SNACKS
Boogers On A Stick
8 oz. Jar cheez whiz
Green food coloring
25-30pretzel sticks
Melt the cheeze whiz in the microwave or on top of the stove, according to directions on the jar. Allow the cheese to cool slightly in the jar.
Using a long handled spoon, carefully stir about three drops of green food coloring into the warm cheese, using just enough to turn the cheese a delicate snot green.
To form boogers: Dip and twist the tip of each prtezel stick into the cheese, lift out, wait twenty seconds, then dip again. When cheese lumps reach an appealingly boogerish size, set pretzels, booger down, onto a sheet of waxed paper.
Allow finished boogers on a stick to cool at room temperature for ten minutes or until cheese is firm. Gently pull boogers off waxed paper and arrange on a serving platter. Serves 5 to 6 booger buddies.
To make it even "grodier": Place a bowl of chunky red salsa in the center of the platter so that guests can turn plain buggers into bloody ones.
Frozen Jack-O-Lanterns
12 Navel oranges
1/2 gallon Dark chocolate ice cream
12 Cinnamon sticks
Cut off tops of oranges. Gently hollow out pulp (reserve for another use), leaving a thick shell; hollow out pulp off tops also. Cut Jack-O-Lantern faces into each orange. Pack chocolate ice cream into hells, avoid letting ice cream come out of holes. Cut a hole into top of orange top. Set tops back on, over ice cream, and inset cinnamon stick stem through the hole. Place in freezer for at least 3 hours, or until serving time.
Halloween Snack Mix
1/2 c. blood drops (red hots)
1/2 c. cats eyes (blanched almonds) or (gum drops)
1/2 c. cats claws (sunflower seeds)
1 c. chicken toenails (candy corn)
1 c. colored flies (M & M's)
1 c. butterfly wings (corn chips)
1 c. ants (raisins)
1 c. earthworms (cheese curls)
1 c. cobwebs (Triscuits) or (Golden Grahams)
1 c. snakes eyes (peanuts)
1 c. bats bones (shoestring potatoes)
Mix together in a large bowl. Serve with several pints of blood (cherry punch).
Halloween Crisp Candy Corn Treats
1/2 c. Butter
10 c. Crispy rice cereal
9 c. Miniature marshmallows
2 c. Mixture of candy corn -and Indian candy corn
3/4 c. Miniature chocolate chips
Candy pumpkins
Orange food coloring (mix red & yellow)
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 spaced 1 to 1/2-2 inches apart. Refrigerate and cut into squares.
Potty Chair Jello
Purchase the plastic bowl that fits in a child's potty training chair (they sell them at places like KMart). Wash the bowl and prepare lemon jello per package directions. Float miniature O-Henry bars in it, refrigerate, and serve.
Toxic Aquarium
Mix orange and blue jello to get a sickly shade of green. Pour into an aquarium. Lifesavers make old tires and you can toss in other junky things for trash on the bottom of the sea. Something barrel-shaped for that illegally dumped toxic waste. Float your fish upsidedown on top, and add a plastic skeleton or two.
Puss Pimples
4 small Pitas
8 oz. Mozzarella cheese -- shredded
Ketchup
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Slit open each pita along 1/4 of its edge to make a pocket, and spoon 1/2 cup shredded cheese into each one. Place the stuffed pitas on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes, or until the pitas turn golden brown. Remove from the oven. With a knife, poke a hole in the top of each pita. Carefully squeeze pitas (careful - they are hot!) until a little melted cheese oozes out of the hole. Dab ketchup around the hole and arrange on a platter. Now you can not only pick your pimples, but you can eat them too!
Squashed Frogs
1 Stick margarine
40 lg. marshmallows (10 oz. bag)
5 c. corn flakes cereal
1/2 tsp. vanilla (optional)
2 tsp. green food coloring
M&Ms. Plain Chocolate Candy
Melt margarine in large saucepan. Add marshmallows and cook over low heat, stirring constantly until melted and mixture is syrupy. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and food color. Mix. Add corn flakes and mix until well coated and bright green.
