Halloween Cut-Outs (Gelatin Snack)

Ingredients

12-ounce can - Frozen cranberry juice concentrate, thawed
1 ½ cups - Apple juice
3 envelopes - Unflavored gelatin

Preparation

Lightly grease a 13x9 inch pan. 

In medium saucepan, combine juices. Sprinkle gelatin over top and allow to soften 1 to 2 minutes. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir constantly to dissolve gelatin. 

Pour gelatin into prepared pans. Refrigerate until firm. Cut into Halloween shape with cookie cutters or simply cut into squares.

Brain Salad Surgery (Salad)

Ingredients

1 package (6 ounce) - Blueberry gelatin mix
1 carton (16 ounce) - Small curd cottage cheese
1 can (16 ½ ounce) - Blueberries in syrup OR
¾ cup - Frozen blueberries (thawed)
Blue food coloring

Preparation

Prepare gelatin according to package directions. Chill 4-5 hours or until firm.

Scoop cottage cheese into a bowl. Drain and set aside the syrup from the blueberries. Add the berries to the cottage cheese and mix well. Add three drops of food coloring to turn the cottage cheese a nice grayish color with blended.

To serve salad, place a few spoonfuls of firm gelatin, (congealed brain fluid), onto individual serving plates. Top with a scoop of cottage cheese (brain tissue) mixture and serve. 

Makes 6 servings

Snake Bits With Barbecue Sauce (Pasta)

Ingredients

1 package (10 ounce) - Rigatoni pasta
2 cans - "Squirtable" cheese spread
1 small jar - Barbecue sauce
16 to 20 - Whole black peppercorns
1 - Carrot

Preparation

Cook pasta in boiling water, drain, rinse in cold water and drain again.

To make snakes, cover one end of the rigatoni with your finger (to prevent leakage) and carefully fill each piece of pasta with cheese spread. Place six to eight cheese-filled rigatonis end to end on a serving platter in a realistically curvy snake shape.

Using a toothpick, spread lines of barbecue sauce along the top of each snake for markings. To form heads, use barbecue sauce to glue two black peppercorn eyes onto the end opposite the tail of each snake.

Wash, dry and carefully peel skin off carrot. When completely clean of skin, make one more peeling for each snake you have formed. At the narrow end of each peel, carefully cut out a long, thin triangle. These are your snakes forked tongues. 

Serving suggestion: Assemble two or three snakes lying on their backs, as if they died in agony! Belly up snakes have no markings drawn on them, as snake bellies are generally a solid color. 

Rice Krispie Caramel Treats

Ingredients

3 cups - Miniature marshmallows
15 - Caramels
¼ cup - Butter or margarine
2 tablespoons - Frozen orange juice concentrate
1 teaspoon - Vanilla extract
4 cups - Rice Krispies
½ cup - M&M's
½ cup - Chocolate chips


Preparation

In a large heavy saucepan, combine marshmallows, caramels, margarine and orange juice concentrate. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently until marshmallows and caramels are melted and thoroughly blended. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Add cereal, M&M's, and chocolate chips; mix well. 

Lightly butter a 13x9 inch pan. Lightly press mixture into prepared pan. Cool completely and cut into bars or squares. 

Store in tightly covered container. 

Makes 24 bars.