Category Archives: Halloween

Dessert, Halloween, Vegetarian

Snack-o-Lantern

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Snack-o-Lantern
Originally uploaded by jamileslie

Ingredients

* Navel orange
* Canned or fresh fruit salad

Instructions

1. To make one lantern, use a small knife to slice the top off a navel orange and cut around its interior to hollow it out. Scoop out the orange segments, chop them, and mix them with canned or fresh fruit salad.
2. Carve small facial features in one side of the orange, then cut a slit in the lid to accommodate the handle of a green plastic spoon. Fill the lantern with fruit salad. Insert the spoon and set the lid in place.

Ref: http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/snack-o-lantern-784940/


So I didn’t have time to actually make this but I LOVED the idea and wanted to share in my blog. Love the healthy twist on a Halloween treat! Next year for sure!!

Dessert, Halloween

Monster Eyeballs

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Monster Eyeballs
Originally uploaded by jamileslie

Ingredients

* Cream Puffs
* White Chocolate Chips
* Milk Chocolate Chips
* Food Coloring (optional)
* Gel icing (optional)
* Sandwich sticks or some type of mini skewer

Directions

* I started with cheater/ready-made cream puffs. I scored 110 of these babies from Costco for 9.99. That’s hard to beat!
* Then I, dipped them in white chocolate candy melts.
I just put it in the microwave for 30 seconds, then stir, then repeat (usually 3-4 times) until its melted. Dip about half-way in.
* Then while it’s still wet, put a chocolate chip, upside-down in the center. Don’t press it all the way down, leave it raised a little.
* Now set them down and let them dry.
* I Actually skewered them at this point, two on each sandwich skewer, because it helped keep them upright to dry and to then add the gel color.
* I used the colored gel icing tubes but the original recipe suggested dying the white chocolate different colors for the iris part. I just didn’t have a squeezy bottle to administer this task. The gel icing is gooey and creepy and you can drag a toothpick through it to make bloodshot eyes which is cool but remember it doesn’t harden like the chocolate, so be careful in how you package them if you go this route. :)

Ref: http://beeinourbonnet.blogspot.com/2010/10/monster-eyeballs.html

Voila! A creepy set of delicious monster eyeballs for an awesome Halloween treat! Whats even better is the cream puff makes such an awesome “squish” when you bite into it, you might, for a second, think you’re actually eating an eyeball. An awesomely, chocolate covered, creamy, delicious eyeball. 😀