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THE BLACK CAT
Ingredients:
1 box cake mix ~ 2 layer size, baked in round layers
1 can dark chocolate frosting
1 tube each of green and pink icing
1 package of black licorice laces
Make it!
Take the two cooled cake layers, leaving the one whole and cutting the other into 3 pieces: one bow-shaped {middle} like this ) (
and two kind of oval shaped ones {either end} like this ().
Take the bow-shaped piece and put it on the bottom of the cake, like a bowtie.
Take one of the oval shaped pieces and cut it in half across the shortest part so you have two triangular pieces.
Place these at the top of the whole cake to make ears.
Eat the third piece. {Or if you feel really creative, use a tiny round cookie cutter to make a little nose.}
Frost the entire "cat" with dark chocolate frosting.
Pipe on eyes with green frosting and the nose and mouth with pink.
Use the licorice laces for whiskers!
BLOODY BUG JUICE
Ingredients:
24oz frozen strawberries, thawed
6oz frozen lemonade concentrate
1 quart ginger ale
1 cup raisins
1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen
Make It!
Place the strawberries in a bowl and mash with a fork.
In a large pitcher, mix the strawberry mash, lemonade and ginger ale.
Place handfuls of raisins and blueberries (bugs) into tall glasses.
Pour the liquid ofer the bugs, then sit back and watch the bugs and scum rise to the top of each glass.
To quench a creepy crowd's thirst, double or tripple this recipe and serve in a punch bowl.
Drape some gummy worms over the rim of your bowl for a particularly swampy-looking effect!
CHOCOLANTERNS
Ingredients
12 miniature pumpkins 1 cup sugar
2/3 cup cocoa powder 4 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt 5 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Make Them!
Cut the tops off the pumpkins and remove most of the flesh with a sharp knife.
Then scoop with a spoon to even out the inside.
In a bowl, mix together the sugar, cocoa, cornstarch and salt.
Add the milk gradually as you mix with a wooden spoon.
Pour into a saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the pudding thickens.
Add the vanilla and mix again.
Remove from heat and pour into hollowed out pumpkins.
Chill until ready to serve.
DOUBLE DELICIOUS HALLOWEEN BARS
Ingredients:
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1 & 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
14oz can sweetened condensed milk
12oz milk chocolate chips
8zo peanut butter chips
Make Them!
Preheat oven to 350°. (325° for a glass dish.)
In 13 x 9" baking pan, melt margarine in oven.
Sprinkle crumbs evenly over margarine.
Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumbs.
Top with chocolate and peanut butter chips; press down firmly.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cool and cut into bars.
EYEBALLS
Ingredients:
1 recipe Rice Krispy treats
1 bag M&M's Plain chocolate candies
1 tube of dark gel or icing
Make It!
Make Rice Krispy treats and form into balls about 1 or 2" across.
Add a pastel M&M or other small round candy for the iris and dot the candy with frosting or gel for the pupil.
Kids love them!
FROZEN JACK-O-LANTERNS
Ingredients:
12 navel oranges 12 cinnamon sticks
1/2 gallon dark chocolate ice-cream
Make Them!
Cut tops off oranges.
Gently hollow out pulp (reserve for another use) leaving a thick shell.
Cut Jack-O-Lantern faces into each orange.
Pack chocolate ice-cream into shells, avoiding letting ice-cream come out of holes.
Cut a hold into the top of the orange top.
Set tops back on over ice cream and insert cinnamon stick through the hole.
Freeze for at least 3 hours.
GHOSTS IN THE GRAVEYARD
Thanks to my buddy, Cher! Webmaster of Holiday Fun!Ingredients:
3 & 1/2 cups cold milk
1 package Pepperidge Fame Molino Cookies
2 x 8oz packages chocolate instant pudding
12oz cool whip
16oz chocolate sandwhich cookies, crushed
1 small bag of candy pumpkins
Make It!
Pour cold milk into large mixing bowl and add both packages of instant pudding.
Beat with a wire whisk or electric beater for 2 minutes.
