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Witches Brooms

These sweet-salty bewitchin' cookies are easy to make and fun to eat!

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups Gold Medal all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
10 pretzel rods, about 8 1/2 inches long, cut crosswise in half
2 teaspoons shortening
2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
 Butterscotch-flavored chips, melted

 
 1 .   Heat oven to 350 F. Mix brown sugar, butter, water and vanilla in medium bowl. Stir in flour and salt. Shape dough into twenty 1 1/4-inch balls. 
2 .   Place pretzel rod halves on ungreased cookie sheet. Press ball of dough onto cut end of each pretzel rod. Press dough with fork to resemble "bristles" of broom.
3 .   Bake about 12 minutes or until set but not brown. Remove from cookie sheet. Cool completely on wire rack, about 30 minutes. 
4 .   Cover cookie sheet with waxed paper. Place brooms on waxed paper. Heat shortening and chocolate chips over low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted and smooth; remove from heat. Spoon melted chocolate over brooms, leaving about 1 inch at top of pretzel handle and bottom halves of cookie bristles uncovered. Drizzle with melted butterscotch chips. Let stand until chocolate is set.

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Reprinted with permission from General Mills, Inc.

Skeleton & Brain Dip

Lettuce leaves
1 cup KRAFT Ranch Dressing
2 cups assorted cut-up fresh vegetables, such as bell pepper strips, cucumber slices, snow peas, mushroom slices, celery sticks, carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, broccoli florets, cauliflower florets

LINE small bowl with lettuce leaves; fill with dressing. Place near one end of a large serving platter.
ARRANGE vegetables in a skeleton shape on platter, using the bowl as the head of the skeleton.

Borrowed from: www.Kraftfoods.com

Spooky Glove Munch Mix

6  cups   POST ALPHA-BITS Wholesome Sweetened Oat & Corn Cereal
4 cups popped popcorn
2 cups JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows
1 cup dried mixed fruit
1 cup candy-coated chocolate pieces
100 candy corn pieces (about 1 cup)
10 clear large plastic food handlers' gloves
10 pieces raffia, each about 8 inches long

TOSS cereal with popcorn, marshmallows, dried fruit and chocolate candies in large bowl or toy witch's cauldron.
PLACE 1-1/4 cups of the snack mix in each of 10 small plastic bags. Give one to each child along with 10 pieces of candy corn, a plastic glove and piece of raffia. Have each child place 2 pieces of candy corn, with the white tips down, in each thumb and finger section of the plastic glove to resemble fingernails.
FILL gloves evenly with snack mix; tie closed with raffia.


Borrowed from: www.Kraftfoods.com

The Great Pumpkin Cake

1  pkg.  (2-layer)  cake mix (any flavor)
1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, softened
4 cups powdered sugar
Few drops each: green, red and yellow food colorings
1 COMET Cup

PREPARE and bake cake mix in 12-cup fluted tube pan as directed on package. Cool 10 min. in pan. Remove from pan to wire rack; cool completely.
BEAT cream cheese and butter in small bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy after each addition. Remove 1/2 cup of the frosting; place in small bowl. Add green food coloring; stir until well blended. Spread half of the green frosting onto outside of ice cream cone; set aside. Set remaining green frosting aside for later use.
ADD red and yellow food colorings to remaining white frosting to tint it orange. Place cake, rounded-side up, on serving plate. Spread with orange frosting to resemble pumpkin. Invert ice cream cone in hole in top of cake for the "pumpkin's stem." Pipe the reserved green frosting in vertical lines down side of cake (see Tip).


KRAFT KITCHENS TIPS

Cooking Know-How
For a more rounded Great Pumpkin Cake, use a tall 12-cup fluted tube pan. As the cake bakes, it rises and forms a rounded top. When cake is unmolded (upside-down), the bottom of the cake will be rounded. If the cake is baked in a shorter 12-cup fluted tube pan, as it appears on the video, the resulting cake will be flatter.

