Halloween Recipes

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Alien Faces Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Butter
• 2 large Eggs
• 1/8 tsp Salt
• 1/3 cup Cream
• 1/4 cup Shortening
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup Granulated Sugar
• 2 tbsp Light Corn Syrup
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Almond Extract
• 2 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 2-1/2 cups Confectioners' Sugar (sifted)
• Black Decorating Gel (or black gumdrops)

How to make Alien Faces

• Mix cream, butter, shortening and granulated sugar in an electric mixer for 1 to 2 minutes.
• Now add corn syrup, eggs, vanilla and almond extracts, and salt to it. Mix it thoroughly until the mixture gets fluffy.
• Sieve 1-3/4 cups of flour and baking powder together. Add this to sugar mixture and blend well. Cover and refrigerate the dough for 2-3 hours.
• Now smear the flat surface with remaining flour and roll out dough to 1/4-inch thickness.
• From the rolled out dough, cut out faces with oval or egg shaped cookie cutters and use edge of a teaspoon to form teardrop-shaped eyes.
• Preheat the oven to 375°F. Place the cookies on ungreased cookie sheet and bake them for 8 to 10 minutes until sides begin to brown slightly.
• Allow the cookies to cool on cooling rack positioned over sheet of waxed paper.
• To make glaze, take confectioners' sugar and add cream, tablespoon by tablespoon, until smooth and thin.
• Pour glaze over cooled cookies on rack (Waxed paper will catch drips).
• Once glaze is dry, decorate faces with black gel or use sliced black gumdrops to make eyes.
• Alien Faces are ready to be served.

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Zombie Eyeballs Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 stick Butter Or Margarine
• 1/2 pound Grated Cheddar
• 1 cup Flour
• 1 tsp Paprika
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 24 small Stuffed Olives

How to make Zombie Eyeballs

• Leave the butter or margarine out until soft. Mix it with cheese in a mixing bowl until well blended.
• Mix the flour, paprika, and salt in another bowl.
• Mix both the two mixtures until well-blended.
• Teaspoon by teaspoon, form “eyeballs” with the above-made mixture around the olives. Place them on ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake the eyeballs in the preheated oven (400 degrees F) for 12-15 min.
• Zombie Eyeballs are ready to serve.

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Icy Witch Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 quart Vanilla Ice Cream
• 2 pouches Wheat Cereal (shredded)
• 4 Ice Cream Cones
• 8 Chocolate Chips
• 1 bag Gummy Candy
• 1 Red Licorice Lace
• Chocolate Icing

How to make Icy Witch

• Divide ice cream into four scoops; wrap each in plastic wrap and freeze until firm, or for at least 3 hours.
• Spread chocolate icing on each cone, which will be used as the hat.
• Unwrap each ice-cream scoop and place it on a plate. Put shredded-wheat over the top that will act as hair.
• Use chocolate icing as glue to stick cone hat atop hair.
• Make the chocolate-chip eyes, gummy-candy nose, and licorice-strip mouth.
• Icy Witch is ready to eat. Serve before it melts.

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Pumpkin Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup Vegetable Oil
• 3 Eggs
• 15 ounce Pumpkin Puree
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extrac
• 2-1/2 cups White Sugar
• 2 -1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Ground Nutmeg
• 1 tsp Ground Allspice
• 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Ground Cloves
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 1/4 cup Chopped Nuts

How to make Pumpkin Cake

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan up to 10 inches and keep it aside.
• Mix oil, beaten eggs, pumpkin and vanilla together in a bowl or electric mixer.
• Sieve the flour, sugar, baking soda, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, ground cinnamon, ground cloves and salt together.
• Add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture and blend until mixed well. Add chopped nuts and pour the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake the batter in the preheated oven for 1 hour. After the desired period allow the cake to cool.
• Finally after 5 minutes, turn the cake out onto a plate and sprinkle confectioners' sugar over it.
• Pumpkin Cake is ready to serve.

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Halloween Popcorn Balls Recipe

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 cup Candy-Coated Milk Chocolate Pieces
• 1-1/2 cup Light-Colored Corn Syrup
• 17 ounce Marshmallow Creme
• 20 cups Popped Popcorn
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 1/2 cups Sugar
• 2 tbsp Butter

How to make Halloween Popcorn Balls

• Remove all unpopped kernels from popped popcorn. Place them in a buttered 17x12x2-inch baking pan or roasting pan heated at 300 degree F.
• Now add corn soup and sugar in a large saucepan and bring it to boil. Remove the pan from heat and stir in marshmallow creme, butter, and vanilla until combined.
• Pour marshmallow mixture over hot popcorn; stir gently to coat. Cool until popcorn mixture can be handled easily. Stir in candies.
• Now with damp hands, quickly shape mixture into 3-inch-diameter balls.
• Wrap each popcorn ball in plastic wrap and store at room temperature up to 1 week.
• Halloween Popcorn Balls are ready to savor.

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Cupcake Graveyard Recipe

Ingredients

• 18.25 ounce Chocolate Cake Mix
• 16 ounce Vanilla Frosting
• 3/4 cup Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Crumbs
• 24 Chocolate Covered Graham Cracker Cookies

How to make Cupcake Graveyard

• Prepare and bake cake mix as per the directions given on the package for cupcakes.
• Take 8 ounce of vanilla frosting and cookie crumbs in a medium-sized bowl, and stir well. Frost cooled cupcakes.
• Now take a pastry bag and fill it with remaining white frosting.
• Write R.I.P. on each chocolate covered graham cracker cookie. And stand each decorated cookie on top of each cupcake so that it looks like a tombstone.
• Cupcake Graveyard is ready to serve.