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Halloween treats - 10/17/2005 6:59:29 PM   
subversiveone


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Status: offline 		For anyone out there into cooking their treats instead of just candy, or those having parties for the kids, this is an idea i stole off of Martha a few years ago:

Ingredients

1 cup Butter, softened (please note, premade sugar cookie dough tubes work too)
1 cup Icing sugar
1 Egg
1 tsp Almond extract
1 tsp Vanilla
2 2/3 cup flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Salt
3/4 cup Almonds, whole blanched
1 Tube red decorator gel or food coloring

Directions
In bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla. Beat in flour, baking soda, and salt. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Working with one quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remainder refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoonful of dough into finger shape for each cookie. Press almond firmly into 1 end for nail. Squeeze in centre to create knuckle shape. Using paring knife, make slashes in several places to form knuckle. With kids helping, use butter knife.

Place on lightly greased baking sheets; bake in 325F (160C) oven for 20-25 minutes or until pale golden. Let cool for 3 minutes. Lift up almond, squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back in place, so gel oozes out from underneath. For less mess just paint the almond red with food coloring, only a few drops can color the whole batch ahead of time in a plastic bag...You can also make slashes in the finger and fill them with "blood."

Remove from baking sheets and let cool on racks. Repeat with remaining dough.
Display fingers upright coming out of something like Oreo cookie "dirt" in a pot, fake grave, bowl of MnM's, or even cake.
For super spooky fingers serve with milk colored with food coloring. Green will really freak em out.
For kinky adults, shape into penises and use twizzlers for the bondage gear.

God i love Halloween ;)

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/17/2005 7:47:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		great recipe thanks!
my 9 yr old daughter's bday is just before halloween and i'm always looking for unique ways to make her bday a bit spookier.

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/17/2005 8:08:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just found an alternate version that sounds cool too on Food Network:
1 cup water
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 large eggs
Pinch cayenne
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 cup grated Cheddar, (about 4 ounces)
1 large egg yolk
Whole unblanched almonds
Kosher salt

Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Put the water, butter, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, whisking until the butter and sugar melts. Remove pan from the heat and sift the flour into the pan. Stir the dough together with a wooden spoon. Return to the heat and stir constantly until pulls away from the sides of the pan and is slightly shiny, about 3 minutes.

Transfer the dough to a medium bowl, and beat until cooled, about 2 minutes. Add the cayenne, and whole eggs, 1 at a time, incorporating each 1 thoroughly before adding the next. Mix in the mustard and cheese.

Put 1/4-inch plain tip in a pastry bag, and spoon the dough into the bag. Pipe 3 1/2-inch long thin finger-like shapes onto prepared pans. Beat the egg yolk with a tablespoon of water and dab or brush the tops of each witches' finger with it. Lay an almond on the end of each witches finger so that it looks like a nail, sprinkle fingers with kosher salt.

Bake for 15 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F. Continue baking until the fingers are golden brown and slightly crisp, about 5 minutes more. Cool on a rack.

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/17/2005 8:17:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice! for those who aren't looking for a sweet treat but still very goulish!

thanks so much for those.

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/17/2005 8:21:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		welcome welcome ;) your stromboli sounds good too. ever put mushrooms in it?
edited to add, here's a link with tons of Halloween treats: http://southernfood.about.com/library/holiday/blhwidx.htm

There's a recipie for what is essentially a layered jello dessert in the form of a graveyard there. I was thinking it would be neat to make jello coffins with little candy things inside. What would be really sweet is to find little skeletons and sink them into the tray of jello, then cut around them in forms like coffins or even the human body.

The Halloween standby at my house are bloody rice crispy treats. If you fill a baggie with cherry syrup or grenadine, then form your mixture around the bag (perhaps into the shape of an eye) when someone goes to cut it, they get a bloody surprise that tastes good. The only problem is you have to then eat all the treats at once or they get soggy. Not so horrible a problem really. I decorated an entire party last year with eyeball theme, so this one went over very well, complete with frosting bulging bloodshot veins and pupil. I found (and think they have this year too) an inflatable drink tub covered with eyeballs and one big inflated eyeball in the center. Picture a kiddie pool in miniature. We floated glo sticks in the icy water so that the beer (green bottles) had an eerie nuclear radiation glow about it.

My next project calls for a funeral parlor theme so im trying to make 'specimens' out of cabbage and colored water!

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/17/2005 9:53:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		i haven't tried the stromboli with mushrooms, unfortunately none of my kids like mushrooms but i love them.

