Halloween Cut-Outs (Gelatin Snack)
Ingrediants
12-ounce can - Frozen cranberry juice concentrate, thawed
1 ½ cups - Apple juice
3 envelopes - Unflavored gelatin
Preparation
Lightly grease a 13x9 inch pan.
In medium saucepan, combine juices. Sprinkle gelatin over top and allow to soften 1 to 2 minutes. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir constantly to dissolve gelatin.
Pour gelatin into prepared pans. Refrigerate until firm. Cut into Halloween shape with cookie cutters or simply cut into squares.
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Brain Salad Surgery (Salad)
Ingrediants
1 package (6 ounce) - Blueberry gelatin mix
1 carton (16 ounce) - Small curd cottage cheese
1 can (16 ½ ounce) - Blueberries in syrup or ¾ cup - Frozen blueberries (thawed)
Blue food coloring
Preparation
Prepare gelatin according to package directions. Chill 4-5 hours or until firm.
Scoop cottage cheese into a bowl. Drain and set aside the syrup from the blueberries. Add the berries to the cottage cheese and mix well. Add three drops of food coloring to turn the cottage cheese a nice grayish color with blended.
To serve salad, place a few spoonfuls of firm gelatin, (congealed brain fluid), onto individual serving plates. Top with a scoop of cottage cheese (brain tissue) mixture and serve.
Makes 6 servings.
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Snake Bits With Barbecue Sauce (Pasta)
Ingrediants
1 package (10 ounce) - Rigatoni pasta
2 cans - "Squirtable" cheese spread
1 small jar - Barbecue sauce
16 to 20 - Whole black peppercorns
1 - Carrot
Preparation
Cook pasta in boiling water, drain, rinse in cold water and drain again.
To make snakes, cover one end of the rigatoni with your finger (to prevent leakage) and carefully fill each piece of pasta with cheese spread. Place six to eight cheese-filled rigatonis end to end on a serving platter in a realistically curvy snake shape.
Using a toothpick, spread lines of barbecue sauce along the top of each snake for markings. To form heads, use barbecue sauce to glue two black peppercorn eyes onto the end opposite the tail of each snake.
Wash, dry and carefully peel skin off carrot. When completely clean of skin, make one more peeling for each snake you have formed. At the narrow end of each peel, carefully cut out a long, thin triangle. These are your snakes forked tongues.
Serving Suggestion
Assemble two or three snakes lying on their backs, as if they died in agony! Belly up snakes have no markings drawn on them, as snake bellies are generally a solid color.
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Rice Krispie Caramel Treats
Ingrediants
3 cups - Miniature marshmallows
15 - Caramels
¼ cup - Butter or margarine
2 tablespoons - Frozen orange juice concentrate
1 teaspoon - Vanilla extract
4 cups - Rice Krispies
½ cup - M&M's
½ cup - Chocolate chips
Preparation
In a large heavy saucepan, combine marshmallows, caramels, margarine and orange juice concentrate. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently until marshmallows and caramels are melted and thoroughly blended. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Add cereal, M&M's, and chocolate chips; mix well.
Lightly butter a 13x9 inch pan. Lightly press mixture into prepared pan. Cool completely and cut into bars or squares.
Store in tightly covered container.
Makes 24 bars.
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Frozen Jack O' Lanterns (Ice Cream)
Ingrediants
24 - Naval oranges
1 gallon - Dark chocolate or fudge ice cream
24 - Whole cinnamon sticks
Preparation
Cut off the top of the oranges. Gently hollow out the pulp, leaving a thick shell; hollow pulp out of cut-off tops too. Cut Jack O' Lantern faces into each orange. Take a SpookMaster Easy pattern and reduce it in size .
Pack scoops of ice cream into shells (try to avoid letting ice cream ooze out of eyes or mouth). Cut a small hole in the top of each orange. Set tops back on over the ice cream and insert a cinnamon-stick stem through the hole. Place in the freezer for at least 3 hours or until serving time.
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