Quick and Easy Snacks to make your Bonfire Party go off with a Bang
Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and… lots of delicious food to warm you up after being out in the cold watching fireworks. Okay, so it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as the famous poem, but having some tasty treats to serve on bonfire night is sure to make your party rhyme.
From spicy foods that bring some colour back to your cheeks, to seasonal snacks and warming drinks, here are some fresh ideas for bonfire night treats. All are easy to prepare or can be left cooking while you get on with entertaining your guests.
Something pumpkin
While it may not be the best idea to cook up the pumpkin you carved before Halloween, if you can get your hands on a fresh one, turn it into a soup and people can take a mug outside with them as they ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over the pyrotechnics. Add some spices like cumin and coriander for flavour and your fragrant pumpkin soup can bubble away until ready.
Hot and steamy
As an alternative to take al fresco, sweet toothed party-goers will love a mug of hot chocolate. Not just for kids, you can spruce it up in all sorts of ways, including by adding a tot of your favourite tipple or a shot of coffee to perk everyone up. If you’ve got time, try this Bonfire Hot Chocolate, where the classic choc-orange combo is pepped up with some chilli.
Leave-in-the-oven pork
Get ahead and stick a joint of pork in the oven early so you can leave it slow-roasting and growing in flavour while you get on with other things. This recipe for Slow Roast Pork Shoulder can be prepped with spices, cider vinegar and treacle in just 20 minutes before being left in the oven or slow cooker all day. It’ll fill the house with a delicious aroma, too.
Very-peri tasty
What better to go with fall-apart pork than some spicy fries? Also great served on their own as a tasty snack, these no hassle McCain Peri Peri Fries are ready prepared for you, so all you have to do it put them in the oven or grill just ahead of when you want them. With a flavouring of paprika and cayenne pepper, they’re an easy way to warm the cockles in no time.
Not just sausages on sticks
It’s not bonfire night without bangers – and by that we mean the sausage variety. Create the ultimate in safe indoor fireworks with skewered sausages that look just like rockets. Cook up some sausages – any flavour you like – then spike them on wooden or metal skewers and top with a triangle of pepper, each in a different colour. You could even go retro and display them spiked into a foil covered vegetable so they stand up like fireworks stuck in the ground. A halved cabbage works best for this as it’s the right size and soft enough to skewer.
Most of all though, have an amazing Bonfire Night and stay safe.
What is your favourite Bonfire Night treat?
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These are all great idea. I cannot wait for bonfire night.
Pulled pork is something my mum cooks all the time at this time of year and it tastes amazing x
Pulled pork is amazing isn’t it. I really fancy some now as well. x
These are all great easy snacks for a bonfire party. The leave in the oven pork and the pumpkin soup are some great bonfire snacks along with the hot chocolate. Thanks for sharing these awesome bonfire snack ideas.
No problem at all – I hope you have an awesome bonfire night 🙂 x
These are great ideas to fill up your guests with hearty eats at a bonfire. So much better than the traditional hotdogs & hamburgers.
It is great how many things you can do these days for bonfire night though I will always love some of the old favourites. x
So many great suggestions to change things up! I like the idea of cooking different sausages vs the usual hot dogs.
Can you imagine a really nice one on the BBQ yum! x
Bonfire party for me is not a real party without s’mores!! That is my favorite part of the bonfire.
There is something wonderful about roasting marshmallows on a fire. x
Aww I love bonfire night and these recipes are so good! also super excited to see your christmas recipes!
Oh God! I can’t wait for the 5th of November now! This time we are going to the greenwich park to see the fireworks since the little man now acknowledges and enjoys them! Definitely taking some soup this time though! Love the snacks ideas! x
Oh wow have an amazing time! I hope your little man enjoys the show! x
Love the look of that first one. I never know what to offer at these things!
It is hard isn’t it I’m sure in my childhood it was just jacket potatoes and soup. x
Well my mouth is now watering! Haha! I don’t have anyone to spend bonfire night with but I might make my own mini feast xx
Haha sorry 😉 enjoy your mini feast – it will be even better as you can just have what you want. x
This is a great list of snacks that are easy to make. I love a good bonfire party. I will save this post for our next gathering!
They are fab aren’t they, I have such fond memories from my childhood. x
It’s great to use pumpkins after Halloween, so they don’t get wasted. Sadly, I just don’t like the taste! 🙁 My favourite bonfire night snacks are burgers, roasted marshmallows & toffee apples!
Aw no – that is one issue with pumpkins they are definitely an acquired taste. x
We don’t’ celebrate Bonfire Night, (wish we did!) but we do have bonfires occasionally and I always love to break out the s’mores. Roasting marshmallows is always so much more fun when there’s a bonfire.
I used to love roasting marshmallows, we would sometimes have them when I was helping as a Youth Ranger, if we were burning the things we had chopped down on a break, sometimes we would have thrown all the sticks on the fire though and would have to use the spades, so hygienic.
Jacket spuds which have been put in the oven for many hours so they’re super crispy with some of chilli on top is my faaaave!
Oh gosh there is nothing like a super crispy roast potato. x
I do leave pork in the slow cooker cooking in cider, which is just divine. Smells incredible too but the downside is I am always hungry when it is cooking x
Ohh that sounds amazing – I totally need to try that! x
I love hot chocolate on bonfire night – with lots of marshmallows too. The pulled pork sounds lovely too. Jo x
Oh yes nothing like some hot chocolate to warm you up. x
My allergies wont let me enjoy a bonfire. I would enjoy a veggie burger.
Oh no that’s such a shame :(. Enjoy your veggie burger from afar 😉 x
I use to love the story of Guy Fawkes. I’ve not done anything for bonfire night in years – great tips hun xo
It is quite gruesome really isn’t it and how we all burn the “guy” every year. x
The Mcain chips sound wonderful, have never seen them so will be looking from now on. Mum used to make sausage rolls for Bonfire Night and jacket potatoes, still my faves.
We used to have hot soup and jackets, always brings back memories. x
I love the idea of serving up pumpkin soup. And who doesn’t love a good hot chocolate when it is cold outside?
With the marshmallows on top! Absolutely delicious. x
A friend of mine has a bonfire with her family quite a bit. They have to be so much fun, where I live we cannot have them but I’ve been to a few in my life and I love all the food there. I’ll have to see if she’s done any of these. If she hasn’t then I’m going to tell her about this post.
First of all, I want to go to one of your bonfires!!! Yum! My favorite thing is s’mores. I could literally eat them all day long!
I love these! I need those burgers in my life immediately. They look delicious!
These are great ideas :). Love this season with bonfires and curling up under blankets with friends 🙂
I so agree – blankets are the best kind of thing at this time of year 😉 x
My mom makes the best pumpkin soup. It is a tradition for Haitian people to have it on New Year’s Day to celebrate Haitian Independence. I love that you can recycle from Halloween night and use your pumpkin for something useful. Great idea!
It is such a fab idea isn’t it – I think often people just scoop and don’t think what they could use it for in the long run. x