


Holloween Collection part II
SKELETON BONE COOKIES
- 4 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1/2 teaspon baking powder
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups salted almonds
With an electric mixer on medium speed, beat egg whites and sugar
with orange peel and baking powder until blended. Gradually add
nuts and flour, beating until mixture is thoroughly mixed. Cover
and chill until firm enough to handle, at least 1 hour or up to 1
day.
Lightly flour your hands and pinch off a 3 tb size piece of
dough. On a lightly floured board, use the palms of both hands
to evenly roll an 8 inch long rope. Cut rope in half; roll each
half out again to 8 inches. Fold 1 inch of each end back onto
rope; pinch ends to make bone-end shapes. Repeat to shape all the
dough. Place bones 1 inch apart on buttered and flour-dusted 12
x 15 inch baking sheets. Bake in a 325F oven until cookies are
lightly browned on bottoms, about 20 minutes.
"BUGS"
- 12 oz chocolate chips
- 12 oz butterscotch chips
- 1 pkg peanuts
- 1 pkg chow mein noodles
Melt chips in double boiler & pour over noodles and nuts. Mix
well and drop by spoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet. Chill
until firm.
COOL WHIP GRAVEYARD TREAT
From a Cool Whip advertisement - October 1994.
Makes 15-18 single servings.
Dessert:
- 2-1/4 cups chocolate wafer cookie crumbs, divided
- 1/2 cup sugar, divided
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
- 1 8-oz pkg cream cheese, softened
- 1 12-oz tub Cool Whip topping, thawed
- 2 cups boiling water
- 2 4-serving pkgs orange Jello
- 1/2 cup cold water
- ice cubes
Decorations:
- 12-14 rectangular or oval-shaped sandwich cookies
decorator icing -- brown, green, orange, white
candy corn
- candy pumpkins (mellowcream pumpkins)
Mix together 2 cups of the cookie crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, and
margarine in a 13x9x2" pan. Press firmly into the bottom of the
pan to create a crust. Refrigerate.
Beat cream cheese and remaining 1/4 cup sugar in a bowl until
smooth. Stir in 1/2 of the Cool Whip. Spread over crust.
Stir boiling water into Jello in bowl for 2 minutes or until
completely dissolved. Mix cold water and ice cubes together to
make 1-1/2 cups. Stir ice water into Jello until thickened.
Remove any remaining ice. Spoon Jello over cream cheese layer.
Refrigerate 3 hours or until firm.
Spread remaining Cool Whip over Jello layer. Sprinkle with
remaining cookie crumbs. Decorate as a "graveyard" by poking
sandwich cookies on end into the dessert. Decorate the cookies
as tombstones with the decorator icing. Scatter candy corn and
pumpkins around on the surface.
PUMPKIN BREAD
Makes 2 loaves.
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 tsp. nutmeg
- 3 cups sugar
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups of fresh pumpkin --> 16 ounces if using canned pumpkin
- 2/3 cup water --> if pumpkin is canned
- 1/2 cup water --> if pumpkin is fresh or frozen
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine flour, soda, salt, cinnamon,
nutmeg and sugar in large mixing bowl. Add eggs, water, oil and
pumpkin. Stir until blended. Add nuts. Mix well. Pour into two
9x5" loaf pans. Bake 1 hour. Cool slightly and take out of pans
to let cool on a rack. This tastes best if you wrap, refrigerate
and wait a day to eat it. It keeps well in the refrigerator and
can be frozen.
TOASTED PUMPKIN SEEDS
Even the seeds get into the act. Toast your supply in the time
of plenty, just before the frost touches the colourful autumn
leaves. They will keep for 1 year stored in the freezer or a few
months in a cool place in sealed jars.
Remove the fibres from the seeds of a large pumpkin and place
seeds in a saucepan. Top with cold water, add 1 tsp salt, cover
and simmer 2 hours. Drain and spread on paper towelling 4-8 hours
to dry. When completely dry, place on a baking sheet, sprinkle
with a few spoonfuls of salad oil -- just enough to make seeds
slightly oily when rubbed together.
Set in a 350 F oven for 20-35 minutes, or until nutty brown,
stirring a few times with a fork. When done, spread on brown
paper, salt to taste and let cool. Eat as is, immediately, or
store, and if you then want a crisper seed, warm up in a 350 F
oven for 15 minutes.
CHEESE EYEBALLS
- 2 cups grated Cheddar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 cup flour
- 6 ounce bottle pimento-stuffed green olives
Combine cheese and butter. Add salt, paprika, and flour and mix
well. Measure approximately one ts of this mixture and form an
"eyeball" around an olive. Turn the olive in the "eyeball" so
that it is "staring" outward. Line up the eyeballs on an
ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in 400F oven for 15 minutes.
STRAINED EYEBALLS
- 6 eggs, hardcooked, cooled and peeled
- 6 oz whipped cream cheese
- 12 green olives stuffed with pimientos
- red food coloring or ketchup
Half eggs widthwise. Remove yolks and fill the hole with cream
cheese, smoothing surface as much as possible. Press an olive
into each cream cheese eyeball, pimiento up, for an eerie green
iris and red pupil. Dip a toothpick into ketchup and draw broken
blood vessels in the cream cheese.
