Halloween Party Food
EYE BALLS
Tools
Icing Coloring (Green, Blue, Brown, Black)
Icing Brush (No. 3)
Icing Tip (No. 2)
Icing Bag (Small)
Ingredients
One 12.5 oz. Bag of “Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Crème Bites”
1 Egg White
2 Cups Sifted Powder Sugar
Decorating Icing
In a medium bowl, whip 1 egg white with a beater for approximately 3 minutes or until
fluffy white. Gradually mix in 2 cups sifted powder sugar until thoroughly mixed.
Using icing coloring, make small batches of green, blue, brown and black icing.
Take 1 dozen of the Hershey’s Cookie ‘n’ Crème Bites and with greenicing and a No. 3 icing brush, paint a green circle on each one. Place on a paper towel to dry. Repeat with another dozen of Cookie ‘n’ Crème Bites but this time use blue icing. Repeat again with brown icing.
With black icing in an icing bag and a No. 2 icing tip, make a pupil by dabbing a black dot on each of the painted Cookie ‘n’ Crème Bites.
With white icing in an icing bag and a No. 2 icing tip, dab a small white dot on the edge of each pupil.
Once dried, place each of the painted Cookie ‘n’ Crème Bites in a small candy dish.
You and your party friends are now ready to enjoy a dish of crunchy white eyeballs.
GHOST CAKE
Serving Size: 24
Notes:
This is a regular 9 by 13 inch cake, that can easily be adapted by cutting a cooled cake.
Ingredients:
1 (18 oz.) cake mix of your choice baked.
8 Tbsp. unsalted butter (softened)
4 C. confectioner’s sugar
6 Tbsp. milk
2 tsp. vanilla
Preparation:
Bake cake according to package directions. When the cake is cool remove it from the pan, and place onto serving area. Carve the head by slicing off the corners into rounded edges. Shape the head into a continuous rounded shape. Carve body by shaping the sides of the cake inward like )(. Shape the “feet” of the ghost by making jagged edges on the bottom of the cake.
Prepare frosting by beating together butter, confectioner’s sugar, milk, and vanilla.
Frost the cake, and create eyes with either frosting or chocolate candies.
CRISPY RICE JACK O LANTERN
Ingredients:
1 Stick Butter
2 (10 oz). Packages Marshmallows
12 C. Rice Crispy Cereal
1 tsp. Yellow Food Color
1/4 tsp. Red Food Color
Green Decorating Icing in Tube
Black Decorating Icing in Tube
Decorating Tips
12 C. Bowl (not plastic)
Preparation:
Melt butter on low heat and add marshmallows. Stir marshmallows frequently. When marshmallows have dissolved, add food colors and mix well. When the marshmallow mixture is uniform in orange color add cereal and stir and mix until rice crispies are completely coated.
Pour mixture into the bowl that has been well sprayed with a non-stick spray. Carefully press down cereal (spray the spoon or your hands when pressing the cereal, this helps so the cereal will not stick). Place into the refrigerator until completely chilled and firm. When the pumpkin is chilled remove from refrigerator and invert onto a plate. Remove bowl and decorate with leaves and stem. A great jack o lantern smile will be the finishing touch.
The Jack-o-lantern makes a great centerpiece and a delightful treat.
MAKE A FACE COOKIES
It’s not often that you can microwave great-tasting pumpkin-flavored cookies. Enjoy creating goofy faces, or come up with your own designs.Click here to see Betty’s Tips and moreTotal: 32 min Prep: 25 min Microwave: 2 min Cool: 5 min (Total time will vary; cook or bake time is per batch.)Makes 10 cookies
1 1/2 cups Original Bisquick®
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 egg
Assorted candies, such as licorice candies, candy-coated peanut butter candies and candy-coated chocolate candies
Double recipe (Learn more about scaling recipes)
1. Place waxed paper on microwavable plate. Mix all ingredients except candies until very soft dough forms.
2. Drop dough by 2 rounded tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper; spread to make 3-inch circle. Make 3 cookies at a time. Decorate with candies to make monster faces, placing candies within 1/2 inch of edges.
3. Microwave uncovered on High 1 minute. Turn plate 1/2 turn. Microwave 30 seconds to 1 minute longer, checking once or twice, until cookies are puffed and dry. Slide waxed paper with cookies onto wire rack. Cool 5 minutes; remove from waxed paper to wire rack. Repeat with remaining dough.
