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Halloween Recipes

  • April 26, 2010 10:21 pm
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Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. Probably because of the sheer amount of sugar involved. As a kid (or adult for that matter), what other holiday can you dress up funny and stuff your face full of candy and sweets and not get yelled at? And then there are all of the fun (and sometimes absolutely disgusting) things that you can serve to your friends at Halloween gatherings that you would never dare to serve on any other holiday. The only time it is permissible and even encouraged to put worms, spiders, bugs, and bats in your food. Happy Halloween!

Halloween Crisp Treats

1/2 cup butter10 cups crispy rice cereal9 cups mini marshmallows2 cups candy corn3/4 cup mini chocolate chipscandy pumpkinsorange food coloring

Grease a large jellyroll pan. In a large saucepan over low heat, melt the butter and marshmallows together. Mix it together until it is smooth. Put the crispy rice cereal, candy corn, and mini chocolate chips into a large bowl and mix well. Mix the orange food coloring into the marshmallow mixture and mix well. Put the marshmallow mixture into the cereal mixture and mix it together quickly. Spread the mixture into the greased jellyroll pan and press it down into the pan with well-greased hands (butter works best). Press the candy pumpkins onto the bars, keeping in mind how big or small you will want to cut the bars. You can have fun with this by serving it in a bed of gummy worms, cut “bites” out of the candy pumpkins and have the gummy worms look like they are eating the pumpkins.

Sparkling Halloween Punch

4 cups apple cider2 cups orange juice2 cups pineapple juice2 cups apricot nectar6 cups chilled gingeraleorange and lemon slicesgummy worms

In a large bowl, mix the apple cider, orange juice, pineapple juice, and apricot nectar. Refrigerate for 2 hours or more. Right before you are ready to serve it, mix in the gingerale and add the orange and lemon slices. Drape gummy worms over the sides of the bowl. For an added Halloween touch, put small plastic spiders in ice cube trays and fill with water. Put in the freezer and add the spider ice cubes to the punch.

Halloween Recipes

Make a Halloween Pumpkin Cake

  • April 22, 2010 4:21 am

Ingredients

2 Cans Prepared White Frosting

Food Coloring (red, yellow, and green)

1 Hostess Ho-Ho or similar cake-roll snack item (optional)

Method:

Fill one of the cupcake wells 2/3 full with cake batter. Pour the rest of the cake batter into the bundt pan.

Bake the bundt cake according to package directions. Keep an eye on the cupcake as it will cook and be done before the cake. Make the second bundt cake (or use 2 bundt pans and bake together to save time). Let the finished cakes cool completely.

Reserve 1/2 cup of the white frosting and color the rest orange. This is done by slowly adding drops of yellow and red food coloring until you have just the right shade of orange. Adding more yellow will lighten the color, while adding red will deepen it.

Place one cake upside down on a platter and frost the top with the orange frosting. Now place the second cake on top of the first, flat side down. Frost both cakes together, using up and down motion to simulate the lines in a pumpkin.

Insert the cupcake upside-down into the hole in the top of the bundt cakes to make the pumpkin’s stem. Color the reserved frosting green and frost the cupcake stem.

If desired, make a face on the pumpkin using gumdrops or jelly beans for eyes and nose, black licorice whips for the mouth, candy corn for teeth, etc.

Variation:

Make a Halloween Pumpkin Cake

Make a Black Cat Cake for Halloween

  • April 16, 2010 9:21 pm

INGREDIENTS:

One Cake Mix of your choice

Two Containers Prepared Chocolate Frosting

Black McCormick® Assorted Fall Food Colors

Candy Corn & Black Licorice Strings

METHOD:

1. Bake two 8 or 9 inch cake layers as directed. Remove from pans and let cool completely. While you’re waiting, make a cake board to display your beautiful cake creation.

2. Freeze the layers for about ½ hr. prior to frosting. This will make them less crumbly and easier to frost. Just place them in large resealable bags and place on a cookie sheet in the freezer.

3. Mark a circle around one of the cake layers about 1 inch in from cake edge and cut at marking. Remove the inner circle and set aside. This will be the cat’s head. Save the outer cake remnant to form the tail, ears and feet.

4. Prepare black frosting by adding food coloring from the McCormick® Assorted Fall Food Colors to the chocolate frosting until the desired color is achieved. (Use about 3-4 drops food coloring for each 1/2 cup of frosting.)

5. Position the large and small layers on your cake board to resemble kitty’s head and body. Frost both layers, swirling to give a furry effect. The cut layer (head) will require more frosting to cover the open sides.

