Homemade Halloween Treats

I just saw 2 really fun looking recipes/concepts on Betty Crocker's website. One was for making Scary Spider Web Cup Cakes and the other was for Candy Corn Cookies.

The Spider Web Cupcakes seemed like regular cupcakes, iced with orange icing (I imagine white would look just as cool) and spiderwebs were made using 1 tube of Betty Crocker® black decorating gel, a toothpick, and some black licorice gumdrops. The effect was verrrrrrry spoooooooky! :-)

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes...?recipeId=36280

The Candy Corn looked equally as festive, and a bit involved until I read the recipe and saw that they were made using Betty Crocker's® sugar cookie mix, orange food coloring, and 2 oz. of Chocolate. The technique they used to make the candy corn shapes looked so easy that it could make my cookie cutters run and hide in shame. ;-)

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes...?recipeId=42399

I suppose while I am at it, I should include my favorite kid friendly dessert. I used to make with every year with my little charges back when I was a nanny. It is a Kraft Recipe Called Ghosts in The Graveyard. Basically it is made by filling a 9 x 13" baking dish 3/4 the way full of Chocolate Pudding. You the lay down a layer of crushed Oreo cookies to make the dirt. (Kids love pulverizing the Oreos!) ;-) You then dollop/swirl 3 spoonfuls of Cool Whip directly on the "dirt to make ghosts. Design 3-4 Oval Shaped vanilla creme sandwich cookies with decorating gel to look like tombstones and insert them in the "dirt" as well. Scatter some Candy Pumpkins throughout the scene and use some decorator gel to give the ghost eyes and your scene is complete. That may seem a bit vague, so here is a link to the recipe as well.

http://www.kraftfoods.com/recipes/C...eGraveyard.html

Happy Haunting!