Hometown Recipes for Halloween

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  • Hometown Recipes for Halloween
    Hometown Recipes for Halloween
  • Hometown Recipes for Halloween
    Hometown Recipes for Halloween
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Slime Popcorn

Ingredients

10 cups popped popcorn

½ cup packed brown sugar

¼ cup butter

1 (16 ounce) package marshmallows

5 drops green food coloring

½ cup candy eyeballs

Directions

1) Pour popcorn into a large bowl.

2) Melt brown sugar and butter together in a sauce pan over medium heat, stirring often. Stir in marshmallows until melted and smooth. Stir in green food coloring until color is evenly distributed. Pour mixture over popcorn and stir until evenly coated. Sprinkle in candy eyeballs.

Halloween Ghosties

Ingredients

1 (12 ounce) package white chocolate chips, or as needed

24 cookies peanut-shaped peanut butter sandwich cookies

48 pieces of miniature chocolate chips

Directions

1) Place white chocolate chips into a microwave-safe bowl and heat on low in microwave for 1 minute; stir. Continue heating on low several more times, 30 seconds at a time stirring after each time, until white chocolate is warm and smooth.

2) Use 2 forks to dip cookies into white chocolate; set cookies on sheets of waxed paper. Place 2 miniature chocolate chips onto one end of each cookie for eyes; set cookies aside until coating has hardened, about 20 minutes.

Witches Brew Punch

Ingredients

1 cup boiling water

¾ cup white sugar

2 (3 ounce) packages lime-flavored gelatin mix

1 (46 fluid ounce) can very cold pineapple juice

1 (2 liter) bottle ginger ale

½ gallon orange sherbet

3 cups orange drink

20 pieces gummy candies or more to taste

Directions

1) Mix boiling water, sugar, and lime-flavored gelatin together in a large bowl until sugar and gelatin dissolve. Stir in pineapple juice.

2) Pour pineapple juice mixture into a punch bowl. Add ginger ale, orange sherbet, orange drink, and gummy candy; stir well until blended.

Witches’ Hats

Ingredients

2 (16 ounce) packages fudge stripe cookies

¼ cup honey, or as needed

1 (9 ounce) bag milk chocolate candy kisses, unwrapped

1 (4.5 ounce) tube decorating gel

Directions

1) Place a fudge stripe cookie with bottom side up onto a work surface. Smear a small dab (about 1/8 teaspoon) of honey onto the bottom of a chocolate kiss, and secure the candy piece to the center of the cookie, covering the hole. Use decorating gel to pipe a small bow onto the cookie at the base of the candy piece. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

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