Stir in 3 cups of the whipped topping and 1/2 of the crushed cookies.
Spoon into a 13 x 9" baking dish.
Sprinkle with remaining cookies to give the appearance of "fresh dirt".
Use Molino Cookies, placed upright, to look like tombstones.
Delicately spoon or pipe coolwhip in various places to make the ghosts and finish by dotting candy pumpkins all around!
Refrigerate 1 hour or until ready to serve.
Note: You can easily crush the cookies in a zipper baggie with a rolling pin or by chopping them in a food processor. (I think the idea of beating them in the bag with a rolling pin is much more suitable for Halloween though!)
GHOSTS ON BROOMSTICKS
Ingredients:
1lb white chocolate chips 1/2 cup tiny red cinnamon candies
12 wooden sticks
Make Them!
Heat 2" of water to simmering, NOT boiling, in the bottom of a double boiler.
Place the white chocolate chips in the smaller pot and set it over the pot of simmering water.
Cook on low heat, stirring constantly, until the chocolate is fully melted; remove from heat.
Cover 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper.
Arrange the wooden sticks on the paper, about 6 to a sheet.
Spoon ghost-shaped blobs of chocolate onto the paper, partially covering each stick.
Press 2 candies into each ghost for eyes.
Freeze for 15 minutes, or until hard.
GOBLIN' DELIGHTS
This is a fun activity for children to participate in!
Ingredients:
18oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
14oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
a dash of salt
1 & 1/2 cups chopped, dried mixed fruit. (The type used for fruit cakes.)
Make Them!
Line the bottom of a 9" square baking pan with waxed paper.
Put chocolate chips, milk and salt into a sauce pan.
Melt chocolate over low heat, stirring constantly.
When mixture is completely blended remove from heat.
Add vanilla and fruit; stir with a wooden spoon to blend thoroughly.
Pour mixture into lined pan and spread evenly with a rubber spatula.
Palce pan in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
After it's chilled, invert onto a cutting board and cut into 1" squares.
Create different shapes by rolling squares in your hands or flattening them...
Be creative!
HALLOWEEN TRUFFLES
Ingredients:
14oz Wilton candy melts Halloween mini paper candy cups
Wilton mini-pumpkins icing nuts, cocoa or desicated coconut
1/2 cup whipping cream
Make Them!
Chop candy melts corsely and set aside.
Place cream in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to the boil, stirring constantly.
Once cream reaches boiling, remove from heat.
Add chopped candy and cover pan.
Let stand approximately 5 minutes, or until coating has melted.
Stir until smooth and creamy.
Refrigerate until firm then roll into rounds.
Truffles may be rolled in nuts, cocoa, coconut or any desired coating.
Add mini-pumpkin icing decorations.
Note: These truffles can be piped into the paper candy cups by refrigerating truffle mixture until it holds it's shape when spooned. Pipe from a decorating bag fitted with a number 21 tip.
HAUNTED SOUSE CAKE
For adults only!
Ingredients:
1 package orange supreme cake mix
1 package instant vanilla pudding
1/2 cup oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 cup Galliano Liqueur
3/4 cup Vodka
Make It!
Lightly grease and flour and 10" spring form pan.
Mix all the ingredients together in a mixer until well blended.
Pour into the pan and bake in a preheated oven at 350° for about 50 minutes.
Let cool on a rack for 25 minutes before removing from the pan.
Note: This makes a great adult Halloween cake. Frost with orange cream cheese frosting and decorate like a Jack-O-Lantern.
It's really EASY!
ICKY STICKY SUGAR SNAKES
Ingredients:
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 tablespoons honey
1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup chocolate chips 1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil
Sticky Sauce:
1/2 cup honey 2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Make Them!
Preheat oven to 300°.
In a medium bowl, mash the butter and honey with a fork until well blended.
Gradually stir in the vanilla extract, flour and salt.
The mixture should have a doughy consistency.
Wrap the dough, shaped like a disc, in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Grease cookie sheets with vegetable oil.
Separate dough into pieces the size of golf balls.
