Ms. Jean from Adventure Foods sent me this in a email.......... Want to have some Halloween Fun.... with good taste ... here you go.
Halloween Food
Cheese Eyeballs Recipe
1/2 lb (2 c) Cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 c Margarine
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Paprika
1 c Flour
6 oz Bottle stuffed green olives
Preheat oven to 400°F. Shred cheese in work bowl of food processor, then place metal chopping blade in work bowl and add margarine. Combine salt, paprika, and flour in separate bowl. Turn on food processor, and slowly add flour mixture tbrough the feed tube. Stop processing as soon as ingredients are combined. Measure approximately one ts of this mixture and form an "eyeball" around an olive. Turn the olive in the "eyeball" so that it is "staring" outward. This recipe will yield about 24 "eyeballs". Line up the eyeballs on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in the oven for approximately 15 minutes.
Hot Dog Mummies
by Gregory Lauzon
A Halloween recipe idea from Family Fun magazine
Hot Dog Mummies Feast your eyes, if you dare, on these Hot Dog Mummies. They're the perfect energy food before an evening of collecting candy.
INGREDIENTS
11-ounce can of refrigerator bread sticks
Kitchen shears or knife
12-pack of hot dogs
Yellow mustard
DIRECTIONS
1. For each mummy, separate one bread stick from the roll and use kitchen shears or a knife to slice it in half lengthwise to create two thinner strips.
2. Wrap one strip at a time snugly around the hot dog. Depending on the size of the hot dog, you may not need all of both strips. Leave about 1/2 inch of hot dog exposed for the face area and continue wrapping the top of the hot dog.
3. Bake the mummies on a cookie sheet at 350º for 15 to 18 minutes or until the breadstick wrapping is golden brown.
4. Remove the mummies from the oven and cool them for 5 minutes. Add yellow mustard eyes just before serving. Makes 12 mummies.
Creepy Peepers
A Halloween treat idea from Family Fun magazine
creepy peepers You won't have to egg on your kids to enjoy these edible eyeballs.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS
1 egg
1 teaspoon mayonnaise
Dab of mustard
2 black olives
DIRECTIONS
1. Place an egg in a small saucepan and cover it with cold water. Bring it to a boil and cook for one minute, then turn off the heat. Cover and let sit for 12 minutes.
2. Drain the hot water and run cold water over the shell. Then peel the egg and slice it in half lengthwise.
3. Scoop out the yolk into a bowl and mash it with the mayonnaise, mustard, and a pinch of salt.
4. Spoon the mixture back into the egg white halves and top each with a ripe olive. Serves 1.
Deviled Mice Recipe
8 eggs 4 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise
6 large lettuce leaves
16 pimento stuffed olives
1 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles
Hard boil the eggs. Gently crack the eggs against a hard surface, then carefully peel off the shells. Slice each egg in half lengthwise. Scoop out the yolks and put them in a small bowl. Mash the yolks with a fork until they are crumbly. Add mayonnaise and blend. Carefully fill the empty egg whites with yolk mixture.
Cover a platter with lettuce leaves, setting a leaf or two aside for garnish. Arrange the egg halves, yolk side down, on the leaves. These are your mice bodies. To give them each eyes and a nose, pull the pimento out of an olive and cut it into three small pieces. Cut thirty two thin, lengthwise strips from several of the green olives.
Stick two of these strips end to end onto the back end of the mouse to form the tail. Out of the remaining olives, cut thirty two small triangular ear pieces.
To garnish: Tear small pieces of lettuce and position in front of the mice's mouths. As a final touch, heap a pile of mouse droppings (chocolate sprinkles) on the platter to re-create an authentically tidy mouse toilette.
Ghoulish Goodies ........................
Funny Bones
yield: Makes 36 bones
More fun with pretzels and melted chocolate! Like the pretzel
lollipop ghosts, these are a tasty mix of sweet and salty. With
the white chocolate...
Ingredients
* 1 (12-ounce) package white chocolate chips (2 cups)
* 36 pretzel sticks and rods of various sizes
* 72 mini-marshmallows (about 1 cup)
Preparation
1. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
2. Place the chips in a double boiler over just-simmering water
and melt, stirring frequently. As soon as the chips are just
melted (there may even be a few solid ones left), remove the
pan from the heat and remove the top section of the double
boiler so the chocolate’s temperature doesn’t keep rising.
3. Stick marshmallows onto both ends of the pretzels, with the
marshmallows’ flat sides parallel to the pretzel.
4. Dip each pretzel in the chocolate and lift out with a fork,
letting the excess drip back in the bowl. Lay the bones on the
baking sheet and refrigerate for 30 minutes to harden the
chocolate. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator or
at a cool room temperature.
Cheese-Finger Food
Partying in costume calls for easy-eating fare, and these cheesy monster digits fit the bill.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Mozzarella string cheese
Green bell pepper
Cream cheese
1. Wearing plastic gloves or sandwich bags over your hands to keep the cheese as smudge-free as possible, use a paring knife (parents only) to cut each string in half and then carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half.
2. Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured.
3. For the fingernails, slice a green bell pepper into 3/8-inch-wide strips. Set the strips skin side down on your work surface and trim the pulp so that it's about half as thick. Then cut the strips into ragged-topped nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.
Note: You can also make Witches Fingers by taking refrigerated cookie dough and shaping into fingers with slashes for the knuckles and almond slices for the finger nails.
Spider Pretzels
Spider Pretzels These arachnid treats are easy to make and they look positively lifelike crawling across your child's snack plate.
For each:
2 round crackers
2 teaspoons smooth peanut butter
8 small pretzel sticks
2 raisins
With the peanut butter, make a cracker sandwich. Insert eight pretzel "legs" into the filling. With a dab of peanut butter, set two raisin "eyes" on top. Makes 1.
