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Diane Shavkin as submitted in aol cook book by Stephndon
One super quick and easy "recipe" the kids really enjoy is dipping Nutter Butter cookies in melted white chocolate and when dry dotting on two black eyes and a black mouth for a ghost (with black gel). Another easy idea is to take Oreo cookies, spread white frosting on one side. Put two dabs of frosting on "top" of the cookie where "ears" would go. Stick candy corn in those two spots, pointy side up for "ears". Now placd two green mini M&M's for "eyes", a red mini M&M for the "nose" and some 1-inch long pieces of black shoestring liccorice for the "whiskers". Viola, a cat! You can do
the same thing with an Oreo and chocolate frosting to make a spider, with
a mini M&M for the nose, blue or green confetti decors (candy sprinklings
in the baking section) for eyes, and yellow confetti decors for spots on
the body...take 8 1-inch long pieces of black shoestring liccorice for
the legs, 4 on each side. Kids love this stuff!!
From: RBWH46 (Marilyn) Ghosts in the Graveyard 3 1/2
cups cold milk
Make pudding as directed on package using 3 1/2 cups milk. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir
in 3 cups Cool Whip and 1/2 of the crushed cookies. Spoon into a 13 x 9
dish.
Hint: crush cookies in a zipper-style plastic bag with a rolling pin or in a food processor. ********** This weekend I went to a Craft Show in Marietta, Ga. at the Square. I thought that this was a clever and cute idea for Halloween. popcorn
Pop the popcorn.
Take a glove and insert one candy corn in each of the fingers for fingernails.
Fill fingers and hand with popped pop corn and tie with orange curly ribbon.
From: Roca Mesa (Karen Roper MO) Frozen Jack-o-Lanterns (McCalls Magazine) 6 med. navel
oranges
1) Using paring
knife, cut zigzag or wavy ring around top of each orange to form the Jack
"lid". Remove lid.Using grapfruit knife and small spoon, scoop pulp from
both pieces. With paring knife, cut out eyes, nose and mouth. Cut small
X thru center of each lid; insert cin-stick half in each for stem.Spoon
ice cream in each bottom;replace lids. Freeze until ready to serve.
2)Decorations: Knead marz. w/green colring. Lightly dust work suface w/cornstarch;roll marz. to 1/8 in. thickness. Cut out small leaf shapes. {I like your gumdrop idea better} 3) To serve:
Place each Jack-o-Lantern on plate. Decorate lids with leaves.
Halloween Game: Karen's daughter,
Irene, will be 8 on Oct. 30. We have Hallowe'en down pat!
Don't forget about "pin the nose on the Jack-O-Lantern" (pin tail on donkey).
From: JWGPKG (Pam of FL) "Cool Whip Graveyard Treat" (Found in a magazine last year; big hit with my daughter's school class) 2-1/4 c. chocolate
wafer cookie crumbs, divided
Mix 2 c. of the cookie crumbs, 1/4 c. of the sugar, and margarine in 13 x 9-inch pan. Press firmly onto bottom of pan. Refrigerate. Beat cream cheese and remaining 1/4 c. sugar in bowl until smooth. Stir in 1/2 of the whipped topping, Spread over crust. Stir boiling
water into gelatin in bowl 2 minutes or until dissolved. Mix cold
water and ice to make 1-1/2 c. Stir into gelatin until slightly thickened.
Remove any remaining ice. Spoon over cream cheese layer. Refrigerate
3 hours or until firm. Spread remaining whipped topping over galtin.
Sprinkle with remaining cookie crumbs. Decorate as a graveyard with
cookies and candies. Makes 15-18 servings.
From: music_class@earthlink.net (Katj) HALLOWEEN FACE
PAINT
From shavkin: Diane Shavkin's Skeleton Bones Fudge 1 lb white
chocolate compound
Melt coating.
Stir in condensed milk (warm and make it the same temperature as the melted
coating). Quickly, stir in the marshmallows, almonds and cocoanut.
Spread in an 8" square, buttered pan. Score and cut into rectangular
pieces. (More like long, rectangular strips - about 1-2" long and 1/4-1/2"
wide.)
