Holiday Recipes » Halloween Treats

Pumpkin Cake

TheCook — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:39:28 +0000

MY VERSION OF A PUMPKIN
SHAPED HALLOWEEN CAKE:
Cake is a Butter Pecan cake out of the box. Just cook it in a bunt pan following the recipe on the box. When the cake is finished cooking, place the pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes and then dump cake out on cooling rack to finish cooling. Frosting consists of 5 cups confectioners sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 box cream cheese. Red, yellow and green food coloring. Mix the butter and cream cheese thoroughly (make sure you let the butter and cream cheese get to room temp, soften). Gradually add confectioner’s sugar 1 cup at a time on low speed. Once the frosting is mixed together. Place 1 cup of frosting in a separate bowl and add green food coloring. Place in refrigerator for about 30 minutes while the cake is cooling. Place 1 cup of frosting in a separate bowl and add yellow food coloring – this would be used to make the face with. Place that bowl in the refrigerator as well for 30 minutes. Drop 2-3 drops of red food coloring and 3-5 drops yellow food coloring in remaining frosting and mix thoroughly. This will be the orange for your pumpkin. Frost the cooled cake with the orange frosting. Take a green ice cream cone and cover it with the green frosting (If you can’t find a green ice cream cone, use any color). Make sure that you leave space at the bottom of the cone without frosting so that you can pick up the cone and place it in the middle of the cake. I placed 1 cone standing up in the middle and put a little frosting around the circle on the top of the cone and turned the other one that was frosted open faced on top of it. I slightly leaned the top cone. Cut a very tiny hole in the corner of a regular sized zip baggie and put the green frosting in this bag. Pipe the green on all of the humps of the cake from the middle to the bottom on the outside of the cake. Cut a very tiny hole in another baggie and place the yellow frosting in this baggie. Make a face on one side of the cake. You can also use any kind of candy to make eyes and teeth. I had some jelly beans that I used. This is a fun holiday treat for Halloween or Thanksgiving. Hope you enjoy it with your family. Use your imagination. REFRIGERATE CAKE (I used red instead of yellow to make the face because I didn’t think yellow would show up, but it will)

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Spiced Apple Cider

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:29:03 +0000

SPICED APPLE CIDER Want a nice warm drink for outside around the camp fire this fall and Halloween season? Well here is a simple and easy family fun drink. RECIPE: 4 cups apple juice (try fresh-squeezed juice or apple cider), 6 cinnamon sticks, 1 teaspoon cloves. Combine all ingredients in a small pot and simmer on low for 15 minutes. Use the colander to drain the cider into a large bowl or pitcher. Throw out the cinnamon sticks and cloves. Serve each mug of hot apple cider with a fresh cinnamon stick as a stirrer.

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Jenny’s Halloween Sugar Cookies

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:06:44 +0000

HALLOWEEN SUGAR COOKIES Fast and fun project for kids of all ages. RECIPE: 2/3 cup shortening, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1 egg, 4 teaspoons milk, 2 cups flour, 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt. Thoroughly cream shortening, sugar, orange peel and vanilla. Add egg and beat til light and fluffy. Stir in milk. Sift together dry ingredients and blend in creamed mixture. Divide dough in half. Chill one hour. On lightly floured surface roll half of dough to 1/8 inch. Cut in desired holiday shapes with cookie cutters. Place shapes onto greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with appropriate colored sugar sprinkles. Bake at 375 about 6 to 8 minutes. Cool slightly and remove from pan and onto cooling rack or paper towels on counter top or kitchen table. Makes 2 dozen. ***Can also not put sprinkles on before baking, and after cookies cool off decorate with any kind of frosting and use sprinkles or candies to decorate appropriately***

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Jenny’s Halloween Ghost Cookies

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:17:45 +0000

HALLOWEEN GHOST COOKIES
Fast, fun and easy cookies for you and a child to do as a snack project together. My little one took some for her classmates to school last year for Halloween. Recipe is: Bag of “Nutter Butter Cookies”, Bag of Chocolate chips, White Baking Chocolate. Place wax paper on counter top or kitchen table. Place half the package of chocolate into microwavable glass bowl. Heat for 120 seconds. Stir, replace for 30 seconds, stir and replace for additional 30 second intervals until chocolate is smooth and creamy. Place bowl on heating plate and put cookies into chocolate, one or two at a time. Flip cookie around in chocolate with a fork. Once cookie is fully coated with chocolate, pick up cookie with fork and tap fork against bowl to remove excess chocolate. Place cookie on wax paper. After you have put about three cookies on the peice of wax paper, place two chocolate chips on top of cookie to look like ghost eyes. Let cookies dry – chocolate will harden upon sitting. Serve and enjoy.

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