Special Equipment: Microwave
1 Cookie: Calories 125 (Calories from Fat 25); Fat 3g (Saturated 1g); Cholesterol 20mg; Sodium 270mg; Potassium 95mg; Carbohydrate 23g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 2g % Daily Value: Vitamin A 38%; Vitamin C 0%; Vitamin D 0%; Calcium 4%; Iron 6%; Folic Acid 0% Diet Exchanges: 1 Starch; 1/2 Fruit; 1/2 Fat
Betty’s Tips Success HintCandy works best to make funny faces and designs. Avoid using chocolate because it’ll melt before your cookies are done. Similar Recipes Spooky Halloween Tree Cobweb Cookies “Spooky Graveyard” Brownies
HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN PIE
Serving Size: 8
Notes:
By using a little decorator frosting, you can turn a frozen pumpkin pie into something special.
Ingredients:
1 Pumpkin Pie (frozen and baked or ready baked)
White Frosting (cake decorating icing)
Writing Tip (for white frosting)
1 Plastic Spider
Preparation:
Draw a spider web on your favorite pumpkin pie and give that web its own spider. The little ones will love it and it make a nice touch to any Halloween buffet.
WEB COOKIES
Total: 13 min 30 sec
Prep: 5 min
Cook: 1 min 30 sec
Bake: 7 min
(Total time will vary; cook or bake time is per batch.)
Makes 2 1/2 dozen 4- to 5-inch cookies
3/4 cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour or unbleached flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
Powdered sugar
1. Beat all ingredients except powdered sugar in medium bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Pour batter into plastic squeeze bottle with narrow opening. Heat 8-inch skillet over medium heat until hot; grease lightly.
2. Working quickly, squeeze batter to form 4 straight, thin lines that intersect at a common center point to form a star shape. To form cobweb, squeeze thin streams of batter to connect lines.
3. Cook 30 to 60 seconds or until bottom is golden brown; carefully turn. Cook until golden brown; remove from skillet. Cool on wire rack.
4. Heat oven to 325ºF. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 5 to 7 minutes or until almost crisp (cookies will become crisp as they cool). Remove from cookie sheet; cool. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Store cookies in container with loose-fitting cover.
Here are some more recipe ideas to wow your HALLOWEEN PARTY GUESTS
Finger Sandwich Snack Tray
Cheddar and Monterey Jack Cheese (pre-cut into cracker sized slices)
A selection of crackers such as Ritz and Club Crackers
Sliced Pepperoni and Salami
Sliced Dill Pickles and Tomatoes
Vegetable Snack Tray
Garden Flavor Dip (avoid onion and other strong dips)
Celery and Carrot Sticks
Sliced Tomatoes and Cucumbers
Green Chilies and Mushrooms
Fingers in a Blanket
All Beef Hot Dogs
Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Canned or Homemade Biscuit Dough
Spaghetti and Meat Balls
Salad with a choice of dressing
Spaghetti and Meat Balls
Fresh Baked Garlic Bread
Ketchup and Mustard
Graveyard Pudding
Put chocolate pudding in clear plastic containers and place gummy worms in the pudding and some half submerged.
Cover the top of the pudding with crushed chocolate or oreo cookie crumbs.
Ghost Sandwich
Let the children make their own ghost sandwiches.
Give each child a ghost cookie cutter and let them press the shape out of the center of their sandwich.
Use raisins for the eyes.
Swamp Slime
Prepare some green jello according to package directions, when jello starts to set divide it into two containers.
Stir in various gummy bugs to the first container.
Beat the rest of the jello with some whipped cream or cool whip and add to the top of the slime.
Sprinkle crushed chocolate cookie crumbs and half submerge some gummy worms. Let set.
Buggy Ice
Freeze ice cubes with raisins in them to look like bugs.
Witch Hat Cookies
Take Oreo cookies and place them on wax paper.
Place an unwrapped Hershey’s kiss in the middle of the cookie attaching it with a dab of frosting.
With orange colored frosting, pipe a ring around the candy kiss to look like a hat band.
Spider Cookies
Little kids love this food project!! You’ll need some Oreo cookies, some thin black licorice and a tube of white decorating icing.
Take Oreo cookies and loosen top and bottom of cookie.
Cut black licorice stings into 5-inch lengths and place 4 licorice pieces inside each cookie.
Cover with cookie and use frosting to make eyes on the top.
