Archive for the ‘Halloween Treats’ Category
October 31st, 2009 | 
Author: Ingredients
1 c. softened butter
1 c. sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 ¾ c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
¾ c. whole blanched almonds
Red paste-type food coloring
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix dry ingredients except whole almonds. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, egg, and almond and vanilla extracts. Beat in dry ingredients. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
While waiting, dilute some of the red food coloring with water. Brush onto the almonds.
Remove one-fourth of the dough from the refrigerator at a time. Roll heaping teaspoons of dough into a finger shape, making them somewhat smaller than you want the finished cookie to be. Press an almond into one end as a fingernail. Squeeze the center of each cookie in slightly, and use a knife to make slashes for knuckles.
Place cookies on a greased cookie sheet. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until pale golden brown. Let cool on wire rack.
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Ingredients
Pitted dates
Cream cheese
Raisins or dried cranberries
Directions
Slice each date lengthwise. Stuff with cream cheese. Place a raisin or dried cranberry in the center for the pupil.
Ingredients
Whole wheat bread
Sliced ham, turkey or other sandwich meat
Sliced cheese
Mayonnaise
Instructions
Toast bread lightly. Assemble sandwiches, making sure the mayonnaise is on the bottom and the cheese on top. Use a pumpkin cookie cutter to cut a pumpkin shape out of each one. Remove the top slice of bread, and use a small triangular cutter or a knife to cut out eyes, nose and mouth. Replace the top piece of bread.
Ingredients
Count Chocula or Frankenberry cereal (found in some stores around Halloween)
Candy corn
Raisins
Mini marshmallows
Small pretzels
Chocolate chips
Instructions
Mix ingredients in a large bowl or plastic pumpkin in proportions of your choice.
Ingredients
Orange or green Jello
Gummy worms
Crushed Oreo cookies
Clear plastic cups
Instructions
Prepare Jello as directed on package. Place a gummy worm in the bottom of each plastic cup. Pour Jello on top of the gummy worm, filling cup to about ½ to 1 inch from the top. Refrigerate until Jello is set. Add a layer of crumbled cookies to the top of each cup. Place a few gummy worms on top.