Pretzel Spider Webs

Recipe and Photos from:
Making Memories

What you'll need:
* stick pretzels
* white melting chocolate
* raisins


Arrange the pretzels like this

Melt the chocolate according to package directions. Spoon into a plastic sandwich bag with a small hole cut in the tip.

Squirt some white chocolate in the middle to secure the pieces and then make 3 circles around the pretzels. Add raisins for spiders.

Boo Cups

Recipe and Photo From: Meet the Dubiens

What You Need

3/4 cup boiling water
1 pkg.(3 oz.) JELL-O Orange Flavor Gelatin
2 cups ice cubes
2/3 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, divided
8 miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips

Make It

ADD boiling water to gelatin mix in large bowl; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Add ice; stir 3 to 5 min. or until gelatin is thickened. Remove any unmelted ice. Whisk in 1/3 cup COOL WHIP until well blended. Pour into 4 dessert dishes. It will be pretty liquidy at this point but will firm up nicely in the fridge.

REFRIGERATE 30 min. or until firm.

Top with Cool Whip to make a ghost shape and add mini chocolate chip eyes.

Deviled Egg Eyeballs

Another fun Halloween idea! I have not made these yet, but I will be tomorrow!

Recipe and Photo from Recipe Shoebox

6 hard boiled eggs
1/4 c mayonnaise
1-2 tsp yellow mustard
salt/ pepper to taste
black olives
red and blue food coloring
toothpick
piping bag


The Directions:
Slice your hard boiled eggs in half lengthwise. Scoop (or pop) out the yellow yolk into a small bowl.
Mash up the yolks with a fork and then add mayonnaise and mustard. Blend well to make as smooth as possible. Add salt and pepper according to your tastes. You may also want to add more mayonnaise or mustard depending on your taste. Add a couple drops of blue food coloring and mix well.

Cut your olives into slices. You can choose to leave them round and have round black eyeballs in the middle, or cut smaller pieces of olive to represent the iris. Place your olives in the middle of the yolk.

Squeeze a little red food coloring onto a plate or even a spoon to use. Take the tip of your toothpick and dip it in the food coloring. Now draw red squiggle lines to make it look like the eyes are blood shot.

Marshmallow Ghosts

I have not actually made these yet, but I wanted to post before Halloween so you would have a chance to make this super cute treat! I will be making mine this weekend and I can't wait!

Update...
*I had a lot of chocolate left over...enough to do another bag of marshmallows!

You will need a food marker for the ghost face, which I heard you could buy at Walmart. I couldn't find any when I looked though. I would guess Hobby Lobby or Michaels carries these markers?

Update...
*Could not find a food marker, instead bought a bottle of Wiltons black icing in a jar. I used a lollipop stick to stamp on the ghost face.

** Adapted from Yum! Magazine for Kids

1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

1 Tablespoon shortening

Graham Cracker crumbs

Pretzel sticks

Large Marshmallows


Draw a ghost face on Marshmallows.

Melt the chocolate chips and shortening together in the mircrowave for about 1 minute. Stir until completely melted – don’t overheat or you’ll burn the chocolate!

Stick a pretzel stick into the marshmallow. Dip the bottom of the marshmallow in the chocolate and then in the graham cracker crumbs.

Set on a parchment lined cookie sheet and place in the frig for about 15 minutes, or until chocolate sets.

Witch Wands and Nutty Ghosts

Ingredients for Witch Wands:
Almond Bark
Large Stick Pretzels
Halloween Sprinkles
Directions:
Melt almond bark according to package directions.
Dip pretzel half way down in melted almond bark.
Roll in sprinkles.
Allow to set on tin foil that has been sprayed with cooking spray.

Ingredients for Nutty Ghosts:
1 package Nutter Butter Cookies
Almond Bark
Mini Chocolate Chips
Directions:
Melt almond bark according to package directions.
Dip cookie in melted almond bark.
Put chocolate chip eyes on your ghost.
Allow to set on tin foil that has been sprayed with cooking spray.

Monster Munch

Recipe by Our Best Bites

1 package Almond Bark (1 lb)
12 C popped popcorn
1 C candy corn
1 C dry roasted, salted peanuts
1/2 C Reeces Pieces

Pop popcorn and place in a large bowl.   Pour peanuts, candy corn, and Reeces pieces on top.  Take a large knife and break up almond bark. Melt according to package directions.
Pour over popcorn mixture.
Stir until everything is well coated and then spread out onto waxed paper, parchment, or foil. Let sit until completely dry and then break up into clumps.

Cheesy Fingers

Idea and Photo from Our Best Bites

Ingredients:
String Cheese
Almond Slivers
Cream Cheese

Directions:
Cut string cheese in half. 
Make knuckle lines on the cheese with a knife. 
Secure an almond slice at the top of the string cheese with a little bit of cream cheese.

Candy Corn Pizza

Recipe and Photo from Our Best Bites..
Ingredients:
store bought pizza crust
pizza sauce
mozarella cheese
cheddar cheese
Directions: Spread on pizza sauce, make a ring of cheddar cheese around the out side of crust.  Make a circle of mozarella cheese in the middle.  Bake according to package directions.

Mummy Dogs

Recipe and Photo from Our Best Bites.
Ingredients:
1 package of hot dogs-cut in half
1 package Pillsbury crescent roll dough
Directions:
Slice the dough in to thin slices. 
Wrap aound the hot dog.
Bake according to package directions.
Give your mummy mustard eyes.