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Candy Corn Recipe


2011
12.19

Candy Corn

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup white corn syrup
  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/3 cup powdered milk
  • food colouring (optional)

Directions

  1. Combine sugar, butter, and corn syrup in pan and bring to a boil stirring CONSTANTLY. Turn heat low and boil 5 minutes. Stir occasionally. Remove from heat and add vanilla. In a separate dish, combine powdered sugar, salt, and powdered milk.
  2. Add all at once to the mixture in the pan. Add food coloring if desired.
  3. Stir until cool enough to handle. Shape into creative pieces.
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Pumpkin Cake Recipe


2010
09.25

Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients

  • 4 Eggs
  • 2 c Sugar
  • 2 c Cooked pumpkin
  • 1 c Oil
  • 3 c All-purpose flour
  • 1 ts Salt
  • 2 ts Baking soda
  • 2 ts Baking powder
  • 2 ts Cinnamon
  • 1 c Nuts or raisins

Instructions

  1. In the food processor, combine the eggs an sugar until smooth.
  2. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and raisins or nuts.
  3. Stir in the cooked and mashed pumpkin. Turn the batter into two round cake molds, greased and lightly floured.
  4. Bake in a preheated oven at 350F for 40 minutes. Unmold an stack the cakes, and ice with an orange – tinted frosting.
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Fudgy Bat Cookies Recipe


2010
09.25

Ingredients

  • 9 oz Chocolate wafer cookies
  • 4 oz Milk chocolate candy melts

Instructions

  1. Use a serrated knife to carefully cut 18 of the cookies into quarters. Save remaining cookies for another use. For each bat, place 2 cookie quarters 1/4″ apart on waxed paper.
  2. Repeat with remaining quarters. Melt candy melts. Drop about 1/2 teaspoon of melted candy at center of each bat, connecting cookies. Use a toothpick to smooth melted candy into a uniform circle.
  3. Cool completely before removing from waxed paper.
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Black Cat Cupcakes Recipe


2010
09.24

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 c Reduced Fat Oreo cookie crumbs
  • 18 1/4 ozs reduced fat chocolate cake mix
  • 24 pcs Halloween Oreo cookies
  • 16 ozs reduced fat milk chocolate frosting
  • black string licorice
  • jelly beans
  • semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Prepare 24-2 1/2″ muffin cups with cooking spray and flour; set aside.
  2. Prepare cake mix according to package directions; stir in cookie crumbs. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from pans; cool on wire rack.
  3. Make cat faces on each of the remaining 24 cookies: using some frosting, attach 4-1 1/2″ licorice strings for whiskers, 2 jelly bean halves for eyes and 2 chocolate chips for ears. Let set at least 30 minutes.
  4. Frost cupcakes with remaining frosting. Stand cat faces on edge on each cupcake. Place 3″ piece licorice string on back half of each cupcake for tail.

Witch Sticks


2008
10.25

24 sticks (drumettes)

1/4 cup honey

1/4 cup regular soy sauce

1/4 cup light soy sauce

1/2 cup water

1 large crushed clove garlic

24 chicken drumettes

Directions

1. Stir together the honey, regular and light soy sauces, water and garlic.

2. Put the chicken into a glass bowl and add the marinade. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Turn the chicken occasionally.

3. Place the chicken on a foil-lined broiling pan. Put the marinade into a saucepan and boil 3 minutes to thicken. Brush some over the chicken.

4. Bake in a preheated 400-degree oven 35 minutes, or until done. Brush occasionally with the thickened marinade. Serve warm or cold.

Data per 2 drumettes
Calories 140
Protein 14.7g
Fat 5.8g
Carbohydrates 6.7g
Sodium 585mg
Saturated fat 1.58g
Monounsaturated fat 2.21g
Polyunsaturated fat 1.30g
Cholesterol 48mg

Ghosts on Broomsticks


2008
10.24

Gangrenous Scrambled Legs

Ghosts on Broomsticks

Ingredients for Ghosts on Broomsticks

1 pound  white chocolate chips
1/2 cup  tiny red cinnamon candies
12  wooden sticks

Directions for Ghosts on Broomsticks

Heat 2 inches of water to simmering, not boiling, in the bottom of a double boiler.  Place
the white chocolate chips in the smaller pot and set it over the pot of simmering water.
Cook on low heat, stirring constantly until the chocolate is fully melted.  Remove from
the heat. Cover 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper.  Arrange the wooden sticks on the
waxed paper, 6 to a sheet.  Spoon ghost-shaped blobs of chocolate onto the paper,
partially covering each stick.  Press 2 candies into each ghost for eyes.  Freeze ghosts for
15 minutes, or until hard.

Serving Size  : 12

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