5 Halloween Party Recipes

These five recipes will make sure your party is talked about for years. Everyone loves a Halloween Party!  But what makes it really stick out from the rest is the food that you serve.

Halloween Witch Finger Shortbread Cookies

• 2 2/3 cups Flour
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 cup softened Butter
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 tsp Almond extract
• 1 tsp Salt
• 3/4 cup whole Almonds
• 2 squares of melting chocolate, or chocolate bark

1. Combine the egg, sugar, butter, vanilla extract, and almond extract in a bowl.
2. Mix in the flour and salt.
3. Cover and refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes, until it’s firm.
4. Take out a small portion of the dough at a time and shape it into fingers by rolling the dough with your hands.
5. Press near the top of the cookie with a knife or spatula to make the wrinkles of the knuckles.
6. Press an almond onto the tip of the cookie to make the fingernail.
7. Coat your cooking sheet with nonstick cooking spray and place the cookies on the sheet.
8. Bake at 325 F for 20 minutes, or until cookies are a light golden brown.  Let cookies cool on the rack.
9. Melt the chocolate and paint it around the outside of the nail.

Halloween Pumpkin Fudge

• 3 cups Sugar
• 1 cup chopped Pecans, toasted
• ¾ cup melted Butter
• 2/3 cup evaporated Milk
• ½ cup canned Pumpkin
• 2 tsp Corn Syrup
• 1 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 (12 ounce) package White Chocolate Morsels
• 1 (7 ounce) jar Marshmallow Cream

1. Stir together sugar, butter, milk, pumpkin, corn syrup, and pumpkin pie spice in a 3 ½ quart saucepan over medium-high heat and cook, stirring constantly, until it comes to a boil and then cook for 12 minutes.
2. Remove from heat and stir in the rest of the ingredients.
3. Pour into a square 9 inch aluminum foil lined pan that is well greased.
4. Let stand for 2 hours.
5. Cut fudge into squares and serve.

Black Halloween Punch with Frozen Hand

• 1 (13 ounce) unsweetened Grape Soft Drink Mix
• 1 (13 ounce) unsweetened Orange Soft Drink Mix
• 2 cups Sugar
• 3 quarts Cold Water
• 1 liter Ginger Ale
• 1 New Disposable Glove

1. Wash the new disposable glove and fill it with water. Seal the glove with a rubber band and freeze it.
2. Pour water, sugar, grape and orange soft drink mix into punch bowl and stir until mixes are dissolved.
3. Pour in chilled ginger ale.
4. Dip the frozen hand into warm water, briefly, and peel off glove.
5. Float frozen hand in the bowl.

Halloween Cheese Pumpkins

• 16 tiny pieces of Fresh Parsley Leaves
• 8 tsp cold pack Smoked Cheddar Cheese
• 4 Butter Flavored Pretzel Sticks or Spindles, broken in half
• 2 tsp Finely Chopped Peanuts

1. Line small plate with waxed paper.
2. Roll each tablespoon of cheese into a ball and place on waxed paper.
3. Refrigerate for 10 to 15 minutes.
4. With the end of a toothpick, draw ridges around the cheese balls to resemble pumpkins.
5. Dip the bottom of the cheese balls in chopped peanuts.
6. Stick the pretzel halves into cheese balls for the pumpkin stems.
7. Decorate pumpkins and plate with parley leaves.
8. Store in refrigerator before serving.

Halloween Candy-Coated Caramel Apples

• 8 small Apples
• 1 bag (14 ounce) soft Caramel Candies
• 1 bag Reese’s Pieces
• 1 (1.4 ounce) Chocolate and Toffee Bar, crushed
• ¼ cup Gummy Worms
• ¼ cup Candy Corn
• ¼ cup small Cinnamon Candies
• ¼ cup Halloween Sprinkles
• ¼ cup Heavy Cream

1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Place candy (except caramels) in separate bowls.
3. Insert a craft stick into stem end of each apple.
4. Put caramels and cream in a saucepan and place over medium low heat, stirring constantly, until caramels have melted and mixture is smooth.
5. Remove caramel from heat.
6. Hold an apple over the pot, by it’s stick, and spoon caramel over the apple to coat.
7. Press candy into the caramel on the apple and place the apple (stick side up) on the baking sheet. Repeat with remaining apples and candy.
8. Let apples cool for 10 minutes before serving.