Growing up, I looked at avocados with disgust. They were green and mushy…not something I was very fond of. My family must not have been either because I don’t ever remember my mom buying an avocado…EVER!
A few years ago I had an avocado on a salad and I had a quick change of heart. It was really good! I started buying avocados and now make homemade guacamole. The kids love it!
Last week I decided to get creative with Hass Avocados from Mexico. (Did you know that Hass Avocados are the only avocados that are available 12 months a year in all 50 states?)
Here’s what I did…I received my avocados and checked for the ripeness of each one. Green avocados need ripening, green with dark green patches are almost ripe and almost black are ripe and ready! If you keep them at room temperature for 3-7 days they will continue ripening or to speed up the process put them in a paper bag. To slow down the process you can put them in your fridge.
I decided to make a “Freakish Fingerful” bread bowl to hold the “Spookamole.”
Ingredients
- 1 package of croissants
- 2 Hass Avacados
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/8 cup chives, finely chopped
- 1 medium tomato, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon lime juice, fresh squeezed
- 1/3rd of a peeled cucumber, diced
- 1 Tablespoon sour cream (put in baggie for piping spiderweb)
Instructions
- I used a tube of croissants and fanned them out on a round stone. I made sure that the middle would be covered since that was the base of my bowl.
- I added foil crunched in a circle so I could bake the fingers so they would look like they would be holding the Spookamole.
- I had one finger that fell during baking so I added a toothpick to it while it cooled, which worked perfectly. Once the bread was cooled and was close to serving time I added some of our ripe cherry tomatoes right from our garden. I halved them and added a little cream cheese to the fingertips to act as a glue and put the red fingernails on. (Another option would be to put black olives as the fingertips and make a spider out of an olive and place it in the spookamole.)
- Add the avocados to bowl and mash with a fork. Add all ingredients and mix together. Once all ingredients have been combined, add spookamole into the Freakishly Fingerbowl. Add a tablespoon of sour cream into a baggie and cut a small corner off of the bag. Pipe several circles on the spookamole, then take a tooth pick and pull the circles so that it looks like a spiderweb. Adorn with plastic spiders or make some with black olives. Enjoy!
Looks delicious doesn’t it? Check out the recipe contest here. Do you have a fun festive way to make avocado’s spooky? Come and enter the contest with me!
Disclosure: I wrote this review while participating in a Spookamole blog tour by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Avocados from Mexico and received avocado items to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate.
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This looks so cool! I am going to pin it to my Halloween board.
This looks so cute!! I fwd’d this my sister for her Halloween party : )
Awesome recipe! Not only is guac great to eat but it definitely has that fun halloween look. I hope it’s not too scary!!
How cool Tammy. You know I have never had Avacados . This looks like a fun recipe to make!
That is so creative! It really does look like fingers! I love Haas avocados… we just had one with our dinner. Guac doesn’t last long in my house!
What a cute idea. This would be fun for a Halloween party.
OMG HOW CREATIVE
I love this presentation!!!!
I think the bowl is super creative, but I am most excited about trying this guacamole recipe! I LOVE avocados. Happy SITS day!
Stopping by from SITS! You know, when I was pregnant the first 3 months one of the only things I could eat was guac…LOVED IT. This is such a fun recipe.
Funny and yummy! I love avocados … even to eat them out of the skin with a spoon! MMM!
Enjoy your SITS day!
Saying hi from SITS! Love the bread bowl idea! So creative. I was just working on spooky finger cookies for Halloween this past weekend.
So glad you came around with the avocado – it’s such a yummy, healthy food to eat!
Enjoy your SITS day!
Congrats on your SITS day. This is eerily good, I bet. I love avocado. This is such a cute thing for Halloween.
SO cute! I love guac and this is a great way to “spice” it up.
Oh my gosh…that is so cute!!! Happy SITS day.
Love this! So creative. I’d love to make that bread bowl but sadly crescent roll dough isn’t available here. Thanks for sharing and happy SITS day!
I absolutely LOVE this! What a great idea… Thanks for sharing
Not to mention they are so healthy! But I never had them growing up either and have never cared for guacamole… but have never made it at home either which I think I might like!
Happy SITS day!
Totally awesome! And I loooove guacamole!
This is great:) Definitely serving it at our party. Thanks.
Our kids devoured it too!
Yum! I could go for some right now!
What a cute idea! I love this time of year for all the fun halloween inspired recipes and treats! I’ll make this one for sure!
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Very cute way to serve such a healthy Halloween treat! We are a family farm that grows avocados in California. Will remember your great idea.
Oh this is very neat! I LOVE this idea and will definitely be doing this for Halloween! I haven’t seen this one before with Halloween related food.
I am trying really hard to be a more crafty/fun mom that does exciting things like crafts and themed food and such. I am finding that it is not as easy as it looks, which is probably why I never did it a lot before. It has been easier to let my friends be crafty and just partake in their craftiness with great appreciation. I have been kind of a “bah humbug” about holidays in general when it came to fun, crafty things so I am trying to make a better effort.