Apple Bites
These toothsome treats are a fun and healthy break from Halloween sweets.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS: |
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| Apples | |
| Slivered almonds | |
1. Just quarter and core an apple, cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter, then press almonds in place for teeth.
2. Tip: If you're not going to serve them right away, baste the apples with orange juice to keep them from browning.
Cheese-Finger Food
Partying in costume calls for easy-eating fare, and these cheesy monster digits fit the bill.RECIPE INGREDIENTS: |
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| String cheese | |
| Green bell pepper | |
| Cream cheese | |
1. Wearing plastic gloves or sandwich bags over your hands to keep the cheese as smudge-free as possible, use a paring knife (parents only) to cut each string in half and then carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half.
2. Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured.
3. For the fingernails, slice a green bell pepper into 3/8-inch-wide strips. Set the strips skin side down on your work surface and trim the pulp so that it's about half as thick. Then cut the strips into ragged-topped nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.
Cheesy Corns
Combine the taste of cheese pizza with the look of candy corn and--abracadabra!--you've got one crowd-pleasing snack.
DIRECTIONS
1. Heat the oven to 455º.
2. Cut two small round prebaked pizza crusts into wedges that resemble the shape of candy corn. Top each wedge with rows of white, orange, and yellowish cheeses, as shown.
3. Bake the wedges on a cookie sheet for 8 to 10 minutes, then let them cool for 5 minutes before serving. Makes 16 to 20.
Edible Eyeballs
Set out a platter of these creepy peepers, and your Halloween party guests are bound to do a double take.
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RECIPE INGREDIENTS: |
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| Carrots | |
| Cream cheese | |
| Pitted black olives | |
1. Simply slice carrots into 1.5-inch-thick chunks, top each with a blob of cream cheese and one half of a pitted black olive, and serve.
Goblin Tongues
On a night when everyone will get more than their fill of sweets, these mini bagel sandwiches will add a little variety to the offerings.
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RECIPE INGREDIENTS: |
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| Mini bagels | |
| Cream cheese | |
| Bologna slices | |
1. For each Goblin Tongue sandwich, spread cream cheese between the top and bottom of a mini bagel.
2. Use a knife or kitchen shears to cut a tongue shape from a half slice of bologna. Then gently press the base of the tongue into the bagel hole.
Melon Brain
Made from nothing more than a small, round seedless watermelon, this spooky cerebral creation is bound to turn heads.
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RECIPE INGREDIENTS: |
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| 1 small seedless watermelon | |
1. Use a peeler to remove the entire green rind, exposing the inner white rind.
2. Slice off the bottom of the melon to create a flat base that will keep it from rolling. With a toothpick, outline squiggly furrows that resemble the folded surface of a brain.
3. Finally, carve narrow channels along the tracings with a sharp paring knife (a parent's job) to expose the pink fruit beneath the rind.
Mini Witch's Brooms
These sweet and salty snacks are sure to be swept away in no time, so you'll want to make lots.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS
Roll of Fruit by the Foot
Thin pretzels
DIRECTIONS
1. For each one, cut a 2.5-inch length from a roll of Fruit by the Foot.
2. With the shorter ends on the side, fringe the bottom of the strip (leaving a 1/4-inch border uncut along the top) to create thin broom bristles.
3. Then moisten the upper edge of the fruit with a drop of water and tightly wrap it around one end of a thin pretzel-stick broom handle.
Monster Paws
Your kids won't wait to get their hands on these popcorn-stuffed gloves, recommended by Julie Peters of Lakewood, Colorado.
Recipe Ingredients:
Clear plastic gloves (available at beauty supply stores)
Candy corn
Popcorn
Yarn
Directions:
Begin with washed gloves. Stick one candy corn at the tip of each finger, pointy side up, for fingernails. Fill the glove with popcorn. Use yarn to tie a bow at the wrist.
Pear Witch Project
This ghoulish girl is quite a sight, with her shocking orange hair. Her hat's a cone, her mouth an apple, her head is half a pear!
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RECIPE INGREDIENTS: |
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| Knife | |
| Fresh green pear (makes 2 heads and noses) | |
| 2 raisins (eyes) | |
| 1 chocolate chip (wart) | |
| Grannysmith apple (mouth) | |
| Canned chocolate frosting | |
| Oreo ice-cream cone (hat) | |
| Large, soft chocolate cookie (hat); we used an Archway Dutch Cocoa Cookie | |
| Carrot (hair) and grater | |
2. Slice a piece off the top of the pear, cutting away from the forehead at an angle. Shape that piece into a nose; carve a notch into the witch's face to hold it, and set it in place.
3. Attach the eyes and wart by carving small circles in the face to hold them.
4. Cut a grin from the red apple. Carve out an area on the face to hold the grin, and put it in place.
5. To make the hat, use frosting to glue the cone to the cookie. Let the frosting harden a bit, then place the hat on the head.
6. Grate lengths of carrot hair and tuck them underneath the hat.
Tip: If your child is too young to handle a knife, cut the nose and mouth and have him assemble the face with frosting.
Pizza Mummies
Disguises aren't just for Halloween. Surprise your family with these dressed-up, spooky-looking snacks any time of year. Kids can help by spooning the pizza sauce on the English muffin and making the mummy face with the cheese and vegetables.
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RECIPE INGREDIENTS: |
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| English muffins | |
| Pizza sauce | |
| Black olives | |
| Scallions | |
| Red or green pepper | |
| Cheese sticks or slices | |
2. Set olive slices in place for eyes and add round slices of green onion or bits of red or green pepper for pupils.
3. Lay strips of cheese (we used a pulled-apart cheese stick) across the muffin for the mummy?s wrappings.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the muffin is toasty.