IDEAS FOR A HALLOWEEN PARTY: Apple Cider with 7-Up or Sprite. Make an ice ring with thin slices of apples (do not remove the peel) and float this in the punch - Witches Brew The ole-fashioned egg yolk mixed with mayonnaise and a dash of mustard and placed back into the egg white shell/container - "Deviled Eggs" Black Olives with a very thin carrot stick through the olive - "The cats' meow" For dessert: "Elegant Lady Fingers" - Just pipe some tip #22 stars on each of the lady fingers using buttercream frosting and sprinkle some sprinkles on top of the buttercream (those little colored dots). Green grapes peeled and rolled in granulated sugar with a toothpick sticking out of each one for easy grasping - "Green Eye Catchers" "The Killer Bee" - 1 c peanutbutter mixed with 2 Tbsp margarine, 1 cup powdered sugar, white currents and 2 cups rice Krispies. Drizzle melted milk or dark chocolate over each oval-shaped piece. Just mix all the ingredients together and shape into ovals. You can roll these into brown sugar if u want before drizzling the melted chocolate over the ovals. (Thanks and credit to "Faith91946 for the basic recipe that she called "Peanut Butter Chocolate Balls. I just changed it a bit). Use a pastry bag filled with softened cream cheese that has been whipped and pipe beads of cream cheese into celery cavities - "The Ghostly Rider" OR for a dessert use those long rectangular sugar wafer cooker in place of the celery to pipe your "ghostly rider" on. Use buttercream frosting to pipe those "ghosts" with a #12 decorating tip instead of cream cheese. Drizzle white chocolate from right to left, one "line" at a time, over some gingersnaps cookies - "Murder She Wrote" You can use any type of cookie that is dark in color so that the "white chocolate" shows up. OR if u dare: Drizzle red, chocolate compound instead of the white chocolate over the cookies. Stick sucker/lolly pop sticks into marshmallows. Dip marshmallows into chocolate. Then, dip the top and part of each of the sides of the marshmallow into chocolate sprinkles. Put eyes (3-D paint your own with an artist's brush or purchase them at a cake supply shop) on each marshmallow - "The Headless Horseman". Note: The eyes that you can purchase in a cake supply shop, can be "glued" in place with a dab of melted chocolate. Devil Dog recipe:
HALLOWEEN CHOCOLATE CUPS Use a candy mold that is fairly deep (not a flat lollypop mold). Note: You can use a lollypop candy mold that has density, but just leave out the stick. Fill the mold
with melted, chocolate compound. Let sit for 5 minutes. Pour
out the liquid contents that has not solidified into a pan that is lined
with waxed paper. (When this poured-out mixture has solidified, it
can be removed from the waxed paper and remelted). Place in freezer
for a few minutes. Remove from freezer. Refill with more melted,
chocolate compound. Let sit for 5 minutes. Pour out the contents.
Place in freezer to solidify. Remove the candy pieces from the molds.
To serve: Fill with scoops of orange sherbert. Place chocolate
chips for the eyes and nose onto the sherbert.. Cut strips of black
liquorice for the mouth. Add a piece of green gum drop for the stem.
Sugar-Molded Halloween Favors Use a 2-piece pumpkin mold (plastic that can be found in craft shops or cake supply shops) or a one-piece pumpkin candy mold that has density. Make the sugar mixture by using the basic recipe of 1 tsp. water to each cup of sugar. Always add the food coloring to the water and mix well before adding this to the sugar. Mix the sugar-water mixture well by kneading with the hands. OR place the sugar into a zip-lock baggie and add the colored water. Knead the bag containing the mixture well. Press the sugar-water
mixture into a mold. Compact it well. Place a cardboard on
top of the mold where the sugar opening is. Reverse the mold so that
the cardboard holding the mold can be placed on the work surface.
Remove the plastic mold very carefully so that the shape of the sugar-molded
piece is not disturbed. Let dry for 2 hours. Test the mold
to see if ready by picking up the sugar-molded piece and turning it upsidedown.
Check to see how wide the dried, outter edge is. If the thickness
is desirable, carefully scoop out the undried sugar so that you have a
nice edge. Let dry overnight. Pipe an orange-colored border
around (right on top of) the edge. Fill with Halloween candy.
