Halloween Kid Recipes
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Halloween Kid Recipes: Spiders
Halloween SpidersThis follows the same idea used for spiders in our Assistant chef Kids Cooking Lessons #2 with a little added twist.
Oreo or chocolate sandwich cookies
White frosting
Black licorice laces
Small round cinnamon candies
Open cookie up carefully and push in eight small licorice pieces. Place top back on cookie and dab a little frosting on the front top cookie. Push cinnamon candies on frosting and enjoy your Halloween spiders.
Spider Ice Cream Cones
8 individual graham cracker tart shells
8 scoops of vanilla ice cream
16 chocolate cream filled cookies, crumbled
16 red M&M candy pieces
16 pieces of black shoestring licorice
Place the shells on a baking sheet. Add 1 scoop of ice cream to each of the shells.
Crumble the cookies into a mixing bowl. Sprinkle the cookies over the ice cream to cover it well. Place the filled shells in the freezer for 30 minutes or until the ice cream has hardened. Remove the shells and press 2 M&M’s into the front of each scoop of ice cream to resemble eyes. Cut the licorice strips into fourths. Press 8 strips of licorice into each ice cream scoop to form the spider’s legs. Return to the freezer until ready to serve.
Ice Cube Spiders
Fill an ice cube tray 2/3 full of water. Add a gummy spider or plastic spider to each section of the ice cube tray. Place in the freezer for 4 hours or until completely frozen. Serve in individual drinks or a punch bowl at a Halloween party.
Halloween Kid Recipes: Bats
Batty Cupcakes1 (18.25 oz.) pkg. chocolate cake mix
chocolate ready to spread frosting
24 fudge stripped cookies, halved
24 chocolate kisses
Red decorating gel
Prepare your cake mix according to directons and bake into cupcakes. Cool and spread with chocolate frosting. Place 2 halves of the cookies into each cupcake to represent the bat wings being sure the stripes are to the backside of the cupcake.
Carefully press a chocolate kiss into the front of the cupcake to represent the bats head. Place two small drops of the red decorating gel onto the kiss to form the eyes.
Halloween Kid Recipes: Ghosts
Ghost CookiesNutter butter, Milano or other oval or rectangular shaped cookies
baking white chocolate or white candy melts
small round cinnamon candies
Melt chocolate for 20 second intervals in microwave safe dish until melted. Stir. Dunk each cookie in white chocolate and place two cinnamon candies for eyes.
Halloween Mini Ghost Pizzas
Halloween ghost cookie cutters
pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce
shredded mozzarella cheese
olives and chopped pepperoni
Pizza dough
2 ½ Cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 Cup warm water
1 Tablespoon yeast
1 Tablespoon Italian seasoning or to taste
1 Tablespoon olive oil or vegetable
Dissolve yeast in warm water and add a dash of sugar. Meanwhile, in mixer bowl add flour, salt, oil and Italian seasoning. When yeast is bubbly and ready pour into flour mixture and blend. Form into a ball and place in an oiled bowl. Let rise 30-60 minutes. Roll out pizza dough on floured surface. Using Halloween cookie cutters cut out shapes from pizza dough. Place on pizza pan and spread with sauce, mozzarella cheese and use pepperoni for eyes and a sliced olive for the mouth.
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Halloween Kid Recipes: Black Cats
Chocolate cupcakes
Chocolate frosting
Black licorice (whiskers)
Jelly beans or gum drops(nose and eyes)
Chocolate sandwich cookies cut in 4 triangles(ears)
Bake chocolate cupcakes according to the package directions. When cool frost cupcakes. Add black licorice for whiskers, jelly beans for eyes and nose, and cookie triangles for ears.
Black Cat Cookies1 Cup butter
1 Cup sugar
1 Cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 Cup baking cocoa
3 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 1/2 Cups flour
Candy corn
Red hot cinnamon candy
Blend butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, cocoa, and vanilla in mixing bowl. Mix until smooth. Add in baking powder, baking soda and flour. Blend until combined. Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet. Flatten each cookie ball with a glass. With your fingers pinch the top of each cookie to form into ears. Add whiskers by pressing a fork into each side of the cookie “face.” Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Take out of oven and press in 2 candy corn eyes and a red hot cinnamon candy for a nose.