CRISPY CATERPILLAR COCOONS
From the book "Gross Grub" (which is full of disgusting recipes).
Posted on EAT-L by Lailani Tilley .
- 1 8-oz. tube refrigerated crescent rolls
- 8 beef sausages (such as Brown & Serve)
- 1 squeeze bottle yellow mustard
Preheat oven according to directions on the crescent-roll
package. Prepare the sausages according to the directions on the
package. Use tongs to remove the cooked sausages from the frying
pan and place them on paper towels. Allow to cool ten to fifteen
minutes. Cut the sausages in half lengthwise. Then use the
rounded tip of a carrot peeler to scoop out a long, shallow
trough down the length of each half. Squeeze a thin line of
mustard into each trough. Separate the crescent-roll dough into
its pre-cut triangle pieces, and lay them flat on an ungreased
cookie sheet. To form insect larvae, take two sausage halves
and, with their mustard-filled sides touching, put them together
to form a whole. Place a whole larva at the wide end of each
dough triangle, and roll up dough as you would regular crescent
rolls. Pinch the ends and seams of the rolls closed. Bake
according to package instructions. (Allow the little buggers to
cool fifteen to twenty minutes before chowing down on their
tender torsos!). Serves: 4 goo gobblers
GNARLED WITCHES FINGERS
- 1 T vegetable oil
- 4 boneless chicken breasts
- 1 cup flour
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- Pitted black olives, halved lengthwise
- Shredded lettuce
Grease cookie sheet with oil, set aside. Carefully cut chicken
breasts part way to create five "fingers" (the uncut part will be
the palm of the hand). Slice them a little crooked for effect.
Dust in flour, dip in egg, coat in bread crumbs, broil 5 minutes
on each side until golden and cooked through. Trim the tips with
the olive fingernails and serve on lettuce.
WORMS AU GRATIN
Worms: 6-7 oz egg noodles, cooked with
8 oz spaghetti, broken into short pieces
Toss with:
2 T butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese
Place in greased casserole.
Dirt: 2 slices whole wheat bread, toasted, crumbled into tiny
crumbs
1 T butter or margarine, melted
1/4 tsp salt
Mix dirt ingredients together, sprinkle over worms.
Place under broiler for 5 minutes.
RADIOACTIVE PUNCH
Easiest is to mix something yellow with something blue. Orange
juice and Mountain Dew are good for the yellow, Great Bluedini
kool-aid is good for the blue. You'll end up with a radioactive
shade of green. If you're using a punch bowl, try this: Get some
of those latex gloves, fill them with water or juice tinted with
food colouring, freeze. Unmold carefully and float the
disembodied hands in the punch bowl. Dry ice and back lighting
are good for effect too."
NUCLEAR WASTE PUNCH
- 1 measure blue curacao
- 1 measure Bailey's Irish Cream
- top up with one pint cider (or lager if you prefer)
The end result is a sort of greenish-brown liquid with scummy
bits floating in it and a THICK layer of scum on top. Tastes
wonderful, especially if you dunk chocolate bars in. (These are
referred to as Control Rods, and the bar of preference is a
Toffee Crisp, if only because the crisped rice pieces start
floating around in the drink and making it look even nastier)
GLYCOL PUNCH
"Glycol Punch has two primary ingredients: Diet Mountain Dew,
which has an decidedly evil odd yellow glow to it. Diet is
necessary so that you don't over sugar people. (Alternately, use
regular Mountain Dew and mix Kool-Aid with less sugar than
usual). BTW, we also tried other sodas, including Squirt, 7-up
and Sprite, but none had that evil yellowness."
"A flourescent blue liquid. I know for a fact that the raspberry
"little hugs" drinks for kids are the perfect color. There is a
Kool-Aid blue flavor that I'm sure would work well, too. For the
"little hugs" the ratio is about 4-5 barrels to 1 2-liter bottle
of soda. Adjust as you think best. I'd start by pouring out the
soda and adding the blue. You know you've got it right when you
get the sickly yellow-green of many Glycol-based Antifreezes.
Plus, when you drink, it fizzes!"
"AQUARIUM" JELLO
- goldfish bowl, nice and clean
- red hots or Jelly Belly gravel beans
- blue Jello
- ice cubes
- cold water
- purple endive
- parsley sprigs
- gummy fish
Use a new or well cleaned goldfish bowl. In the bottom, the
original recipe called for red-hots as the 'gravel', but I plan
to use the Jelly Belly beans that look like rocks. Mix up as
much blue Jello as your bowl will hold. Mix using ice cubes &
cold water instead of the cold water called for on the box. Pour
this into the bowl over a knife blade or something to keep from
disturbing the gravel. If you want it to have 'seaweed', poke a
couple of pieces of purple endive or something similar down into
the gravel. When the whole thing starts to jell, use a wooden
skewer to push gummy fish into different parts of the bowl. If
you're going to be able to supervise the serving, you could even
add a plastic diver man, etc.
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