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| Halloween Treats |
| Haunted Pizza Better Homes and Gardens® magazine This kid-pleasing food will be a hit at your Halloween party. 18 ounce roll refrigerated sugar-cookie dough 4 3.5-ounce containers vanilla pudding 2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs or 20 chocolate sandwich cookies with white filling, finely crushed Assorted whole vanilla wafers, graham crackers, and/or chocolate-filled oval shortbread cookies Black, green, red, and white decorator gel icing Assorted candies, such as fruit-flavored jelly worms, candy-coated, chocolate-covered peanuts, and gumdrops 1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Grease a 12-inch pizza pan or 3 baking sheets. 2. With lightly floured hands, pat the cookie dough into prepared pizza pan. If using baking sheets, divide dough into thirds and pat each third into a 7-inch circle onto the prepared baking sheets. 3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes for pizza pan or 8 to 10 minutes for smaller circles of dough, or until edges are lightly browned. Cook on wire rack. 4. Spread vanilla pudding over baked cookie. Sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Cover and chill. 5. Meanwhile, decorate cookie tombstones. 6. Press cookies into pudding layer of pizza. If necessary, support back of cookies with some of the candies. Decorate "graveyard" with candies. Create peering eyes with candy-coated chocolate peanuts; make shoes, feet, and hands with gumdrops; and arrange jelly worms. 7. Cover and chill up to 4 hours before serving. Makes 16 to 20 servings. |
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| Haunted Forest Platter From the book, Halloween Fun: 101 Ideas to Get in the Spirit Better Homes and Gardens® magazine This imaginative forest is completely edible. 3 stalks of broccoli 3 medium beets Wood toothpicks 3 hard-boiled eggs Assorted vegetables such as cherry tomatoes, pea pods, kohlrabies, radishes, sweet red peppers, sweet yellow peppers, and shredded carrot Ripe olives, pimiento-stuffed olives, and/or tiny sweet pickles 1 ounce spaghetti, cooked and drained Liquid green food coloring Instructions: 1. To make a haunted forest, first create trees. Cut bottoms from stalks of broccoli to make 6-inch broccoli trees. Slice beets about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick to make a base for broccoli trees. Break wood toothpicks in half. Insert three to four toothpick pieces into bottom of each broccoli stalk and then insert into a beet slice. Stand broccoli upright. Cover to keep moist. 2. To make egg ghosts, use a small knife or 1/2-inch aspic cutters to hollow out eyes and mouths to form a face. Cut small pieces of ripe olive to press into hollowed-out areas for eyes or mouth, if desired. Cover to keep moist. 3. Using your imagination, create creepy creatures with tomatoes, sweet peppers, pickles, olives, and radishes. 4. Place broccoli trees on serving platter. Cover surface of platter with shredded carrot. Hide egg ghosts in forest along with creepy creatures. Scatter piles of vegetables such as pea pods, beet slices, kohlrabi slices, olives, pickles, and/or any other desired vegetables. Add strips of red pepper to the broccoli branches. 5. To make moss, add a few drops of green food coloring to a small amount of water in a medium bowl. Add cooked spaghetti and let stand about 5 minutes. Drain and place over broccoli trees. Keep platter covered until serving time. If necessary, spritz platter with water to keep it moist. |
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| A Friendly Halloween Haunted House! By Brenda Hyde A fun Halloween project for the whole family! You will need: 2 containers (16 ounce) chocolate fudge frosting* Decorations: pretzel sticks graham crackers black licorice and red twists candy corn M&Ms Foil wrapped Halloween Candy rice crackers Orange Sprinkles Colored icing for writing or decorating 2 empty 1 qt. milk cartons, rinsed and dried 1 large tray covered with foil *You can use a thick homemade frosting instead. Tape each milk carton closed at top. Tape milk cartons together to make a house. Wrap with foil. Attach firmly to the covered tray with tape. Frost cartons with chocolate frosting. Frost the tray also to use as the lawn. Decorate with the assorted treats! Some ideas- *Sprinkle orange sugar on the roof of the house. *Rice crackers make neat "attic" windows. *graham crackers for windows and doors-highlight with icing. *pretzel stick window panes *M&M "pathway stones" leading to the door. *Candy corn "icicles" under the roof After you have the house and pathway finished add details to the lawn area. Foil wrapped candy is great because you buy little mummies, ghosts or pumpkins and place them on the pathway and around the house. Buy from the bulk section of your grocery store to get a really good selection without having to buy a lot of one type of candy. After all the oohs and ahs have subsided and Halloween is over, let the kids pick off all the candy while they discuss what to do for next year's Haunted House Spectacular! About the author Brenda Hyde is a wife and Mom of three, a freelance writer, and editor of three family newsleters at OldFashionedLiving.com. Thanks to Amanda at The Family Corner <http://www.thefamilycorner.com> for the picture! |
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| Horr-edible Hands These shiver-invoking popcorn treats make great Halloween hand-outs. WHAT YOU NEED • Clear plastic gloves (available at beauty supply stores) • Candy corn • Cold popcorn • Yarn Time needed: Under 1 Hour Step 1: Stick one candy corn at the tip of each finger inside the glove, pointy side up, for fingernails. Step 2: Fill the glove with popcorn and use a piece of yarn to tie a bow at the wrist. Originally published in FamilyFun magazine <http://www.familyfun.com/ utilities/global/feature/ familyfunmag_aboutmag/ familyfunmag_aboutmag.html>. |
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| MONSTER TOES Try This Ghoulish Treat From FamilyFun Kids will love the gross-out factor of this tasty finger food. Parents will love the fact that it is candy-free. Try some for a party or pre-trick-or-treating dinner. Ingredients: Cocktail wieners 6-inch tortillas Ketchup or mustard Toothpicks Directions 1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Cut a wedge into the end of each cocktail wiener to make a toenail. 2. Cut the tortillas into strips about 4 inches long and 3/4 inch wide. Discard the ends. 3. Soften the strips in the microwave between damp paper towels for 10 to 30 seconds. 4. Roll each wiener in a tortilla strip and secure with a toothpick. 5. Bake for 7 to 8 minutes. Remove them from the oven, then fill the toenail with ketchup or mustard. Remove the toothpicks before serving. Originally published in FamilyFun magazine <http://www.familyfun.com/ utilities/global/feature/familyfunmag_aboutmag/ familyfunmag_aboutmag.html>. |
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