If the dough sticks to your hands, dip them in flour.
Roll out the balls between your hands into snake-like shapes about the length and thickness of your pinky finger.
Separate each ball into 4 smaller sections and roll each section into a snake.
Place snakes 1" apart on cookie sheets.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the snakes begin to turn light brown.
Remove the cookies sheets from the oven and immediately remove snakes from the sheets to a platter.
Allow snakes to cool slightly then press 2 chocolate chips into the head of each to make eyes.
Set aside until completely cooled.
Sticky Sauce:
Mix honey, sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
Drizzle over the cooled snakes and serve.
LADYBUG COOKIES
Ingredients:
1 cup vanilla frosting 1/2 cup vanilla baking chips
red food colouring 12 large black gumdrops
10 & 1/2oz chocolate-covered marshmallow cookies
3 strips black shoestring licoroce, cut into 1" pieces
Make Them!
In a microwave, melt frosting and vanilla chips; stir until smooth.
Add as much red colouring as desired.
Spread over the rounded tops of the cookies.
Place on wax paper-lined baking sheet.
For head, insert two pieces of licorice into gumdrops for antennae.
With a toothpick or knife, draw a line from the head down the center of each cookie.
Insert 6 pieces of licorice into the frosting for ladybug legs.
Chop remaining licorice into small pieces and use as spot on the "wings".
LITTER BOX CAKE
Ingredients:
1 large box of vanilla pudding mix
1 tub cool whip
8oz cream cheese, slightly softened
20oz package of vanilla creme cookies, crushed
1 small package tootsie rolls
Also, you will need a NEW litter box and pooper scooper, well cleaned!
Make It!
Prepare pudding according to directions on package.
Mix in cream cheese and cool whip with electric mixer; mixture should be a little firm.
Unwrap tootsie rolls and pop them in the microwave for a few seconds to melt slightly.
Pull the ends to shape appropriately for this theme.
Layer pudding mixture, a few strategically placed tootsie rolls and crumbled cookies.
Keep layering until everything is finished, make sure you end with cookie crumbs on top.
Melt two more little tootsie rolls to stick over the edge of the box and out of the top layer of crumbs!
Refrigerate until ready to serve then stick the pooper scooper in the box ready to serve a slice to everyone!
This is sure to be a hit after everyone has been appropriately grossed out!
MAGGOTINI ALFREDO
Serves 6
Ingredients:
1/2 pack spaghetti 7 tablespoons butter
15oz small white beans 1/2 teaspoon salt
pinch of pepper 4 tablespoons flour
2 cups half and half
Make It!
Cook spaghetti according to package directions: drain.
Rinse the pasta in the collander, drain thoroughly and replace in pot.
Add 3 tablespoons of butter to the pot of spaghetti, stir and cover.
Pour the beans (maggot eggs) and their liquid into a small saucepan and cook on medium heat.
When the liquid comes to the boil, drain and set aside.
Place the remaining butter in another saucepan and melt over low heat.
Add salt and pepper and gradually stir in half and half.
Continue heating, stirring constantly, until the sauce is thickened and slimelike.
Add the beans to the sauce, stirring until they are well coated.
Arrange the warm pasta in a serving dish, the pour the slimed maggot eggs over the pasta.
Use two forks to gently toss pasta and maggot sauce together, then serve.
A ghoulish dinner sure to delight your family and guests.
POOR BOY'S HOT APPLE CIDER
Ingredients:
8oz cinnamon red hot candies
1 gallon apple cider
16oz cranberry juice
Make It!
Put all the ingredients in a 5 quart crockpot and heat until the candies are melted.
Super easy and a great warm-up after trick-or treating!
PORCUPINE MEATBALLS
Sauce:
1 can tomato soup 3 whole tomatoes, cut up
1 large can tomato sauce 1 tablespoon chili powder
1 can water 1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup ketchup
Meatballs
1lb ground beef 1 cup uncooked rice
2 eggs, lightly beaten 1 tablespoon onion salt
Make Them!
Make ball shapes using all the meatball ingredients.
