Hints for Halloween fun
Take a teaspoon or so of black paste for food and
stir it into any basic sugar cookie recipe. The dough
will turn a rich black that's perfect for making bat cookies.
Regular green food coloring does nice things to
Halloween Jello. Make a bowl of orange jello and
when it's semi-solid drip several drops of green
coloring onto the surface and stir them in gently.
They'll swirl into dark demonic tornado clouds
- a dab of back whipped cream made by adding more
of that black paste to partially whipped cream makes
a pleasantly disgusting finishing touch.



Scrambled eggs feel and look much more like brains
than cold spaghetti - add a few drops of green, red
and blue food coloring as you're beating the eggs and
the final product will frighten even the most
hardened child.
A drop of two of red coloring turn grapefruit sections
pale pink making them into very convincing thumbs.
Drop a pint of cherry tomatoes into a pot of boiling
water, blanch them for a minute and then drain and
slip off their skins. Instant bloody eyeballs.
If you stir baking soda into vinegar, it'll foam
right out of the glass. You can also shake salt over
a lighted jack o lantern candle and make blue sparks.

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