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Pumpkin Bars
Yields 12 pieces.
3/4 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 eggs
1 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup canned pumpkin
1/4 cup cooking oil
1/2 cup nuts
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In a bowl beat eggs and sugar. Add oil and mix until combined. Then add the dry sifted ingredients together with the pumpkin and nuts. Pour in 1/4 sheet (12" x 8") greased baking pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from pan and frost, if desired. Cut into 2" x 4" squares. Enjoy...
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Eyeball Potion
Yield: 10 Servings
8 ounces vanilla ice cream
20 pieces blueberries or raisins
1 1/2 cup boiling water
1 ounce gelatin
red food coloring
3 cups cold water
red Jell-O, if desired, see recipe for details.
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Using a small ice-cream scoop, place 2 scoops ice cream into each of the 10 dessert dishes for eyeballs. Place a blueberry or raisin in each scoop for the pupil.
Freeze 30 minutes, or until firm.
Meanwhile, stir boiling water into gelatin in large bowl at least two minutes until completely dissolved. Add cold water to gelatin, stirring until slightly thickened. Water quantity may vary depending on the type of gelatine used. Add red food coloring as needed. To make it easier you may also replace this step by using red Jell-O.
Pour about 1/2 cup gelatin around the two eyeballs in each dish, leaving the top of the eyeballs exposed. Freeze until ready to serve.
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Orange-ooze Cupcakes
Yield: 36 Cupcakes
Filling and Frosting
8 ounce cream cheese; softened
1 egg
1/3 cup sugar
Yellow and red food coloring
6 ounces chocolate chips
Cupcake - Muffin Recipe
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cup water
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoon vanilla
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Preparation time: 20 to 25 minutes
Baking time: 25 minutes
Utensils:
Measuring cups and spoons, cupcake baking pans, paper cupcake liners, two small mixing bowls, electric mixer, mixing spoon, large mixing bowl, oven mitts.
Preheat oven to 350F. Line cupcake baking pans with paper cupcake liners.
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In small mixing bowl, use electric mixer to combine cream cheese, egg and sugar. Blend in 2 drops yellow food coloring and 1 drop red food coloring, adding more coloring if necessary to reach desired shade. Use mixing spoon to stir in chocolate chips, set filling aside.
In large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt; set aside.
In second small mixing bowl, combine water, vegetable oil and vanilla. Add contents of small mixing bowl to large mixing bowl and stir with mixing spoon to combine.
Using mixing spoon or soup spoon, fill cupcake liners half full with cupcake batter, then place 1 teaspoon filling at center of each. As cupcake bakes, the batter will rise to surround the filling.
Wearing oven mitts, place cupcake pans in oven; bake approximately 25 minutes or until done. When done, wear oven mitts to remove pan from oven and turn off oven.
If desired, frost with orange icing or just let the orange filling ooze out as a surprise.
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Moldy Dinner Rolls
Make normal dinner rolls, but put green food coloring into them
until you get a nice moldy green color.
Finger Pizzas
1 red bell pepper (4 oz.)
12 sticks (1 oz. each) mozzarella
8 small (about 5" diam.) baked pizza crusts
1 cup purchased pizza sauce
Core, stem and seed pepper; cut lengthwise into 1"-wide strips. Cut each strip crosswise
into 1/2" pieces (fingernails). Round corners on one end of each piece. Cut each cheese
stick in half crosswise. On rounded end of each stick (finger), cut out a 1/2"-square notch
into which a pepper piece will fit to make a nail. Lay crusts slightly apart on 3 baking
sheets, each 12x15". Spread 2 T. sauce evenly over each crust. Lay 3 cheese fingers well
apart on each crust: fit a red pepper nail onto each. Bake in a 450F oven until cheese just
begins to melt, about 8 min.
Tongues on Toast
8 slices white bread
8 slices bologna
Mustard
Cut each slice of bread into the shape of lips, with a slit in the middle. Cut the bologna
into strips that look like tongues. Insert the bologna into the slits in the lips(so it looks
like the tongues are hanging out of the mouths). Cover the bread with mustard and broil
until the bread is golden brown.
Cheese Eyeballs
2 cups grated Cheddar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1 cup flour
6 ounce bottle pimento-stuffed green olives
Combine cheese and butter. Add salt, paprika, and flour and mix well. Measure
approximately one tsp of this mixture and form an "eyeball" around an olive. Turn the
olive in the "eyeball" so that it is "staring" outward. Line up the eyeballs on an ungreased
cookie sheet. Bake in 400F oven for 15 minutes.
Strained Eyeballs
6 eggs, hard-cooked, cooled and peeled
6 oz whipped cream cheese
12 green olives stuffed with pimientos
red food coloring or ketchup
Half eggs widthwise. Remove yolks and fill the hole with cream cheese, smoothing
surface as much as possible. Press an olive into each cream cheese eyeball, pimiento up,
for an eerie green iris and red pupil. Dip a toothpick into ketchup and draw broken blood
vessels in the cream cheese
Crispy Caterpillar Cocoons
1 8-oz. tube refrigerated crescent rolls
8 beef sausages (such as Brown & Serve)
1 squeeze bottle yellow mustard
Preheat oven according to directions on the crescent-roll package. Prepare the sausages
according to the directions on the package. Use tongs to remove the cooked sausages
from the frying pan and place them on paper towels. Allow to cool ten to fifteen minutes.
