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Halloween Recipes

Spooky Halloween, tricks and treats is not only for children but adults too. Going from home to home is fun for the little ones but the Halloween party is the biggest adult treat. Dinner party or buffet style the food is always fun, spooky and delicious that is unless your being tricked. Let’s hope not!

The weather is usually a little cool so there are those great warm up drinks to start the party with liqueur or even flecks of edible gold. Being dressed up as this years favorite super hero or centuries old character and play acting the part is just plain fun. The food just sparks the evenings entertainment as well as games and of course the prizes.

The standard dishes or finger foods even eaten from year to year still make you giggle. Hard boiled eggs with black olives for pupils still are a hit. The trick though is to be stress free. Everyone invited wants to show off their costumes and almost everyone wants to bring their own special dish…and believe me that helps make the evening stress free. The few prizes can be gift certificates to a movie, to the nearest discount store, or even MickieD’s. Just have fun. Happy Halloween.

Blood Splattered popcorn

To make Blood Splattered pop-corn, just pop-up a batch of plain, unseasoned pop-corn. Let pop-corn cool before applying the blood topping.

• 1 Bowl of unseasoned Popcorn
• 1/2 Stick of Butter or Margarine
• 1 Teaspoon Red Icing Color (approximate)

For the topping, slowly heat half a stick of butter or margarine in a small sauce pan, or microwave it on the lowest setting until it is fully melted. Do not allow the butter to boil or burn. Once the butter is melted, remove it from the heat and transfer it into a mixing bowl.

Slowly add just enough red paste food coloring, also called Icing Color, which is available at most craft or cake decorating supply stores, to turn the butter a nice shade of blood red. One teaspoon of Icing Color for every one stick of butter. While you could use regular liquid food color, it takes much more to get the desired color and it tends to stain much more. Using a wire whisk, mix the butter and coloring until it is thoroughly combined.

Slowly pour a small amount of the bloody butter over the pop-corn and then gently toss it with a large spoon. Repeat until the pop-corn looks as though its been splattered, not soaked, with blood. Serve in an appropriate serving bowl.

Caution – Since a fairly large amount of coloring is needed to get the color of blood, your tongue and hands will get red when eating this treat. Have plenty of napkins and towelettes available and be sure to warn your guests not to wipe their hands on your furniture, themselves, etc

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Breadstick Bones

• 1 (7-ounce) can refrigerated breadsticks
• 1 egg white, lightly beaten
• 2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Suggested Dipping Sauces:

• Bottled marinara sauce, heated
• Ranch dressing
• Honey mustard sauce

Cooking Instructions

1. Heat oven to 375°F (175°C). Grease or spray baking sheet with cooking spray.
2. Unroll dough; separate at perforations into 6 breadsticks. Roll each 12 inches long. Carefully tie a loose knot in both ends of each breadstick and place on prepared baking sheet.
3. Brush breadsticks with egg white. Sprinkle with cheese.
4. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until golden brown.
5. Serve warm “bones” with desired dipping sauce.

Makes 6 servings.

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Witch Finger Cookies

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• pinch of salt
• 1 cup whole, blanched almonds
• Green Food Coloring (Optional)

Cooking Instructions

Add butter and powdered sugar into a mixing bowl and beat until smooth. Beat in egg and lemon juice. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt and stir into mixture until combined. Cover and chill for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 325F. Spray baking sheets with light coat of nonstick cooking spray.

Form fingers from 1 tablespoon of dough, by rolling dough with clean hands. Use a knife to score lines for the finger’s knuckle. Press an almond firmly into the dough for a fingernail.

Place cookies on prepared baking sheet and cook for 20 minutes until golden brown. Cool for five minutes and place cookies on a rack to cool completely. Arrange on a spooky platter and serve.

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Black Bat Punch

• 1 quart vanilla ice cream
• 2 liters chilled grape soda
• 2 liters chilled orange soda
• 2 liters chilled ginger ale
• 1 can orange juice concentrate
• 1 envelope unsweetened grape drink mix
• 1 cup black sprinkles

Scoop out the ice cream with a small spoon and place the small scoops onto a baking sheet. Freeze for at least an hour to firm. Right before serving mix together the sodas, orange juice concentrate, and drink mix until smooth in a large punch bowl. Add the vanilla ice cream “guano” and black sprinkles and serve immediately.

Makes 8 Servings.

Deviled Eyeballs

• 12 eggs, hard-cooked, cooled and peeled
• 24 green olives stuffed with pimientos
• Miracle Whip
• Mustard

Half eggs lenghtwise, take out yolks. Mix yolks, some miracle whip and mustard until you have a smooth paste. Spoon this mixture back into the eggs. Add one olive to the center of the mixture in the egg.

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