1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 cup hot water
1 can (6 oz.) orange juice concentrate, thawed
2 quarts milk
1 pint orange sherbet
Combine cocoa, sugar, and cinnamon in a saucepan.
Stir in hot water and simmer, stirring, over low heat,
for two minutes. Blend in orange juice and milk.
Warm over low heat but do not boil. This can be poured
into a "witches cauldron" for a great effect.
Ladle servings into mugs or cups and top with
miniature scoops of orange sherbet.
Edible Spiders
Ingredients:
Round Crackers
Straight Pretzel Sticks
Raisins
Creamy Peanut Butter
Spread peanut butter on two crackers. Press 8 pretzel sticks into peanut butter on one cracker (for the legs). (May want to break pretzel sticks in half) Press 2 raisins into peanut butter at top for the eyes. Top with remaining cracker, pressing peanut butter side into the pretzels and raisins. Eat!
Brain Dip
1 whole cauliflower
1 tub of Guacamole dip or other
radishes
assorted raw vegetables,
crackers for dipping
Cut florets from the top of the cauliflower
until you have a cauliflower 'bowl'.
Remove greens from bottom.
Cut stems from radishes, leave the root, remove skin.
Using toothpicks and food coloring, draw an eyeball
on the flat part of the radish (where the top was).
The root will look like the optic nerve.
Fill cauliflower with dip, garnish with radish 'eyes',
serve with veggies and crackers.
Strained Eyeballs
6 eggs, hardcooked, cooled, and peeled
6 oz whipped cream cheese
12 green olives stuffed with pimientos
Red food coloring or ketchup
Halve eggs widthwise. Remove yolks and fill the hole with cream cheese, smoothing surface as much as possible.
Press an olive into each cream cheese eyeball,
pimiento up, for an eerie green iris and red pupil.
Dip a toothpick into ketchup and draw
broken blood vessels in the cream cheese.
Dead Man's Meatloaf
Use your favorite recipe, but instead of shaping it into a log shape it into a corpse. Legs together, arms folded across chest. Bake as usual, but before serving, stab the poor
guy in the heart and dump ketchup on him.
Guaranteed to gross out just about anyone!
Dead Meat
This one will feed your guests' appetite quite well.
Make up a life size dummy out of old clothing and such,
Leave an opening in the stomach area to place a bowl in.
The more realistic your fake body is, the better this will be!
Cook up some sausage links in a nice red meat sauce,
place them in the stomach of your dummy.
When dinner is served have some scissors handy
to cut off the amount of sausage links
your friends will dare to eat.
Throw in some pasta and meat balls for added delight.
Ingredients
1 package (about 19-oz.) brownie mix
1 can (16-oz. each) vanilla ready-to-spread frosting
1 tablespoon Hershey's cocoa
4 Hershey's Hugs chocolates
4 Hershey's Kisses chocolates
9 Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme candy bars
(1.55-oz. each) divided
5 Kit Kat wafer bars (snack size)
1 tube orange decorator icing
1 cup Mounds sweetened coconut flakes
Green food color
Reese's Pieces candy
Line 8-inch square baking pan completely with foil,
allowing foil to extend over sides; grease foil. Prepare,
bake and cool brownie mix as directed on package.
Invert brownie onto large tray; remove foil.
In small bowl, stir frosting and cocoa until well blended.
Frost sides and top of brownie.
Press one unwrapped Hug upside down in all 4 corners of brownie. Place Kiss on top of each Hug. Unwrap 2 Cookies 'n' Creme bars; break into 12 pieces. Press each upright piece, near edge, around outside of brownie to resemble a fence.
Unwrap Kit Kat bars; holding upright, cut top of each bar at angles on both ends to resemble tombstones. Pipe letters "R.I.P." on flat side of each bar with orange icing.
In small bowl, combine coconut, 1/2 teaspoon water and a few drops green food color. With fork, toss until evenly tinted. Spread over top of brownie. Press tombstones into brownie; sprinkle top with Reese's Pieces candy.
Unwrap remaining Cookies 'n' Creme bars;
break and arrange to fit around base of brownie,
making steps and door to cemetery.