Favor can be placed in cellophane bags and tied with a bow and curly ribbon.
Name tags can be placed on his favor. (Florist gift cards are idea
for name tags).
Halloween Centerpieces Purchase white-plastic,
cylinder vases at a florist shop or wholesale florist. Place styrofoam
inside the vase. Make napkin inserts like you see displayed in the
gift bags. (Tissue paper inserted inside the decorative bags).
To create napkin design, lay the orange-colored napkin or Halloween printed
napkin on a cork surface. Grab the napkin at the center point and
form the napkin into a "cone" with the top part flaring out and decorative.
Take a 10-12" sucker stick or dowel and use florist tape to attach the
"cone" (about 2-3 inches up the napkin) to the sucker stick. Make
3 of these for each vase. Make a Halloween candy pop. (There
are jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, witches, black cats, etc. to choose from.)
The sucker stick attached to the pop should be long, too. Put the
Halloween candy part of the pop inside a sucker bag and tie & curl
with orange curly ribbon. Stick the Halloween candy pop inside the
vase. Next, put the napkin "pops" in place and "flair" out the napkin
to make a nice display. You can also add an orange bow to the vase.
Just make loops and wire the center of the loops. Bring down the
extra bit of wire parallel to the sucker stick and wrap florist tape around
the wire and stick to secure. Place this in the front section of
your Halloween "centerpiece". Note: You can use Halloween
sugar cookies in place of the candy. Attach these sugar cookies to
the sucker stick with royal icing.
From: SuzannahJ Ralph's Retch 1 (3-0z.)
box Strawberry Jello
Prepare Jello according to directions. Pour into shallow baking pan and chill until firm, about 3 hours. Cut firm jello into very tiny cubes. Spoon alternating layers of crushed ice and jello pieces into 4 tall glasses, filling them about two inches from tops. Pour strawberry soda into each glass until full, then stir gently. Serve retch with iced-tea spoons, so your guests can get at every chilly glob. From:
GROSS GRUB by Cheryl Porter (Random House)
From: Pwd Sugar (Earlene Moore TX) Martha Stewart had a cute idea on her program Saturday. Making candle holders from the small pumpkins, squash or apples for fall. They will float and otherwise were cute. Just
got back from Michigan and their DOS and teaching for 3 days. Jeannie
Babbitt found this darling idea in a craft magazine. These centerpieces
were used on all of the tables for their DOS. You need a clay pot
and the matching tray that normally goes under it. That tray will
be the lid. Place the tray upside down on the clay pot and paint
rust or red stripes from the center top of the lid (tray upside down) down
to the bottom of the clay pot. About 6 stripes is sufficient.
Hot glue a painted wooden ball (or large gum ball) for a handle on the
center of the top (upside down) tray. Add a raffia bow, fall leaves,
ribbons and etc. On the rim of the (upside down) tray paint
two large eyes between two of the stripes. Directly under the eyes
paint a nose and a squiggly line for a mouth. Two fat cheeks painted
finish the face. (They used the starlight large round mint candies
for the eyes and cheeks and M&M's for the eyes and nose.
A permanent ink marker for the mouth.) A foil covered board underneath
with a few more leaves, ribbon and etc. finishes off this cute centerpiece.
You could use buttons, construction paper, fabric puff balls, fimo
and etc. for the face features. Lots of possibilities with this one.
A really cute place to keep those candy treats for the special kids in
your life.
From: Sarahnelly FROG EYES SALAD TRICK OR TREAT, WHAT'S THERE TO EAT? THIS IS A REAL TREAT. 1/2 cup
sugar
In medium
saucepan, stir together sugar, flour and salt. Drain pineapple, reserving
juice to equal 1 cup. With wisk, gradually stir juice and egg into
sugar mixture. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, until mixture
comes to a boil. Stir in lemon juice. Cool mixture to room
temperature. Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions,
drain. Rinse with cold water to cool quickly; drain well. In
large bowl, stir together pineapple juice mixture and pasta. Cover,
refrigerate several hours or overnight. Ass crushed pineapple and
chunks, oranges, 2 cups of whipped topping, marshmallows and coconut; mix
gently and thoroughly. cover, refrigerate until cold. Top with
remaining whipped topping; garnish with cherries. 12 servings (about
1 cup each).