Brown lightly in a greased skillet.
Put into a pot with all the sauce ingredients.
Simmer 1 to 1 & 1/2 hours.
SPIDERWEB CARAMEL APPLES
Ingredients:
white or milk chocolate, melted
caramel apples or plain granny smith apples on sticks
candy or plastic spiders (Make sure the kids know not to eat them if they are plastic!)
Make Them!
Drizzle melted chocolate on caramel apples to resemble spider webs.
Add spider candy, or plastic spider.
Stand on a waxed paper-lined cookie sheet in the refrigerator to set.
Wrap in plastic wrap or celophane when dry and tie with orange and black ribbons.
WITCHES HATS
Ingredients:
Fudge striped cookies Hershey kisses
Orange decorator icing.
Make Them!
Turn cookies upside down so that the chocolate side is up.
Use the orange 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 drawing a little bow.
DESIGNER CUPCAKES!
See our super-simple chocolate cupcake recipe and more design ideas on our MINI MONSTERS
You will need:
mini cupcakes blue frosting
tiny candies for eyes red shoestring licorice
peanuts, halved
Make Them!
Unwrap the cupcakes and turn them upside down.
With a writing or star tip, frost the cupcakes from the top down.
Add the eyes, licorice antennae and peanut halves for sneakers.
OCTOPUS
You will need:
mini cupcakes gummy worms
tiny round candies jumbo gumdrops
orange frosting purple gumdrops, halved
gummy fish
Make Them!
Arrange the gummy worms like tentacles.
Stick on the dot candies with frosting for suction cups.
Place the jumbo gumdrop on upside down cupcake and frost.
Add the purple gumdrop halves for eyes.
Place the finished head and body on top of the tentacles, wrapping one around a gummy fish!
SHARK
You will need:
Cupcakes blue frosting
red frosting peppermint patties, quartered
mini marshmallows mini chocolate chips
red life savers candies
Make Them!
Frost the cupcakes with blue icing.
Cut fin-shaped wedges out of the peppermint patty and insert into cupcakes.
Use the red frosting to draw a big open mouth, edging it with mini marshmallows, cut on the diagonal for teeth.
Stick the chocolate chip in the center of the life saver for the shark's eye.
Now who will eat whom?!
VAMPIRE
You will need:
cupcakes white frosting
grape and strawberry fruit leather
chocolate sprinkles purple Jordan almonds
orange mini marshmallows green gumdrops, halved
white gum balls, halved red gel icing
candy corns
Make Them!
Turn the unwrapped cupcake upside down and frost with white icing.
Set on a cape made from the grape fruit leather.
Use the spinkles for hair, marshmallows for ears and the almond for a nose.
Stick the gumdrops on the gum balls with icing to make eyes.
Make them bloodshot with the red gel.
Use candy corn for teeth with red gel blood on the tips and the tongue is strawberry fruit leather!
WORMS
You will need:
cupcakes chocolate frosting
chocolate cookie crumbs gummy worms
Make Them!
Frost the cupcake and sprinkle with cookie crumbs to look like dirt.
Use a small knife to make holes to stick the worms in.
One gummy worm next coming up!
HALLOWEEN CRAFTSCAT TREAT-CARRIER
You will need:
black balloon Elmer's white liquid glue
water black tissue paper
black yarn pink and green construction paper
black paint sparkley chenille stems
glitter paint
Make It!
Blow up the balloon and tape into a bowl or onto a newspaper covered table.
Mix glue with water in a shallow bowl to the thickness of cream.
Tear a pile of long 1" wide strips from the tissue paper.
Dip a strip of paper in the glue, run through fingers to remove excess and drape over the balloon.
Continue applying strips next to each other to cover about 2/3 of the balloon.
Let dry 15 minutes.
Repeat process 2 more times, alternating directions of the strips.
Dry for 24 hours then pop the balloon to free the tote.
Trim the top with scissors to create 1 triangular ears, then even the edges along the remainder of the opening.
Poke a hole behind each ear and tie on black yarn for a handle.
