MONSTER BASH - Kid's Halloween Party Recipes Ghost Suckers Eyeballs Ghost Hand Punch Green Slime Graveyard Cake Bug Cookies Tomb Stone Cake Witch Cup Cakes Chocolate Spiders Halloween Worms Cat Dump Casserole Kitty Litter Cake Monster Hands Spider Cake Cool Whip Grave Yard Dessert Pumpkin Patch Cake Black Kool-Aid Aquarium Jello Toxic Aquarium Jello Cheesecloth Ghosts Chocolate Spiders and Webs Crispy Marshmallow Ghosts Goblin Balls Orange Worms Critters In The Hay Fudgy Bat Cookies Ghost Cookies Jack O Lantern Cookies Jack-O'-Lantern Pie Day Old Bathwater Nasty Spider Cake Black Cat Cupcakes Dirt Cups Decorated 1/4 sheet (9by13) of rice crispy treats Frog's Eyes Dem Bones Voodoo Witch's Hands Blood-shot Eyeballs Bloody Hands Boogers On A Stick Ghoul-Ade Ghosts On Broomsticks Pus Pockets Fungus Among Us Vegetable Salad KIDS' PARTY IDEAS ----------------- "I took Polaroid pictures of each kid as they arrived and attached to the premade up goody bags." Linda Gross -- Springfield, VA. Ghost Suckers: Take a round-headed lollipop. Lay the head in the center of a white handkerchief (disposable tissue or cloth depending on how classy/expensive you want). Fold and gather the handkerchief down around the stick and tie just below the head with a thread/ribbon/rubber band. Add 2 black dots for eyes. Voila - a ghost. These make good party favors. I've got a book that suggests writing the invitation around the outside of the handkerchief before assembling and mailing them in padded envelopes. Eyeballs: Make Rice Krispie Treats and form the treats into balls, about 1 or 2 inches across. Add a pastel M&M or other small round candy for the iris and dot the candy with frosting or gel for the pupil. A big hit at a recent 8-year old party and my 5-year old is eager to try it out. Ghost Hand Punch: Ahead of time, buy some new latex gloves. Wash one out and fill with water. Fasten the arm closed and freeze it. Float it in the punch before serving. (Source - a magazine my son picked up at McDonalds today) Green Slime: Serve lime jello out of a bowl. Don't cut it nicely - slop it out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graveyard Cake. you make a sheet cake & frost with chocolate frosting. Then you cover it with crushed chocolate sandwich cookies, so it looks like dirt. To make headstones use a flat vanilla cookie (rectangle shaped) and decorated with icing, use gravestone motifs like: RIP, skulls, etc. Put the headstones on the cake, standing up to looke like headstones. Add some small Halloween decorations, like ghosts, witches, black cats. Another cake idea is THE BLACK CAT. many of you may have already seen this. You take two round cake layers. One you leave whole, the other is cut so there is three pieces; one bow shaped (middle) and two kind of long ovid shaped ones (either end), I can't figure out how to draw a picture of it. Anyway you take the bow shaped piece and put it on the bottom of the cake, like a bow tie. Take one of the ovid shaped pieces and cut in half the short way, so you have to triangle shaped pieces. Put on top of the round layer, like ears. Eat the third piece. Frost the whole thing with dark chocolate frosting. Pipe on eyes with green frosting, and nose & lips with red; use licorice shoe laces for wiskers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug Cookies- Buy Mallomars or other fluffy chocolate covered cookies, black or brown pipe cleaners, white letter icing in a tube and mini chocolate chips. Snip and bend pipe cleaners and stick them into marshmellow for bug legs. Put big dalops of icing with mini chocolate chips in the center for eyes. Tomb Stone Cake- Bake a cake in a 9x12 pan. When cool, round off two of the corners to make the shape of a headstone. Frost with cookies and cream frosting (this makes it look like granite) and use dark icing in tube or black licorice laces to write RIP, Happy Halloween, or any other message you want. Witch Cup Cakes- Make cup cakes. Add green food color to white frosting to frost cup cakes. Make witch face with an assortment of items- like black licorice laces for hair, for eyes use mini M&Ms, Butterfinger BBs or other small candies, peanuts in the shell for nose, chocolate chips for moles, etc. Just be creative! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- My best idea for kids Halloween parties,costumes and food is to get THE PENNY WHISTLE HALLOWEEN BOOK, by Meredith Brokaw and Annie Gilbar, ISBN 0-671-73791-0 in paperback. It has great ideas for entire parties and lots of ideas to build upon to suit your needs. It's great! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: CHOCOLATE SPIDERS Categories: Kids, Halloween, Candies Yield: 2 Dozen 12 oz Twizzlers; chocolate flavor 4 oz Milk chocolate candy melts Cut twizzlers into 1 1/2" pieces. Slice each piece in half lengthwise. On waxed paper place 4 legs (pieces) on each side and then drop 1 tsp melted candy in middle for body. Use a toothpick to smooth to uniform circle and connect all candy pieces. Cool completely before removing from waxed paper. Source: Gifts That Taste Good (ISBN 0-942237-09-9) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Sunset Magazine Halloween Worms Cooking time: ~ 5 min. Prep time: ~ 15 min., plus overnight chilling Notes: Use a cleaned 1-quart milk or orange juice carton to hold straws 1 pkg. (6 oz.) raspberry or grape flavor gelatin 3 envelopes unflavored gelatin 3 cups boiling water 100 flexible plastic straws 1 tall (same height as extended straws), slend 4 cup container 3/4 cup whipping cream 12 to 15 drops green food coloring 1.In a bowl, combine gelatins. 2.Add boiling water; stir until gelatins completely dissolve. 3.Chill until lukewarm, about 20 min. 4.Meanwhile, gently pull straws to extend to full length; place in tall container. 5.Blend cream and food coloring with the lukewarm gelatin mixture. 6.Pour into container, filling straws. 7.Chill until gelatin is firm, at least 8 hours, or cover and chill up to 2 days. 8.Pull straws from container (if using a carton, tear carton away from straws). 9.Pull straws apart; run hot tap water for about 2 seconds over 3 to 4 straws at a time. 10.Starting at the empty ends, push worms from straws with rolling pin, or use your fingers; lay worms on waxed paper-lined baking sheets. 11.Cover and chill until ready to use, at least 1 hour or up to 2 days. 12.Worms will hold at room temp. up to 2 hours. Per worm: 17 cal., 42% (7.2 cal. from fat; 0.4 g. protein; 0.8 g fat (0.5 g sat.); 2 g carbo.; 6.8 mg sodium; 3 mg chol. Makes about 100, including a few casualties. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- One favorite: Cat Dump Casserole (from "Gross Grub" Cheryl Porter,Random House, 1995 First, buy a new plastic kitty litter pan & scoop to serve the mess effectively. (Wash it well anyhow - I know I feel better if I do.) To make cat dumps: 1 c. baking mix (like bisquick) 1 cup shredded cheddar 1 lb. ground meat (beef, pork, turkey) To make litter 2 c. long-grain rice 3 3/4 c. water 2 tsp. salt 2 tbs. butter or margarine Preheat oven to 350. Mix dump ingredients and mold into "logs" of various sizes. Bake on ungreased baking sheet(not touching each other)about 20 minutes, until brown, crispy and firm. While meat cooks combine litter ingredients in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heatto low, cover and simmer 14 minutes without lifting lid. Fluff rice with a fork, set aside. When "dumps" are done, transfer to a dish lined with papertowels to drain. Spoon rice "litter" and meat "dumps" into letter pan and serve with scoop! YUCCH! The kids love it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kitty Litter Cake 1 Spice or German Chocolate cake mix 1 White Cake mix 1 pkg White Sandwich Cookies 1 large pkg Vanilla Instant pudding mix Green food coloring 12 small Tootsie Rolls 1 new Kitty Litter Box 1 new Kitty Litter Box Liner 1 new Pooper Scooper Prepare cade mixes and bake according to directions (any size pans) Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in blender, they tend to stick, so scrape often. Set aside all but about 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a few drops green food coloring and mix using a fork or shake in a jar. When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. Toss with half the remaining white cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. You probably won't need all of the pudding, mix with the cake and "feel" it, you don't want it soggy, just moist; gently combine. Line new, clean kitty litter box. Put mixture into litter box. Put three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable. Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly to resemble "poop". Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls and bury in mixture. Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top. Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly over the top, this is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter. Heat remaining Tootsie Rolls, 3 at a time in the microwave until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with cookie crumbs. This is my addition-only spread 5 of the remaining Tootsie rolls over the top; take one and heat ntil pliable, hang it over the side of the kitty litter box;l sprinkling it lightly with cookie crumbs Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs around. I don't know about you, but my cat ALWAYS makes a MESS!!! Serve with a new pooper scooper.:) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONSTER HANDS----pop popcorn enough to fill a handful of clear hospital gloves or other, place a candy corn into the end of each finger then fill with popcorn until full at palm and tie off with red yarn or then you can place one of those black spider rings on the ring finger. this is fun as an activity for the kids to do themselves. so far it has been ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halloween: Spider Cake Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- ----Batter---- 1 box white cake mix -- (18 1/4 oz) 1 pkg green gelatin* -- (4 serv) ----Black Frosting---- blue food coloring chocolate frosting ----Decorations---- 4 black licorice 2 big green gumballs 6 little gumballs Prepare cake and gelatin according to package directions. Except use 9" round cake pans for the cake. Cut a smaller circle out of one cake and using it as the head. Fill the hole left over with gelatin. Place the other layer on top and trim to shape. To prepare frosting, in a mixing bowl, add blue food coloring to chocolate frosting until black in color. Frost cake black. Then, use the black licorice as legs and gumballs as eyes. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTES : *When cake is cut in to, it spurts green goop. * Exported from MasterCook * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halloween: Cool Whip Grave Yard Dessert Recipe By : Cool Whip Serving Size : 15 Preparation Time :0:15 Categories : Holiday/Gift Ideas Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- ----Crust---- 2 c chocolate wafer cookie crumbs 1/4 c granulated sugar 1 stick margarine -- melted ----Filling---- 1 pkg fat-free cream cheese -- (8 oz) 1 tub Cool Whip Lite. topping -- (12 oz) thawed 2 c water -- boiling 2 pkgs orange gelatin -- (4 serv) 1/2 c water -- cold ice cubes ----Decorations---- 1/4 c chocolate wafer cookie crumbs 7 rectangular shaped sandwich cookies 7 oval shaped sandwich cookies decorator icing brown, green, orange, -- & white candy corn candy pumpkins Preheat oven at 350. Prepare a 9 x 13 x 2" pan with cooking spray and flour. To prepare crust, combine 2 cups cookie crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, and margarine in a small mixing bowl. Press firmly into prepared pan. Bake for 10 minutes and then chill. To prepare filling, combine cream cheese, remaining sugar, and 1/2 cup Cool Whip in a mixing bowl. In another mixing bowl, combine boiling water into gelatin until completely dissolved. Mix cold water and ice cubes together to make 1 1/2 cups. Stir ice water into gelatin until thickened. Remove any remaining ice cubes. Spoon gelatin over cream cheese layer. Refrigerate 3 hours or until firm. Spread remaining Cool Whip over gelatin layer. Sprinkle with remaining cookie crumbs. Decorate as a "grave yard" by poking sandwich cookies on end into dessert. Decorate the cookies as tombstones with the decorator icing. Scatter candy and pumpkins around the surface. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halloween: Pumpkin Patch Cake Recipe By : Washington Post Serving Size : 16 Preparation Time :0:15 Categories : Holiday/Gift Ideas Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- ----Batter---- 2 boxes devil's food cake mix -- (18 oz) ----Frosting---- white frosting -- enough for 2 cakes orange and green food coloring ----Decorations---- 3 pcs candy corn 1 pc black licorice Prepare cake mixes according to package directions. Except make the cakes in 12-cup Bundt Pans with ridges (to resemble a pumpkin). Also, take enough batter to make one cupcake*. Unmold pans and place them bottom to bottom. Set the cakes on a large platter and frost them with the white frosting tinted orange. Then, frost cupcake with white frosting tinted green. There will be a hole in the middle of the cake. Fill with leftover frosting and set green cupcake on top (pumpkin stem). Place candy corn where eyes and nose should be. Then, place licorice where mouth should be. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTES : *Cupcake can be substituted with a ice cream cone covered with green frosting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is always popular at Halloween with the little ones. For ice, take a plastic glove and fill with water and freeze. You can put in fingernails or whatever "scares" you and the kiddos like the way it tastes. I called Kool-Aid at 1-800-367-9225 and got the recipe for black Kool-Aid, which they call Halloween Punch. It makes 32 half-cup servings. 1 env. orange unsweetened Kool-Aid 1 env. raspberry unsweetened Kool-Aid 2 c. sugar 3 qts. water with ice cubes 1 liter ginger ale Mix Kool-Aid and sugar in pitcher; add water and ice. Stir. Add ginger ale just before serving. You can also get the black color by mixing grape and lemon-lime or grape and orange. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AQUARIUM JELLO ---------------- Great idea for a simple dessert at kid's parties! goldfish bowl, nice and clean red hots or Jelly Belly gravel beans blue Jello ice cubes cold water purple endive parsley sprigs gummy fish Use a new or well cleaned goldfish bowl. In the bottom, the original recipe called for red-hots as the 'gravel', but I plan to use the Jelly Belly beans that look like rocks. Mix up as much blue Jello as your bowl will hold. Mix using ice cubes & cold water instead of the cold water called for on the box. Pour this into the bowl over a knife blade or something to keep from disturbing the gravel. If you want it to have 'seaweed', poke a couple of pieces of purple endive or something similar down into the gravel. When the whole thing starts to jell, use a wooden skewer to push gummy fish into different parts of the bowl. If you're going to be able to supervise the serving, you could even add a plastic diver man, etc. TOXIC AQUARIUM JELLO -------------------- Well, what we'd do for a Halloween party would be to make a Toxic Aquarium. Mix orange and blue jello to get a putrid shade of green. Lifesavers make old tires and you can toss in other junky things for trash on the bottom of the sea. Something barrel-shaped for that illegally dumped toxic waste. Float your fish upside-down on top, and add a plastic skeleton or two. Haven't figured out a good way to put something on the bottom to represent the sand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHEESECLOTH GHOSTS ------------------ What you need for those are a mess of cheesecloth, fabric stiffener or white glue, googly eyes (available in craft stores), balloons, drinking glasses, and nylon thread or fishing line (optional). First, blow up the balloons and set them in the drinking glasses; this will provide a form for you to mold the ghosts around. Cut squares about 12-14" of double layers of cheesecloth. Dilute the fabric stiffener or white glue 1:1 with water, dip the cheesecloth squares in the glue mixture and wring out the excess. Drape the cheesecloth on the balloon in a ghostly shape. You can have the ghost's hemline trail the table for a standup ghost, or you can have a sheer drop for a flying ghost. Let dry overnight. When dry, remove the balloons, glue on the googly eyes and attach nylon thread to the beads of any ghosts you want to fly through the air. Hang the flying ghosts wherever appropriate! The standup ghosts can stand on a table. