Halloween Recipe: Jack-o'-Lantern Sloppy Joe Pie

Everyone needs a good hot meal before going trick or treating and I just love this idea.

Ingredients:
o 1-1/2 pounds lean ground beef
o 1/2 cup chopped onion
o 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
o 1 cup salsa
o 1/2 cup chili sauce
o 1 cup frozen corn
o 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies
o 2 tablespoons brown sugar
o 1 sheet refrigerated pie pastry
o 1 egg
o Orange paste food coloring

Directions:
In a large skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. In a small bowl, combine the flour, salsa and chili sauce until blended; stir into skillet. Add the corn, chilies and brown sugar.
Transfer to a deep-dish 9-in. pie plate. Unroll pastry; place over filling. With a sharp knife, cut out a face to resemble a jack-o'-lantern; flute edges. Beat egg and food coloring; brush over pastry.
Bake at 450° for 9-11 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Yield: 6 servings.

Halloween Recipe: Eyeball Cookies

Here is another recipe that I have found that looks quick and easy.

Ingredients:
5 squares (1 ounce each) white baking chocolate, divided
20 to 25 vanilla wafers
Blue paste food coloring
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Red paste food coloring

Directions:
In a microwave-safe bowl, melt 4 squares white chocolate; stir until smooth. Dip vanilla wafers in melted chocolate. Place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet. Chill until set.
Melt remaining white chocolate; tint blue. Spread a small amount onto the center of each cookie; place a chocolate chip in the center. For bloodshot eyes, use a toothpick dipped in red food coloring to draw lines from blue circles to outer edges of wafers. Chill until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 20-25 servings.

Halloween Recipe: No Bake Green Cookie Toes

With all of the commitments on Halloween I thought that I would include a quick and easy recipe that still has the wow effect.

Ingredients:
12 ounces white candy coating, coarsely chopped
Green paste food coloring
22 peanut butter cream-filled sandwich cookies
11 Crows candies, halved lengthwise

Directions:
In a microwave-safe bowl, melt candy coating; stir until smooth. Tint green.
Dip one cookie into candy coating. Let excess drip off and place on waxed paper. Immediately place a candy half, cut side down, on the cookie. Repeat. Let stand for 15 minutes or until set. Yield: 22 cookies.

Halloween Recipe: Cat Cookies

Ingredients:
1 tube (18 ounces) refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
54 pieces candy corn
1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting
Red shoestring licorice, cut into 1-3/8-inch pieces
9 thin chocolate wafer (2-1/4 inch diameter), quartered

Directions:
Bake cookies according to package directions. Cool on a wire racks. Cut off yellow tips from 18 pieces of candy corn (discard orange and white portion or save for another use). Frost cookies with chocolate frosting. Immediately decorate with two whole candy corns for eyes, a yellow candy corn tip for nose, six licorice pieces for whiskers and two wafer quarters for ears. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.

Halloween Recipe: Kitty Litter Cake

I had a Halloween party a few years ago and this was probley the biggest hit of all!! Everyone was so intrigued by the look of how real it seemed but most of the women could not bring themselves to even try it. It was fairly easy to make and defiantly the talk of the party.

What a gross Halloween dessert! It doesn’t get more disgusting than this cake as it just looks beyond awful, but if you can get your guests to give it a try I bet they’ll be surprised!

This is not the cheapest of Halloween dessert recipes, but it is sure to startle your guests for sure! You’ll need a NEW kitty litter box (PLEASE do not even attempt to use an old one that you cleaned up!!!) You may also wish to use a clear box liner and a litter scoop to accessorize the cake!

Ingredients:
· 1 package German chocolate cake mix
* 1 package white cake mix
* 2 (3.5 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
* 1 package vanilla sandwich cookies
* 6 drops green food coloring
* 1 package tootsie rolls


Directions:
1. Prepare cake mixes and bake according to package directions. Pan size does not matter. *Don’t use the litter box to bake in.
2. Prepare pudding according to package directions and chill until ready to assemble.
3. Crumble sandwich cookies in small batches in a food processor, scraping often. Set aside all but 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup add a few drops of green food coloring and mix.
4. When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl. Toss with 1/2 of the remaining cookie crumbs, and the chilled pudding.
5. You probably won’t need all of the pudding, you want the cake to be just moist, not soggy.
6. Line kitty litter box with the clear liner (plastic wrap work fine too) and put cake mixture into box.
7. Put half of the unwrapped tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until softened. Shape and curve the tootsie rolls slightly to resemble cat poop. **Trust me kids love doing this disgusting deed!
8. Bury tootsie rolls randomly in the cake and sprinkle with half of the remaining cookie crumbs. 9. Sprinkle a small amount of the green colored cookie crumbs lightly over the top.
10. Heat 3 or 4 of the tootsie rolls in the microwave until almost melted and lay them gently on the side of the kitty box and sprinkle lightly with some of the green cookie crumbs.
11. Sprinkle with any remaining cookie crumbs and place final tootsie roll poop on top on the cat to resemble a very full littler box.
12. Serve using the pooper scooper for a really gross Halloween dessert!

Halloween Recipe: Cheesy Ghosts

I found these cute easy snacks on the Pillsbury website.

INGREDIENTS
1 can (8 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese or Colby-Monterey Jack cheese blend (4 oz)
Assorted sliced olives and chiles, as desired

DIRECTIONS
1. Heat oven to 375°F. Spray large cookie sheet with cooking spray, or cover with cooking parchment paper.

2. On cutting board, unroll dough; separate into 8 triangles. From center of longest side to opposite point, cut each triangle in half, making 16 triangles. Shape each as needed to look like ghost shape. Arrange triangles on cookie sheet, folding narrow point under about 1/ 2 inch, to form head of ghost.

3. Bake about 7 minutes or until slightly puffed and just beginning to brown. Sprinkle each ghost with 1 tablespoon cheese; top with sliced olives to form mouth and eyes. Bake 2 to 3 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.

Halloween Game: Find the Pumpkins

I have been trying to keep yall updated with good Halloween ideas. Today I was over at one of my favorite blogs Everyday Mom Ideas and she had the cutest game that costs basically nothing to do, but looks like hours of fun for the kids. Here it is:

Find the Pumpkins Game.

Need:

· Ten pieces of white paper

· Five pieces of yellow paper
· Five pieces of orange paper

· A crayon

· Scissors


How to play:

1. Draw ten white pumpkins, five yellow pumpkins, and five orange pumpkins.
2. Cut out all the pumpkins.
3. Decorate each pumpkin with a funny face.
4. Write the number 1 on the backs of the white pumpkins.
5. Write the number 5 on the backs of the yellow pumpkins.
6. Write the number 10 on the backs of the orange pumpkins.
7. Have a grownup hide all of the pumpkins.
8. You and your friends will try to find as many pumpkins as you can until they are all found or before the time runs out. (You could play a fun Halloween song and have them search until the song is over)
9. Players will add up the numbers on the pumpkins each of them found.
10. The player with the most points wins!

So do you have any great games with a Halloween tone that keep the kids entertained? If you do please share your ideas.