Beverages
8 oz Frozen whipped topping, thawed
Blueberries or raisins
1 1/2 cup boiling water
1 large pkg. gelatin - any red flavor
1 cup cold water
Ice cubes
-Using a small ice-cream scoop, place 2 scoops
whipped topping into each of 10 dessert dishes for "eyeballs." Place a
blueberry or raisin in each scoop for the "pupil." Freeze 30 minutes,
or until firm.
-Meanwhile, stir boiling water into gelaatin in large bowl at least two minutes
until completely dissolved. Mix cold water and ice cubes to make 2-1/2 cups.
-Add to gelatin, stirring until slightlyy thickened.
-Remove any remaining ice. Pour about 1//2 cup gelatin around the two
"eyeballs" in each dish, leaving the top of the "eyeballs"
exposed.
-Refrigerate 1-1/2 hours, or until firm..
6 oz Pk Kool-Aid*
12 oz Can orange juice concentrate
1 gallon Water
*pre-sweetened Berry Blue.
Mix juice and Kool-Aid, add water, stir and watch it turn green!
Make your Punch Glow!
Freeze green punch in a gelatin mold add plastic spiders. place a few
small glow sticks under a punch bowl. Add the frozen mold and punch recipe
(see above)-- when the lights are turned down, the brew will radiate in a
mysterious and unearthly fashion.
Pour cider into medium saucepan. Add cloves and cinnamon and simmer on low for 20 minutes. Strain and our into mugs. Add one slice orange to each mug.
Makes (5) 1 cup servings
Dips and Spreads
Ingredients:
10 oz Frozen spinach, thawed
4 oz Cream cheese
1/2 cup Sour cream
1/3 cup Mild salsa
2 Green onions, chopped
1 Garlic clove, minced
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Pepper
Directions:
Drain spinach; squeeze dry.
In food processor, puree spinach, cheese, sour cream, salsa, onions, garlic,
salt and pepper.
Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until thickened slightly.
Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
2 cups pumpkin puree
1 cup dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
Cream together pumpkin and cream cheese. Add in all other ingredients until well
blended. Refrigerate overnight. Serve with gingersnaps and graham crackers
Breads
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups pumpkin pureé (15 oz can)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup fresh or dried cranberries
Combine flour, spice, baking powder, and salt in bowl; stir to blend the dry
ingredients well. Combine eggs, sugar, pumpkin, and oil in a mixing bowl. Stir
in flour mixture, then stir in cranberries. Spoon into two greased and floured
9x5x2-inch loaf pans. Bake at 350° for 55 minutes, or until a wooden pick or
cake tester inserted in center comes out clean
Appetizers
Mummy Fingers (pigs in a blanket)
Cocktail franks halved lengthwise
Pillsbury Crescent rolls
Wraps hot dogs in strips of crescent rolls and follow baking directions for crescent rolls.
Mutilated Main Dishes
Cut slices of meatloaf with a bat-shaped cookie cutter, and serve with bat's blood (ketchup). Add a dollop of 'ghost' mashed potatoes
4 Boneless chicken breasts
1-2 drops green food coloring
1 c Flour
1 Egg beaten
1 c Bread crumbs
Pitted black olives, halved lengthwise
Shredded lettuce
Grease cookie sheet with oil, set aside.
Carefully cut chicken breasts part way to create fingers. Place strips in plastic storage bag, add food coloring and shake. Dust in flour, dip in beaten egg and then bread crumbs. Place on cookie shake and bake at 400F or until golden brown and cooked through. Place olives on tips to look like fingernails and serve on lettuce.
Sides
1/2 pound cooked and mashed white
potatoes
1/2 pound cooked and mashed white potatoes (colored green or purple)
1/2 pound cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
6 tbsp butter divided
6 tbsp heavy cream divided
salt
pepper
Place each vegetable in a separate bowl. Add 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons
cream, and salt, and pepper, to taste to each bowl. In a large bowl gently swirl
the mixtures together, making sure that each color remains distinct in areas.
Serve hot.
