HAPPY HALLOWEEN
>Jack-o'-Lantern Pizza > > > >Kids will love veggies when you make jack o'-lantern faces >with the veggies on top of yummy pizza! > >Total: 40 min >Prep: 20 min >Bake: 15 min >Stand: 5 min > >Makes 8 servings > >1 pound ground beef >1 cup salsa >3/4 cup frozen whole kernel corn >1/4 cup water >2 cups Original Bisquick >1/3 cup very hot water >1 tablespoon vegetable oil >2 cups shredded Colby-Monterey Jack or Cheddar cheese (8 ounces) > >Toppings, such as orange and green bell pepper strips, >sliced ripe olives and cherry tomato wedges, if desired > >1. Move oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 450�F. >Grease 12-inch pizza pan. Cook beef in 10 inch skillet over medium heat, >stirring occasionally, until brown; drain. Stir in salsa, corn and 1/4 cup >water. >Heat to boiling; remove from heat. > >2. Mix Bisquick, 1/3 cup hot water and the oil until soft dough forms; >beat vigorously 20 strokes. Let stand 5 minutes. Press dough in pizza pan, >using fingers dipped in Bisquick; pinch edge to form 1/2-inch rim. >Spread beef mixture over dough. Sprinkle with cheese. > >3. Bake 11 to 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is >melted. >Arrange Toppings on pizza to form jack-o'-lanterns. >Cut into slices with a Pizza Cutter.
Pina Ghoulada > > > >Makes 10 to 12 eight-ounce servings > >Notes: >The ghoulada mixture can be made several hours in advance and chilled. > >Ingredients: >3 tablespoons corn syrup >1/4 teaspoon red food coloring, plus more for rims >20 ounces pineapple juice >1 fifteen-ounce can cream of coconut >1/2 cup heavy cream >1 cup orange juice >10 ounces good-quality rum (optional) > >Preparation: >1. To coat rims, pour corn syrup into a shallow bowl. >Dip a toothpick into food coloring, and stir a very small amount into corn >syrup to combine. >Hold a glass by the stem, dip rim into the syrup mixture >and turn glass, coating entire rim. >Turn the glass upright, allowing mixture to drip down sides. >Dip the remaining glasses. Set aside. > >2. In a bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients, >including 1/4 teaspoon red food coloring. >Place 2 1/2 cups ice cubes in a blender, and add 1 cup drink mixture. >Blend until smooth; add more pineapple juice if mixture is too thick. >Repeat with remaining drink mixture and ice. >Carefully pour into prepared glasses; serve.
Crispy Rice Jack-o-Lantern > > > >Notes: >This is an easy way to make a Jack-o-lantern you can eat. > >Ingredients: >1 Stick Butter >2 (10 oz). Packages Marshmallows >12 C. Rice Crispy Cereal >1 tsp. Yellow Food Color >1/4 tsp. Red Food Color >Green Decorating Icing in Tube >Black Decorating Icing in Tube >Decorating Tips >12 C. Bowl (not plastic) > >Preparation: >Melt butter on low heat and add marshmallows. >Stir marshmallows frequently. >When marshmallows have dissolved, add food colors and mix well. >When the marshmallow mixture is uniform in orange color >add cereal and stir and mix until rice crispies are completely coated. >Pour mixture into the bowl that has been well sprayed with a non-stick >spray. >Carefully press down cereal (spray the spoon or your hands when pressing >the cereal, >this helps so the cereal will not stick). >Place into the refrigerator until completely chilled and firm. >When the pumpkin is chilled remove from refrigerator and invert onto a >plate. >Remove bowl and decorate with leaves and stem. >A great jack o lantern smile will be the finishing touch. > >The Jack-o-lantern makes a great centerpiece and a delightful treat.
Samhain Pumpkin Cheesecake > >2 pkgs. (8-oz.each) Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened 1/2 cup canned >pumpkin (use canned pumpkin or save your pumpkin scraps >from the carving, cut them from their rinds and steam or boil until they >are soft.) >1/2 cup sugar >1/2 teaspoon vanilla >1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon >dash of ground cloves >dash of nutmeg >2 eggs >1 (6-0z. or 9-inch) ready to use graham cracker crumb crust >Cool Whip Whipped Topping >Chocolate dipped pecans > > >Mix cream cheese, pumpkin, sugar, vanilla and spices with electric mixer >on medium speed until well blended. >Add eggs; mix until blended. >Pour into crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until center is >almost set. >Cool. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight. > >Garnish with whipped topping and chocolate dipped pecans
Kitty Litter Cake > > > >Serving Size: 24 > >Notes: >This is a fun cake! It might look gross, but it does taste good! >Most Importantly, do not place cake anywhere near regular Kitty Litter Tray >LOL > >Ingredients: >1 (18 oz.) box spice or german chocolate cake mix >1 (18 oz.) box white cake mix >1 pkg. white sandwich cookies >1 large box vanilla instant pudding mix >12 small tootsie rolls >1 litter box (preferably a NEW one!) >1 plastic scoop >green food coloring > >Preparation: >Prepare cake mixes and bake according to directions (any size pans). >Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble. >Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in blender, >they tend to stick, so scrape often. >Set aside all but about 1/4 cup. >To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, >add a few drops green food coloring and mix using a fork or shake in a jar. >When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. >Toss with half the remaining white cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. >You probably won't need all of the pudding, mix with the cake and "feel" >it, >you don't want it soggy, just moist; gently combine. >Put mixture into clean litter box. > >Put three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until >soft and pliable. >Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. >Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls and bury in mixture. >Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top. >Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly over the top, >this is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter. >Heat remaining Tootsie Rolls, three at a time in the microwave until almost >melted. >Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with cookie crumbs. >Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs >around. >Serve with a new pooper scooper.