Strained Eyeballs
6 hardboiled eggs
6 oz. Whipped cream cheese
7 oz. Green olives -- with pimientos
Red food coloring
Peel away shells of the hardboiled eggs and cut in half widthwise. Remove the yolks from the eggs and fill the holes with cream cheese. You won't need the yolks for this recipe. Press an olive into each cream cheese eyeball, pimiento facing up, for an eerie green iris and startling red pupil! For a final touch, dip the tip of a toothpick in red food coloring and draw broken blood vessels in the cream cheese.
Wormy Apples
1 pkg. caramel apple mix - (for 8 apples)
8 Apples
1 Bottle red crystal - decorating sugar
8 Or more gummy worms
Prepare caramel apples according to package directions. As each is done, roll it in red sugar while still warm. Place on individual plates and put a gummy worm on each.
CANDIES/DESERTS
Chocolate Spiders
12 oz Twizzlers; chocolate flavor
4 oz Milk chocolate candy melts
Cut twizzlers into 1 1/2" pieces. Slice each piece in half lengthwise. On waxed paper place 4 legs (pieces) on each side and then drop 1 tsp melted candy in middle for body. Use a toothpick to smooth to uniform circle and connect all candy pieces. Cool completely before removing from waxed paper.
Ghosts on Broomsticks
1 lb. White chocolate chips
1/2 c. Tiny red cinnamon candies
12 Pretzel sticks
Heat 2 inches 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 the heat. Cover 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper. Arrange the pretzel sticks on the waxed paper, 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 ghosts for 15 minutes, or until hard.
Kitty Litter Cake
1 pkg. spice cake mix
1 pkg. white cake mix
1 pkg. white sandwich cookies
green food coloring
12 small tootsie rolls
1 pkg. vanilla pudding mix
1 new kitty litter box
1 new pooper scooper
Prepare cake mixes and bake according to directions. Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble. Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in blender. They tend to stick, so scrape often. Set aside all but about 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a few drops green food coloring and mix using a fork.
When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. Toss with half the remaining cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. Gently combine. Line new, clean kitty litter box. Put mixture into litter box. Put three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable. Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls and bury in mixture. Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top. Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly over the top, this is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter. Heat remaining Tootsie rolls, 3 at a time, in the microwave until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Serve with a new pooper scooper. Serves 24.
DRINKS
Day Old Bathwater
12 oz. can frozen lemonade
12 oz. can frozen pink lemonade
12 oz. can frozen limeade
1/2 gallon Rainbow sherbert
About 45 minutes before serving time, set cans of lemon and limeade and the container of sherbert out to thaw. After 15 minutes, scoop out half of the sherbert's containers contents and mix it into a brownish color. Place the remaining sherbert back in Prepare lemon and limeades according to the package directions and pour into the punch bowl.
Carefully float spoonfuls of the brown blended sherbert on top of the lemonade mixture, spreading it around to look like dirty brown suds. Do not stir. Use a ladle to serve punch in cups. Serves about 30 dirty, nonbathing buddies.
Radioactive Punch
Easiest is to mix something yellow with something blue. Orange juice and Mountain Dew are good for the yellow, Great Bluedini kool-aid is good for the blue. You'll end up with a radioactive shade of green. If you're using a punch bowl, try this: Get some of those latex gloves, fill them with Mountain Dew or juice, freeze. Unmold carefully and float the disembodied hands in the punch bowl.
Nuclear Waste
1 measure blue curacao
1 measure Bailey's Irish Cream
top up with one pint cider -- (or lager if you prefer)
The end result is a sort of greenish-brown liquid with scummy bits floating in it and a THICK layer of scum on top. Tastes wonderful, though, especially if you dunk chocolate bars in. (These are referred to as Control Rods, and the bar of preference is a Toffee Crisp, if only because the crisped rice pieces start floating around in the drink and making it look even nastier)
Another variation is to mix blue curacao and orange juice (and vodka). Turns everything a very nice shade of fluorescent green.