Cut construction paper to make eyes and a nose. Paint pupils on the eyes and glue all the pieces in place.
Punch three holes in either side of the face next to the nose to pull the chenille stems through to make whiskers.
Brush sparkle paint over the eyes, around the opening and along the edge of the ears.
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Q: Why didn`t the skeleton cross the road?
A: He didn`t have the guts.
Q. Who won the skeleton beauty contest?
A. No Body.
Q. Where do baby ghosts go during the day?
A. Dayscare centers
Q. What do ghosts serve for dessert?
A. Ice Scream
Q. What do you get when you cross Bambi with a ghost?
A. Bamboo
Q. Why do mummies make excellent spies?
A. They`re good at keeping things under wraps.
Q: Where do mummies go for a swim?
A: To the dead sea.
Q: Why are there fences around cemetaries?
A: Because people are dying to get in.
Q. Who did Frankenstein take to the prom?
A. His ghoul friend.
Q: Why do ghouls and demons hang out together?
A: Because demons are a ghoul`s best friend!
Q. What`s a monster's favorite play?
A. Romeo and Ghouliet
Q. Why are most monsters covered in wrinkles?
A. Have you ever tried to iron a monster?
Q. What kind of monster is safe to put in the washing machine?
A. A wash and wear wolf
Q. Why are monsters huge and hairy and ugly?
A. Because if they were small and round and smooth they`d be M&M`s
Q. What`s a haunted chicken?
A. A poultry-geist.
Q. Why did the monster eat a light bulb?
A. Because he was in need of a light snack.
Q. What do you call a person who puts poison in a person`s corn flakes?
A. A cereal killer.
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THE BLACK CAT
Ingredients:
1 box cake mix ~ 2 layer size, baked in round layers
1 can dark chocolate frosting
1 tube each of green and pink icing
1 package of black licorice laces
Make it!
Take the two cooled cake layers, leaving the one whole and cutting the other into 3 pieces: one bow-shaped {middle} like this ) (
and two kind of oval shaped ones {either end} like this ().
Take the bow-shaped piece and put it on the bottom of the cake, like a bowtie.
Take one of the oval shaped pieces and cut it in half across the shortest part so you have two triangular pieces.
Place these at the top of the whole cake to make ears.
Eat the third piece. {Or if you feel really creative, use a tiny round cookie cutter to make a little nose.}
Frost the entire "cat" with dark chocolate frosting.
Pipe on eyes with green frosting and the nose and mouth with pink.
Use the licorice laces for whiskers!
EYEBALLS
FROZEN JACK-O-LANTERNS
Thanks to my buddy, Cher! Webmaster of Holiday Fun!
Ingredients:
3 & 1/2 cups cold milk
1 package Pepperidge Fame Molino Cookies
2 x 8oz packages chocolate instant pudding
12oz cool whip
16oz chocolate sandwhich cookies, crushed
1 small bag of candy pumpkins
Make It!
Pour cold milk into large mixing bowl and add both packages of instant pudding.
Beat with a wire whisk or electric beater for 2 minutes.
Stir in 3 cups of the whipped topping and 1/2 of the crushed cookies.
Spoon into a 13 x 9" baking dish.
Sprinkle with remaining cookies to give the appearance of "fresh dirt".
Use Molino Cookies, placed upright, to look like tombstones.
Delicately spoon or pipe coolwhip in various places to make the ghosts and finish by dotting candy pumpkins all around!
Refrigerate 1 hour or until ready to serve.
Note: You can easily crush the cookies in a zipper baggie with a rolling pin or by chopping them in a food processor. (I think the idea of beating them in the bag with a rolling pin is much more suitable for Halloween though!)
LADYBUG COOKIES
8oz cinnamon red hot candies
1 gallon apple cider
16oz cranberry juice
Make It!
Put all the ingredients in a 5 quart crockpot and heat until the candies are melted.
Super easy and a great warm-up after trick-or treating!
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SHARK
VAMPIRE
CAT TREAT-CARRIER
Q. Who did Frankenstein take to the prom?
