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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL FAMILY FEATURES Looking for some spook-tacular new Halloween ideas? Scare up even more fun this year with some sweet and chocolatey “tricks" in these creatively boo-dacious treats. When you shop, just buy a few extra bags of your favorite candies. Simply unwrap, chop and mix the candies into cookie and cupcake batter or readymade pudding. Add that Finishing touch of chocolate crunch or drizzle to your sandwich cookie filling, jack-o-lantem masterpiece or parfait. Then, watch as all these goodies disappear... Spooky! Check out these and other great Halloween treats, party ideas, and activities at brightideas.com. Scary Ghost Cookies Prep time: 10 minutes Decoration time: 25 minutes 1 (11.4-ounce) bag Twix Caramel Cookie Bars Fun Size 1 (9.5-ounce) bag M&M’S Minis Milk Chocolate Candies Halloween Mini Packs 3/4 cup peanut butter 1/3 cup confectioner’s sugar 1 (16-ounce) container vanilla frosting 1 cup ground chocolate wafers (approximately 20 thin wafers) 1. In food processor or blender, pulse 10 graham crackers and 1 bag Twix until tine. 2. Transfer mixture to large bowl. Add peanut butter and confectioner's sugar to bowl and blend. . , ‘ f |■ < 1 F ▲ A Creepy Creature Cookies Prep time: 20 minutes Baking time: 12 to 14 minutes Decoration time: 30 minutes 1 (11.18-ounce) bag Snickers Bars Fun Size 1 (9.5-ounce) bag \1 & M’S Minis Milk Chocolate Candies Halloween Mini Packs 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1 (18-ounce) roll refrigerated cookie dough 1/2 cup cocoa powder 1 cup marshmallow fluff Various tints vanilla frosting 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. 2. Knead cookie dough with cocoa powder and flour until smooth. (This will keep dough from spreading too much while baking.) 'Sg&gyu JsPf tONGMORN * •< 4 : * ■ BUTCHER SHOP mm *» i <% g w <*< * wmmm " Bam-6pm Tues. - Sat. • Closed Sun, & Mon. Fresh Grade A Split Only Fryer NO BONING Breast ATTHISPRICE 6M5128 L BREAST l LB \ 100% Pure Fresh Regular Ground *®s-MBB 10 LB. Bulk Only T I Ground Fresh I T 1207 Sunset Ave. • Perry Plaza • Perry, GA 31069 478-987-5711 * • ;-3 A i *-4, 3. Divide mixture into 16 pieces. Shape each piece into ghost. If too sticky, add extra confec- ’ tioners' sugar as necessary. Place ghosts onto . waxed paper and refrigerate 30 minutes. 4. Heat frosting in microwave approximately 10 to 20 seconds, until thinned and looking slightly like whipped cream. Place ghosts on wire rdtk over sheet pan lined with waxed paper. Spoon heated frosting over ghosts until completely coated. If unused frosting begins firming up. * simply reheat 5 to 10 seconds. 5. Place 2 M&M'S on each ghost for eyes. Sprinkle ground chocolate cookies on serving plate like “dirt.” Nestle ghosts in “dirt.” Makes 16 treats 3. Roll dough to 1/2-inch thickness. Using cutters or template, cut out creepy shapes, cutting at least 2 cookies per creature. Transfer to nonstick cookie sheet and bake 12 to 14 minutes. 4. Once baked, remove and cool completely. Mean while, make creatures' filling. 5. Unwrap and chop Snickers, and combine with marshmallow fluff or peanut butter. Spread filling over one of each pair of creature cookies. Place matching cookie on top. 6. Frost tops of creatures with tinted vanilla frosting, and decorate randomly with M&M’S. Makes 10 cookies Curtis Packing Co. Smoked Tenderized 7-9 lb Avg Picnics Sliced 88-lb. Fresh Chicken Wings ®&s49B “T 3lb Baa V « s ' 9 wHsllSP' JH liumongous Pumpkin Cupcakes Prep time: 20 minutes Baking time: 15 to 20 minutes » * Decoration time: 25 minutes 1 (14-ounce) bag M&M’S Milk Chocolate Candies for Halloween I (11.4-ounce) bag Twix Caramel Cookie Bars Fun Size 1 (18.25-ounce) box devil’s food cake mix 4 eggs 1 cup buttermilk 1/2 cup oil 2 (16-ounce) cans vanilla frosting Orange food coloring 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 3 (12-cup) cupcake cups with paper liners. 2. Beat cake mix with eggs, buttermilk and oil until blended. Roughly chop 2 cups (approximately 18) unwrapped Twix bars and fold into batter. Divide batter evenly between prepared cupcake pans. 3. Bake 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven, transfer to wire rack and let cool completely. 4. Tint vanilla frosting with orange food coloring. Arrange cupcakes snugly together into large pumpkin shape on 18-inch cake circle or platter. Follow this pattern one row of 4 cupcakes, one row of 5, one row of 6. another of 5, another of 4. This leaves 2 cupcakes to be placed at pumpkin's top for stem (use photo as guide). 5. Spread orange frosting over cupcakes, covering completely to look like one big cake. Use black M&M'S to outline pumpkin and to make eyes, mouth and nose. Fill in remaining areas of pumpkin with orange M&M'S. Makes 26 cupcakes rBIACKI I ON YON I We Custom Cut Black Angus Rib Eye Steaks To Order FOOD * f §o9 i r v-l ■;W- Wacky Web Cups Prep time: 10 minutes Decoration time: 10 minutes 1 (11,4-ounce) hag Twix Caramel Cookie Bars Fun Size or 1 (11.18-ounce) bag Snickers Bars Fun Size I (10.5-ounce) bag Dove Milk Chocolate Fall Miniatures i (14-ounce) bag M&M’S Milk Chocolate- Candies for Halloween Orange food coloring (or mix red and yellow food coloring to desired hue) 4 cups prepared vanilla pudding 6 (10-ounce) clear plastic goblets or cups 1. Brightly tint pudding with orange food coloring. Set aside. 2. Unwrap and chop Twix or Snickers bars. 3. Beginning with Twix or Snickers, alternate layers of pudding and candy in plastic goblets. 4. Unwrap 12 Dove chocolates and put in reseal able plastic bag. Microwave about 1 minute, until soft, 5. Snip small hole in 1 lower comer of bag. Then, squeeze chocolate onto top of each parfait in shape of spider web on top of pudding. 6. 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