Easy Halloween Recipe

Do You Need An Easy Halloween Recipe Or Two?

Did your parents tell you not to play with your food?
Mine sure did.

Halloween food is best when you play around with it and create fun looking delights.

Why serve a plain hamburger when you can create a pumpkin burger by slicing the cheese a little and adding a pretzel to the top?

Easy Halloween Recipe Cookies and Cakes

Bat Cookies

• Package of Chocolate Wafer Cookies
• Chocolate Candy Melts
• Wax Paper

Cut the wafer cookies into quarters using a serrated knife.
Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper
Lay two of the cookie pieces onto the wax paper so that the pointed ends are about 1/8 inch apart.
Spoon a blob of the melted chocolate into the middle of the two cookies to paste them together and form the bat body.
Cool completely before removing the bats from the waxed paper.
You can add two dots or two small pieces of candy for eyes.

Ghostly Cupcakes

An easy Halloween recipe that is quick and fun to bake.

• Cake Mix
• Cupcake Liners
• Whipped Topping
• Frosting
• Bag Of Mini Chocolate Chips

Bake cupcakes according to box directions. Let cool.
Frost the cupcakes lightly.
Spoon whipped topping in the center of the cupcake tops to create the shape of a ghost.
Add two mini chips for eyes.
Serve immediately.

Healthy Yet Easy Halloween Recipes

Vampire Fruit Bowl

• 1 Honeydew Melon
• 1 Cantelope
• 4 Cups Red Grapes
• 4 Cups Green Grapes
• 30 Plastic Bowls or Plastic Pumpkins
• 30 Bamboo Skewers

Use a melon baller to scoop eyeball shapes out of the melons.
Mix the melon up in a bowl.
Mix the grapes into the bowl with the melons.
Place scoops of the fruit mixture into the plastic bowls and let each person use a skewer to eat the fruit with.

Pumpkin Surprise

• 1 Orange or Apple Per Guest
• Orange Crepe Paper
• Green String of Ribbon

Cut the crepe paper into strips so that the orange can sit in the middle and the ends of the crepe paper meet at the top of the orange.
Wrap orange completely and twist the ends of the paper together.
Tie a ribbon on the top to hold the paper together.
Cut pieces of construction paper to form eyes, nose and mouths for your pumpkins and glue into place.

Easy Halloween Recipe Meals

Halloween Pizza

• 1 Round Pizza Baking Sheet
• 1 Roll of Pizza Dough or use pre-made Pizza Crusts
• 1 Package of Pepperoni slices
• 1 8oz. Package of Shredded Cheese
• 1 Can of Pizza Sauce

Make the Pizza Crust by smoothing the dough onto the round baking sheet.
Pre-Cook crust according to the directions on the package.
Spread the Pizza Sauce over the crust covering it completely.
Sprinkle the Shredded Cheese over the sauce. I like lots of cheese on my pizza!
Pepperoni slices can be cut into triangles and other shapes to form the eyes on the pumpkin.
Just use a clean pair of scissors and use your imagination.
Place the cut pieces onto the cheese.

You could add olives, peppers, mushrooms, pre-cooked sausage or anchovies for other Halloween facial effects.
Once you have the face that you like, Bake the pizza according to the directions.
Let cool and serve.
This Easy Halloween Recipe is great for a teen party activity.

Grilled Corn On The Cob

• One Ear of Corn For Each Guest
• Butter
• Grill

Soak corn husk and all in water for 15 minutes.
Lay the ears still in their husks onto the grill and cook for 20 minutes turning occasionally.
Peel back the husks and brush with melted butter.

Easy Halloween Recipe For Candy:

Frankenstein's' Adam Apple

• 6 Apples
• 48 Caramel cubes
• 1 Tablespoon water
• 6 Wooden sticks(usually comes in package with caramels if not you can use Popsicle sticks)
• Wax paper (grease lightly and put onto a cookie sheet)

Wash and Dry the apples.
Remove the Stems by twisting them.
I also like to remove the stuff at the bottom of the apple, using my fingernails.
Insert sticks into the apples.
Put the caramels into a saucepan along with the water, melt caramels with the heat set on low.
Stir constantly until smooth.
Dip apples, covering them completely.
Place onto greased wax paper.
Store caramel apples in the refrigerator.
Let stand at room temperature for 10-15 minutes before serving.
What fun would Halloween be without a gooey caramel apple?
Don't lose this recipe, its a time tested favorite!

