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Great Ideas and Fun Recipes for Halloween

Next to Halloween Serving Dishes.Get into the spirit and fun of Halloween with these ghoulish ideas and Halloween recipes. Remember how homemade pop corn balls tasted. Nice and fresh the smell in Grandma's kitchen around Halloween time with the mulled cider. Although, the tradition of inviting children in for a nice warm sit with the cider and munching on popcorn balls and candy apples isn't part of Halloween anymore you can do it for yourself and your children.

Get creative with your dishes and snacks. Pigs in the blankets can easily be called wrapped fingers. Spaghetti and tomato sauce can be blood and guts. Olives can be eye balls or even pearl onions.

For help on making the candy and cooking temperatures see Science of Candy.

Orange Popcorn Balls

12 cups popped popcorn
1.5 oz flavored gelatin orange
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup

Heat all ingredients except popcorn in a pot over medium heat. Stirring to dissolve. Bring to rolling boil and increase heat as needed. Pour over popcorn in a large bowl. Complete coat popcorn by stirring. Form into balls with lightly grease hands.

Yields Approximately 12

Ghoulish Worms in Dirt

Great fun for kids' Halloween Parties!
1 16 oz Package of Oreo® Type Cookies
2 cups of cold milk - Can be 2% if trying to cut down on calories, but for kids use the whole milk.
1 small package of Chocolate Instant Pudding
8 ounces of Non Dairy Whipped Topping
Gummy Worms

Crush cookies in food processor or in a zip lock bag with rolling pin. Mix the cold milk with the instant pudding and beat for 2 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes. Stir in topping and 1/2 of the crushed cookies. Put a couple of worms in a small serving dishes with about a teaspoon of cookies crumbs fill 3/4 way full with pudding mixture. Top with remaining cookie mixture and garnish with more worms.

Yields about 8 - 1 cup servings.

Homemade Caramel Apples

1 cup butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
8-10 wooden sticks
8-10 medium tart apples

In a heavy saucepan, combine the butter, brown sugar, corn syrup and milk, stirring to dissolve over medium heat. Continue cooking and stirring occasionally to prevent scorching, until a candy thermometer reads 248 degrees (firm ball stage).
Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
Insert wooden sticks into the apples where the stem would be after removing the stems.
Dip each apple into hot caramel mixture; turn to coat.
Set on grease aluminum foil to cool.
Note: Do not double the recipe. It must be made a batch at a time.

Roll in peanuts if desired.

IF you feel this takes up to much time follow the microwave recipe on the back of any caramel candy package.

Candied Red Apples

3 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 cup water
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. red food coloring
8 red firm apples
8 wooden sticks

Wash apples and make sure they are dry. Removing the stem and placing the wooden stick there. Grease a cookie sheet or aluminum foil to place dipped apples to cool.

Put Syrup, sugar, and water in a saucepan. Heat and stirring to dissolve. Bring to boil without stirring to 300˚F(hard crack). Remove from heat quickly mix in cinnamon and red food coloring. Dip apples in mixture and set on the foil or baking sheet to cool. Let apples completely cool before eating!
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