Halloween Recipes from Sassy4Daze

Beverages | Dips | Cupcakes | Cake | Snacks

1 (.13 ounce) envelope unsweetened grape soft drink mix
1 (.13 ounce) envelope unsweetened orange soft drink mix
2 cups white sugar
3 quarts cold water
1 liter ginger ale

DIRECTIONS:
To make a frozen hand, wash a disposable glove, fill with water, seal with a rubber band and freeze until hard. Stir together grape soft drink mix, orange soft drink mix, sugar and water until solids are dissolved. Combine with chilled ginger ale just before serving. Dip the frozen hand briefly in warm water, then peel off the glove. Float the prepared hand in the punch bowl for a ghastly effect. "Delicious! As it is with any Halloween punch, a frozen 'hand' adds just the right spooky touch! The combined colors make a delightfully scary look!"

Original recipe yield: 1 gallon.

Body Parts "Punch" ~ Drink if you Dare!

8 cups cranberry juice
6 cups sparkling apple cider
2 cups pineapple juice
2 cups ginger ale
6 orange slices
16 ounces rum (optional)
8 grapes
8 raisins

10 servings

10 minutes prep

You will also need: 1 clean, new latex glove. The night before serving, pierce grapes with knife then stuff raisin in, as to make eyeball and then freeze. Fill the glove with water tinted with dark red-black food coloring. Freeze the glove. The next day, combine the juices and orange slices in a punch bowl with a bunch of ice cubes. Place the grapes& frozen hand (Glove removed) and float it in the punch.

Glycol Punch
Serving Size: Varies
Notes:

This punch has a fantastic color. The punch also tastes pretty good. If you want an excellent effect for punch this is the one to go for. Diet Mountain Dew produces the best color.
Ingredients:
2 liters of Diet Mountain Dew
1 pkg. Blue Kool-Aide prepared

Preparation:
In a large punch bowl add the Diet Mountain Dew. Add in enough of the prepared Blue Kool-Aide to obtain the Glycol color. Color was obtained with about 3 cups of Kool-Aide.

Green Monster Slime Juice

1 (6 ounce) package Kool-Aid, berry-blue flavor
1 (12 ounce) can orange juice concentrate
1 gallon water

8 servings

2 minutes Prep Time
Mix juice and Kool-Aid, add water, stir and watch it turn green!

*This can be cut down by 4 times. Use 2 cups of water, 1/4 cup of orange juice, 3 packets of Berry-Blue flavor Kool-Aid of net weight 6.2gms. each, 15 ice cubes and 4 cups of sugar to give it the sweetness it needed.

* It turns an interesting shade of John Deere green. You can also use unsweetened Blue Moon Berry Kool-Aid and add 1 cup sugar.

* Instead of sugar, use equal amounts of splenda, for the sweetener, if you are diabetic.

Green Swamp Punch with Frightful Frozen Hand
2 quarts lime sherbet
1 (12 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
2 liters carbonated lemon-lime beverage, chilled
1 1/4 cups cold water

Frightful Hand
Sugar-free lemonade-flavored drink mix, prepared
Gummy worms (optional)

24 servings ~ 30 minutes prep

Spoon sherbet by tablespoonfuls into a punch bowl. Mix 1.25 cups cold water with the lemonade concentrate; add to sherbet. Slowly pour soda down side of the bowl; stir gently to mix. Remove Frightful frozen hand from glove, and float on top just before serving. Frightful hand: Wash any powdery residue from inside or outside of glove. Pour lemon drink into glove until the glove is nearly full, but not so full that the fingers will not move. Fasten opening with a twist tie. Place glove on a lined cookie sheet (paper towel will do), and allow to freeze. If using gummy worms, place in filled glove before freezing

Green Swamp Punch with Frightful Frozen Hand

12 oz orange juice concentrate, frozen
12 oz grape juice, white
2 liter 7-Up
1 pt sherbet, lemon or lime
green food coloring

(For adult party: add rum or vodka to taste, optional)

Mix together orange juice, white grape juice, 7-Up, lemon or lime sherbet, and several drops of green food coloring If desired, serve with large, buoyant, and well-washed plastic spiders on the top! Serving: 24 servings

Witches' Brew ~ 2000

(this one pretty much fills a 12-quart cauldron)

4 - 48 oz cans pineapple juice
1 - 96 oz bottle orange juice
4 - 2 liter bottles lemon-lime soda
1 - 1.75 liter bottle vodka (optional)
1 - 1.75 liter bottle rum (optional)

All measurements are approximate. Adjust to your own taste. Mix well. Pour into your cauldron, preferably with chunks of dry ice to create the bubbling steam effect. (Be careful NOT to drink or eat or in any way come in direct contact with skin with any chunks of dry ice - you can get burned by the extreme cold!)

