Ghoulishly Scary Halloween sweetmeat

If you have read a few of my other articles about Halloween, then you probably know that I recommend not giving out anything that is home-made. This can make Halloween a bit of a disappointment for those of us who love to make some devilishly delightful treats for the kids in the neighbourhood but before you hang up your witch's hat, try manufacture a few treats for kids you know or for your child's class.

See there is always an alternative and although you may not be handing out the treats on Halloween night, you are still handing out some type of Halloween goody. One of the bonuses of baking for kids you know or for a class, is that you can be much more creative and messy.

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Now for the recipe since I am sure that you are wondering when we will get to it. I'm sure that many population have made Worms and Dirt or a Dirt Cake and that is all this recipe is, slightly modified for Halloween.

What you need:

o Gummy Halloween Candies (skeletons, spiders, eyeballs, things that go "ewww" in the candy store.)

o Clear Plastic Cups (this recipe should make between 10 to 12 servings)

o 1 box of softened cream cheese (the 8 ounce package)

o ½ cup of softened butter

o 3 ½ cups of milk

o ½ cup of confectioners' sugar

o 1 large box of Cool Whip (frozen whipped topping) Make sure it is thawed.

o 1 box (about 20 ounces) of Oreos or similar cookie

o 2 packages of instant vanilla pudding

o (optional: orange food coloring)

Directions:

1. Before you start anything, make sure you pull out your witch's hat and caldron to get into the spirit of brewing up a tasty treat.

2. In a food processor, grind the cookies into chunky crumbs. Not a powdery crumb but one that has large and small bits. Set it to the side.

3. In your caldron, merge the cream cheese, butter and sugar. Blend together with a mixer at medium speed.

4. In a detach caldron, yes you will need to pull out your spare, blend together the milk, whipped cream and the vanilla pudding powder.

5. Combine both caldrons together to originate a pudding and cream cheese mixture. If you would like to add a more Halloween feel to the dish, add a few drops of food coloring to originate an orange colored mixture.

6. Take the clear plastic cups and spoon a layer of cookie mixture on the lowest of the cups.

7. Next, spoon in a layer of cheese and pudding mixture. Repeat with the cookies until you get about an inch or two from the top of the cup.

8. As you work, drop in a few of your Halloween gummy candies or wait until the end and dispose them on the top. You can make some spellbinding pudding tops with the proper candies. A haunted house, a cemetery, or a bunch of bugs and eyeballs arrival to the outside of the dirt. Not only are they yummy but they are delightfully disgusting.

And with that, it's time to pull out the old broom (you know the car or minivan) and deliver your treats to the school, party or home of your choosing. Make sure you refrigerate them first before serving and don't forget those magical words that will not only make them tasty but the biggest success of the Halloween holiday.

Ghoulishly Scary Halloween sweetmeat

12 OUNCES EQUALS HOW MANY CUPS

Three Fun and Easy Halloween Recipes

Halloween is a beloved holiday for the young and old alike. Kids love Halloween because they get to wear costumes and go out trick or treating. But being out and about can be dangerous. To keep children safe, many parents these days are choosing to throw a Halloween party for them instead of taking them out trick or treating. Or if, like me, you still like to take the kids trick or treating, you can all the time have a Halloween party for adults-- it's a great way for grown ups to get a opening to act like kids again.

Whether hosting an adult Halloween party or one for the kiddos, one of the most foremost things to think about is... The food! Below are some quick and easy Halloween recipes for your next party. Your kids will love them and most adults will too.

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Halloween Cookie Pizza Recipe

Ingredients:
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (Pillsbury)
3 Tbsp Peanut Butter
1 Tub Vanilla cake frosting
1 holder little Chocolate Chips

Instructions: Preheat your oven to 350°F. Cut the chocolate chip cookie dough into ¼ -inch-thick slices. Place the slices on the bottom of a 12 inch greased foil-lined pan. Using floured fingers, press slices to form the cookie dough pizza crust. Place crust in oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool. Once the cookie dough pizza crust has cooled, carefully Remove foil from crust and place on serving platter. Spread peanut butter evenly over the crust and sprinkle candy corn and chocolate chips over the whole top. Drizzle ¼ cup of melted frosting over the cookie pizza. Cut into wedges and serve.

Black Jello Halloween Party Recipe

Ingredients:
1 6 ounce holder grape Jello
2 cups purple grape juice, chilled
1 cup water
1 small carrot, shredded
4 large marshmallows
1 16 ounces can unsweetened pineapple tidbits, drained
1 16 ounces can light peach slices, drained
2 cups green seedless grapes, washed
1 cup ice cubes

Instructions: While pineapple bits and peach slices are draining, dissolve Jello in 1 cup of boiling water. When the Jello is wholly dissolved, add chilled grape juice and 1 cup of ice cubes. Stir until all ice cubes are dissolved. Add shredded carrot to the Jello. Cut the marshmallows into small pieces and add along with cut up peaches and pineapple tidbits. Leave grapes whole for eyeballs. Chill and then stir as it thickens to evenly distribute the fruit.

Blood Clot Punch formula for Halloween

Ingredients:
1 2-liter bottle of Black Cherry soda
1 2-liter bottle of Fruit Punch soda
1 can freezing strawberries
1 bag of gummy worms

Instructions: Pour both bottles of soda into a punch bowl. Put the can of freezing strawberries in the soda to melt. Stir occasionally as the strawberries melt. Just before serving, stir in the bag of gummy worms. You can also fill a rubber glove with water and freeze. Before you place the bowl of punch on the table, Remove the rubber glove and put the freezing hand in the punch bowl to keep it cold.

