Devilishly Good Halloween Recipes
Halloween parties are a great time for cooking, food and fun. The following Halloween recipes means there’s no need to head for the microwave when you can easily make these fantastic Halloween goodies:
► Batwitch
Ingredients:
• 3 cups or 12 oz of sharp Cheddar cheese, shredded
• 1 8 oz container of chive and onion cream cheese that has been softened
• 1 4 oz jar diced pimientos, drained
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
• 24 whole wheat or pumpernickel bread slices. Substitute pumpkin bread if you dare.
Directions
• Stir together Cheddar, crème cheese, pimentos and pecans.
• With a 3 or 4” bat-shaped cookie cutter cut two bats from each slice of bread.
• Spread mixture over 24 bats evenly and top each with the remaining 24 bat slices.
Yields 24 sandwiches.
► Haunted Cookies
Ingredients:
• 1 lb. white chocolate
• 1 pkg. Nutter Butter Peanut Bars
• 1 pkg. mini chocolate chips
Directions:
• Melt chocolate over low heat in the top of a double boiler.
• Dip each cookie into chocolate to cover thoroughly
• Place covered cookie gently onto waxed paper until chocolate is cool and set.
• Create eyes with mini chocolate chips.
Yield depends upon the quantity of cookies in the bag.
► Witch’s Brew
Ingredients
• 2 Gal orange juice, any style.
• 1 liter club soda
• 4-5 drops of green food coloring
• 1 latex surgical glove (really)
• 1 large package multi-color gummi worms
Directions
At least one day before the party:
• Fill latex glove with water and works.
• Tie open end off with a rubber band and place the glove in the freezer overnight.
One hour before party:
• Pour orange juice into punch bowel and add food coloring drop by drop until desired disgusting color is obtained.
• Slowly add club soda
• Take the latex glove from the freezer and slide it off of the frozen water/worms concoction that’s inside.
• Add the frozen hand-shaped, worm-ridden ice cube to the punch bowl and let it float.
Yields about 38 cups
► Fresh Eyeball Appetizer
Ingredients
• 6 medium size eggs
• 6 oz softened whipped cream cheese
• 12 Pimento-stuffed Green Olives
• Your choice o red hot sauce, ketchup, or red food coloring
Directions
• Hard boil, cool and peel the eggs
• Cut each egg in widthwise. Remove and discard yolk
• Place an olive, pimento-side up, into each cavity and surround with cream cheese.
• Dip the tip of a tooth pick into what ever red substance you choose and draw red blood vessels into the cream cheese.
Yields 12 eyeballs
► Rotten Apples
Ingredients
• 6 large golden delicious apples
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 6 gummi worms
Directions
• Pre heat oven to 350°
• Mix raisins and pecans together in a bowl
• Core apples from bottom end.
• Stuff apple with raisin and pecan mixture
• Place apples in a lightly buttered baking dish with stem side up
• In a saucepan mix brown sugar, water, butter, cinnamon & nutmeg
• Cook over high heat stirring constantly mixture comes to a boil
• Carefully pour mixture around apples
• Bake uncovered for approx 30 to 35 minutes or until skins start to crack and apples are tender when pierced with a toothpick. Baste occasionally with syrup mixture while cooking.
• Remove apples from oven and let cool to room temperature
• Place each apple into a small bowl and spoon syrup mixture around each one.
• Cut a small hole near the top of each apple and poke in one end of the gummi worm. Let most of the worm hand out of the apple.
Yields 6 apples
There’s lot more treats that you can make. All you need is a little bit of time and some imagination.
Article From:
Halloween-Blog.com