TOL All Hallow's Eve, Halloween Frightful Recipes

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Halloween and Treats!

What a great time it is, trick or treating. Running home to see what goodies you have collected. But it's also fun to make those treats at home.

Kids grab a grown up to help and lets have some fun making your own halloween treats.

"Creepy cookies are easy to make and fun too!"

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup icing sugar (powdered sugar)
1 egg
1 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla
2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup whole blanched almonds
1 tube red decorator gel

Instructions
In bowl beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla; beat in flour; baking powder and salt. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Working with one-quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remaining dough refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoons full of dough into finger shape for each cookie. Press almond firmly into one end for nail. Squeeze in center to create knuckle shape. Using a paring knife make slashes in several places to form knuckle.

Place on lightly greased cookie sheet in 325 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until pale or golden. Let cool for three minutes. Lift up almond; squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back in place so gel oozes out from underneath. Remove from cookie sheet and let cool.

Repeat with remaining dough. Makes about 5 dozen fingers!

"Web Crawlers"

Ingredients

2 cups chocolate chips
2 tsp. corn oil
60 mini marshmallows
5 thin black licorice whips
20 tiny red hot candies

Instructions
Place chocolate chips into a microwave-safe bowl and heat 2 to 3 minutes, or until the chocolate chips are melted. Add oil and mix well.

On a sheet of waxed paper, squish about 6 marshmallows into one round ball. Do the same with the remaining marshmallows, making 10 spider bodies in all.

Cut licorice into 80 2-inch-long strips.

Dip the balls into the melted chocolate. Stick in the legs--4 on each side of each body for a total of 8 legs on each spider. Add 2 eyes made of red hot candies to the top.

Makes 10 servings.

"Fried Pumpkin Blossoms"

Ingredients
It is best to pick the blossoms while they are young and tender, but since this will stop the growth of a pumpkin on that vine, the farmer - whose field you are taking the blossoms from - is apt to object. Better ask first or grow your own pumpkins!"

Instructions
Pick the blossoms when open, look over and wash. Soak in salt water from 2 to 4 hours. Take out of water and drain. Put lard in skillet, flour the blossoms and fry to a crisp brown.