Recipes Halloween
Brain Dip
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 and remove skin.
Using wooden picks and food coloring, draw an eyeball on the flat part of the radish (where the top was). The
Burning Stare Skull Cake
Bake a 9 x 13-inch cake according to package directions. Cool, invert onto platter and frost with chocolate icing. When icing has set (forms a top skin) use white icing to frost a skull shape. Decorate with candy corn teeth.
Soak sugar cubes in peppermint extract. Place in eye sockets
Candy Apple Popcorn Balls
Put butter, sugar, brown sugar, molasses, corn syrup, cinnamon, ginger and cloves into a heavy saucepan. Cook over moderate heat to 280 degrees F on a candy thermometer. Pour over the popped corn, walnuts and apples. Shape into balls.
Candy Corn Brownie Pizza
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In medium bowl, stir together brownie mix, eggs, oil and water until smooth (about 50 strokes). Stir in peanuts.
Spread on a 13-inch pizza pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees F for 18 to 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted
Candy Corn Payday Mix
Move oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 450 degrees F. Grease 12-inch pizza pan.
Mix Bisquick and very hot water until soft dough forms. Press dough in pizza pan, using fingers dipped in Bisquick; pinch edge to form 1/2-inch rim.
Bake 10 minutes. Spread pizza sauce
Candy Corn Popcorn Balls
Microwave butter and marshmallows in large microwavable bowl on HIGH for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes or until marshmallows are puffed. Stir in gelatin until well mixed.
Pour marshmallow mixture over popcorn and candy corn in large bowl. Mix lightly until well coated. Shape into 15 balls or oth
Candy Corn Rice Crispy Treats
Melt butter and marshmallows; stir until smooth. In a large bowl, mix rice cereal, candy corn and miniature chips together. To marshmallow mixture, blend in 2 drops yellow food coloring and 1 drop red food coloring, adding more coloring if necessary to reach desired shade. Add marshmallow mixtur
Caramel Chocolate Toffee Studded Apples
Wash and dry apples. Insert Popsicle sticks into apples. Place freezer paper on cookie sheet.
Unwrap and melt caramels according to package directions. Dip apples in caramel, scrape excess from bottom and set in nuts and then on cookie sheet to harden.
Melt chocolate accord
Caramel Marshmallow Apples
Line a large plate or pizza pan with wax paper and heavily grease it. Wash and dry the apples well. Place the sticks into the apple to make handling and eating easier.
In a medium heavy saucepan combine the marshmallows, water and caramels. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly u
Casserole in a Pumpkin
Clean out pumpkin and decorate, if desired.
Brown hamburger and onion. Drain well. Mix in remaining ingredient. Put pumpkin on cookie sheet. Fill pumpkin with meat mixture. Place in oven and bake pumpkin with lid on for 1 hour at 350 degrees F or until pumpkin is tender. Ladle out at
Cherry Candied Apples
Mix sugar, vinegar and water. Boil until mixture reaches 300 degrees F on a candy thermometer; cool. Stir in Kool-Aid. Put apples on sticks and dip into mixture quickly.
Chocolate Brains
Grease sides of medium mixing bowl. Combine noodles and marshmallows in greased bowl.
Microwave chocolate chips in glass measuring cup or bowl. Stir every 30 seconds or so until chips are melted.
Pour chocolate over noodles and marshmallows and mix until coated.
Chocolate Lanterns
You may need another box of pudding if your pumpkins are a little larger.
Prepare pudding according to package directions. Chill until firm.
Cut the tops off the pumpkins and remove most of the interior with a sharp knife. Scoop to even out the inside. Draw designs with per
Cinnamon Apple Popcorn
Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Place apples in a large shallow baking pan. Bake 20 minutes. Remove pan from oven and stir in popcorn and nuts.
In a small bowl combine remaining ingredients. Drizzle butter mixture over popcorn mixture, stirring well. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring every
Cockroach Clusters
Place chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on HIGH (100% power) for 2 minutes. Stir. Continue microwaving in 15-second increments until chocolate is almost completely melted. Remove from microwave and stir grated chocolate into melted chocolate. Stir in raisins and pretzels.
Creepy Crawler Pie
Soften sherbet slightly and spoon into pie shell. Drizzle with chocolate sauce to form "spider web" design. Freeze for at least one hour. Decorate with "worms".
Creepy Crunchy Donut Eyeballs
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or wax paper and set aside.
Melt chocolate morsels with vegetable shortening in a stainless steel bowl by setting bowl over a pan of simmering water and stirring until smooth.
Cut two 1/8-inch-slices from opposite sides of each donut
Crispy Candy Corn Squares
Melt butter and marshmallows, stirring until smooth.
In a large bowl, mix cereal, candy corn and miniature chips. Add orange food coloring to marshmallow mixture. Add marshmallow mixture to cereal mixture, stirring quickly to combine. Spread on large buttered jellyroll pan with butter
Crusty Crud
In large bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk, coconut, 1/3 cup of the unprepared gelatin, almonds and almond extract. Mix well with a large mixing spoon or rubber spatula. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill for about an hour or until mixture is firm enough to mold with your hands.
Dead Bat Pull Aparts
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine the melted margarine and onion soup mix in a 9 x 13-inch baking pan. Cut each biscuit into 3 pieces. Roll the pieces in butter mixture and leave in the pan. Sprinkle the olives and cheese over the top. Bake for 20 minutes.
