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Halloween Kid Recipes
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Ideas
Do
you need great Halloween kid
recipes and ideas? Then it must be the season when the leaves are
changing colors, pumpkin patches abound and kids are gearing up for
Halloween trick or treating.
Halloween
Kid Recipes: Spiders
Halloween
Spiders
This 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 Cupcakes
1 (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
Cookies
Nutter 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.
Black
Cat Cupcakes
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 Cookies
1 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.
Skeleton
and Brains
What 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.
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
Hats
Chocolate 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
Scarecrows
pkg. 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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