Witches Brew Recipe

2 (6 ounce) cans frozen lemonade concentrate
2 quarts apple juice or cider
2 quarts ginger ale
2 cups orange juice

24 servings

5 minutes prep

Combine all ingredients and chill.
Pour into punch bowl for display, if desired.
To serve, pour into glasses over ice, along with a slice of orange for garnish, if desired.
Makes about 6 quarts.

* For an extra effect put some water in a non-powder plastic glove with some green food coloring and freeze it. Before you serve your punch take off the plastic glove from the ice hand and set it in the punch. Not only does it make your punch look creepy it also turns the punch green. Use a plastic caldron as a punch bowl.

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Skulls N' Bones Cupcakes

1 pkg. yellow or vanilla cake mix
6 Orange NERDS from Spooky WONKA NERDS candy bag
1 container prepared vanilla frosting
24 NESTLÉ CRUNCH Fun-Size Candy Bars
1 small tube decorator icing
4 WONKA SweeTARTS Skulls N' Bones from WONKA Monster MIX UPS assorted candy bag

Mixed with colorful WONKA NERDS and topped with skull and bone-shaped candies from WONKA Monster MIX UPS, these delicious cupcakes make a frightfully fun dessert.

PREPARE cake mix batter according to package directions; add Nerds to batter. Bake according to directions for 24 cupcakes. Cool completely. Frost cupcakes, using a little more frosting than usual on top ("tombstones" will be pushed into frosting).
WRITE spooky words such as "RIP" or "BOO" on Crunch bars using decorator icing. Let sit for a few minutes to dry.
PRESS Crunch bars into cupcakes to create "tombstones." Creatively place Skulls N' Bones next to "tombstones."

Estimated Times:
Preparation - 30 min | Cooking - 20 min | Cooling Time - 30 min | Yields - 24

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Graveyard Cake

1 pkg. devil's food or yellow cake mix
1 container prepared vanilla frosting
12 NESTLÉ CRUNCH Fun-Size Candy Bars
1 white decorator icing
1 NESTLÉ BUTTERFINGER CRISP Candy Bar
1 pkg. SweeTARTS Gummy Bugs

PREPARE cake mix according to package directions using one 13 x 9-inch baking pan. Cool completely in pan. Invert cake onto serving platter. Frost cake, using a little more frosting than usual on top ("tombstones" will be pushed into frosting).
WRITE spooky words such as "RIP" or "BOO" on Crunch bars using tube icing. Let sit for a few minutes to dry.
PRESS Crunch bars into cake to create "tombstones". Sprinkle chopped Butterfinger Crisp bar next to tombstones to create "dirt". Creatively place gummy bugs over top of cake.
Estimated Times:
Preparation - 30 min | Cooking - 28 min | Cooling Time - 30 min

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Devilish Dip

4 ounces cream cheese
1/2 cup finely chopped cooked ham
2 to 3 tablespoons prepared Horseradish
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1/4 cup sour cream

Mix ingredients together until well combined.
Warm in microwave for 30 to 60 seconds, stir and serve with crackers or cubes of toasted sourdough or slices of party rye.

Makes 6 servings.

Spider Web Dip

1 (16-ounce) jar (1 3/4 cups) black bean dip
1 (12-ounce) container guacamole
1/4 cup LAND O LAKESŽ Sour Cream
1 cup shredded lettuce
4 ounces (1 cup) LAND O LAKESŽ Cheddar Cheese, shredded
1/2 cup chopped tomato
Tortilla chips

Spread bean dip onto center of large platter, leaving 1 to 2 inches around edge of platter. Carefully spread bean dip with guacamole. Spoon sour cream into resealable plastic food bag. Snip off corner. Pipe sour cream in 4 concentric circles onto guacamole. Drag toothpick or knife through sour cream from center outward to make spider web design. Layer lettuce, cheese and tomatoes on edge of platter. Serve with tortilla chips.

Makes 15 servings.
A spooky spider web design is created simply by piping on sour cream.

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Caramel Nut Apples

A classic fall treat. Great for parties.

6 apples
1 (14-ounce) package soft caramel candies
1 cup finely chopped nuts

Rinse and dry apples. Place a thick wooden skewer or 2 popsicle sticks through the stem of each apple. In the top of a double boiler melt caramel over low heat. Stir until caramel has melted and is smooth. Dunk the apples in the warm caramel. Using a spatula, spread the caramel over the apples. Once the apples are completely covered in caramel, sprinkle with chopped nuts. Place apples on a piece of wax paper to harden.
Makes 6 servings.