Halloween Food
Cheese Eyeballs Recipe
1/2 lb (2 c) Cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 c Margarine
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Paprika
1 c Flour
6 oz Bottle stuffed green olives
Preheat oven to 400°F. Shred cheese in work bowl of food processor, then place metal chopping blade in work bowl and add margarine. Combine salt, paprika, and flour in separate bowl. Turn on food processor, and slowly add flour mixture tbrough the feed tube. Stop processing as soon as ingredients are combined. Measure approximately one ts of this mixture and form an "eyeball" around an olive. Turn the olive in the "eyeball" so that it is "staring" outward. This recipe will yield about 24 "eyeballs". Line up the eyeballs on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in the oven for approximately 15 minutes.
Hot Dog Mummies
by Gregory Lauzon
A Halloween recipe idea from Family Fun magazine
Hot Dog Mummies Feast your eyes, if you dare, on these Hot Dog Mummies. They're the perfect energy food before an evening of collecting candy.
INGREDIENTS
11-ounce can of refrigerator bread sticks
Kitchen shears or knife
12-pack of hot dogs
Yellow mustard
DIRECTIONS
1. For each mummy, separate one bread stick from the roll and use kitchen shears or a knife to slice it in half lengthwise to create two thinner strips.
2. Wrap one strip at a time snugly around the hot dog. Depending on the size of the hot dog, you may not need all of both strips. Leave about 1/2 inch of hot dog exposed for the face area and continue wrapping the top of the hot dog.
3. Bake the mummies on a cookie sheet at 350º for 15 to 18 minutes or until the breadstick wrapping is golden brown.
4. Remove the mummies from the oven and cool them for 5 minutes. Add yellow mustard eyes just before serving. Makes 12 mummies.
Creepy Peepers
A Halloween treat idea from Family Fun magazine
creepy peepers You won't have to egg on your kids to enjoy these edible eyeballs.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS
1 egg
1 teaspoon mayonnaise
Dab of mustard
2 black olives
DIRECTIONS
1. Place an egg in a small saucepan and cover it with cold water. Bring it to a boil and cook for one minute, then turn off the heat. Cover and let sit for 12 minutes.
2. Drain the hot water and run cold water over the shell. Then peel the egg and slice it in half lengthwise.
3. Scoop out the yolk into a bowl and mash it with the mayonnaise, mustard, and a pinch of salt.
4. Spoon the mixture back into the egg white halves and top each with a ripe olive. Serves 1.
Deviled Mice Recipe
8 eggs 4 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise
6 large lettuce leaves
16 pimento stuffed olives
1 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles
Hard boil the eggs. Gently crack the eggs against a hard surface, then carefully peel off the shells. Slice each egg in half lengthwise. Scoop out the yolks and put them in a small bowl. Mash the yolks with a fork until they are crumbly. Add mayonnaise and blend. Carefully fill the empty egg whites with yolk mixture.
Cover a platter with lettuce leaves, setting a leaf or two aside for garnish. Arrange the egg halves, yolk side down, on the leaves. These are your mice bodies. To give them each eyes and a nose, pull the pimento out of an olive and cut it into three small pieces. Cut thirty two thin, lengthwise strips from several of the green olives.
Stick two of these strips end to end onto the back end of the mouse to form the tail. Out of the remaining olives, cut thirty two small triangular ear pieces.
To garnish: Tear small pieces of lettuce and position in front of the mice's mouths. As a final touch, heap a pile of mouse droppings (chocolate sprinkles) on the platter to re-create an authentically tidy mouse toilette.
Ghoulish Goodies ........................
Funny Bones
yield: Makes 36 bones
More fun with pretzels and melted chocolate! Like the pretzel
lollipop ghosts, these are a tasty mix of sweet and salty. With
the white chocolate...
Ingredients
* 1 (12-ounce) package white chocolate chips (2 cups)
* 36 pretzel sticks and rods of various sizes
* 72 mini-marshmallows (about 1 cup)
Preparation
1. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
2. Place the chips in a double boiler over just-simmering water
and melt, stirring frequently. As soon as the chips are just
melted (there may even be a few solid ones left), remove the
pan from the heat and remove the top section of the double
boiler so the chocolate’s temperature doesn’t keep rising.
3. Stick marshmallows onto both ends of the pretzels, with the
marshmallows’ flat sides parallel to the pretzel.
4. Dip each pretzel in the chocolate and lift out with a fork,
letting the excess drip back in the bowl. Lay the bones on the
baking sheet and refrigerate for 30 minutes to harden the
chocolate. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator or
at a cool room temperature.
Cheese-Finger Food
Partying in costume calls for easy-eating fare, and these cheesy monster digits fit the bill.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Mozzarella string cheese
Green bell pepper
Cream cheese
1. Wearing plastic gloves or sandwich bags over your hands to keep the cheese as smudge-free as possible, use a paring knife (parents only) to cut each string in half and then carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half.
2. Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured.
3. For the fingernails, slice a green bell pepper into 3/8-inch-wide strips. Set the strips skin side down on your work surface and trim the pulp so that it's about half as thick. Then cut the strips into ragged-topped nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.
Note: You can also make Witches Fingers by taking refrigerated cookie dough and shaping into fingers with slashes for the knuckles and almond slices for the finger nails.
Spider Pretzels
Spider Pretzels These arachnid treats are easy to make and they look positively lifelike crawling across your child's snack plate.
For each:
2 round crackers
2 teaspoons smooth peanut butter
8 small pretzel sticks
2 raisins
With the peanut butter, make a cracker sandwich. Insert eight pretzel "legs" into the filling. With a dab of peanut butter, set two raisin "eyes" on top. Makes 1.