Serves 20.
Dem Bones
In a shallow bowl mix the sauce ingredients, whip with a whisk or hand blender. Also combine the stuffing ingredients in a stainless steel bowl. Microwave the wrapped tortillas for 30 to 40 seconds. This will soften them and make them pliable. Dredge a tortilla through the sauce, then place abou
Ding Dong Spiders
Give each child a small plate. Hand out the Ding Dongs and let each child unwrap one.
Pass out a bag of cut up string licorice. Let each child take 8 pieces.
Pass out the frosting or cream cheese and allow each child to take a tiny spoonful and place on their plate.
Ear Wax Wieners on Cotton Swabs
Melt the butter or margarine in a small pan over low heat, being careful not to burn it. Place the franks on a broiling pan and carefully brush them with melted butter. Broil the franks until they are evenly browned, turning them 2 or 3 times.
While the franks are cooking, combine the
Eyeball Snacks
Beat the egg white lightly and blend with a small amount of powdered sugar and a few drops of peppermint extract. Mix until you get a fine dry paste. Using your hands, knead the paste adding small amounts of sugar until the paste will absorb it. Separate a small quantity to make the irises, addi
Frightful Fingers
Cut jelly beans in half lengthwise. Press each jelly bean half into the end of a circus peanut to resemble fingernails.
This is especially frightful when using green and black jelly beans!
Ghost Pops
Peel bananas and cut in half widthwise. Insert popsicle stick in each half through the cut end, wrap each half in plastic wrap and freeze for 3 hours.
Melt white chocolate and frost the whole banana halves (apply with butter knife). Set on wax paper and press in miniature chocolate ch
Ghostly Good Caramel Apples
Wash and dry apples. Remove stems. Insert a wooden stick into the stem end of each apple; set aside.
In heavy 3-quart saucepan, combine brown sugar, Eagle� Brand, corn syrup and butter. Bring to boil, stirring constantly. Boil gently over medium heat, stirring frequently, 25 mi
Ghosts in the Graveyard or Boo Cups
Pour cold milk into large bowl; add pudding mixes. Beat with wire whisk for 2 minutes. Stir in 3 cups of the whipped topping and 1/2 of the cookies.
Ghosts in the Graveyard
Spoon into 13 x 9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining cookies. Refrigerate 1 hour or until ready to s
Ghosts on Broomsticks
Place the white chocolate chips in a smaller pot and set it over a larger pot of simmering water. Cook on low heat, stirring constantly until the chocolate is fully melted. Remove from heat.
Cover 2 cookie sheets with wax paper. Arrange the wooden sticks on the wax paper, 6 to a sheet
Ghoul-Ade
Mix Kool-Aid together with sugar in large pitcher. Add water and mix. Just before serving, add ginger ale.
Gingerbread Corpses
In large bowl, cream shortening, sugar, egg and warmed molasses. Dissolve baking soda in warm water and add to egg mixture. Beat until smooth.
Slowly add flour, spices and salt. Mix until well blended. Cover and chill for 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease cook
Goblin Mix
Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.
Place popped corn into a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
Combine butter, honey and cinnamon. Pour over popcorn; stir until evenly coated. Bake for 10 minutes. Spread on foil to cool.
Stir in raisins and candy corn. Store in tightly covered
Graveyard Dessert
Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Prepare a 9 x 13 x 2-inch 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 fil
Graveyard Pumpkin Mousse
In food processor, process cookies to form fine crumbs; set aside.
In mixer bowl, beat cream to form stiff peaks; set aside.
In separate mixer bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until creamy. Add pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice; mix well. Fold in whipped cream and banana until
Gumdrop Goblin Balls
Place popped corn in mixing bowl; set aside.
In small saucepan, over medium-high heat, bring sugar, corn syrup, water, margarine, and salt to boil. Cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Cook, without stirring, for ten minutes or until reaches hard-ball stage of 254 degrees F on candy
Halloween Cadaver Melts
Melt butter in a non-stick skillet on medium heat. Place bread into skillet side by side and push them around to soak up the butter.
Lay cheese on top of each slice, then top with prime rib. Saute for 1 minute, then carefully make it into a sandwich, using a spatula. Continue to turn
Halloween Candy Tree
Wash the sticks. Let them dry. In a well ventilated work area, spray the sticks with varnish. Let the varnish dry. Drill small holes in the top of the pumpkin where sticks are desired. Push the sticks into the drilled holes.
To make a candy garland, thread a needle with floss. Thread
Halloween Cheese Pizza
Move oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 450 degrees F. Grease 12-inch pizza pan.
Mix Bisquick and very hot water until soft dough forms. Press dough in pizza pan, using fingers dipped in Bisquick; pinch edge to form 1/2-inch rim.
Bake 10 minutes. Spread pizza sauce
Haunted Souse Cake
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease and flour a 10-inch springform pan.
Mix all the ingredients together in a mixer until well blended. Pour into the pan and bake for about 50 minutes. Let cool on a rack for 25 minutes before removing from the pan.
Frost with oran
Hocus Pocus Balloon Buns
Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water. Stir in milk, 1/4 cup sugar, the salt egg, shortening and 1 3/4 cups of the flour. Beat until smooth. Mix in enough of the remaining flour to make the dough easy to handle.
Turn the dough onto a lightly floured board and knead until smooth and ela