Halloween Tricks and Treats!

April and Michelle - the Halloween Queens! They both shared their coolest Halloween goodies with us! What a treat!

Apple Bites

Ingredients

· Apples

· Slivered almonds

Instructions

1. Just quarter and core an apple, cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter, then press slivered almonds in place for teeth.

2. Tip: If you're not going to serve them right away, baste the apples with orange juice to keep them from browning.

Oreo Spiders - separate oreos, cut pull n' peel licorice (or other thin strips of licorice) to size of legs and stick it into cream filling. Replace tops of cookie (may need to use a little frosting for it to stick). Use frosting to attach candy (reeses or m&m's) for eyes.

Bone Breadsticks

Ingredients

· 1 ½ Cup Warm Water

· 1 T. Yeast

· 1 T. Malt (or Sugar)

· 1 T. Honey

· 1 tsp. Salt

· 4 C. Flour

· Butter

· Garlic salt and parsley (optional)

Instructions

1. Combine water and yeast in a bowl. Add malt, honey, and salt. Stir.
2. Add flour, 1 C. at a time, stirring after each addition, until a soft dough is formed. (Dough should be a little sticky, but easy to work with.)
3. Divide in half and continue to divide until you have 24 or so balls.
4. Roll balls into long bread sticks. To create the “bone” look, tear a slit at one end of the breadstick. Mold each piece of the tears into little rounds to create the boney edges. Do the same to the other end of the breadstick.
5. Place on greased cookie sheet. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with seasonings.
6. Let rise 10-15 minutes. Bake at 350° for 11-13 minutes.

Hot dog Mummies

Ingredients

· refrigerator breadstick, pizza, or rolls dough

· hot dogs

· Yellow mustard

Instructions

1. For each mummy, separate one piece of dough from the roll and use a knife to slice it to create thinner strips.

2. Wrap one strip at a time snugly around the hot dog. Leave about 1/2 inch of hot dog exposed for the face area and continue wrapping the top of the hot dog.

3. Bake the mummies on a cookie sheet at 350º for 15 to 18 minutes or until the dough wrapping is golden brown.

4. Remove the mummies from the oven and cool them for 5 minutes. Add yellow mustard eyes just before serving.

Eyeball Deviled Eggs

6 hard boiled egg yolks
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 teaspoon salt
dash of pepper
2 teaspoons mustard
1 teaspoon minced onion
green food coloring (as light or as dark as you want the green to be)

Mix all of the above together. Spoon filling back into egg halves (make them heaping).


For creepy effect:
Add a sliced olive over the filling in each egg.
Use a toothpick dipped in red food coloring to draw the bloody veins onto each egg.


Tip: Draw the veins on just before displaying/serving. If you have to do it ahead of time, do not cover the eggs in the fridge, or else the condensation will smear the red food coloring.

Halloween Finger Cookies
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
red decorating gel
sliced almonds

In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg, vanilla, and almond extract.

Separately combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture.

If dough is too soft for shaping, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Work with one piece of dough at a time; roll dough into 1-inch balls. Shape balls into 3-inch by 1/2-inch fingers. Use the tip of a butter knife to make an indentation on one end of each finger for the fingernail. With a knife, make two slashes just above the nail indentation, and then three more slashes in the middle of each finger for the knuckles.

Place 2 inches apart on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake at 325 degrees for 20-25 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool for a few minutes.

Squeeze a small amount of red gel on each nail bed, and press a sliced almond over the gel for the nail, allowing the gel to ooze around the nail.

Note: You can add a touch of green paste food coloring to the dough while mixing for a monstery finger. Don't use liquid food coloring as that will affect the consistency of the dough, and could also make it more sticky.

Yield: 2 cookie sheets full of fingers, approximately 50-60 cookies

Witch Hat Cookies

Ingredients

· Hershey’s Kisses (unwrapped)

· Fudge-striped cookies

· Icing

· Sprinkles, candy (optional)

Instructions

1. Attach one Kiss to the bottom of a striped cookie, using icing to hold them together.

2. Pipe icing around the base of the Hershey’s Kiss.

3. Decorate with sprinkles or little candies!

Pizza Mummies

Ingredients

· English muffins

· Pizza sauce

· Black olives

· Green veggie

· Cheese sticks or slices

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 350º F. For each mummy, spread pizza sauce onto half of an English muffin (toast it first, if you like).

2. Set olive slices in place for eyes and add slices of green veggie for the mummies pupils.

3. Lay strips of cheese (we used a pulled-apart cheese stick) across the muffin for the mummies wrappings.

4. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the muffin is toasty.