Ralph's Retch
3 oz. box strawberry jello
40 Ice cubes
2 cans (12 oz) strawberry soda
Prepare jello according to package directions. Pour into shallow pan and chill until firm, about 3 hours. Using a dull knife, make as many cuts as possible across the length and width, forming tiny cubes. Grind ice cubes in a blender. Spoon alternating layers of crushed ice and gelatin pieces into tall glasses, filling them about 2" away from tops. Slowly pour soda into each glass until full, then stir gently. Serve retch with ice tea spoons, so your guests can get at every chilly glob.
Sewer Soda
1 quart Chocolate chocolate chip ice cream
3/4 c. Chocolate syrup
1 liter Club soda
Let ice cream sit at room temperature until it is easy to scoop. Spoon ice cream into glasses until it is about halfway full. Pour or squeeze about 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup into each glass. Slowly fill almost to the top with club soda and stir well with a spoon. Serve with a straw and tall spoon for excavating those luscious brown lumps. Serves 4 sewage slurpers. To make this slop especially discusting, plop an unwrapped tootsie roll into each glass.
Witch's Brew
36 oz. Unsweet apple juice concent -- thaw, undiluted
5 c. Water
4 c. Vodka -- can use water for non-alcholic version
1/2 c. Lime juice
1/2 gallon Lime sherbet -- softened
8 c. Club soda -- chilled
Combine apple juice, water, vodka, and lime juice in a large bowl. Cover and chill. Just before serving, spoon sherbet into a large punch bowl; slowly pour apple juice mixture and club soda over sherbet, stirring gently.
MISC.
Halloween Face Paint
1 tsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. water
1/2 tsp. cold cream
2 Drops food coloring
In a small mixing bowl, combine all ingredients, mix well.
Halloween Make Up
Cornstarch
Flour
Karo light corn syrup
Liquid or paste food colors (paste makes more intense colors)
Facial tissues
Cotton balls or batting and Puffed Wheat cereal for special effects
1 sm. mixing bowl
4 paper cups
Cotton swabs or sm. brush
--SPECIAL EFFECTS--
In bowl, mix 3 tablespoons cornstarch and 1 tablespoon flour. Gradually stir in 3/4 cup Karo corn syrup and 1/4 cup water until smooth. This amount will make up 4 children's faces. Divide mixture between 4 paper cups. Color 3 batches with food colors of your choice (1/2 teaspoon liquid or 1/4 teaspoon paste for each batch). Leave 1 batch untinted.
For additional colors, prepare more makeup. Separate tissues into single layers; tear lengthwise into 2-inch wide strips. Using swabs or brush, paint generous coat of untinted mixture on forehead; place strip of tissue over area; pat firmly with fingertips. Brush on more of same mixture to cover any dry spots on tissue. Continue painting rest of face, one area at a time, and covering it with tissue. Don't paint eyelids or around eyes. Let dry about 15 minutes; time depends on temperature and humidity.
Stir colored batches before using. Paint on 1 color at a time as desired. Let dry slightly before using another color if you want them to blend, or let dry completely if you don't. To speed process, use hair dryer on air setting.
For deeper, smoother, candy-color effect, use several coats of same color (allow to dry slightly between coats).
TO BUILD UP EYEBROWS, nose or chin (or for beard) apple cotton to damp, untinted mixture. Paint with more of the same. Cover with tissue and paint desired color.
FOR GHOULISH EFFECT, dust made-up face with flour.
FOR WARTS, stick on Puffed Wheat cereal with untinted mixture, then coat with layers of mixture-soaked tissue. Paint desired color.
TO REMOVE MAKEUP, wet face, then gently peel tissue away. Wash face with warm water.
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.
* 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.
* Shake salt over a lighted jack o lantern candle and make blue sparks.
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