Crocker - Betty crocker halloween cookbook

Copyright 2012 by General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota. All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to trade.permissions@hmhco.com or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. www.hmhco.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. eBook ISBN 978-0-544-17814-4 v2.0915 Cover photos (clockwise): General Mills Editorial Director: Jeff Nowak Publishing Manager: Christine Gray Senior Editor: Diane Carlson Food Editor: Andrea Bidwell Recipe Development and Testing: Betty Crocker Kitchens Photography: General Mills Photography Studios and Image Library Photography and Food Styling: General Mills Image Library John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publisher: Natalie Chapman Associate Publisher: Jessica Goodman Executive Editor: Anne Ficklen Editor: Adam Kowit Senior Editorial Assistant: Heather Dabah Senior Production Editor: Amy Zarkos Cover Design: Suzanne Sunwoo Interior Design: Tai Blanche Layout: Indianapolis Composition Services Manufacturing Manager: Kevin Watt Dear Friends, Celebrate Halloween with the kids this year! Full of spooktacular party tips, creative ways to reuse leftover candy and bewitchingly delicious recipes, this book will inspire the whole family to enjoy the fun of Halloween. Put a chilling twist on your favorite drinks and serve guests , theres no end to the spooks with your favorite sweets.

From drinks to desserts, the fun never ends when creating a Halloween menu sure to scare! Warmly, Planning a Fright Fest Just because youre past trick-or-treating age doesnt mean you have to miss all the Halloween fun. Why not host a ghoulish gathering and scare up a little (adult) fun of your own? Set the Stage Get things off to a scary start by setting a motion-activated device outside your front door to emit a witchy cackle, scream or other spooky sound effect when guests walk by. Create fake gravestones out of cardboard and prop them up in your yard. Visit craft stores for items such as hands, feet and bones. You can prop them up in your yard to look as if corpses are coming out of the ground. Set up a strobe light or fog machine for atmosphere.

Activities and Entertainment Try picking a theme to convince guests to wear costumes. Suggest they come dressed as their favorite movie character, hobby or celebrity. Offer prizes for Best Costume and/or Most Clever. Rent a classic black-and-white horror movie such as Creature from the Black Lagoon , Dracula or Frankenstein . Have the movie playing in the background with the sound low. Place skulls, cobwebs and spiders in unexpected places such as the bathroom, kitchen shelves and on stairwells.

Set up a Boo Bar and serve drinks with black-licorice straws. When appropriate, dip the rims of cocktail glasses in black or orange sugar. Tabletop Tricks Keep your color scheme simpleorange and black food and decorations go a long way to set the mood. Fill clear glass vases and serving dishes with black licorice twists, orange jelly beans, candy corn and chocolate pumpkins. For a quick and easy centerpiece, place a small vase inside a larger one and fill the space between the two with orange jelly beans, black licorice twists and white jelly beans. Fill the small vase with water and a bouquet of orange gerbera daisies.

Look for items to create height on the table such as candlesticks, pedestals and vases. Dont be afraid to mix glass and silver. Hollow out small pumpkins to use as flower vases. You can also cut a large rigid foam pumpkin in half and fill with ice for beverages. Ghoulish Giftable Goodies Candy-Covered Popcorn Prep Time: 20 Minutes Start to Finish: 20 Minutes 8 servings (1 cup) 1 cup orange-colored vanilla candy melts cup chocolate-flavored candy melts 8 cups popped microwave popcorn (from 6.5-oz. package) In separate resealable freezer plastic bags, melt candy melts as directed on package.

Meanwhile, place 4 cups of the popcorn in ungreased 13x9-inch pan. Cut small hole in 1 bottom corner of 1 bag. Squeeze bag to drizzle half of melted coating over popcorn; do not stir. Repeat with remaining bag of candy coating, using half of coating. Cover with remaining 4 cups popcorn. Drizzle with remaining coatings.

Refrigerate 10 minutes to set coating, or cool completely at room temperature for 20 minutes. Break into bite-size pieces. 1 Serving: Calories 230; Total Fat 13g (Saturated Fat 7g); Sodium 130mg; Total Carbohydrate 26g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 2g Exchanges: Starch, 1 Fruit, 1 Other Carbohydrate, 2 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 2 Terrifying Tip To melt candy melts, place in a resealable freezer plastic bag and microwave on Defrost for 1 minute. Squeeze the bag, then microwave on Defrost 30 seconds at a time, squeezing the bag in between, until melted. Crunchy Peanut Butter Mix Prep Time: 25 Minutes Start to Finish: 25 Minutes 20 servings 4 cups Golden Grahams cereal 2 cups Cocoa Puffs cereal 2 cups thin pretzel sticks (2 inch) 1 cup candy-coated peanut butter pieces 1 cup dry-roasted peanuts 10 oz white chocolate baking bars or squares, chopped 2 tablespoons butter or margarine cup powdered sugar In large bowl, mix cereals, pretzels, peanut butter candies and peanuts; set aside. In 1-quart microwavable bowl, microwave white chocolate and butter uncovered on High about 1 minute, stirring once, until melted and chocolate can be stirred smooth.

Pour over cereal mixture, stirring until evenly coated. In large resealable food-storage plastic bag, toss half of the cereal mixture with cup of the powdered sugar until evenly coated. Spread on waxed paper to cool. Repeat with remaining cereal mixture and remaining cup powdered sugar. Store tightly covered at room temperature. Candy Corn Bark Prep Time: 10 Minutes Start to Finish: 1 Hour 10 Minutes 36 servings (1 piece) 24 oz vanilla-flavored candy coating (almond bark), chopped 2 cups broken thin pretzel sticks 2 cups candy corn Spray 15x10x1-inch pan with cooking spray. Candy Corn Bark Prep Time: 10 Minutes Start to Finish: 1 Hour 10 Minutes 36 servings (1 piece) 24 oz vanilla-flavored candy coating (almond bark), chopped 2 cups broken thin pretzel sticks 2 cups candy corn Spray 15x10x1-inch pan with cooking spray.

Line pan with waxed paper. In large microwavable bowl, microwave candy coating on High 1 minute 15 seconds; stir. Continue microwaving and stirring in 15-second intervals until melted and smooth. Stir in pretzels and 2 cups of the candy corn. Spread mixture evenly in pan. Sprinkle remaining cup candy corn evenly over top; press in lightly.