These are just a few easy Halloween recipes for your party. Don't forget to put out a few creepy spiders, black cats, etc. To for the party to give your party that fun spooky feeling.

Three Fun and Easy Halloween Recipes

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Healthy Halloween Cookie Cake Recipes - How to Bake Yummy Tummy Fillers 4 Trick Or Treat Ghouls

Do you find every year when Halloween night comes around, not only do you have to cater for your own clan, but everyone else's too? I refer to those little freaky spooks, devils, monsters and imps that come a calling to your door trick or treating.

You can never know how many callers you will have on the evening, so more times than not you will either end up buying too many treats, or heaven forbid not enough. Did anyone ever tell you what "TRICK" stands for!

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This Halloween play it safe and make your own treats to give to the kids October 31st.

A sure way to make "everyone else's" children happy is give them cookies or cake of the healthy kind that you have made yourself. And the plus to doing this is, is nothing will go to waste because depending on the foods you bake for trick and treat night can likely be put in the freezer.

Cake and cookie treats you will find every ghoul will gladly remove their mask for, so bear this in mind mom and dad if your little Dracula or Zombie flatly refuses to take off his or her scary Halloween costume for bed.

Below are some simple to bake yummy healthy Halloween cookie/cake recipes

HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients

1 cup pumpkin 1 egg 1/2 cup any kind vegetable oil 1 cup sugar 2 tsp. baking powder 2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. milk 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup white chocolate or butterscotch chips 1/2 cup walnuts or pecans, finely chopped

Baking Instructions

Preheat oven to 370F.

Note: If using butterscotch chips, use butter rum extract or butterscotch schnapps rather than vanilla for extra flavour.

Mix pumpkin, egg, oil and sugar. Combine and beat flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt; gradually add to first mixture. Dissolve the baking soda in milk and add to batter. Stir in chocolate (or butterscotch) chips, nuts and vanilla.

Drop by the teaspoonful onto lightly greased baking sheets.

Bake at 370F degrees for approx 10 to 12 minutes.

Recipe can be doubled even tripled which is something you need to consider doing if you are to keep up with the number of witches and wizards that are likely to knock at your door trick or treating on Halloween night.

Freeze leftover cookies, somehow I don't think you will need to do this if the kids come back dressed as Oliver Twist asking for more.

STRAWBERRY GHOSTS

Ingredients

30 fresh strawberries
8 ounces white baking chocolate, chopped
1 teaspoon shortening
1/8 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

Rinse strawberries and dry using paper towels. In a microwave bowl, melt white chocolate and shortening at 50% power; stir until smooth. Stir in extract. Dip strawberries in chocolate mix; place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet, allowing excess chocolate to form the ghosts' tails. Quickly press chocolate chips into coating for eyes. Freeze for approx 5 minutes. In the microwave, melt remaining chocolate chips until it is smooth. Using a toothpick prick into melted chocolate and draw a mouth on each face.

Nutrition Facts: 1 strawberry equals 54 calories, 3 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 2 mg cholesterol, 8 mg sodium, 6 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.

FRANKENSTEIN CUPCAKES

24 Servings

Ingredients

1 to 2 16 ounce tins of chocolate frosting
Cupcakes of your choice
Marshmallows
Corn syrup
Green and black sprinkles
M&M's miniature baking bits
Candy coated liquorice

Directions

Cover cupcakes with frosting. Spread a light coating of corn syrup over marshmallows. Roll sides of marshmallows in green sprinkles; dip tops in black. Place a marshmallow in the center of each cupcake. For eyes, attach baking bits to the face of each marshmallow with a little amount of frosting; pipe pupils using frosting. Attach liquorice candies to sides of head for bolts. Pipe frosting onto faces for mouths and stitches as desired..

BONE BISCUITS

34 Servings

Ingredients

1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup butter, cut into squares
2 eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 to 3 tablespoons seedless strawberry/raspberry jam

16 to 18 ounces white baking chocolate, chopped

Instructions

Combine confectioners' sugar and cornstarch in baking bowl. Cut in butter until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Add eggs and beat. Add extract and whisk. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to sugar mixture and blend well. Shape dough into a ball; flatten into a disk shape. Wrap in plastic wrap; and allow to cool in the fridge for 30 minutes. On a floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-1/2-in. bone-shaped cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes or until edges start to turn brown. Remove and then allow them to cool.

On the bottoms of half the cookies, spread 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon jam down the middle; top with remaining cookies. Melt white chocolate in microwave at 70% power for 60 seconds; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth.

Dip each bone cookie in chocolate, allowing excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set.

Nutrition Facts: 1 cookie equals 155 calories, 8 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 23 mg cholesterol, 54 mg sodium, 19 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein.

Make sure the little ones clean their teeth after eating their treats. Although they are all healthy recipes, children couldn't care a less whether they are or not just as long as they are yummy that is all that matters to a kid, and this is why it is up to you to inform the Halloween ghost or fiend in your midst that even ghouls and witches clean their teeth, because how else could they eat their bat and mice stew

Go on be devil and get baking to avoid the "trick" by giving a "treat".

Healthy Halloween Cookie Cake Recipes - How to Bake Yummy Tummy Fillers 4 Trick Or Treat Ghouls

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