Fun Idea
Place black gumdrops on sheet of wax paper sprinkled with additional sugar. Use a rolling pin to thinly flatten each gumdrop, turning frequently to coat both sides with sugar. Cut into desired leaf or jack-o-lantern shapes with a sharp knife. Use to decorate frosted cake to resemble a jack-o'-lantern.


Borrowed from: www.Kraftfoods.com

 

Frightfully Easy Ghost Cookies

Prep Time: 20 min   
Makes: 32 cookies  Nutrition Information

 

 
12 oz. vanilla-flavored candy coating, cut into pieces
1 (1-lb.) pkg. peanut butter-filled sandwich cookies
64 miniature chocolate chips (4 teaspoons)

 

1 .   In small saucepan, melt candy coating over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth.
2 .   Line cookie sheets with waxed paper. Holding cookie with tongs, dip entire top and side of each cookie into melted coating, letting excess drip off. Lay flat, coated side up, on waxed paper-lined cookie sheets. Place 2 chocolate chips in coating to form eyes. Let stand about 10 minutes until set

Borrowed from www.pillsbury.com
 

Monster Coffin Cake



Prep Time: 20 min
Total Time: 20 min
Makes: 12 servings
 

 
1/3 cup KOOL-AID Grape Flavor Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drink Mix 
2 Tbsp. hot water 
4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened 
1 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping 
4 OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, divided 
1 pkg. (10.75 oz.) frozen pound cake, thawed 
10 JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows 
1 JET-PUFFED Marshmallow 
Black decorating gel 
3 worm-shaped chewy fruit snacks 
 
 

PLACE drink mix in large bowl. Add hot water; stir until drink mix is completely dissolved. Add cream cheese; beat with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Gently stir in whipped topping with wire whisk. Remove 1/2 tsp. of the cream cheese mixture for later use; set remaining cream cheese mixture aside. 
CRUSH 3 of the cookies; place cookie crumbs in shallow dish. Set aside. Cut cake lengthwise in half. Frost cake top with some of the remaining cream cheese mixture. Dip in cookie crumbs until evenly coated; set aside. Place cake bottom on serving platter; frost top and sides with some of the remaining cream cheese mixture. Place cake top next to cake bottom to resemble coffin lid. Frost sides and cut side of cake top with remaining cream cheese mixture. 
PLACE remaining cookie in center of cake bottom to resemble a body. Line up two rows of 3 mini marshmallows each at bottom of "body" to resemble legs. Place 2 miniature marshmallows on sides of "body" to resemble arms. Place large marshmallow at top of "body" to resemble head. Using reserved 1/2 tsp. cream cheese mixture, attach 2 miniature marshmallows to sides of "head" to resemble ears. Use decorating gel to draw mouth and eyes. Top cake with fruit snacks
 

Borrowed from: www.Kraftfoods.com

Coffin Sandwiches

Prep Time: 10 min
Total Time: 10 min
Makes: 1 serving

2 slices whole wheat bread 
3 slices OSCAR MAYER Smoked Ham 
1 KRAFT Singles 
1 Tbsp. MIRACLE WHIP Dressing 
1 lettuce leaf 
 
 

CUT bread slices into coffin shapes. 
LAYER with sliced meat, Singles, dressing and lettuce. Spear each sandwich with plastic toothpick to hold it together, if desired. 
CUT sandwich into coffin shape using coffin template and sharp knife. (Click here to print template.) For an even stronger template, trace the template onto a piece of cardboard and cut out. 
 
 


KRAFT KITCHENS TIPS
 

Substitute
Prepare as directed, using KRAFT 2% Milk Singles and substituting KRAFT Mayo Light Mayonnaise for the MIRACLE WHIP Dressing.

Jazz It Up
Write scary messages on sandwiches with decorating gel, prepared mustard or ketchup.


Borrowed from: www.Kraftfoods.com