6. Cut pointy ears and feet from the cake remnants and place on top and bottom of cake. Next, cut and position the tail, making a bend in the middle .

Frost tail, ears and feet and attach to head and body with frosting.

7. Add black cat’s eyes and nose made of candy corn. Cut the pointy ends from 6-8 candy corns to make the cat’s toenails. Use the bottom rounded portion of the pretzel to make black cat’s mouth. Add a few black licorice strings to each side for whiskers.

View the finished Black Cat Cake!!!

Variation: Make a White Kitty Cake with white cake and frosting.

Make a Black Cat Cake for Halloween

Halloween Decorations: Boo To You, And Pumpkins Too!

  • April 9, 2010 9:21 am

It seems as if everyone is getting more and more interested in decorating for every holiday, and Halloween is one of my favorites! Whether you choose to go the spooky route, or the friendly route, Halloween decorating is fun for everyone. Most Halloween decorations are made the day before Halloween, and put out for just one night, so you probably want to decorate in a manner to pack the biggest boo for the buck.

Buy inexpensive styrofoam, gray paint (or granite paint, if you don’t mind the extra cost) and black markers. Cut various sizes and types of tomb stones, pile up hay to resemble grave mounds, for especially spooky Halloween decorations, fill a surgical glove with gelatin (mixed in the jigglers recipe on the back of the gelatin box) tie it off securely, and put it a shirt sleeve filled with hay around a stick that can be stuck into one of the grave mounds, as if someone is trying to escape the grave. The gelatin will wiggle at the slightest movement. For added fright factors, splash a little fake blood around. String a fake spider web, sprinkled with spiders, buy dry ice for an ultra spooky fog, play ghostly tunes, and serve candy hands from a witch’s pot.

Recipe for Candy Hands:

Small bags of candy corn

Stuff the fingers with popcorn, then fill the hand with small packages of candy corn. Tie off at the ends, and ‘hand’ them out to the trick or treaters in your neighborhood.

If you prefer friendly Halloween decorations instead of ghoulish ones, play Casper the friendly ghost, instead of fiendishly frightening howls, and decorate with smiling ghosts made by covering helium filled, white balloons, tied off with a long piece of clear fishing line, and covered with white garbage bags. Paint on happy faces, and tying the ghosts with the other end of the fishing line, so they appear to fly with even the slightest breeze. Halloween “totem pole” decorations can be made by pushing pumpkins onto a length of one inch pipe, and drawing on happy faces, then pushing the pipe into the ground.

Halloween Decorations: Boo To You, And Pumpkins Too!

Halloween Recipes: Homemade Candy Corn – Food & Party on The Stir …

  • March 27, 2010 5:21 am

If you have a child with food allergies, you probably know how hard it is to find candy corn that’s been produced in a peanut- or nut-free facility. That’s why many moms choose to make their own candy corn. Here’s how to do it:

Homemade Candy Corn (from Homemade Dessert Recipes)

1 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2-1/2 cups powdered icing sugar

1/3 cup powdered milk

Red and yellow food coloring

In a large saucepan combine granulated sugar, corn syrup, and butter. Bring to a boil over high heat while stirring constantly, then reduce heat to medium and continue boiling for 5 minutes while stirring occasionally. Remove mixture from heat and add vanilla extract.

Combine the icing sugar, powdered milk, and salt in a separate bowl and add to the mixture in the saucepan, mixing thoroughly. allow the dough mixture to sit until it’s cool enough to handle.

Divide the dough into 3 equal parts and place each part in a small mixing bowl. Add orange food coloring to one part (a combination of yellow and red) and yellow food coloring to another part, leaving the remaining part uncolored or white.

Knead the dough in each bowl until smooth and stiff enough to hold its shape, and the colors are even. Wearing plastic gloves can help prevent your hands from being stained by the food coloring.

Still using your hands, roll each part into a long, thin rope, making each rope of equal length. You may need to use a long countertop or tabletop covered with a strip of waxed paper for this. You’ll also need to be careful when rolling as the ropes can easily break if you form them too thin.

When you’re done, lay the three ropes of dough along side each other with the orange dough in the middle and carefully press them together to make a long, narrow rectangle. A gentle, light rolling with a rolling pin along the length of the rectangle helps to press the rope edges together, but be careful not to flatten the dough so the rectangle stays as narrow as possible, plus you’ll also want the kernels plump looking and not flat.

Finally, cut the dough into triangles or “kernels” using a sharp knife and gently shape the kernels with your fingers, if needed. allow the kernels to sit for a while and become firm.

Want a vegan version? try Homemade Vegan Candy Corn from The Urban Housewife.

Have you ever made your own candy corn?

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