Cut the sausages in half lengthwise. Then use the rounded tip of a carrot peeler to scoop
out a long, shallow trough down the length of each half. Squeeze a thin line of mustard
into each trough. Separate the crescent-roll dough into its pre-cut triangle pieces, and lay
them flat on an ungreased cookie sheet. To form insect larvae, take two sausage halves
and, with their mustard-filled sides touching, put them together to form a whole. Place a
whole larva at the wide end of each dough triangle, and roll up dough as you would
regular crescent rolls. Pinch the ends and seams of the rolls closed. Bake according to
package instructions. Warning: They take a good 15-20 minutes to cool off!
Bone Sandwiches
Cut the crusts off of some slices of white bread. Spread peanut butter and jam on the
bread. Roll the sandwiches up. Ta da! You have bones with blood and marrow for dinner!
Monster Eyes
Serve pitted prunes stuffed with cream cheese and topped with a raisin.
Boogers on a Stick
8 ounces Jar cheez whiz
Green food coloring
25 To 30 pretzel sticks
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Waxed paper
Long handled spoon
Platter
With an adults help, melt the cheeze whiz in the microwave or on top of the stove,
according to directions on the jar. Allow the cheese to cool slightly in the jar. Using a
long handled spoon, carefully stir about three drops of green food coloring into the warm
cheese, using just enough to turn the cheese a delicate snot green.
To form boogers: Dip and twist the tip of each pretzel stick into the cheese, lift out, wait
twenty seconds, then dip again. When cheese lumps reach an appealingly boogerish size,
set pretzels, booger down, onto a sheet of waxed paper. Allow finished boogers on a
stick to cool at room temperature for ten minutes or until cheese is firm. Gently pull
boogers off waxed paper and arrange on a serving platter. Serves 5 to 6 booger buddies.
Chocolate Armpit Hairs
Ingredients:
3 large shreddred wheat bundles
3 Tablespoons honey
1 Tablespoon light brown sugar
1 6-ounce bag milk chocolate chips
2 Tablespoons butter
1: Break up the shredded wheat bundles into single long
strands, so they have the appearance of armpit hairs. Set
aside.
2: Place the honey, brown sugar, chocolate chips, and
butter in a saucepan and heat over a low flame to melt. Stir
constantly. Mixture should be smooth and glossy.
3: Remove from heat and gently stir in the shredded wheat.
4: When the shredded wheat is completely coated, scoop it onto waxed paper in small equal
portions. Use a fork to gently rake hairs into one direction.
5: Place in refrigerator for about thirty minutes.
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Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.
Cupcake Rats
Take a toy rubber or plastic mouse/rat and mold pieces of aluminum foil by pressing the
foil over the top of the rat, forming a foil cup that has the shape of the rat on the inside,
leave the bottom open and pull the toy rat out. Make a bunch of these aluminum rat cups.
Use some additional foil to form legs so the molds sit open side up on a cookie sheet.
Spray the inside of the foil rat molds with non-stick cooking spray and fill with chocolate
cake batter following the instructions on the box. Leaving the molds on the cookie sheet
for support, bake the rat cakes in the oven, again follow box instructions, you may find it
helps to over bake them a bit. When finished baking, let cool and pull off the foil mold
and trim the bottom of the cupcake rat with a knife so it sits flat. Use red cake icing in the
little squeeze tubes to inject (from the bottom) the insides with a little gooey "blood", use
licorice whips for a tail and red cake decorating beads for eyes. You usually will only get
one rat per mold, so make plenty of the foil molds, they're easy to do. You can make
these into bats by adding wings made from Fruit Roll-Ups and leaving off the tail.
Litterbox Cookies
Chocolate ingredients:
1/2 cup honey
2/3 cup (1 and 1/3 stick) butter or margarine 
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla or peppermint extract
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
Grape-Nuts cereal
Gingerbread ingredients:
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup molasses
2/3 cup(1 and 1/3 stick) butter or margarine
1 egg
2 and 1/3 cups whole wheat flour
spices--ginger, cinnamon, and cloves to taste (1/2 tsp each)
Grape-Nuts cereal Mix-ins:
coconut
chocolate chips
butterscotch chips
peanut butter chips
Microwave the honey until it bubbles (about 1 minute). Add the butter, and the molasses,
if any. Add the egg, mix well, then mix in all the other stuff. Add mix-ins of your choice
to some or all of the batter. Chill 1 hour in the freezer or several hours in the fridge. Roll
dough logs of random length and the diameter of cat poops. Roll logs in grape-nuts and
bake at 350 degrees till done (10 to 15 minutes). Serve in a disposable cat litter box on a
bed of grapenuts, with a cat litter scoop. Garnish with melted chocolate.
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