From: MBF821 (Brenda of NY) Halloween Idea: I haven't
tried to make this yet but I saw the cutest pumpernickle spider in a bakery
over the weekend. It was about 8 or 9 inches around. It looked like it
was made by crossing four 9 inch long lengths of bread to create 8 legs
and adding a round body and a smaller round head. Raisins were used for
eyes. Something was used to prop up the middle part of each leg while it
was baking so that only the ends of the feet and the body touch the table.
Maybe foil was used.
From: Cakestmper Decorate cupcakes by covering tops with tip#233 pull out string grass, add little candy layons in the shape of pumpkins, skeletons, boo, cats, etc. Use greeting
cards for great ideas for designs on cakes. My favorite a few years ago
was a poster of pumpkins with different facial expressions, with the word
Halloween in the background. I was able to shrink this on a copy machine,
cut a mylar stencil, and airbrush the design onto a cake, real quick. Then
you can decorate lavishly, or quickly, using icing or air brush.
From: SpecBySue (Sue of TX) Sue's Pumpkin Bread 1 2/3
c flour
Grease
loaf pans. Mix all ingredients. and Bake at 325 for 1 to 1 1/4 hrs. (If
using differenct sizes of pans, just use the toothpick methos to
test for doneness.)
From; L2jlu2 (ICES Member) - Lourdes, NY Here is an easy recipe from Kellog's Prepare one batch of Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats Recipe through step 2 as shown on box. Measure 1/2
cup warm mixture and shape into pumpkins.
********** Here is another great recipe from Parents magazine. It's quick and the kids can help. Spiderweb Cupcakes 3 Tab canola
oil
ICING
SPIDERWEB
1. Preheat
oven to 350 line ten muffin tins with muffin papers and set aside.
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Candied Apples - (Diane's sister Anne's High school cookbook - 1940's)
1 cup sugar
Mix sugar, salt, butter, syrup and water in saucepan. Stir over low flame until mixture begins to boil. Then cook without stirring until it reaches "band snap" stage. Add coloring and vanilla. Firmly secure and place a thick lollypop stick into the apple. Dip the apple into the mixture. Lay on waxed apple to let solidify and cool. Easy Pumpkin Chocolate-Dipped Cookies Make
your favorite sugar cookie or spice cookie recipe. Use pumpkin cookie
cutters and cut out the cookies. Bake as directed in recipe.
Cool. Dip each cookie in orange, tinted white chocolate compound.
Place chocolate chips for the eyes and nose. Pipe a mouth with brown,
royal icing. Pipe the green stem with royal icing. Let dry
before eating. Great for school parties or bake sales.
Cupcakes with Haystacks and Pumpkins Bake cupcakes. Cool. Frost with chocolate frosting. Add coconut that has been tinted green for the grass. (To tint coconut: Place coconut in ziplock bag. Add a dab of food coloring. Close bag. Knead the outside of the bag to tint the coconut.) Make haystacks by melting one pound of peanut butter chocolate compound and adding one can of chow mein noodles or any type of chow mein noodles in the amount desired. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper. Form into haystacks. Let solidify. Place onto the frosted cupcakes. Add candy pumpkins or pipe pumpkins near the haystack using orange, buttercream frosting. Pumpkins can be piped ahead of time with royal icing and put into place on the cupcakes near the haystacks. Easy Spider Cookies Dip Oreo cookies
into melted, chocolate compound. Place onto waxed paper. Add
shoestring licorice for the legs. Add an M&M for the nose.
Pipe green eyes using green royal icing after the chocolate on the cookie
has solidified. Add dots of yellow candy sprinkle dots for spots
on the spider.
Party Fun Play "Bite the Marshmallow". Secure a string to a marshmallow. Hang from a door entrance. Have the children put their hands behind their back to try to "catch" the swinging marshmallow and bit it. Once the child bites the marshmallow, the marshmallow is given to the child to finish eating. Play "Bobbing
for Apples". Place an apple into individual bowls that have been
filled with water. Have each child put their hands behind their back
as they try to bob for the apple and bite it. Once the child bites
the apple, the apple is given to the child as his/her reward to finish
eating.
