you have on hand.
Time to start painting!
Next, it’s time for the fun part: Painting your Halloween Toasts! I made different things with mine and Winter basically just colored hers orange, but she loved it just the same! My first toasts was a dark, scary monster that was not my best work (hey! it was my first time painting bread lol) so after it came out of the toaster, I added more milk to my colors and focused on making a little better of a picture.
Here is my first attempt: (like I said, not my best work!) He’s pretty cute but once he was toasted, he came out much darker than I wanted. My next attempts were a bit better and lighter.
After the toasts are painted into a cool Halloween picture, it is time to toast them. I recommend setting the toaster to the lightest setting and seeing how it looks. You want the toast to be dried and slightly toasted, but not dark toasted because it will change how your toasts look in the end.
Tip: If you don’t have a toaster, you can always use your oven on broil or the hottest it can go for 1/2- 2 minutes. WATCH IT CAREFULLY! Trust me, this will cook REALLY fast so be very careful.
My second attempt at the toasts, a robot, came out much better (practice makes perfect!)
The third attempt went really good and then the fourth was Winter’s cat.
The toasts were a really big hit and ended up super cute! A great holiday treat and lots of fun to make!
Winter’s final toast, she really just wanted to go with pumpkin orange and it turned out great too (Although I did have to toast hers a bit longer because it had so much milk paint on it) The full recipe is below: We hope you have as much fun as we did and ENJOY!
Halloween Toast
This is a fun way to get the kids involved! Super easy and a great little snack.
ingredients:
- 6 slices of bread - white or light wheat is best
- 3/4 cup milk
- gel or liquid food coloring
- paint brushes
instructions:
- Create milk paint: separate milk into 3 small bowls and add 1 drop of food coloring into each.
- Paint a picture on the bread with the milk paint. This is a great task for the kids!
- Once the toast is painted to your liking, toast bread in the toaster on the lowest setting until the toast is dry and lightly toasted.
- Slather toasts with anything you want, such as butter or jam and ENJOY!
NOTES:
* This recipe yields six slices of toast, but you can make many more! * You will have extra milk paint so you could half the recipe or divide it in to more colors. * If you don't have access to a toaster, you can broil the toast for 1.5 - 2 minutes. Watch your toast closely as it can burn quickly!