Cookerati

Halloween parties are a wonderful time to put on a costume and make some cool treats.  My friend Josephine’s son just turned 16.  Since it was so close to Halloween she decorated, dressed up in a fun hat and apron, and made fun stuff for the kids to eat. We were all blown away with her ideas, so I took great pictures in order to share them with you.  Okay, maybe the pics aren’t great, it’s my husband’s cell phone after all.

Tombstones:

  What you need:

• Half of a graham cracker for the base
• Mini Snickers
• Chocolate Covered Graham Cookie
• Chocolate Icing
• Pumpkin Candy
• Green Food Coloring
• Coconut flakes
• Tube of white decorator icing

Directions:

Ice the graham cracker.  Place snickers near the back, icing the whole backside of it.  Push the graham cracker into icing.  Place pumpkin in front of the snickers, sprinkle with coconut and (not shown) write name with white icing tube on front of tombstone.

 Ghostly Hand Punch:

What you need:

• Punch Bowl
• Latex Glove
• Punch

Directions:

Fill latex glove with water, tie closed and put into freezer.

My friend has done this before and made punch with soda, etc, but has more success with just pouring a jug of store bought punch in the bowl as it is. Place the frozen glove into the punch  – it will float, which is pretty cool.

 Alien Cupcakes:

What you need:

• Cupcake
• Green Icing
• Twizzlers
• Marshmallow
• Donut Hole
• Black tube of decorator icing

Directions:  Ice cupcake. Cut a marshmallow in half and place smack in the middle of the icing, ice bottom of donut hole and stick on top of marshmallow. Freeze the cupcakes (marshmallows and donut hole).  Place icing into a glass measuring cup.  Heat in microwave.  Do not boil, just warm.  Dip cupcake into icing. Let cool.

Use toothpick to poke hole in alien head. Pull apart twizzlers, cut to right size for antenna, and push into toothpick hole.  Using black tube of icing, place eyes on alien.  Jo also placed the cupcakes into clear plastic cups so that they looked like they were in ships.

From Taste of Home, here are some more fun treats to make:

MARSHMALLOW WITCHES,

Ooey gooey chocolaty – a sweet treat and perfect for kids to make with a quick assembly line of marshmallows, milk chocolate kisses and mini  peanut butter cups! 

STRAWBERRY GHOSTS

Strawberries dipped in white chocolate seasoned with almond extract and decorated with chocolate chips, a definitely party hit!

CHEESENSTEIN

Whipped cream cheese and cheddar cheese, Worchester sauce, hot peppers and onions decorated with vegetables, olives and black decorating gel for the final touch! 

For these tasty of treats or to find more visit www.tasteofhome.com/halloween.