Steph's Halloween Recipes

These quick and easy recipes are sure to satisfy even the hungriest of Halloween enthusiasts

The internet provides a plethora of Halloween recipe and entertaining ideas. We've put together a list of our top favorites from Kraft and Mars, Incorporated. Visit their websites at: Kraft's Halloween Recipes and Red & Yellow's Bright Ideas: Halloween respectively for more Halloween recipes.

Featured Recipe: Tombstones in the Cemetery

Ingredients:

15 OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
3 cups cold milk
2 pkg. (4-serving size each) JELL-O Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
1 tub (12 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, divided & thawed
Creme Sandwich Cookies
Decorating gel
5 candy pumpkins
10 pieces of candy corn

Place all chocolate sandwich cookies in a food processor or blender to crush. If you don't have a food processor or blender, put cookies in a sealed Ziploc bag and roll over cookies with a rolling pin until finely crushed.

Add both packages of instant pudding into bowl filled with milk. Using a wire whisk, beat the milk and instant pudding mixture for 2 minutes or until well blended. Let stand 5 minutes. Next, lightly stir the 3 cups of the whipped topping and half of the crushed cookies into the instant pudding. Spoon mixture into a 13x9-inch dish; cover top with the remaining half portion of crushed cookies.

Put the dish in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or until ready to serve. While dish is chilling, decorate the creme sandwich cookies with decorating gel to resemble tombstones. Just prior to serving, stand cookies up in top of dessert. Place pumpkins and candy corns around sandwich cookies on top of pudding and OREO mixture. Drop left over whipped topping by spoonfuls onto dessert to resemble ghosts. Store any surplus dessert back in the refrigerator.

Great Pumpkin Cake

Ingredients:

1 pkg. of any flavor cake mix
1 8 oz. pkg. of softened Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) of softened butter
4 cups powdered sugar
Green, red and yellow food coloring
1 regular ice cream cone (with flat bottom)

Make cake mix in 12-cup fluted tube pan as directed on package and bake. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Take cake out of pan and place on wire rack to cool completely.

In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter with an electric mixer using medium speed until creamy. Once mixture is creamy, little by little add sugar, beating until light and fluffy after each addition. After the last of the sugar is added, remove 1/2 cup of the frosting and place in a small bowl. Add green food coloring to the frosting and stir until well blended. Use half of the green frosting to spread onto outside of the ice cream cone. Set cone and remaining green frosting aside for future use.

With leftover white frosting add red and yellow food colorings to tint it orange. Place cake, rounded-side up, on serving plate. Cover cake with orange frosting to resemble pumpkin. To create the pumpkin's stem, turn the ice cream cone upside down and place in the cake's hole on top. Using a pastry bag or plastic bag and cake decorating tip, pipe the reserved green frosting in vertical lines down the side of the cake.

Fig Newton Monster Pops

Ingredients:

Wooden lollipop sticks
1 pkg. of Fig Newton Cookies
Various decorating gels and frostings
1 pkg. of miniature marshmallows
Colored sprinkles and assorted Halloween candies

Insert 1 wooden stick into each cookie to create pop.

Decorate cookie with gels, frostings, marshmallows, candies and sprinkles to create monster faces.

Let stand for a few minutes to allow Monster faces to set prior to eating.

Tip: Put floral foam in Halloween container and place Monster Pops in foam to create an edible centerpiece.

Tip: Let kids decorate their own pops as part of a Halloween party activity.

Spooky Punch

Ingredients:

2/3 cup Orange Flavor Drink Mix
1 qt. (4 cups) cold water
2 cups cold ginger ale
1 pt. (2 cups) blackberry or orange sherbet

Add water and drink mix together in large punch bowl or pitcher; stir until drink mix is dissolved. Refrigerate mix several hours or until chilled.

When ready to serve, stir in the refrigerated ginger ale.

Put 1/4 cup sherbet in each punch cup. Pour drink mix over sherbet.

Pumpkin Lollipop Centerpiece and Party Favors

Ingredients:

4 bags of lollipops
Craft foam or construction paper in various colors
Non-toxic glue
1 medium foam pumpkin
Small foam pumpkins

Decorate medium and small foam pumpkins with craft foam or construction paper. Use glue to affix.

Insert lollipops into top of medium and small foam pumpkins. Make lollipops look like pumpkin's hair.

Tip: Provide supplies to party attendees and use as a Halloween party activity.


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