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Ghoulish Hands
What you need:
Surgical gloves; dark green dye; rubber band or household string; water.
What to do:
1. Dye gloves dark green, following manufacturers dying instructions.
2. Fill the surgical gloves with water. Do not overfill, you want the glove to have some flexibility.
3. Tie the wrist end of glove off tightly with a rubber band or household string to prevent the water from escaping.
4. Place the wrist end of the glove in soil. This can be done in a planter or in a homemade Halloween graveyard.
Try to curl the fingers a bit. It will look like a ghostlike, ghouly is coming out of his burial ground.
Wooaaaa.
Witch's Cauldron Punch Bowl
What you need:
1 large kettle; washable marker (black); Paper towel cardboard rolls; newspaper; rubber bands or tape; spray paint; party cider or punch; yellow and orange construction paper.
What to do:
1. Wrap the cardboard centers of paper towel rolls with newspaper and secure with tape or rubber bands. Note: You may also use foil to wrap rolls for this step.
2. Spray paint each roll with paint color of choice and allow to completely dry.
3. Paint the words "Witch's Brew" on the front of the pot with washable marker.
4. Cut flames from construction paper and glue to bottom of pot so that the tips stick out all around base of pot like a fire.
5. Arrange dried logs in a circle, like a campfire. Place pot on center and fill with punch or cider (witch's brew).
Not-so-scary ghosts
What you need:
Inexpensive white tall kitchen trash bags, tissue paper or Styrofoam 'popcorn', yarn or string, permanent markers, scissors.
What to do:
1. Place one garbage bag inside the other (like double-bagging at the grocery store).
2. Tie a length of string around either a piece of tissue or a piece of the popcorn.
3. Poke a tiny hole in the top of the garbage bags and thread the string through from the inside.
4. Stuff the head of the ghost with tissue or popcorn to desired size
5. Tie another length of string around the base of the stuffed area
6. Draw whatever kind of face and/or hair you want on your ghost.
7.
Shred the body part of the ghost in various ways to make it flowy.
8. Hang in your trees and shrubs for a cool Halloweeny effect.
Broom Pins
What you need:
Hot glue gun and glue stick; black and orange ribbon; black and orange markers; 1 miniature broom (available in packages of 3 or more at most craft supply stores; candy corn (plastic or real); brooch pin, available in jewelry making supply section of craft supply stores.
What to do:
1. Paint black and orange stripes on broom handle with markers. Allow to dry.
2. Use one strand of orange and one strand of black together to make bow at base of stick just above straw area of broom as shown in photo above. Touch on back of bow with bit of glue to keep in place.
3. Glue candy corn or other miniature on base of broom as shown.
Orange Cream Punch
Ingredients
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (12-ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
Orange food coloring
2 (1-liter) bottles club soda or ginger ale, chilled
Orange sherbet
Directions
1. In a punch bowl combine sweetened condensed milk and orange juice concentrate.
2. Tint with orange food coloring, if desired.
3. Add club soda.
4. Top with small scoops of orange sherbet. Serve immediately.
Cheeseburger Pie
Ingredients
1 pound ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, pressed
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup ketchup
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 (15-ounce) package refrigerated piecrusts
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
3 cups (12 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese, divided
2 tablespoons water
1 large egg
Red and yellow liquid food coloring
Directions
1. Cook first 5 ingredients in a large skillet over medium-high heat, stirring until beef crumbles and is no longer pink; drain. Stir in ketchup and Worcestershire sauce; cool.
2. Unfold 1 piecrust, and place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Spread mustard evenly over crust. Stir together meat mixture and 2 cups cheese; spoon onto center of crust, leaving a 2-inch border.
3. Unfold remaining piecrust, and cut out a jack-o'-lantern face, reserving pastry cutouts to use as a stem. Place crust over meat mixture; crimp edges of crust, and fold under. Place stem on top of jack-o'-lantern face.
4. Whisk together 2 tablespoons water, egg, and 1 drop each of red and yellow food coloring; brush over crust.
5. Bake at 425*F (220*C) for 20 minutes; remove from oven, and brush again with egg mixture. Fill eyes, nose, and mouth with remaining 1 cup cheese. Bake 5 to 10 more minutes or until golden brown.
Caramel-Rum Fruit Dip
Ingredients
1/2 cup LAND O LAKES® Butter
1 (14-ounce) package caramels, unwrapped
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon rum extract* (or Rum)
Directions
1. Cut-up fresh fruit
2. Melt butter and caramels in 2-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring occasionally, until caramels are melted (12 to 15 minutes).
3. Stir in pecans, milk and rum extract. Stir vigorously to incorporate butter.
4. Keep warm; use as a dip for cut-up fresh fruit.
Haunted Forest Platter
This imaginative forest is completely edible.
Ingredients
3 stalks of broccoli
3 medium beets
Wood toothpicks
3 hard-boiled eggs
Assorted vegetables such as cherry tomatoes, pea pods, kohlrabies, radishes, sweet red peppers, sweet yellow peppers, and shredded carrot, Ripe olives, pimiento-stuffed olives, and/or tiny sweet pickles
1 ounce spaghetti, cooked and drained
Liquid green food coloring
Directions
1. To make a haunted forest, first create trees.
2. Cut bottoms from stalks of broccoli to make 6-inch broccoli trees.
3. Slice beets about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick to make a base for broccoli trees. Break wood toothpicks in half. Insert three to four toothpick pieces into bottom of each broccoli stalk and then insert into a beet slice. Stand broccoli upright. Cover to keep moist.
4. To make egg ghosts, use a small knife or 1/2-inch aspic cutters to hollow out eyes and mouths to form a face. Cut small pieces of ripe olive to press into hollowed-out areas for eyes or mouth, if desired. Cover to keep moist.
5. Using your imagination, create creepy creatures with tomatoes, sweet peppers, pickles, olives, and radishes.
6. Place broccoli trees on serving platter. Cover surface of platter with shredded carrot. Hide egg ghosts in forest along with creepy creatures. Scatter piles of vegetables such as pea pods, beet slices, kohlrabi slices, olives, pickles, and/or any other desired vegetables. Add strips of red pepper to the broccoli branches.
7. To make moss, add a few drops of green food coloring to a small amount of water in a medium bowl. Add cooked spaghetti and let stand about 5 minutes. Drain and place over broccoli trees. Keep platter covered until serving time. If necessary, spritz platter with water to keep it moist.
Spiderweb Munch
This crispy snack is topped with a layer of chocolate and then decorated with a thin piping of peanut butter. A candy spider on top would complete the image for a creepy Halloween treat!
Ingredients
1 (12-ounce) package chocolate chips
1 cup creamy peanut butter, divided use
1/3 cup powdered sugar
3 cups toasted rice cereal
Directions
1. HEAT morsels and 3/4 cup peanut butter in small, heavy-duty saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth; remove from heat. Add sugar; stir vigorously until smooth.
2. PLACE cereal in large bowl. Add 1 cup melted chocolate mixture; stir until well coated. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Using small metal spatula, shape into 10-inch circle with slightly raised 1-inch-wide border. Pour remaining chocolate mixture in center of circle; spread to border.
3. FOR SPIDERWEB: PLACE remaining peanut butter in small, heavy-duty plastic bag. Cut tiny corner from bag; squeeze to pipe concentric circles on top of chocolate. Using wooden pick or tip of sharp knife, pull tip through peanut butter from center to border. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until firm. Cut into wedges.
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