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Halloween-Inspired Recipes

A few dishes to brew up this week

-Virginia Chin

I love to seek out Michaels and Martha Stewart for quick and easy decorative edibles. Here are a few of my favorites, perfect for making with your kids or girlfriends.

Boo! It's A Mini Ghost!
ghost cookie
Ghosts may be scary, but not this sweet little morsel. Eat your fears away with this easy-to-make, icing-laced brownie recipe from Michaels.

Materials:

Halloween Mini Cake Pan
Favorite Chocolate Cake Recipe
Cooling Grid
Decorating Tip
Decorating Bags
Cookie Icing- White
Icing Color- Black

Instructions:

1. Bake mini cakes, then cool.
2. Cover cake top and let drip with white cookie icing
3. Using decorating tip and black icing, pipe dot eyes and mouth

Orange Jack-o'-Lanterns with Ice-Cream
Jack-o-Lantern oranges
I'm taking Orange Sorbet literally, with this Valencia orange bowl/ lid and vanilla bean ice cream courtesy of Martha Stewart. Isn't this a cute way to celebrate Halloween? Simply cut off the top quarter of an orange and scoop out flesh with a spoon. With a utility knife, carve eyes, noses, and silly grins, and serve with any of your favorite ice-cream or sorbets.

Ghost in the Graveyard
ghost mashed potatoes
Boo! It's mash potatoed ghosts! And "pumpkin" mashed yams. Who says that you can't costume-ize your food too?

Dress up your classic meatloaf dish with these two special side dishes, also from Martha Stewart. It's as easy as using a pastry bag to pipe mashed potatoes and yams into their respective ghosts and pumpkins; use black sesame seeds for the ghost's eyes and small cuts of cilantro for the pumpkin leaves.

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Jasmine113
#1. Jasmine113 on 09/29/2009 - 10:43 am (EDT)
I love that all of these recipes are super festive but they don't require hours of preparation and work. They're all incredibly easy to make and so cute!
khc1114
#2. khc1114 on 10/01/2009 - 1:04 pm (EDT)
I've always loved those orange ice cream bowls. I'll have to try this!

 


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