More Ghoulish Recipes
Witches Hats
Keebler fudge striped cookies
Orange decorator icing
Hersheys kisses
Turn cookies upside down so that the chocolate side is up. Use the orange decorator icing to pipe around the hole in the center of each cookie. Place an unwrapped kiss on the icing circle. Finish by piping around the base of the kiss and making a little bow.
Peanut Butter Eyeballs
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
1 TBSP. vanilla extract
1 lb. icing sugar
Wax paper
12 ozs. white chocolate
Mini M&M's (optional) for iris of eyeballs
Cream the butter and peanut butter together. Add the icing sugar and blend thoroughly. Shape into 1 inch balls and refrigerate on wax paper for half an hour. Melt the white chocolate. With a toothpick, dip the eyeballs into the chocolate, covering all but a small circle on the top. Add small M&M's. Let cool on wax paper. Makes around 40 eyeballs.
Rice Krispies Eyeballs
6 cups Rice Krispies
10 oz.bag of marshmallows
Cooking spray
Wax paper
Mini pastel M&M's
3 TBS. margarine
Black or brown decorator frosting or gel
Melt margarine in large saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat. Add Rice Krispies and stir until well coated. Make Rice Krispie treats into balls, about 1 or 2 inches across. Add a pastel mini M&M or other small round candy for iris and dot the candy with frosting or gel for the pupil.
Spiders and Webs
2 small packages semi-sweet chocolate chips
Pastry bag with 1/4 inch tip
Photocopied picture of spider web & spiders
Wax paper
Double broiler
Spiders~4 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Find a drawing of a spider and photocopy it, fitting as many as you can on a legal size piece of paper. In the top of a double broiler, over barely simmering water, stir the chocolate until melted. Remove from heat and let stand over water until cool, but still fluid. Put chocolate into pastry bag fitted with 1/4 inch tip. Place paper with photocopied spiders on a cookie sheet and cover with waxed paper. Squeeze chocolate out of pastry bag and trace spiders. Chill the spiders for 10 minutes.
Web~1 small package of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Photocopied spider web pattern. In the top of a double broiler, over barely simmering water, stir the chocolate until melted. Remove from heat and let stand over water until cool, but still fluid. Put chocolate into a pastry bag fitted with 1/4 inch tip. Lay spider web pattern on a 12x15 cookie sheet and cover with wax paper. Squeeze chocolate out of pastry bag onto waxed paper, tracing spider web design. Chill web for 10 minutes. Peel off wax paper and place chocolate spiders all over the web.
Coffin Sandwiches
Whole wheat bread
Coffin shaped cookie cutter
Lunchmeat
Lettuce & Tomamtoe (optional)
American cheese
Mustard (optional)
Miracle Whip or Mayo
Plastic Halloween toothpicks
Take the whole wheat bread and cut into coffin shapes. Layer with lunchmeat, cheese, etc.. Spear the sandwich with plastic Halloween toothpicks.
Ghost Cookies
1 package Nutter Butters (peanut butter cookies)
wax paper
12 oz. vaniila flavored candy coating
64 mini chocolate chips (4 teaspoons)
In small saucepan, (I prefer a double broiler) melt candy over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth. Line cookie sheets with wax paper. Holding cookies with tongs, dip entire top and side of each cookie into melted coating, letting excess drip off. Lay flat, coated side up on wax paper. Place 2 chocolate chips in coating to form eyes. Let stand 10 minutes until set.
Tip: if place cookies in frezzer for a few minutes, the coating will look shinier.
Pumpkin Cake
2 cake mixes (any flavor)
Hersheys chocolate bar
3 tubs vanilla frosting
Orange & green food coloring
2 Bundt cake pans
Note: Stem can either be a cupcake or ice cream cone
Make the cakes according to the directions on the box. Pour into Bunt pans. Set aside a small amount of frosting to be tinted green for the stem. Color the rest of the frosting orange. When cakes are completely cool, put them together bottom to bottom and use a little frosting as "glue." Frost with orange icing, then make the pumpkin face from the Hershey bar cut into triangles. Finally, set the ice cream cone or cupcake on top, to make the stem.
Bloody Popcorn
Popcorn
Melted butter or margarine
Red food coloring
Add red food coloring to the butter while melting it and pour over popcorn.
