We went with Fondue which turned out to be a lot harder than I thought...it pays to read directions. Once I followed the directions it was actually quite easy and tasty.
Cheddar Fondue
5 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/3 cup flour
2 cups half and half
1 tsp garlic powder
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp dry ground mustard
Shred cheese and carefully mix with flour until each pieces is coated. Use more flour if needed, set aside. Heat half and half, mustard, Worcestershire, and garlic powder to just before boiling. Turn heat to low to simmer and add cheese and flour mixture ONE cup at a time, stirring continually until each cup is melted before adding the next cup. Once mixture is melted and generally smooth, transfer to crockpot, or fondue pot as desired.
My inital mistake was that I didn't mix the flour and cheese well enough. Then I added too much of the cheese at once. It was going fine until it started looking too grainy and I thought to add milk. BAD IDEA. That made it too watery and the skim milk wouldn't mix with the half and half. By then the cheese had also been cooking too long at too high a temperature and turned into a blobby mess sitting in orange colored milk-water. GROSS. Luckily for me my roommate had more cheese and saved us.
Other menu items included and Swiss fondue from Annicka, Butterfly shrimp, broccoli, french and brown bread, green apples, pretzels, and crackers for dipping. We had a chocolate fountain with strawberry and regular marshmallows, pecan cookies, cinnamon bears, gummy bears, angel food cake, pretzels, berries, and lots of fruit to dip in it. Thu made Red velvet cakepops, and cupcakes with darling Breaking Dawn themed cupcake wrappers and white chocolate chess pieces on top.
To make-and-take before the movie we had a popcorn bar with multiple themed flavors:
Spicy Breaking Headboard Popcorn
1 tsp paprika
2 tsp salt
1 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp ground red pepper or cayanne pepper
Sweet Jacob popcorn
1/3 cup white sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
Volturi Italiano Popcorn
1 tsp dried italian seasoning
1 tsp garlic powder
1/3 cup parmesean cheese
Bloody Vampire Popcorn
melted butter mixed with red food coloring
salt