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/18/2005 12:55:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		When we have pasta at my house half the family likes mushrooms, the other half hates 'em. So for the half of the family who enjoy a helping or two of fungi with their spaghetti my dad will typically get a can or two of sliced mushrooms, cook them in a pan with some of the tomato sauce and then share them with my sister after they've applied enough sauce from the mushroom free pots of sauce.

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/18/2005 1:26:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		I know it is a professional site but...for halloween treats I take to parties I always check out
Kraftfoods.com

Since they own almost half the world when it come's to food....well they have lot's of recipes.

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/18/2005 5:19:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		One quick treat for parties (used to use this for my cub scouts), make the rice krispie treats on the box. Once that's done, add regular M&M's to the mix, cool and cut..the kids love em, and it's just a little different.

cheers
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RE: Halloween treats - 10/18/2005 7:54:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		I love Kraft.com! They do have neat stuff from time to time. And easy.
I thought about trying a ghost shaped rice krispy this time, with extra mini marshmallows for either a stir-in or to cover the entire exterior before it cools. If i do cover it with extra marshmallows to make it white then adding the M n M's might be an interesting *crunch* reminiscent of bones ;)
Has anyone tried the meringue bones? It's just piped into the shape of little bones, almost like dog biscuits. Being the Halloweenie that i am, i offered to throw a Corpse Bride party for my roomies (got veto'd) and was going to dress up my little Jack Russell as the dog from the movie. There are a lot of similarities between Nightmare and C.B. one being the usage of a skele-dog. They make tee shirts that having glowing white bones painted on a black fabric for dogs now ;) What a hoot to serve 'dog bones' that are just meringue.
Does anyone have a link for scientific experiment-food projects? You know, the kind where you hide something like baking soda in a food and it foams later or the cucumber swims like a shark or the cake changes color?
Other than red velvet cake, what sort of cake do you make for Halloween in particular? Devils food?
I saw another soup idea for floating eyeballs. Take mini mozzeralla balls and stuff a slice of olive/pimento into one side for a white eyeball with green iris, then float on tomato 'blood' soup for the kids before trick or treating.
Oh, i almost forgot to tell you, we made butterscotch spider nests with chow mein noodles and morsels last week. They're looong gone though ;)

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/18/2005 8:09:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Take a look at these recipes. lol I think these are about the most lifelike I have seen in a very long time. Those eyeballs alone are enough to make you a bit squeemish. Or my personal favorite, the bleeding heart. lol

http://www.britta.com/HW/HWr.html

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/18/2005 8:18:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Saint, you have ESP (or espn?) as I was just looking at that. I love Penn n Teller ;)

edited to add: she has the same exact witch finger recipie with pics! she also has the bones and a great version of the eyeballs that Saint mentioned.

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RE: Halloween treats - 10/18/2005 9:28:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		A few items that have come across my inbox the past few days.

Magic Potions
Before the party, make buggy ice cubes by freezing a raisin in each cube. Mix one package of unsweetened purple drink mix with 1/2 cup sugar and place in a bowl. Label this as "Bat Wing Powder." Use several flavors/colors if desired. Affix new labels on beverage bottles and cans that read "Swamp Gas," "Dragon's Blood," "Juice of Slug," etc. (lemon-lime soda, grenadine syrup and tropical nectar, respectively). Other juices and syrups and additional flavors of soda can also be added to the selection. A bowl of gummy worms is a nice addition. At the party, provide each guest with a 16-ounce (or larger) clear plastic cup. Have the guests put some soda in their glass. Next they should add a spoonful of "Bat Wing Powder." The citric acid in the drink mix reacts with the soda by fizzing and foaming. Allow guests to add other ingredients as they choose. They can recite this spell before drinking their potions if they like:


Witch's Brew
1 cup boiling water
2 packages (4 servings each) lime-flavored gelatin
3 cups cold water
1 bottle lemon-lime carbonated drink
1/2 cup of sugar
Gummy worms
Dissolve the gelatin and sugar in the boiling water. Stir in the cold water and the bottle of the lemon-lime drink. Drop some gummy worms in the punch. Float bug ice rings* in the punch, if desired. Garnish with additional gummy worms and/or bugs.


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RE: Halloween treats - 10/22/2005 7:59:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		this site is soooooooo cool..thanks for sharing...yummmmmmmmm


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ORIGINAL: Saint

Take a look at these recipes. lol I think these are about the most lifelike I have seen in a very long time. Those eyeballs alone are enough to make you a bit squeemish. Or my personal favorite, the bleeding heart. lol

http://www.britta.com/HW/HWr.html



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