Jack O Lantern Cake Needed 2 bunt cake pans 2 boxes cake mix any flavor (I like to use one white and one chocolate) orange icing Assorted candy Nutragous Candy bar or Baby Ruth Candy bar or simmaler shaped one M&M's Red Hots Candy corn green gel icing black gel icing Bake cakes acoording to directions and let cool Ice the flat bottoms of each cake and put one on top of the other so bottoms are touching. Ice the rest of the cake in the orange Let sit for a bit to let dry. Using the black gel icing create a mouth, eyes and nose. Let set to dry. Fill in areas of the mouth and eyes and nose with candy. Fill home in the center with assorted candy. and place the unwrapped candybar in the center of the hole and ice around it to make it stay as the stem. Use the green gel icing to make vines and leaves. Garnish with more candy around the serving plate.
SPIDER POPS Try This Ghoulish Treat from FamilyFun Let guests make these leggy lollipops as a party activity and a take-home favor. Materials: 4 black pipe cleaners Lollipop Googly eyes Glue Holding all four pipe cleaners, center them at the base of the pop and wrap them around the stick once so there are four legs on each side. Bend the legs. Glue on googly eyes. Now, is it a trick--or a treat?
CREEPY CUPCAKES Try This Ghoulish Treat From FamilyFun These sweet spooks are horribly appealing to boys and ghouls. Use a favorite cupcake recipe, then set your guests to work. GHOST CUPCAKES 24 baked cupcakes 24 Nutter-Butter cookies Chocolate frosting Vanilla frosting Tube of chocolate decorator's icing Coat each baked cupcake with chocolate frosting and partially insert a Nutter-Butter cookie into the top. Frost the remaining cookie with vanilla frosting. Draw a spooky expression on each ghost with the decorator's icing. Makes 24.
SPIDER CUPCAKES 2 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips 1/4 cup milk 1/2 cup chopped peanuts or crispy rice cereal 3/4 cup dry chow mein noodles 24 baked cupcakes White frosting First, make the spiders by combining the chocolate chips and milk in a glass bowl. Microwave on high for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until smooth. Stir in the peanuts or cereal and chow mein noodles. Drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper. Stick on extra noodles for spider legs and chill. Frost the cupcakes white. Then top each cupcake with a spider. Makes 24.
CHOCOLATE SLIME Finally, some slime the kids can sink their teeth into. For eight kids, we separated this recipe into two bowls of fondue so there wouldn't be too much shoving. Ingredients 8 2-ounce bars of baking white chocolate 2 tablespoons heavy cream 6 to 12 drops green food coloring Angel food cake, cut in large cubes Red and green grapes, rinsed and removed from stem 2 to 3 bananas, sliced into 1-inch rounds 2 to 3 red or green apples, rinsed, cored and sliced 2 oranges, peeled and divided into sections 1 to 2 pineapples, cut into large chunks Directions In a medium-sized, microwave-safe bowl, melt the chocolate uncovered in a microwave set on medium-high for 1 minute. Stir and microwave for additional 10- to 20-second intervals until smooth. Don't overcook. (For an alternative method, use a glass or nonreactive double boiler set on medium-low heat. Stir regularly until the chocolate is smooth.) Add the cream and food coloring and stir thoroughly. Keep warm in a double boiler or fondue pot and present with cut cake and fresh fruits. makes 8 servings
BUG JUICE Kids Will Love this Healthy, Ghoulish Punch by Jodie Shield Ingredients 2 10-oz. pkgs. frozen strawberries, defrosted 1 6-oz. can lemonade concentrate, thawed 1 quart ginger ale 2 cups raisins 6 gummy worms Directions 1. Mix the strawberries and lemonade concentrate in a blender until smooth and thick. 2. Gradually add ginger ale. 3. Transfer the beverage to a punch bowl. Stir in any remaining ginger ale and the raisins. Place the gummy worms on the rim of the bowl for a swampy effect. Makes 10 servings.
