The Kitchen

This is Grandma Mable. We try not to eat too much
of her cooking... you never know what might bite back, but here
are a few of her favorites for Halloween parties and/or trick-or-treaters.
Halloween Goodies

Rice Krispie Eyeballs
This is one of Grandma Mable's favorites. It's fun
and easy. Just make rice krispie treats and when they are ready
to cool, form them into balls. Then, take an M-n-M and press it
into the ball. You can then use black icing or gel and make a pupil
in the center of the M-n-M and red icing or gel around the M-n-M
in squiggly (is that a word?) lines outward to make a bloodshot
affect. How's that for easy?
Devilled Eyes
This one was actually done for our wedding. Make
devilled eggs however you like them, but save out a little of the
yolk mixture with egg and mayonnaise only. Then, take some green
olives with pimentos and push them into the yolk mixture in the
egg-half (you can cut the olives into slices if you don't care that
much for olives). Add some red food coloring to the remaining yolk
mixture, put into an icing triangle, and using a medium size tip,
squeeze out the red yolk outwards from the olive for a bloodshot
affect. They look really good!
Fresh Apple Cake
Have you ever wondered what to do with those left
over apples from the apple bob? Give this Fresh Apple Cake a try
for a change of pace.
Mix together:
2 cups of sugar
1 1/2 cups cooking oil
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
Add: 3 cups diced apples
Combine: 3 cups all purpose flour with
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
Mix all ingredients well, should be stiff. Add 1
cup nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30-40 minutes. While cake
is still warm, ice with powered sugar icing with a little brown
sugar mixed in, making a light glaze.
More ideas to come... I'm going
through Mable's cookbook right now and it's quite a mess!
Halloween Party Ideas

This is Grandpa. Can you see the family resemblance
between him and Shroud? Grandpa is our party organizer. He looks
like a fun guy don't you think?
Ghost Toss
Fun party games for the kiddies! Take some little
bean bags, or make your own, and put them in white socks (or a cut
up white sheet if you like). Decorate the socks to look like ghosts...
ie. black eyes and an oval shaped mouth and tie them off at the
bottom with rubber bands. Paint or draw a haunted house on a large
piece of cardboard with a hole where the attic window would be (or
the front door or where ever you would like) and you have a ghost
toss game. Give out prizes to children who make it in the hole for
extra fun.
More party ideas to come... Grandpa is even less
organized than his wife, Grandma Mable.
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