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.
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 a 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(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 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 teaspoon 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 press the 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 parents have
got to love this!
Find some more healthy
Halloween recipes including a Skeleton
meatloaf for dinner in our October Newsletter.
Halloween
Kid Recipes: Halloween Goodies
Halloween
Kid Recipe Munchies Mix
1 Cup mini marshmallows
1 Cup orange and black plain M&M's
1 Cup peanuts
1 Cup candy corn
2 Cups popped popcorn
Mix ingredients together in bowl. Serve in plastic pumpkin or witch's
cauldron.
Stuffed Hands
One pkg clear plastic gloves
Use the munchies mix Halloween recipe above and fill each plastic
glove. Then tie tight with a string. Give away as party treats or goody
bags. You can also add red M&M's or a candy corn on the end of
each finger in the glove for a fingernail.
Halloween popcorn balls
8 cups popcorn freshly popped
1 ½ Cups peanuts
3/4 cup brown sugar packed 1/3 cup light corn syrup
½ teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons butter cut in pieces
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ Cups candy corn
In large bowl stir popcorn and peanuts together and set aside. Have an
adult prepare syrup mixture on stove. Combine sugar, corn syrup, salt
and butter in saucepan. Stir over low heat and bring to a boil.
Continue boiling for 5 minutes without stirring. Take off heat and add
vanilla. Pour over popcorn and peanuts. Stir together until well
blended. Add in candy corn. Allow to cool slightly in order to handle.
With kids help form into balls and place on waxed paper to cool
completely.
Candy
Corn Brittle
2 Cup sugar
1 Cup water
1 Cup corn syrup
½ teaspoon Salt
2 Cups or less candy corn
1 Tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla
½ teaspoon Baking soda
In saucepan, combine sugar, water, corn syrup. Have an adult(or older
kid chef) cook mixture over low heat, stirring constantly. Increase
heat and bring syrup to boil. Cook until candy thermometer reads 300
degrees or hard crack stage. Remove from heat, add butter and vanilla.
Then add soda mixture, mixture will be foamy. Stir in candy corn. Pour
brittle onto buttered pan and spread with buttered knife. Allow to cool.
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 easter egg
plastic 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 a 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: Dinner Idea
Soup makes for
a great healthy Halloween
dinner maybe because the
weather is cold and it is a good way to warm up before going outside.
Start your evening out with a healhty Halloween recipe before heading
out for trick or treating. Serve your soup in a hollowed out clean
pumpkin for an added effect.
Taco
Beef Soup
16 oz. kidney beans
8 oz. tomato sauce
2 T. taco seasoning mix
2-16 oz. can tomatoes
½ lb. Ground beef cooked
1 ½ C. water
Toppings:
small avocado diced cheddar cheese, shredded
sour cream
tortilla chips Mix soup ingredients together and cook 15
minutes. Or place in crock pot in the morning and cook on low 6-8
hours. Serve with toppings listed. For Halloween fun serve in a clean
out pumpkin shell, a bread bowl, or make corn bread cut out of pumpkin
shapes below.
Corn Bread Pumpkins
2 Cup cornmeal
2/3 Cup flour
¼ Cup sugar
1 small package of vanilla pudding mix
4 teaspoon Baking powder
1 ½ teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking soda
4 eggs, beaten
2 Cup milk
1 Cup vegetable oil
1 small onion, finely chopped, optional
2 cans whole kernel corn, drained, optional
In bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, pudding
mix and soda. Stir in eggs, milk, and oil. Blend in onion and corn, if
desired. Pour into greased 13x9 pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30
minutes. For added Halloween fun cut out pumpkin shapes with a pumpkin
cookie cutter and serve warm.
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