From: RBWH46 Goblin Cinnamon Puffs 1 package
(13.5 ounce) wild blueberry muffin mix
Prepare
muffins as directed on package except -- bake batter in tiny muffin cups
12 to 15 minutes. Mix sugar and cinnamon. Roll hot muffins
in melted butter, then in cinnamon-sugar mixture. Makes about 24
small muffins.
"Bobbing Apple" Punch Bowl 1 gallon
apple cider
Heat cider, 2 teaspoons cloves, the allspice, cinnamon and sugar to boiling; cover and simmer 20 minutes. Stud oranges with cloves. Strain punch and pour into punch bowl.* Float oranges and apples in punch bowl. Makes 32 half-cup servings. *If using
a glass punch bowl, first pour in warm water to heat bowl.
From: Cannons 4 Witches Brew Little black
roaches (raisins)
Divide children into groups (8 or less per group). Place ingredients in small bowls or cups, labeled with the goblin names (3x5 card in front will do). Let children combine ingredients from each bowl/cup in a punch bowl or black cauldron. The following chant is repeated after each ingredient is added to the bowl. “Men
and women best beware,
Each child
gets a small bag with some Witches’ Brew to take home.
Monster Halloween
Heads
In medium size saucepan, melt butter/margarine over low hea (or this can be microwaved). Add marshmallows stirring frequently. After marshmallows melt, add 10 drops green food coloring. Pour over cereal in large mixing bowl; mix well. Pat mixture into cups; insert sticks. Wait 30 minutes. Carefully tear cups off. Press candy on to make monster faces; ie sprinkles for hair, red cinnamon candies for eyes, etc. Place upside down on waxed paper. Yield: 10-12. After tearing the cups off, I dipped them upside down in brown sprinkles (for hair), added mini M&M's for eyes, red licorice for mouth, and two jujubees (for bolts in the side of the neck). This must be done while the marshmallow is still sticky! Ghost Cookies
Hold cookie
by end and dip Nutter Butter cookies in white chocolate and place on waxed
paper lined cookie sheets. When white chocolate has set, dip other
end of cookie and place back on cookie sheets. Quickly, while chocolate
is still soft, place two chocolate chip “eyes” toward one end of cookie.
Refrigerate until set, about 10-15 minutes.
From: TraceyDJ Black Cat Cookies 1 cup
crunchy peanut butter
Beat together peanut butter, eggs, and water. Gradually add cake mix. Mix well. Form dough into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten balls with bottom of glass dipped in sugar. Pinch out 2 ears at top of cookie. Add M & M's (eyes) and red hots (nose). Press fork into dough to form whiskers. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Makes 4 1/2 dozen. Glowing Jack-O-Lantern Cookies 1/2 cup
butter
Preheat oven to 350~. Cover 3 cookie sheets with foil. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Beat in flour, baking powder and salt. Add milk if batter is too stiff. Color all but 1/8 of dough orange and color rest green. Roll 1" balls from the orange dough and flatten with your hand to make a pumpkin shape. Place on cookie sheets . Roll stems out of the green dough and attach to the top of the " punkin". Carefully cut out wide spaces for the eyes, nose and mouth with a knife . Fill holes in with crushed lemon candy. Bake 8-10 minutes or until done. DO NOT ALLOW TO BROWN. Allow to cool for 10 minutes and carefully peel off foil. Note; Crush lemon drops in food processor. If mixture becomes sticky, add a little powdered sugar while chopping. Halloween Crisp Candy Corn Treats 1/2 cup
butter
Melt butter
and marshmallows; stir until smooth. In a large bowl, mix rice cereal,
candy corn and miniature chips together. Add orange food coloring
to marshmallow mixture, or squirt over cereal in bowl. Add marshmallow
mixture to cereal mixture; stir quickly to combine. Spread on a large
buttered jelly roll pan; press with buttered hands. While warm, press
on candy pumpkins
From: Jacquie97 Halloween Skeleton Cake Make a Halloween
skeleton cake that has flaming eyes - Place a sugar cube in each eye socket,
then dribble liqueur over the sugar cubes, then light both cubes with a
match immediately before serving.