Spooky Sandwiches

sliced bread of your choice
sandwich filling of your choice
condiments of your choice
Halloween cookie cutters

Make your sandwiches however you'd like, but try to have ingredients that will stick together and not fall apart after the sandwiches have been cut. The metal cookie cutters work best, since not all the plastic ones are as tall to cut through all the bread and fillings.

BOOlogna Snackers

2 white bread slices (optional)
2 slices Oscar Mayer Bologna
2 Kraft Singles
Kraft Pure Prepared Mustard
Ketchup

Alternate layers of bread, bologna and Singles on cutting board.
Cut into decorative shapes using Halloween-shaped cookie cutters or sharp knife.
Decorate with mustard and ketchup.

Makes 1 serving.

Fruit-Flavored Popcorn Balls

Kids of all ages love popcorn balls! Make these for special treats.

1 cup white corn syrup
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 (3-ounce) package fruit flavored gelatin powder, any flavor
10 cups popped popcorn
1/2 cup butter

In a pan over medium heat, stir together corn syrup and sugar. Bring to a boil; remove from heat. Add gelatin powder and stir until dissolved. Place the popcorn in a large mixing bowl. Pour syrup-gelatin mixture over the popcorn. Toss until popcorn is coated. Butter hands and form the popcorn into balls. Store on waxed paper or in wax-paper lined, air-tight containers until ready to serve.

Makes 10 servings.

Butterfinger Popcorn Balls

Note: Add dried fruit or peanuts for a special treat.

These fun-filled popcorn balls are great to make with the kids before settling in for a night of videos and snuggling.

6 cups popped popcorn
3 (2.1-ounce) NESTLEŽ BUTTERFINGERŽ Candy Bars, chopped
1/4 cup butter or margarine
3 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows

COMBINE popcorn and chopped Butterfinger in large bowl.
MELT butter in medium saucepan over low heat. Stir in marshmallows. Heat, stirring constantly, until marshmallows are melted and mixture is smooth.
POUR over popcorn mixture; quickly toss to coat well. Spray hands with nonstick cooking spray. Form popcorn mixture into six 3-inch balls. Place on waxed paper to cool. Store in airtight container.

Makes 6.

Creepy Crispy Crunchies

3 Tbsp margarine
4 cups miniature marshmallows
(or 10 oz large marshmallows, about 40)
6 cups rice crispy cereal
orange and brown Halloween M&Ms (about 6oz)

Melt margarine in a large saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat. Add cereal and stir until well coated. Add the candy and mix until candy is evenly mixed. Spray a pan with non-stick cooking spray or line with waxed paper. Using a buttered spatula or waxed paper, press the mixture evenly into a 9x13" pan. Cut into squares when cool.

Crispy Rice Jack-o-lantern

1 Stick Butter
2 (10 oz). Packages Marshmallows
12 C. Rice Crispy Cereal
1 tsp. Yellow Food Color
1/4 tsp. Red Food Color
Green Decorating Icing in Tube
Black Decorating Icing in Tube
Decorating Tips
12 C. Bowl (not plastic)

Preparation:
Melt butter on low heat and add marshmallows. Stir marshmallows frequently. When marshmallows have dissolved, add food colors and mix well. When the marshmallow mixture is uniform in orange color add cereal and stir and mix until rice crispies are completely coated.

Pour mixture into the bowl that has been well sprayed with a non-stick spray. Carefully press down cereal (spray the spoon or your hands when pressing the cereal, this helps so the cereal will not stick). Place into the refrigerator until completely chilled and firm. When the pumpkin is chilled remove from refrigerator and invert onto a plate. Remove bowl and decorate with leaves and stem. A great jack o lantern smile will be the finishing touch.

The Jack-o-lantern makes a great centerpiece and a delightful treat.

Graveyard Crunch

1/4 cup maple-flavored or pancake syrup
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 cups Post Cocoa, Fruity or Cinna-Crunch Pebbles Cereal
1 cup Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts
2 cups Jet-Puffed Miniature Marshmallows
1 cup candy corn
1 cup candy-coated chocolate pieces

Preheat oven to 300°F.
Mix syrup, butter and cinnamon in large microwavable bowl. Microwave on High 1 minute; stir until butter is completely melted. Add cereal and peanuts; mix lightly.
Spread into lightly greased 15 x 10 x 1-inch baking pan.
Bake 30 minutes, stirring after 15 minutes. Cool completely.
Break into pieces. Toss with marshmallows and candies. Store in airtight container at room temperature.

Makes 18 servings.

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