Rotted Teeth
2 cans white and yellow sweet corn
green or black food coloring
after heating corn place a small portion of corn in bowl add food coloring and mix. Return to rest of corn and mix gently. Serve up some colorful rotten teeth.
Desserts
Cool Whip Grave Yard
Dessert
----Crust----
2 cups chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 stick margarine - melted
----Filling----
8 oz pkg. fat-free cream cheese
12 oz tub Cool Whip LiteŽ topping - thawed
2 cup water - boiling
2 4 serve pkgs orange gelatin
1/2 c water -- cold
ice cubes
----Decorations----
1/4 cup chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
7 rectangular shaped sandwich cookies
7 oval shaped sandwich cookies
decorator icing brown, green, orange, -- & white
Peeps Ghosts candy
Preheat oven at 350. Prepare a 9 x 13 x 2"
pan with cooking spray and
flour. To prepare crust, combine 2 cups cookie crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, and
margarine in a small mixing bowl. Press firmly into prepared pan. Bake
for 10 minutes and then chill. To prepare filling, combine cream cheese,
remaining sugar, and 1/2 cup Cool Whip in a mixing bowl. In another
mixing bowl, combine boiling water into gelatin until completely dissolved.
Mix cold water and ice cubes together to make 1 1/2 cups. Stir ice water
into gelatin until thickened. Remove any remaining ice cubes. Spoon
gelatin over cream cheese layer. Refrigerate 3 hours or until firm.
Spread remaining Cool Whip over gelatin layer. Sprinkle with remaining
cookie crumbs. Decorate as a "grave yard" by poking sandwich cookies
on
end into dessert. Decorate the cookies as tombstones with the decorator
icing. Add Ghosts.
Twice the batter for any cake recipe (or 2
packages of cake mix, prepared)
Twice any white frosting recipe (or 2 cans white frosting)
Food coloring
1 Hostess Ho-HoŽ (or similar cake-roll snack item)
-Prepare two cakes in bundt pans and coool completely.
-Color most of the frosting a deep orangge, reserving about 1/2 cup, which should
be colored black (or use dark chocolate fudge frosting).
-Place one bundt cake upside down (roundded side on the bottom) on a cake plate;
frost the top only. Place the second bundt cake flat-side down on top of first
cake. Frost the entire cake with orange frosting, making up and down motions
with spatula to simulate a pumpkin.
-Insert the Ho-HoŽ in the middle of the top of the bundt cake to make the stem.
Use black frosting to make eyes, nose, mouth, etc. (Or use candies, gum drops,
jelly beans, black rope licorice -- be creative!)
12 Navel oranges
12 Cinnamon sticks
1/2 Gallon Dark chocolate ice cream
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 shells, 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.
1 Stick margarine 40 Large marshmallows (10 oz.
bag) 5 Cups corn flakes cereal 1/2 Teaspoon vanilla (optional) 2 Teaspoons green
food coloring M&Ms. Plain Chocolate Candy
Preparation : 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. Add M & Ms for eyes.
1oz unsweetened baking chocolate squares -- melted
1c miniature marshmallows -- melted
3 tbsp corn syrup
3 c puffed rice cereal
12 oz semisweet chocolate chips -- melted
Preheat oven to 350. In a saucepan, melt
unsweetened chocolate and
marshmallows. Add corn syrup. While chocolate is melting, place puffed
cereal in a shallow pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Then, place in prepared bowl.
Pour chocolate mixture over puffed cereal. Stir to coat cereal evenly. Form
into 8 cones, flattening large end to make brim. In a double boiler, melt
chocolate chips. Dip cones into melted chocolate to coat. Place on waxed
paper to cool and harden.
1 (12 Oz.) Pkg. chocolate chips
1 med Can chow mein noodles (may not need all of them)
1 pkg. M&Ms. Plain Chocolate Candy
Melt chocolate in microwave. Stir in noodles.
Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper.
Add 2 M&M's for spider eyes.
NOTE: Add 2 to 4 tablespoons water, if needed, to
thin chocolate.