Halloween Recipes

GHOUL-AID PUNCH

Float a creepy ice face in your Halloween punch bowl. Fill a Halloween mask with water (seal the opening with sturdy tape), freeze overnight, then remove the ice from the mask and float face up in your punch bowl.

FRIGHTENING FINGERS

1 cup butter

1 cup confectioners' sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. almond extract

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

red decorating gel

1/2 cup sliced almonds

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in the egg and extracts. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Divide dough into fourths. Cover and refrigerate for 30 mins. or until easy to handle.

Working with one piece of dough at a time, roll into 1" balls. Shape balls into 3" x 1/2" fingers. Using the flat tip of a table knife, make an indentation on one end of each for fingernail. With a knife, make three slashes in the middle of each finger for knuckles.

Place 2" apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Bake a 325 degrees F for 20-25 mins. or until lightly browned. Cool for 3 mins.

Squeeze a small amount of red gel on nail bed; press a sliced almond over gel for nail, allowing gel to ooze around nail. Remove to wire racks to cool.