Halloween Kid Recipes: Skeletons and Graveyards
Skeleton and BrainsWhat a great idea, a healthy Halloween recipe for a vegetable skeleton and dip for brains. Every kid and parent has to love this!
Find some more Healthy Halloween Recipes including a Skeleton meatloaf for dinner in our October Newsletter.
Spooky Graveyard Squares
4 Cups miniature marshmallows
1/4 Cup butter, cubed
6 Cups crispy rice cereal
12 oval shaped chocolate cream filled cookies
1 tube white decorating gel
Chocolate frosting
Halloween sprinkles
Place the marshmallows and butter into a large saucepan.
Place the pan over medium low heat and stirring continuously cook the mixture for 5 minutes or until completely melted.
Remove the pan from the heat and fold in the cereal until well coated.
Grease a 13 X 9 inch baking pan.
Press the cereal mixture evenly into the pan.
Allow the cereal mixture to cool then cut into 12 squares.
Cut about 1/2 inch off the bottom of each of the cookies and place into a bowl.
Use the white decorating gel to write RIP onto each of the cookies.
Place 2 T of the frosting in a circle in the middle of each of the cereal squares.
Place 1 decorated cookie into each frosting circle.
Crush the reserved cookies and sprinkle over the top of each square.
Sprinkle each square with the Halloween sprinkles.
Halloween Kid Recipes: Eye balls
Four Ideas for Eye Balls- Make deviled eggs and place a black olive slice on top.
- Make mini cheese balls and put a
black
olive slice on top. See
the Cheese Ball Recipe here.
Make the cheese ball and form into mini balls. Don't roll in nuts and chill in the fridge.
- Cook meatballs and place a dab of
sour
cream on top and a black olive on the sour cream. Need a recipe for
meatballs we have one with
- Pudding Eyeballs. A great Halloween kid recipe! Prepare vanilla pudding according to directions. Using washed and dried plasitc Easter egg halves, place a gummi saver in bottom. Then place a black M&M or other candy inside the hole of the gummi saver. Pour vanilla pudding over the top. Place in egg cartons and chill. You can also prepare this recipe with Jell-O gelatin instead of pudding. To serve, pop eye out of plastic egg and serve on a fun platter or on top a monster face.
Halloween Kid Recipes: Witches
Witch HatsChocolate sugar ice cream cones
Flat round chocolate cookies
Chocolate donut
Chocolate frosting
Place a chocolate donut on serving platters. Dab frosting on chocolate wafer cookies and place on top of donut. Add another dab of frosting to top side of cookie and place an ice cream cone, with the point sticking up, on top of the cookie. You can also add sprinkles or Halloween candy sprinkles, if desired.
Halloween Kid Recipes: Scarecrows
Munchable Scarecrowspkg. refrigerated sugar cookie dough or homemade sugar cookie dough
1 Cup flaked coconut
Yellow, orange, red and blue food coloring
18 gum drop fruit slices
white frosting
Mini chocolate chips
Roll out the cookie dough on a flat surface. Use gingerbread men cutters and cut out 18 shapes. Place the cutouts onto a baking sheet and bake according the directions on the package. Remove the cookies and cool to room temperature on a wire rack.
Place the coconut into a bowl. Add enough yellow food coloring to color the coconut to resemble the color of straw.
To make the scarecrow hats, place the gum drops on a lightly sugared surface and roll them out flat. Cut hat shapes out of each gum drop.
Divide white frosting in 3 bowls and place 2 to 3 drops of the orange, red and blue food coloring into each separate bowl. Stir together to blend well.
When the cookies have cooled, frost the heads, hand and feet of each cookie with the orange frosting. Press the tinted coconut into the frosting on the head, hands and feet area. Use the blue and red frosting to frost on the scarecrows shirt. Place the hat onto the scarecrows head by placing a little orange frosting on the back of the hat and pressing it onto the scarecrow.
Place 2 to 3 of mini chocolate chips down the front of the scarecrows shirt for buttons.
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