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Chocolate Spiders and Webs Categories: Snack, Halloween, Chocolate d Yield: 2 doz spider 1 sm Pk (6 oz or 1 c) semisweet - chocolate chips Spider web pattern (follows) In the top of a double boiler over barely simmering water, stir the choco- late until melted; remove from heat. Let stand over water until chocolate is cool but still fluid, about 10 minutes. Or melt chocolate in microwave. Lay pattern on a 12 x l5 inch baking sheet and cover with waxed paper. Put chocolate into a pastry bag fitted with 1/4 inch diameter tip or a paper cone; fold top edge down to seal. Squeeze chocolate out of pastry bag onto waxed paper, tracing spider or web designs that show through from the pattern underneath. If chocolate is too runny to hold lines, let cool a little more. As pan is filled, transfer pattern to another 12 x l5 inch, cover with waxed paper and continue. Chill spiders or webs on pan until firm, about 10 minutes. Gently peel paper away from chocolate. Spiders and webs are delicate and melt fast, so handle gently and quickly. If made ahead, arrange in single layers, separat- ed by waxed paper; store airtight in the refrigerator up to 2 weeks. Serve as candy or to top desserts. Makes about 2 dozen spiders or 1 dozen webs. Spider and Web Pattern. On a 12 x l5 inch sheet of light-colored paper, boldly draw at least 1 pattern for spider and web. You can either repeat the pattern as you pipe the chocolate onto the waxed paper, or you can draw a pattern that includes designs for multiple items. Start with spider legs: draw a half circle that is 1 1/2 inches across. Inside and about 1/4 inch parallel to it, draw another half circle. Back to back to the big half circle, repeat the 2 curved lines; you now have 8 legs. Where the lines curve together, draw a small circle to intersect all 4 lines to make the body. Draw a small circle for the head on top the first circle. For the web, draw a 4 inch long cross. Draw diagonal lines to bisect the quadrants. Connect these spokes with concentric loops. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Halloween: Crispy Marshmallow Ghosts Categories: Candies, Halloween Yield: 14 ghosts 1/3 c Butter 6 c Miniature marshmallows 1 ts Vanilla 8 c Crispy rice cereal 2 oz Semisweet chocolate, chopped --------------------------------PALLOR ICING-------------------------------- 1 c Granulated sugar 3 tb Water 1 Egg white pn Cream of tartar pn Salt 1/2 ts Vanilla Pallor Icing: In top of double boiler over boiling water, combine sugar, water, egg white, cream of tartar and salt. With electric mixer, beat at high speed for 7 minutes or until stiff glossy peaks form. fold in vanilla. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until thickened. [Can be stored up to 3 days.][Makes 2 cups.] Ghosts: In Saucepan, melt butter over medium heat; stir in marshmallows until smooth. Stir in vanilla. Scrape into large bowl; stir in cereal until coated. Set bowl over saucepan of boiling water. Using rubber gloves, shape cereal mixture into 4-inch long ghost shapes. Let stand for about 30 minutes or until firm. Spread with Pallor Icing; let stand for about 30 minutes or until set. In top of double boiler over bot (not boiling) water, melt chocolate; pipe onto ghosts to make faces. [Ghosts can be refrigerated in airtight container for up to 3 days.] Decorate by drawing faces with chocolate, or use candies and licorice strings. Variation: Jack-O-Lanterns: Add orange food colouring with vanilla; shape into 1-1/2 inch balls. Create face with currants, red fruit leather, and licorice shoestrings and twists. Source: Canadian Living magazine, Nov 95 Presented in article "Kids & Fun: Happy Halloween" Recipe by Canadian Living Test Kitchen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Halloween: Goblin Balls Categories: Candies, Halloween Yield: 24 balls 8 c Popped corn 1 c Granulated sugar 1/2 c Corn syrup 1/3 c Water 1 tb