Awesome Goth Food Party Ideas
Goth Food - Hot Nutella Sandwich Dobbed with Hot Black Fruits
Cook Time
Ingredients for Nutella Sandwich and Berry Sauce
- 4 slices sliced bread, white
- 1 egg
- 30/40 ml (1/2 cup - 3/4 cup) milk, approx (as you like it for French Toast)
- pinch salt
- 2 pats butter, salty
- 2 tablespoons Nutella, heaped
- 1 pkt (300 grams or 10 ozs) frozen berry fruits, approximately
- 3/4 tablespoons icing sugar
Instructions
- Thaw the frozen fruits and berries.
- Put them in a smallish non-stick saucepan with a few tablespoons of icing sugar and stir and cook until the juice has thickened.
- In a mixing dish, beat the egg and the milk together with the salt - as you would for French Toast.
- Put the slices of bread in the egg and milk to soak briefly.
- Put two slices of the bread in the frying pan and fry well on one side.
- Turn them over and fry lightly on the other side.
- Repeat with the other two slices of bread
- Put two slices of cooked bread on a board and spread each paler side with Nutella. (Use a large cooking knife to spread). Put the other slice on the top. Cut in half diagonally.
- Put the hot berry sauce in a pretty bowl with a serving spoon.
- Serve the sandwiches on a pretty plate with the berry sauce on the side.
- Dollop as much berry sauce as you like on the hot sandwiches.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar.
Hot Nutella Sandwich Dobbed with Hot Black Fruits
Goths at a Party
A Goth Party
Gothic Party Ideas
Giving a goth party is a great excuse to delve into all the bruised, fruity sorts of foods and atmosphere that the dark side of human nature likes to dip into from time to time.
Who'd care about roast chicken and potatoes when there are delicious goth food alternatives to drum up on those other, party occasions, (or even a bbq steak!)
This article is jam-and-pickle packed with the following goth food ideas for those parties when tofu-and-cress-on-a-wedge-of-wholegrain just won't swing for you any more - for your goth brunch, BBQ, lunch, high tea (or night time affair),or for Halloween:
- Party theme ideas
- Recipe
- Menu ideas
I've also included a list of don't dos for your party as well as a list of helpful foods that you can serve that are really simple, once you have created your goth party room - or table or place in the woods.
Wednesday Addams
Party Theme Idea
Since there isn't anything casual about goth style, creating the right ambiance is the first step. It's a self-conscious mixture of elegant and fine, with a lot of black in it - shrouded in melancholy and a lot of "who cares?"
Any one of the following characters, periods or genres can inspire your goth party table and theme and make your food taste goth-interesting:
- Victorian fashion dress and bric a brac
- Lisbeth Sanders - the brave hacker in the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy,
- Edgar Allen Poe poems such as 'The Raven' which begins "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary"
- Wednesday Addams (of the 'Adams Family', kind of Halloween),
- Abbey, NCIS forensic scientist, (Pauley Perrette)
For my goth table setting (in the photo above), I played around with lace, bits of bark, a china vase, a Victorian fan and candles for my elegant table look, but if you're a Punk-ish kind of goth then possibly ripped red velvet with harsh white lights and black candles would work just as well.
Caviar Coated Cream Cheese Balls
What foods not to Serve at a Halloween Goth Party
Here is a menu of goth foods for all occasions with choices for an intimate get-together, or for bigger parties like Halloween.
The only really goth thing to bear in mind is presentation; the foods are so beautiful when they really look striking and unique. Garnish with red flower petals, or whole walnuts or serve olives in a silver bowl, or call in for 'French Fries' that will arrive in bright take-away containers.
Lighting with candles is suggestive too (no strobes).
Here are some absolute don't s (because they suggest health, well being and the mundane - all that is typically, stereotypically un-goth - where most Gothic people are concerned!)**.
No:
- green salads (beetroot is OK, but in ball shapes and with balsamic vinegar)
- lettuce leafs - as garnish
- roast chicken or pork chops
- roast potatoes
- stews
- boiled vegetables
- pies
- spaghetti
- Chinese, Mexican or Indian Foods
- Grilled fish
- Pumpkin served as a pumpkin (it has to be very darkly cooked and served with something like black grapes, baked into a bread)
**. Not all Gothic people, agreed.
Goth Foods for a Party
Some helpful, smart looking goth foods.
Yes:
- Maraschino cherries
- Grilled mushrooms
- Rare roast beef with black olives or truffles
- Barbequed steak
- Lobster tails
- Black beans
- Black olives
- Black figs - served any way
- Walnuts
- Peruvian Chocolate Sauce
- White ice cream
- Jellied Fruits
- Chocolate and more chocolate
- Campari drinks
- Red wine (mulled wine would be great with all the bark in it)
- Espresso coffee - from an espresso machine with sugar cubes
Here follows some menu ideas that might inspire your goth party, or your Halloween Party.