From: nchriste@mondec.monmouth.edu For Halloween I usually cook a "frightful" dinner in honor of the day. Witches fingers Take 1/2 boneless chicken breast and place on cutting board. Place your hand over it so you can use your hand as a pattern. The palm of your hand is to be placed on the fattest end of the chicken breast. Cut between your fingers to create finger-like slices in the breast. Once completed and it resembles a hand, place it in a plastic bag with "shake and bake". Once coated place on a baking sheet and spread and twist the fingers so the breast looks like a hand with crooked fingers. Bake as directed on the shake and bake box. Hand Burgers These
are made by preparing your favorite meatloaf and hamburger pattie
recipe. Shape individual servings into hand shape patties.
Bake and serve with or without a bun.
From: G5dogs Halloween Spider Cookies One box or
bag of firm, store-bought cookies such as oatmeal or sugar. (I like
to use good-sized ones). You can use homemade. ( I like to
use the store-bought as they are more uniform in size)
Frost tops of cookies with frosting. Put a large black gumdrop in center of frosting. Attach with frosting the shoestring legs. These next two recipes are very versatile. I use them a lot for different holidays. They are also great to make with kids. I have included some variations at the end. Chocolate Nuggets Stir 6 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate into a 2 quart mixing bowl over hot water until melted.(I use semisweet chocolate chips, and microwave them, according to package directions. When melted, remove from water and add 3 tablespoons of corn syrup and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in carefully 1/2 cup of evaporated milk, 1/2 cup powdered confectioner's sugar, 2 1/2 cups of vanilla wafers, that have been rolled into crumbs. Mix well and let stand 30 minutes. Then shape into 1 inch balls. Roll in finely chopped nuts, jimmies or coconut. Place in mini cupcake liners. Makes 3 dozen. For Halloween-put
in Halloween mini cupcake liners after rolling in orange and chocolate
jimmies.
Haystacks 1-6 ounce package
(1 cup) semisweet chocolate chips
In a medium saucepan, melt chocolate and butterscotch chips over low heat, stirring occasionally.(I use the microwave, according to package directions.) Remove from heat. Stir in chow mein noodles. Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper lined cookie sheet to form "haystacks". Decorate with that Halloween autumn mix..the kind with the little pumpkins in it, and candy corn. Chill in refrig for 1-2 hours or until firm. Makes about 24, depending on how big you make them. For Christmas, drop spoonfuls onto paper, making v shaped cookies. Put a maraschino half in the middle to make "Rudolph" antlers. For Easter, drop by spoonfuls and form into nests. Put 3-4 jellybeans in the center. Mom's Halloween Cake Because I am nearly a Halloween baby(Oct. 30..lol), my Mom always made me a pumpkin cake for my birthday, and this was long before the days of those fancy Wilton pans. She would use a chocolate cake mix, but would bake it in a stainless steel or pyrex bowl in the oven. This would give it the pumpkin shape. She would frost it with orange frosting, and decorate it like a jack o'lantern, using some crumpled up foil that she would frost with green icing for a stem. You can serve this with choclate jack o'lantern ice cream cups. Cut top off orange, and scoop out flesh, leaving shell. Using a sharp knife, cut out eyes, nose, and mouth. Fill with chocolate ice cream or frozen yogurt. Fingers-and-Hands Ice for Halloween Punch Another fun thing to do is to fill clean non powdered plastic/latex gloves with drinks that are sweetened with artificial sweetener, and tie off.(the artificial sweetener drinks seem to freeze better.) Place on cookie sheet, and freeze until firm. Carefully with scissors, cut off the gloves. watching the "fingers" as they break easily.(If one breaks, just put it to float in punchbowl...lol) Place in punch bowl. Popcorn Hands for Halloween You can also
use the clear plastic gloves to make popcorn hands. (check beauty supply
stores for clear plastic gloves.) Put a piece of candy corn in each
finger and thumb for nail. Fill with popcorn. Tie off with
curling ribbon in orange and black. If desired, add a spider ring
or two.
