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Halloween Spiders
- 2 tablespoons Peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons Powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons Graham cracker crumbs
- 2 tablespoons Coconut
- Licorice
- Raisins
Mix peanut butter, sugar and crumbs together and form a ball. Divide the ball into 2 parts to form 2 balls, 1 slightly smaller than the other. Roll balls in coconut and place smaller ball on top of larger one. The smaller ball with be the head and the larger 1, the abdomen. Add 8 licorice legs and 8 raisin eyes.
Makes 1 scary spider.
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Ice Cream Vampire Bats
- 4 (3 1/2 inch) soft oatmeal, cookies
- 4 large Scoops of chocolate ice, cream
- Assorted candies for decoration, such as candy corn, licorice whips, jellybeans and fruit rolls
For the "bat's wings," Place cookies on a work surface. Cut cookies in halves. Using a teaspoon, cut a scalloped edge on the straight side of each cookie; set aside.
For the "bat's body," place a scoop of ice cream on four individual serving plates. Using a knife make 1/2" deep cut on opposite sides of each scoop of ice cream.
To assemble, insert the end of cookie half into each cut in the scoop of ice cream to form wings. Decorate ice cream with candies to create the bat's face. Use licorice whips for the ears, jelly beans for the eyes, candy corn for the fangs. Serve immediately or freeze up to two hours before serving.
Yields 4 servings.
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Wormy Apples
- 6 large Golden Delicious Apples
- 1/2 cup Raisins
- 1/2 cup Walnuts - chopped
- 1/2 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup Water
- 1/4 cup Butter/margarine - 1/2 stick
- 1/2 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon Ground nutmeg
- 6 Wiggly candy worms -, "Gummy Worms"
Core apples from blossom ends, leaving stem ends intact. Mix raisins and walnuts and stuff into cavities of cored apples. Set apples, stems up in a 7 x 12 inch pan. In a 1 to 2 quart pan, mix brown sugar, water, butter, cinnamon & nutmeg; stir over high heat until mixture boils. Pour hot syrup around apples. Bake, uncovered, in 350~ oven, basting occasionally with syrup, until apples are tender when pierced and skin begins to crack, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove apples from oven; cool in pan at least 10 minutes or let cool to room temperature. Set each apple in a small bowl and spoon syrup around fruit. In the top of each apple, cut a hole large enough for one of the candy worms and tuck one end into each apple, leaving most of the worm dangling. Offer cream to pour over apples.
Ghoulish Gooey Bars
- 1/4 cup. butter or margarine
- 2.16 oz. each bars Snickers candy
- bars, cut in pieces
- 40 marshmallows
- 2 cup. Corn Chex
- 2 cup. Rice Chex
- 2 cup. Wheat Chex
Butter a 9-inch square pan. In large saucepan over low heat, melt butter. stir in one candy bar and marshmallows. Cook, stirring frequently, until melted and smooth. Gradually add cereals, stirring until all pieces are coated. Stir in remaining candy bar. Press into pan. Cool, cut into squares.
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