Planning a Menu for a Goth Party
Brunch Party
| Afternoon Tea Party
| Party Party with Food
|
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Fried egg whites + a grilled brown mushroom on the top of each
| Small ball shapes eggs rolled in caviar (lumpfish) with Congnac buttered toast
| Fried Nutella sandwiches+ blueberries
|
Deep fried black pudding, deep fried pickled gurkins and deep fried Maraschino cherries
| Bitter chocolate cake to die for with cranberry jelly and Campari Grapefruit
| Hamburger and ketchup + delivered chips
|
Beetroot in ball shapes, fresh walnuts, balls of gorgonzola on a plate of black rice and trufle olive oil - and tree types of black olives. Martini's with black olives
| Black tea with rhodiola, lemon sponge cake and merangue, strawberry ice cream and loganberries + mint chocolate thins
| Black squid ink risotto
|
Parma Ham served on a clear plastic plate with figs
| Blinis with caviar (lumpfish), quals eggs + pumkin and banana bread, martinis with black olives.
| Black beans with chopped squid + boiled lobster tails with butter
|
Cold beetroot soup, hot fig cake served with chocolate ice cream
| Barbequed beef steaks with baked potato and ketcup
| Barbequed kebabs of dried fruits stuffed with nuts and sausages
|
BBQ Steak
Fig Loaf
Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven
A line from one of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poems titles "The Raven", which sets the sort of tone I imagine a great goth party would have at its visual heart:
"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me -
filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before....."
Questions & Answers
© 2012 Penelope Hart
Comments
Pretty fun stuff!
These are all fantastic ideas! I particularily like the hot nutella sandwhiches with the fruit. Those sound so delicious, easy to make and they look so pretty.
Hahahaha. People with boyfriends and girlfriends who are into goth will surely appreciate and follow these tips and really unique theme menu.
And throw in the dark chocolate too to boot. :)
Up and interesting :)
LOVE!
Hot Nutella sandwich .... What a great invention for a recipe! I love creating something that no one has ever heard of before. I've never thought of having a Goth party before but sounds like it would be a lot of fun and a chance to let out that dark side :)
Very inspiring hub. Good presentation and I love the recipe as well. Thanks for writing and share with us. Voted up!
Prasetio
Your goth's get very posh food! It looks lovely. When I was a student we had a black and white party, including black and white food. It was great fun but, alas, lobster and caviar were not on the menu.
being weird is fun and pleasing, if it were no diversity life would be boring. I agree my friend
Beautiful food, beautiful hub, beautiful idea! Congratulations!
very weird but good, it's nice to have a little variety
Goth... and a little bit Steampunk, I'd say! Voted up in many directions! Pinned too :-)
Hands down the sexiest HUB I've seen! Just delightful! My imagination completely lit up as I read this. Thank you for taking us all on this gothic adventure!
These are interesting meal ideas that I want to try out and they look delicious. Cheers.
There's something spooky, mysterious and DELICIOUS about this hub GoodLady. I think I would love the Nutella sandwich and the whole idea of having a goth party for Halloween.
This was awesome. Probably the best and most creative hub I've seen on here in a LONG time. Great job!
Wow, this looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing! It's very original.
that was very awesome recipe! looks sooo good!
Richly delicious fun!! This hub is full of great ideas, goth or not!!!
Congrats on HOTD! These are great ideas that have my mouth watering. Love the Raven!
Congratulations on the hub of the day! I don´t think I have to be gothic to enjoy this goth party, do I? Very interesting hub. Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting and thanks for sharing.
Eddy.
I love these recipes!! the pictures themselves are mouthwatering and what a great theme. Well done GoodLady, watching out for your next one.
What a brilliant, original hub! Love it!
Voted up and pinned :)
Heheee I love this hub! So timely for Halloween. The hot Nutella sandwich sounds so awesome I can actually eat it any day, even when I'm not in my "goth mood." Rated up and pinned!
Wow - lots of great ideas. Definitely makes me want to throw my own party.
What an interesting idea for a hub, GoodLady! I love all your suggestions. I've never thought about what a goth food party would be like before, but your food choices sound ideal!
Great hub! I may well "kiddie" a couple of these for Halloween. :-)
After reading this, I might become a bit Gothic myself. YUM!
Oooooh lovely hub, right up my street although I'm no goth I can see the beauty, dark beauty, of these recipes and ideas. Such mouth watering morsels for the average gothophile.
Votes for this delicious compilation.
That recipe looks fantastic and I love the party ideas! I'm a Poe fan, so my party would definitely use elements from that time period.
Voted up and sharing ! I know some friends who would love these ideas, especially this time of year.
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