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Halloween - Devilishly Good Halloween Recipes

Details: Category: activities; Published on Thursday, 24 September 2009 09:38; Written by EMVA; Hits: 1911

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.