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You can make Halloween truly festive when you create your own homemade desserts that complement the holiday. The dessert recipe featured in this informative video produced by Kraft Foods® is the perfect addition to Halloween.
This Jack-O-Lantern-style pumpkin cake is a great way to get the kids in the spirit of Halloween. It is an easy project to have them join in and help. They will have fun creating their own unique face and will love adding the little spiders to the pumpkin cake.
Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty . . .
Shrunken Heads Halloween Decorations
Ingredients: Makes 8 Shrunken Heads
4 large apples
1 cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon coarse salt
Remove most of the peel from 4 large apples.
A Halloween Black Cat Cake that is sure to get the attention of all the little ghosts and goblins at your Halloween celebration. You will have as much fun making this fun cake as the kids will have eating it. It has a simple pattern and is easy to decorate. The little ghosts and goblins will probably want to help. It is the perfect project to get them excited for Halloween.
Water Bugs and Roaches
Water Bugs
Ingredients: Makes 5 Bugs
5 Kalamata olives
30 long fresh rosemary leaves
10 short fresh rosemary leaves
These have just enough zippy flavor that you might stick out your tongue and hope for more.
Eerie Floating Hand
Ingredients: Makes 16 cups of lemonade and 1 stone-cold hand
1 (32 oz.) bottle dark blue sports drink or other bottled beverage
2 (.
Zombie Eyes
EERIE!!
Keep watching them - they NEVER blink!
Ingredients: Makes 12 eggs that will watch your every move
6 eggs
1/4 C. mayonnaise
1/4tsp.
Dough Toes
Hideous!
They're short and stubby, crusty and disgusting - they're dough toes!
Ingredients: Makes about 64 unmanicured toes
1 (11 oz.
Creepy Eyeballs
Aagghh!!
It's eerie when your food can watch you eat.
Ingredients: Makes 20 look-me-in-the-eye-when-I'm-talking-to-you cookies
3 (1 oz.
Brittle Bones
Bone Chilling!!
No bones about it-they're creepy andspine-tingling, and they crunch when you bite 'em.
Ingredients: Makes 20 crunchy bones
5 large pretzel rods
10 thin pretzel sticks
20 regular marshmallows
20 mini marshmallows
12-14 oz.
Gnarly Fingers
finger-lickin' good
Fragile fingernails and gnarled knuckles - what could be better?
Ingredients: Makes 30-40 twisted fingers
2 - 3 tbsp.
Putrid Piranha
Vicious!
Do NOT - I repeat - do NOT put your fingers in its mouth!It's a meat eater, you know.
Ingredients: Makes 1 outrageously dangerous fish
1 (1.
Eyeball Ice Cubes
Ingredients: Makes a tray full of eyeballs
Blueberries
Ice cube trays
Place 1 blueberry in each compartment of an ice cube or ice ball tray.
Brain Teaser
SICK!!
You've heard the saying "pick somebody's brain" . . .now it's your turn to do it.
Ingredients: Makes 1 numb noggin'
1 head cauliflower - the brain
2 C.
Brain Food
Spine-tingling!!
Any melon head would like this!
Ingredients: Makes 1 edible cranium
1 small seedless watermelon - the brain
A picture of a brain to use as a guide
Step #1: Determine which side you want to carve.
Pumpkin & Fresh Flower Candle Holder
Trace the bottom of a 4 to 6-inch pillar candle onto the top of a pumpkin.
With a sharp knife, cut along the traced line. While cutting, hold the knife at an angle, this will create a cone shape.
Halloween . . . that time of year when you are thinking of carving pumpkins. When you are ready to carve a pumpkin you will have to choose just the right pumpkin for your pattern, clean the inside of the pumpkin, apply your pattern, and then carve the pumpkin.
Carving a pumpkin for Halloween and making pumpkin pie for a Thanksgiving feast are what many of us consider to be the two most popular uses for pumpkin, but they certainly aren't the only ways to use this versatile vegetable.