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Halloween Food

Monday, October 22, 2007

By Yana


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Spooky Spider Web Dip Platter


Special thanks to www.fabulousfoods.com for sharing this great recipe
What you need:
-double batch of Mexican-style bean dip
-single batch guacamole OR single batch low fat guacamole
-1/4 C sour cream or low fat sour cream
-tortilla chips or baked tortilla chips
Serves 8
Spread a layer of bean dip over a large round plate. Carefully spread a layer of guacamole over this. Put sour cream in a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip and pipe concentric circles on the guacamole. Take a toothpick or wooden skewer and drag it through the sour cream from the center outward to make spider web design.

Note: If you don’t have a pastry bag, put sour cream in a small plastic Ziplock bag, cut off a small piece of the corner and pipe sour cream this way.

Bloody Eyeball Hors d‘Oeuvres


What you need (per eyeball):
-1 radish
-1 pimiento stuffed green olive
To make "eyeballs," peel radishes, leaving thin streaks of red skin on to represent blood vessels. Using the tip of the vegetable peeler or a small, knife, carefully scoop out a small hole in each radish, roughly the size of an olive. Stuff a green olive, pimiento side out, in each hole. Arrange "eyeballs" on serving plate.

Ultra-Easy Pumpkin Pie Squares


What you need for the…

…Crust
-1 package yellow or spice cake mix (set aside one cup of the dry mix before proceeding)
-1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
-1 egg

…Filling
-1 29 oz. can pumpkin
-2 eggs
-2/3 C evaporated milk
-1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
-1 tsp. ground (dried) ginger
-1/2 tsp. nutmeg
-1/4 tsp. ground cloves
-1/2 cup brown sugar

…Topping
-1/2 cup sugar
-1/4 cup brown sugar 1 T cinnamon
-1/3 cup butter or margarine
-(optional) 1/3 cup chopped walnuts

1. Grease and flour a 8X11 inch baking pan.
2. Preheat oven to 350°.
3. Disregard instructions on cake mix box, you‘re not going to bake a cake. Mix dry cake mix (minus 1 cup dry mix) and melted butter. Add egg and mix till it holds together (different cake mixes react differently, so you may need to add a small amount of milk 1/2 tsp. at a time, if necessary to hold mixture together).
4. Pat crust mixture into pan with your fingers, coating bottom and up the sides about 1 inch.
5. Mix together the filling ingredients, along with the reserved 1 cup of dry cake mix, and pour into the crust.
6. Mix the topping ingredients (minus the optional nuts) together with a fork or pastry blender till mixture is crumbly. Mix in nuts, if desired.
7. Sprinkle topping mixture over filling and bake for 45–60 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
8. Cool and serve with whipped cream.




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