Ghostly Teeth

• 14 cups popcorn (popped) This works best if you don't use the microwave type)
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup butter sliced up
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cookie sheets
• 1 Oven safe bowl

Heat Oven to 200 degrees.
Remove un-popped kernels from the popcorn.
Place popcorn into a large buttered oven safe bowl and set in the oven to keep warm.
Put brown sugar, butter, corn syrup and the salt into a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
Once it starts to boil, cook for 5 minutes without stirring.
If you have a candy thermometer cook until it reaches 255 degrees.
Remove from heat and add baking soda mixing well. Foaming of the mixture is typical!
Pour mixture over the popcorn.
Use greased spoons to mix it, cover the popcorn completely.
Spread onto ungreased baking sheets and bake at 200 degrees for about 1 hour.
Turn popcorn occasionally with a greased spatula.
Allow to cool completely and store in covered containers.
This recipe sounds hard, but is really easy.
The key to this Easy Halloween Recipe is to make it when its not humid out!

Popcorn Balls

• 1/2 Cup Molasses
• 1/2 Cup Light Corn syrup
• 3/4 Cup butter
• 1 tsp Salt
• 8 Cups popcorn (Popped....this works better if you don't use microwaved popcorn)

Cook the molasses and corn syrup to about 270 degrees.(hard crack stage)
Stir in butter and salt.
Slowly stir the mixture into the popcorn with a greased spoon. Coating all the popcorn.
Butter your hands lightly and shape the popcorn into balls.
Mixture will be hot, use caution!
Set balls onto wax paper until cooled.
Wrap with wax paper and store in covered container.
Use orange food coloring to make these into Halloween Pumpkins to hand out at a party.
Makes 6 Halloween Pumpkin Balls.

Crispy Treats

• 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
• 1 package (10 ounces) marshmallows
• 1/2 cup Jiff Creamy Peanut Butter
• 6 cups crisp rice cereal
• Food coloring

Lightly grease a 13 x 9-inch pan.
Melt butter or margarine in large saucepan on low heat.
Add marshmallows. Stir until completely melted.
Remove from heat.
Add food coloring orange for pumpkins,black for hats,green for Frankenstein.
Add Jiffy peanut butter.
Stir until well blended.
Add cereal and stir until well coated.
Butter hands and form into round shapes for pumpkins, or cone shape for witches hats.
Rectangle shapes will make Frankenstein.
Let cool on greased pan.
This is an easy halloween recipe that can be adapted to any holiday party.

Soft Monsters

• Marshmallows large size
• 4" sucker sticks
• Candy Melts (suggestions:orange for pumpkins, green for Frankenstein, white for ghosts)
• Decorating Gel

Insert sticks into marshmallows.
Freeze for about 15 minutes.(use a piece of Styrofoam to insert sticks into so they stand up.)
Heat one cup of candy melts on low heat in a double-boiler, stirring constantly until the candy is completely melted.
Take one or two marshmallows from the freezer and dip them into the melted candy.
If you are making ghosts, you can leave a peak at the top of the marshmallow or add it before serving by using whipped topping!
Keep finished monsters in the fridge while decorating the rest of them.
Add face features using the decorating gel.
You can make small pumpkins by using miniature marshmallows and use them to decorate a cake.
You could also take the large marshmallow monsters and use them to decorate any Halloween cake.

Miscellaneous Easy Halloween Recipe:

Pumpkin Seeds

• Medium to Large Pumpkin
• Salt
• Cookie Sheet

Cut your Halloween pumpkin open and put the pulp and seeds into a bowl.
Separate the seeds from the pulp, discarding the stringy stuff and any chunks.
Do Not Wash the seeds to clean them, you want some pulp coating on them... it adds flavor.
Place the seeds onto a cookie sheet in a single layer.
Sprinkle with salt.
Bake at 250 degrees until slightly browned on the edges. Usually about 15-20 minutes.
Once they cool off you can dig in. This is a great Halloween Recipe. I make these every year.

Graveyard Worms

Add Gummy Worms to a container of Chocolate Pudding.
You can top with Oreo crumbs for a graveyard look. One of the easiest and quickest Halloween Recipes to create for a party!

Pumpkin Cake

Use two mini Bundt cakes to make a pumpkin.
Stack the cakes so that the two flat sides are together.
Decorate with Orange Frosting. (white frosting tinted orange) Use some black frosting to make face.