BRAIN SURGERY SALAD Let Your Kids Whip Up This Ghoulish Treat by Jodie Shield No one in his right mind could say no to this tasty treat. Ingredients 2 small pkgs. or 1 large pkg. lime gelatin 1 16-oz. can fruit cocktail or 1 1/2 cups grated carrots 2 surgical or rubber gloves Directions 1. Prepare the gelatin according to the package instructions. 2. Transfer to a dome-shaped mold. (A mixing bowl will do.) 3. Drain the fruit cocktail and add it, or the grated carrots, to the gelatin when it's half set. 4. When the salad mold is ready, unmold it onto a platter, and drape the surgical gloves on each side. Makes 10 servings
CHICKEN POX > >Strawberries >Pancake mix >Bananas >Powdered sugar > >-----TOOLS----- > >Knife Cutting board Mixing bowl Lg Flat skillet Spatula Plates >With an adult's help, chop the berries into small chunks, allowing >one or two per pancake face. Set aside. >With an adult's help, prepare the pancake mix according to package >directions. When the pancakes are done, place each serving in a stack >on a separate plate. For every two stacks of pancakes, you need to >peel one banana. Carefully slice off the two ends and put one on top of >each >stack for a nose. Then cut two thin slices from each end for eyes. >Then cut banana in half for a long curved mouth. Arrange the >strawberry chunk chicken pox all around each face. Use clean fingers >to drop a pinch of powdered sugar on each pox for a tasty bit of pus. >Serves as many little polka dotted people as your heart desires.
>BLOODY EYEBALLS ON THE ROCKS > >Serving Size : 6 > >12 Radishes >7 oz Olives -- pimiento-stuffed >46 oz Tomato juice >Prepare these bloody eyeballs the day before your plan to serve them. >Peel radishes, leaving thin streaks of red skin on them for blood >vessels. Using the tip of the vegetable peeler or a small, knife, >carefully scoop out a small hole in each radish. Stuff a green olive, >pimiento side out, in each hole. Place 1 radish eyeball in each >section of an empty ice cube tray. You may need to pare your eyeballs >down a bit to fit. Fill the tray with water and freeze overnight. >Pour tall glasses 3/4 full of tomato juice and add a pair of eyeballs >to each glass.
>BRAIN CELL SALAD > >Serving Size : 1 >1 package (6oz) blueberry jello mix Fat Free >1 16oz) small curd cottage Cheese Fat Free > 3/4 cup Frozen blueberries thawed >Blue food coloring > >-----TOOLS----- > >2 Mixing bowls Can Opener Spoon 6 Salad plates > >Prepare jello according to package directions. Chill 4-5 hours or >until firm. Scoop cottage cheese into a bowl. Add the berries to the >cottage cheese and >mix well. Add three drops of food coloring to turn the corrage cheese a >nice >grayish color with blended. To serve salad, place a few spoonfuls of >firm gelatin, (congealed brain fluid), onto individual serving >plates. Top with a scoop of cottage cheese (brain tissue) mixture and >serve. Serves 6 psycho surgeons.
>BLACK CAT CUPCAKES > >Serving Size : 24 Preparation > >1 1/4 c Reduced Fat Oreo� cookie crumbs >18 1/4 ozs reduced fat chocolate cake mix >24 pcs Halloween Oreo� cookies >16 ozs reduced fat milk >chocolate frosting >black string licorice >jelly beans >semisweet chocolate chips > >Preheat oven to 350. Prepare 24-2 1/2" muffin cups with cooking >spray and flour; set aside. Prepare cake mix according to package >directions; stir in cookie crumbs. Spoon batter into prepared muffin >cups. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from pans; cool on wire rack. Make cat >faces on each of the >Remaining cookies: using some frosting, attach 4-1 1/2" licorice >strings for whiskers,2 jelly bean halves for eyes and 2 chocolate chips for >ears. Let set >at least 30 minutes. Frost cupcakes with remaining frosting. Stand cat >faces on edge on each cupcake. Place 3" piece licorice string on back >half of each cupcake for tail. > >Per serving: 274 Calories; 8g Fat (25% calories from fat); 2g >Protein; 50g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 342mg Sodium
>CHILDREN'S WITCH'S BREW > >Ingredients: >1 (10 ounce) package frozen raspberries, thawed >2 1/2 cups cranberry juice >2 envelopes unflavored gelatin >2 liters ginger ale >2 liters sparkling apple cider (non-alcoholic) >6 gummi snakes candy > >Directions: >1. To make the frozen hand: Wash and rinse the outside of a latex >dish-washing glove. Turn glove inside out and set aside. >In a 4 cup measuring cup,combine the thawed raspberries and cranberry >juice. > >2. Pour 2 cups of the raspberry mixture into a small saucepan. Sprinkle the >gelatin over and let stand 2 minutes. Warm over >low heat, stirring constantly, just until gelatin dissolves. Mix back into >the reserved raspberry mixture in the measuring cup. > >3. Pour raspberry mixture into the inverted glove. Gather up the top of the >glove and tie securely with kitchen twine. Freeze until solid, or several >days if possible. > >4. To serve: Carefully cut latex glove away from frozen hand. Place frozen >hand, palm side up, leaning against side of a large >punch bowl. Pour in ginger ale and sparkling cider. Garnish with gummy >snakes.
