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Movie-themed Recipes

October 28, 2021 | Updated: September 2, 2022 | Laura

Have a spooky movie night with these Casper themed recipes! Have breakfast for dinner with this ghost-shaped egg. Enjoy with a spiced white lady cocktail. With these two ghost recipe, you are sure to have the perfect Casper movie night. These two recipes are also great all Halloween season long!

Casper Movie Night

Uhhh.. BOO??

Casper is one of those movies that just hits me right in the nostalgia. I love everything about this movie, and I could watch it multiple times a year and never tire of it.

I mean when Casper says "Can I keep you?".. I just melt into a puddle. But enough about that, let's get into fun!

31 Days of Halloween

These Casper inspired recipes were created for my 31 Days of Halloween where every day in October I come up with Halloween snacks and drink recipe to pair with horror films, Halloween movies, or a Halloween activity. It's so much fun and a great way to celebrate the spooky holiday.

→ Check out the entire 31 Days of Halloween!

Casper: Movie Fun Facts

Find these facts plus more over on Wikipedia's Casper Page and on O'neil Cinemas!

✽ Release Date: May 26, 1995

✽ The film was pretty successful earning $287.9 million on a $55 million budget.

✽ Casper is the first film to have a fully CGI character in the lead role.

✽ The actors had to talk to a tennis ball while filming in place of the ghost characters who were later added.

✽ You can also see Casper's spooky mansion in Backstreet Boys' song, Everybody (Backstreet's Back) music video.

✽ After the film's release in 1995, there was some talk about a Casper 2. However, they decided to make an animated series instead titled "The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper".

✽ The world first met Casper in a 1939 storybook. And then again in the 1950s cartoons.

Looking for more Halloween recipes that pair with popular scary movies or Halloween movies?

→ Check out all of my recipes that pair with movies!

It's time to get into what we ate for our Casper movie night!

Spiced White Lady Cocktail

Casper Cocktail

A white lady is a type of female ghost dressed in white so I thought a White Lady cocktail would be perfect for Casper movie night.

I made this one a little bit more fall-ish by subbing regular simple syrup with a spiced simple syrup made with cinnamon stick, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg. I also added in some bitters for a little bit more spiced taste.

When shaken with an egg white you get a beautiful white foam top. I cut out a ghost from a lemon peel and stuck it with cloves for eyes and a mouth for a spooky garnish!

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Spiced White Lady Cocktail

Ghostly Breakfast

Casper Food

One of the scenes that I remember most from Casper (and I have no idea why) is when Casper goes into the machine that turns ghosts back into living humans with the potion locked in, and Carrigan steals it during the process. Casper comes out as a fried egg.

I thought I would make a fried egg like that but make it.. ghostly.

I simply cracked an egg into a egg cookie cutter and cooked it on medium-low heat in a skillet with its lid on. Just make sure you spray or rub the cutter with oil before frying. I put my ghost egg on top of a piece of cheese avocado toast and served it beside fried potatoes topped with crema and a piece of bacon.

Get your ghost egg cooked and your spiced white lady shaken because it's almost movie time!

Category: Movie-themed Recipes, Cocktails, Breakfast & Brunch
Keywords: casper dinner, casper egg, casper cocktail, casper breakfast, casper recipes, casper themed recipes, casper movie night food, white lady cocktail recipe

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More Halloween Movie Inspired Recipes:

✽ Monsters Inc (Mike Wazowski veggie platter with a blue monster cocktail inspired by Sulley)
✽ The Haunted Mansion (a bubbling green cocktail inspired by Madame Leota and spooky spider pizza rolls)
✽ Hocus Pocus (Sanderson Sisters Dip Trio that looks like them and a witches brew punch cocktail)
→ Check out all of my movie-themed recipes!

Bon appétit!

October 28, 2021 by Laura Ehlers

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