From: L61howell "M&M's"® Plain and Peanut Chocolate Candies Cake 2 cups
"M&M's"® Plain Chocolate Candies, divided
Chop 1 cup "M&M's"® Plain Chocolate Candies; set aside. Preheat oven to 325 °F. Place oven rack in lower third of oven. Grease and flour 2 1/2-quart oven proof glass bowl; set aside. In large mixing bowl combine cake mix, water, vegetable oil and eggs. Beat with electric mixer on low speed about 2 minutes until combined. Beat an additional 3 minutes at high speed. Pour batter into prepared bowl. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour 20 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool cake in bowl on wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert cake onto rack and remove bowl. Cool cake completely. In medium bowl, blend yellow and red food color into ready-to-spread frosting; set aside. To assemble Jack-o'lantern cake: Slice cake horizontally into three layers. Place largest layer onto serving platter. Spread with 1/3 cup frosting; sprinkle evenly with about two-thirds chopped candies. Place middle layer on top; spread with 1/3 cup frosting and sprinkle with remaining chopped candies. Put top layer in place; frost entire cake with remaining frosting. Carefully place whole "M&M's"® Plain Chocolate Candies onto top of cake to create eyes, nose and mouth of jack-o'-lantern. Place "M&M's"® Peanut Chocolate Candies around the base of cake. To chop
"M&M's"® Chocolate Candies: place candies in clear plastic food
storage bag. Secure bag with twist-tie as near the top as possible, releasing
all air from the bag. Gently tap candies with rolling pin or kitchen mallet.
From: gourmet1@iname.com Pumpkin Soup - A great Halloween recipe. 3 Tbs.
butter 1/2 cup chopped onion 2 cups pumpkin(fresh or canned)
From: Auntiemama Dirt cupcakes for School Party What
you need are:
To assemble:
Ice Cubes for Punch I take and make some Kool-aid with half the amount of water called for and pour it into ice cube trays, place a gummy worm inside each compartment and freeze. That way when the ice melts it doesn't water down the punch; not that the punch ever lasts that long. lol One other
idea that just came to mind for trick or treat or class parties is something
I saw a few years ago. Someone had taken a small piece of white material
about maybe 3-4" square and placed it over a tootsie roll pop, put
on a small rubber band to hold it in place, they then took
a felt tip marker and drew a ghost face on it. Instant Ghost on a
stick!
From: rogal@ptd.net One idea I
use for trick or treat: Make rice krispie treats, being sure to make
as flat as possible in the pan. After they are set, cut into 2x2
or 2x3 pieces, place a Popsicle stick in the bottom, dip in chocolate,
orange, white, milk, etc, add a "scary" layon, sprinkle with jimmies, or
your choice of nonpareils, etc. bag and add orange and black curly
ribbon. The kids in my neighborhood think they are great!!!
From: Cannons 4 Ghost Pops 1 ripe banana
Remove any
stringy fibers from the peeled banana, then cut in half crosswise.
Push a popsicle stick into each half through the cut end, then cover each
pop with plastic wrap and freeze until firm (about 3 hours). Next,
melt chocolate in microwave safe bowl on high until candy is melted (it
generally takes about 1 minute). With a butter knife, spread the
melted white chocolate on the frozen banana halves . Set the pops
on a waxed paper covered dish. Press on candies or currants for eyes
and mouth and return pops to freezer until ready to serve. Makes
2. I'll probably cover with sandwich bags after they're frozen,
and curl orange and black ribbon around them, or write Happy Halloween
in orange and black on the popsicle stick, as it is very plain looking.
From: rmcolby@hotmail.com (Melissa Colby) My hottest hit for Halloween treats last year were my eyeballs. Eyeball Truffles Make
your favorite truffles, and dip them in white candy coating.
Immediately (before coating sets) press an M&M into the top center
for the iris (I like to use blue, brown or green).
After coating sets, use red royal icing to draw the "bloodshot"
lines on the eyeball.
From: Sniffy45 Babe Ruth Bars These taste like the candy bar. Ingredients: 1
cup peanut butter
Directions: 1. Heat sugars,
syrup, and peanut butter in a heavy pan until smooth.
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