Butter 1/2 ts Salt 1 ts Vanilla 1 c Orange and black gumdrops -or jujubes, chopped Currants and diced apricots can replace the candy. Place popped corn in bowl; set aside. In small saucepan over medium-high heat, bring sugar, corn syrup, water, butter and salt to boil; cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Cook, without stirring, for 10 minutes or until at hard-ball stage of 254F 123C on candy thermometer, or until 1/2 ts syrup dropped into cold water forms rigid but still slightly pliable ball. Remove from heat. Wearing oven mitts to shield against splatters, carefully stir in vanilla. Pour over popped corn; using greased spoon, toss until coated. Stir in candy. Wearing rubber gloves, form into 2-inch balls; let cool on baking sheet. Source: Canadian Living magazine, Nov 95 Presented in article "Kids & Fun: Happy Halloween" Recipe by Canadian Living Test Kitchen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: ORANGE WORMS Categories: Kids, Halloween Yield: 13 servings 2 cn Apricot halves packed in light syrup 4 Envelopes unflavored gelatin 2 c Orange juice Wiggle these worms any way you want on your plate. If you like, give them 'eyes' made from licorice bits. Place apricots in colander and let drain. Place drained apricots in food processor, cover, and whirl until well blended. Place gelatin in 3 quart pan, add orange juice, and let5 stand for 5 minutes to soften gelatin. Place pan on burner and bring to a boil over med/high heat,stirring with whisk. Turn off burner and remove pan to rack. Add apricots and mix with whisk until well blended. Pour into baking pan,cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for about 4 hours, until set. Use butter knife to cut gelatin crosswise into 9 inch long, 1 inch wide strips. (you should have about 13 strips) Use pancake turner to remove strips to serving plate. Use your hands to twist strips into worm shapes. Makes 13 worms. Origin: Cookbook Digest Sept/Oct 1993. Shared by: Sharon Stevens ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: CRITTERS IN THE HAY Categories: Holidays, Kids, Halloween Yield: 4 Quarts 1 1/2 c Sugar 1 c Light corn syrup 2 tb Butter 1 1/2 ts Pumpkin pie spice 1 ts Vanilla 1/2 ts Salt 1/2 ts Green food color(optional) 3 1/2 qt Popped popcorn; remove any -unpopped kernals 1 c Candy corn -Licorice ropes;black -wooden picks -small black gum drops or -other small black candies -red decorating icing -tiny red jaw-breakers candy -wormshape candies In Dutch oven, bring sugar,corn syrup and butter to a boil; boil 2 1/2 minutes. Stir in pumpkin pie spice,vanilla,salt and food coloring(if desired) mix until evenly colored. Add popcorn and toss until evenly coated. Spread popcorn mixture in a single layer on greased sheets of foil and allow to cool and harden. Break into bite-size pieces and mix with candy corn in a wide shallow bowl; set aside. To make spiders, cut licorice into 2 inch lengths. To make legs, starting at one end, make three 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch cuts to make four legs. Repeat cuts at opposite end. Leave about 1/2 inch in center uncut. Gently pull legs apart and curl down. Push wooden pick through center of body, leaving about 1/4 inch exposed on top. Push one gumdrop onto exposed pick to make a body. Using writing tip of decorating icing, squeeze two small dots of icing into gumbrops. Press jaw-breakers into icing to make eyes. Place"spiders" and worm-shaped candies in popcorn. Remove wooden picks before eating. Makes 4 quarts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: FUDGY BAT COOKIES Categories: Kids, Cookies, Halloween Yield: 3 Dozen 9 oz Chocolate wafer cookies 4 oz Milk chocolate candy melts Use a serrated knife to carefully cut 18 of the cookies into quarters. Save remaining cookies for another use. For each bat, place 2 cookie quarters 1/4" apart on waxed paper. Repeat with remaining quarters. Melt candy melts. Drop about 1/2 teaspoon of melted candy at center of each bat, connecting cookies. Use a toothpick to smooth melted candy into a uniform circle. Cool completely before removing from waxed paper. Source: Gifts That Taste Good