Choose A Halloween Recipe

...and make the occasion a spooktacular event!

Choose a Halloween recipe to make your get-together a little more interesting. Have some fun with the season and make your friends and loved ones grin at your creativity.

Spooky Eyeball Eggs

• 6 hard boiled eggs
  
• 6 ounces of cream cheese, whipped
  
• 12 stuffed green olives
  
• red food coloring
  
  

1. Peel and halve eggs. Remove yolks. (You can use them for something else).
   
   
2. Fill the holes with the whipped cream cheese.
   
   
3. Press an olive, pimento side up, into the center of the cream cheese to form the iris and pupil.
   
   
4. Draw red squiggles out from the center using a toothpick and some red food coloring.
   
   

Tombstone Brownies

• 2 packages of brownie mix
  
• 1 cup of powdered (icing) sugar
  
• 1/8 cup cocoa
  
• chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting (canned is fine)
  
• Oreo cookies, crushed
  
• wooden skewers
  
• food coloring
  

1. Prepare both packages of brownies and bake in 2 pans.
   
   
2. Slice one pan of brownies in rectangles to be used as the tombstones. Cut the top corners on some of them for effect.
   
   
3. Combine the powdered sugar and cocoa and dust the tombstones thoroughly. Add some food coloring (purple, red, or green) to a portion of the white frosting and place in a resealable plastic bag. Snip off the corner and use to pipe some sayings on the tombstones.
   
   
4. Using the chocolate frosting, ice the top and sides of the second pan of brownies. Sprinkle the crushed Oreos on top to create a graveyard look.
   
   
5. Using pieces of the wooden skewers, arrange a few of the tombstones in the graveyard. The remaining can be served on a platter. You can even draw in some chocolate spiders to give everyone the shivers.
   
   

Here's a couple Halloween recipe ideas from Taste of Home, my favorite recipe magazine. You can order the Taste of Home magazine, Better Homes and Gardens or any other favorites for yourself or a friend at Magazines.com. I order my magazines there to get the best prices.

Shrunken Head Apples

• 8 medium apples, washed, dried, and room temperature
  
• 8 wooden craft sticks or lollipop sticks
  
• Butter to grease the cookie sheet
  
• 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts, any of your favorites will do
  
• 21 ounces (about 75) chocolate or vanilla caramels, unwrapped
  
• 3 tablespoons water
  
• 6 ounces white chocolate chips or candy coating wafers
  
• 2 teaspoons shortening
  
• Variety of candies for decorating, such as licorice, candy corn, gumdrops, M&M's, etc.
  
• Tubes of writing gel and/or canned frosting

1. Remove stems from apples and insert one stick into the stem end of each apple. Place apples on a buttered cookie sheet. Place chopped nuts in a shallow dish; set aside.
   
   
2. Heat and stir the caramels and water in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat just until caramels are melted.
   
   
3. Dip each apple into hot caramel mixture, spooning caramel evenly over apple. Allow the excess caramel to drip off. Immediately dip the bottoms of the apples in the chopped nuts and set apples on the cookie sheet to firm.
   
   
4. In a small microwave save bowl, melt the shortening and white chocolate in 30 second intervals, stirring each time until melted and smooth. Drizzle the white chocolate evenly over the top of the apples and allow to set again until firm.
   
   
5. Decorate the apples to resemble faces or monsters using your favorite candies and the writing gel. You can attach or 'glue' the candy on with some canned frosting or leftover melted chocolate.
   
   

Do you have an Halloween recipe or gift idea that you picked up somewhere along the way? Share it with the rest of us! If you've actually made it, go ahead and show off. We'd love to see your work.

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