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Chicago Kids Halloween Zone: Halloween Recipes
Cook up some tasty treats for your Halloween party! These Halloween recipes are fun to make, and good to eat.
Halloween Mud Pie
- 1 jar (12 ounces) chocolate fudge sauce
- 1 prepared 9-inch graham cracker pie crust
- 1 1/2 pints orange sherbet
- 1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Using a rubber spatula, spread the chocolate fudge sauce evenly over the pie crust. Set it in the freezer to harden. Remove the sherbet from the freezer to soften slightly. In a medium bowl, combine the sherbet and the mini chocolate chips with a large spoon. Remove the crust from the freezer. Spoon the sherbet mixture on the crust. Smooth the top with spatula. Return to the freezer until ready to serve.
Halloween Haystacks
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup peanuts
- 2 cups chow mein noodles
Microwave the butterscotch chips and peanut butter on 50 percent power for 3 to 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and blend to coat noodles thoroughly. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper.
Blood Punch
- 2 quarts apple juice
- 2 quarts cranberry juice
- 2 liter bottle ginger ale
- new rubber glove
- red food coloring
- 1 pound coffee can
- water
To make the hand, fill a new rubber glove with water. Make sure the glove does not have powder inside. Tie at the wrist with string and freeze one or two days. Carefully cut glove away to unmold. Don't worry if you lose a finger when unmolding, this only adds to the ghoulish effect. To make a base for the hand, fill a one-pound coffee can about 1/3 full with water. Insert the hand and freeze until firm.To make the punch, mix apple juice, cranberry juice, and ginger ale, If you would like to change the size of the recipe, use an equal amount of each juice and the ginger ale. Refrigerate to chill thoroughly. When ready to serve, place half the mixture in the punch bowl. Insert hand ice mold in the center. Fill bowl with remaining punch.
For added effect, place a few drops of red food coloring on the tips of the fingers just before serving.
Pumpkin Bowls
Ingredients:
- Mini pumpkins
- Ice Cream
- Toppings such as sprinkles and candy corn
Carve out the inside of mini-pumpkins and scoop out the content. Place them in the freezer for a couple of hours. Once they're frozen, pack scoops of ice cream into the mini pumpkins and place in the freezer until serving time. When ready to serve, let children add fun toppings such as sprinkles and candy corn.
Spider Web
Ingredients:
- Chocolate cake mix + necessary ingredients
- Ice Cream
- Toppings such as sprinkles and candy corn
Make a chocolate cake from a mix according to the directions. After the cake has cooled, use icing to draw a spider web onto the cake. Draw circles starting in the middle and working your way out. Then draw lines from the center of the cake out to the edges. For a final touch, put plastic spiders on top of the cake. You may also add raisins to the top of the cake as bugs caught in the spider web.
Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cookie decorator (in a 4 1/2 -ounce pressurized can)
Blend together the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, vanilla, and 1 cup of flour and mix well. Using a wooden spoon, fold in the remaining flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Place the mixture in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured board to 1/8 inch thickness, then cut out cookies with a pumpkin shaped or round cookie cutter and place them on a large, lightly greased baking sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Let cookies cool thoroughly, then decorate with the cookie decorator. Makes 2 to 3 dozen cookies.
Fancy Apples
- 1 package (14 oz) caramels
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
- 1 tbsp. water
- 5-6 small apples
- Skewers
- Decoration items such as nuts, toffee, candy corn or sprinkles
Line a baking sheet with buttered waxed paper and set aside. Combine caramels, marshmallows and water in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until caramels melt. While this is cooling, rinse and dry the apples. Insert skewers into the apples, the dip each apple into the caramel mixture, coating them completely. Place each apple onto the prepared sheet, then refrigerate until firm. Decorate by rolling apples in crushed nuts, toffee, candy corn or sprinkles before the caramel is completely cooled.
Spider Cider
- Apple cider
- Large plastic spiders
Place cider in a clear pitcher to serve. Clean and rinse the plastic spiders, then drop them into the pitcher. Make sure to keep the spiders in the pitcher when you serve!
Gross-Out Eye Balls
- 6 hard boiled eggs
- 6 hard boiled eggs
- 6 oz Whipped cream cheese
- Jar of green olives with pimientos
- Red food coloring
Hard boil 6 eggs. When done, peel the shells and cut each egg in half across the length. Scoop out and throw away the yolks. Spoon cream cheese into the scooped out holes, and then push an olive into each hole with the pimiento facing up. Use a toothpick to dip into the red food coloring and draw scraggly blood vessels into the cream cheese eyeballs.
Spider Cupcakes
- Chocolate Cupcakes
- Chocolate frosting
- Black licorice
- Chocolate sprinkles
- M & Ms
Prepare chocolate cupcakes. When finished, turn them upside down onto a serving tray, and coat with chocolate frosting. Break licorice into properly sized pieces and poke the pieces into the side of the cupcakes for the spider legs. Make spider eyes by placing M & M's on top of the cupcake bottom.
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