Grave Yard Dessert
CRUST
- 2 cups chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup margarine, melted
FILLING
- 8-oz package fat-free cream cheese
- 12-oz tub Cool Whip Free®, thawed
- 2 cups boiling water
- 2 (4-servings) packages orange gelatin
- 1/2 cup cold water
- Ice cubes
DECORATIONS
- 1/4 cup chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
- 7 rectangular shaped sandwich cookies
- 7 oval shaped sandwich cookies
- Decorator icing brown, green, orange, and white
- Candy corn
- Candy pumpkins
Preheat oven at 350 degrees F.
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 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 1/4 cup 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-Shaped Cake
- Twice the batter for any cake recipe (or 2 packages of cake mix, prepared)
- Twice any white frosting recipe (or 2 cans white frosting)
- Food coloring
- 1 Hostess Ho-Ho® (or similar cake-roll snack item)
Prepare two cakes in bundt pans and cool completely.
Color most of the frosting a deep orange, reserving about 1/2 cup, which should be colored black (or use dark chocolate fudge frosting).
Place one bundt cake upside down (rounded side on the bottom) on a cake plate; frost the top only. Place the second bundt cake flat-side down on top of first cake. Frost the entire cake with orange frosting, making up and down motions with spatula to simulate a pumpkin.
Insert the Ho-Ho® in the middle of the top of the bundt cake to make the stem. Use black frosting to make eyes, nose, mouth, etc. (Or use candies, gum drops, jelly beans, black rope licorice - be creative!)
Halloween Treats
Ghost Suckers
Use these for party favors, hanging them from the ceiling until ready to distribuate to your guests.
Take a round-headed lollipop. Lay the head in the center of a white handkerchief, facial tissue, or cloth square. Gather the handkerchief down around the stick and tie tightly just below the head with a rubber band, twist-tie, or string. Add 2 black dots for eyes.
You can also use these ghosts as an invitation to your party. Write the party date and location around the outside of the handkerchief before making the ghosts. If you plan to mail them, you might want to use flat round lollipops and padded envelopes.
Witches Hats
You will need Keebler® fudge striped cookies, Hershey® Kisses and a tube of orange decorator icing. Turn cookies upside down so that the chocolate side is up. Use the orange decorator icing to pipe around the hole in the center of each cooke. Place an unwrapped Kiss on the icing circle. Finish by piping around the base of the kiss and drawing a little bow.
Green Slime
Serve soft-set lime gelatin out of a bowl.
Don't cut it nicely - slop it out.
Eyeballs
Make Rice Krispie® Treats. The directions are on the cereal box. Form the 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 with the younger crowd!
Ghost Hand Punch
Buy some new latex gloves. Wash one out and fill with water. Fasten the arm closed with a twist-tie or rubberband. Freeze it. Float it in the punch before serving.
