How to Make Easy Meals

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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.

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.