Pumpkin Teeth

Talk about easy--Just buy some snack size baggies, put candy corn in them and add a label.  I used the regular and chocolate candy corns together. 

Go to http://preppyandpinknc.blogspot.com/2011/09/shes-kinda-crafty-guest-post.html and you can download the label to put on the baggies. 

I made these for Family Home Evening for the Young Single Adults.  My husband and I are doing a service mission for our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  We are with the Church Educational System and serving at the Institute of Religion at the University of South Carolina.   We love working with these young adults.  They keep me and my husband young and they love my food.  So expect a lot of new recipes to be posted--I now have more guinea pigs to try them on :-)

Thank you again Pinterest for all these awesome Halloween ideas.

Vampire Bites

Now don't these look like yummy vampire bites?  So easy and makes a great Halloween treat for the family.  Yep, found them on Pinterest.  I'm in love :-)

Vampire Bites

bag of waffle pretzels
bag of Hershey's HUGS
candy corn

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or foil.  Place pretzels  on the cookie sheet making sure none are touching.  Put HUG in middle of each pretzel.  Bake for 2 - 3 minutes.  The HUGS will start to get shiny.  Take out of the oven and gently place a candy corn on top of the HUG.  Cool before serving.  You can put them in fridge to speed the process.

          I wonder if they serve these at Hotel Transylvania? 

Witches Hats

I saw a picture of this easy Halloween treat on Pinterest and said, "I can make that!"!  And I did.  Aren't they cute?

Witches Hats

Keebler Original Fudge Striped Cookies
Hershey Kisses
Orange melting chocolate

Line a cookie sheet with parchment or wax paper.  Put cookies, strip side down, in a single layer.  Melt the orange chocolate in microwave and put a dollop in middle hole of each cookie.  Place a Hershey Kiss on the dollop and let harden.

Witches Fingers

For the next few posts, I'll be putting some Halloween treat recipes.  I'm addicted to Pinterest and found some of the cutest Halloween ideas.  These "witches fingers" are absolutely "boo-tiful" and easy to make. 

Witches Fingers

bag of pretzel rods
green melting chocolate 
sliced almonds

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.  Dip pretzel rods in the chocolate and add a sliced almond for the fingernail.  With a toothpick draw in the knuckles.

Charleston Medical Spa's Witch Poison

While visiting my sister in Charleston, we went by Charleston Medical Spa.  My sister used to work there.  The place was all decorated for Halloween and they had a jar of witch poison for clients to enjoy.  It was just candy corn and peanuts mixed together, but it tasted like a Butterfinger candy bar.  Honest!  Like a Butterfinger.  This is a really easy Halloween treat.  Thanks for sharing, Lisa.  Happy Haunting!

Charleston Medical Spa's Witch Poison

2 bags of candy corn
2 cans of peanuts

Mix above ingredients together and enjoy!

Halloween Ghosts Pops

My friend, Marietta, shared these precious Halloween Ghosts Pops with me.  They are so simple and yummy!  Here's what you need:

Double Stuffed Oreo Cookies (use the orange Halloween ones)
White Melting Chocolate (you can get this at AC Moore or Michael's)
Melted Chocolate Chips for eyes and mouth
Sucker Sticks

Just put the sucker sticks through the Oreo center.  Dip in the white chocolate.  Let it set and then add eyes and mouth.

Mmmm!  SPOOK-tacular!!!

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Now, what did you do with all those pumpkin seeds you dug out of your Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns? I bet you threw them away like I usually do. Well, this year I decided to try to roast them. My husband loves pumpkin seeds, so I made them especially for him. They were delicious. Saved me a lot of money, too--pumpkin seeds are about $5.00 a pound at the health food store.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

2 1/2 - 3 cups raw pumpkin seeds

3 Tablespoons melted butter

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 Tablespoon seasoned salt

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Mix all ingredients above until pumpkin seeds are evenly coated. Spread in an even layer on a cookie sheet. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes until toasted. Cool completely on the baking sheet. Put in a serving dish and enjoy!

**Let the pumpkin seeds dry overnight before roasting. I rinse them off and then put them on a paper towel on a cookie pan to dry out. Thanks, Brandi, for reminding me to make note of this :-)

Salty Bones

Here is one last Halloween treat for your family to enjoy--Salty Bones. This also came from the Family Fun website. Happy Haunting!

Salty Bones

1 tube of refrigerated bread stick dough

Coarse salt

Unroll a tube of refrigerated bread stick dough and separate the rectangular pieces. Working with one piece at a time, stretch the dough to lengthen it a bit and then use kitchen scissors or a knife to cut a 1 1/2 inch slit in the center of each end. Roll or shape the resulting four flaps of sough into knobs that look like the ends of a bone. Place the dough bones on an ungreased baking sheet and sprinkle a little coarse salt over each bone. Bake the bones until they are light golden brown, about 12 - 14 minutes.

Freaky Fingers and Monster Mouths

I found some really cute Halloween treats on the Family Fun website. They were called Cheese Finger Food and Apple Bites, but I think Freaky Fingers and Monster Mouths sound much more appetizing for Halloween!

Freaky Fingers

Mozzarella string cheese

Green bell pepper

Cream cheese

Cut each cheese stick in half (makes two fingers). Carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half. Carve out tiny horizontal wedges for joint (below the nail) and the knuckle joint. Slice green bell pepper into nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.

Monster Mouths

Apples

Slivered almonds

Quarter and core an apple. Cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter. Then press slivered almonds in place for teeth.

Tip: If you're not going to serve these right away, bast the apples with orange juice to keep them from browning.

"Mummy" Dogs

I thought this was such a great idea. My daughter-in-law, Brandi, made these last Halloween for her family. It's just hot dogs all wrapped up like mummies. Cute, huh?

"Mummy Dogs"

1 can (8 oz) Pillsbury refrigerated crescent dinner rolls

2 1/2 slices of American cheese, quartered

10 hot dogs

Cooking spray

Mustard and/or Ketchup (if desired)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Unroll dough, separate at perforations, making 4 rectangles. Press perforations to seal. Cut each rectangle lengthwise into 10 pieces, making a total of 40 pieces of dough. Slice cheese slices into quarters--the half slice of cheese, cut in half.

Put a slit lenghwise in hot dog and put slice of cheese on top of slit. Wrap 4 pieces of dough around each hot dog to look like bandages, stretching dough slightly to completely cover the hot dog. About 1/2 inch from one end of each hot dog(not the cheese side), separate "bandages" so hot dog shows through for a "face". On ungreased large cookie sheet, place wrapped hot dogs

(cheese side down), and spray dough slightly with cooking spray.

Bake 13 - 17 minutes or until dough is light golden brown and hot dogs are hot. With mustard draw features on "face".

My granddaughter, Addy, helped me make them. I started them with one strand of dough (to secure the cheese) and then she finished wrapping them.I separated the bandages to make the face. We baked them, used mustard to put a face on them and ate them all up. (I put the mustard in a small baggie, snipped the corner and decorated the mummy's face. Brandi suggested doing this and it worked great!)

You can tell little McKinley loved them, too.

Witches Potion

Halloween is almost here. Here's a cool snack for the children to enjoy containing black bugs, vampire teeth, bat eyes, frog eggs, ghost teeth and witches warts. Doesn't that sound yummy?

Witches Potion

1 1/2 cups raisins (black bugs)

1 1/2 cups candy corn (vampire teeth)

1 1/2 cups M & Ms (bat eyes)

1 1/2 cups peanuts (frog eggs)

2 cups marshmallows (ghost teeth)

3 cups Corn Chex (witches warts)

Mix together and devour!