Filed under Cooking on October 10th, 2008:
Halloween Baking Ideas For Kids
Whether you’re hosting a party in your Columbus home and need Halloween party ideas, or you’re just getting into the Halloween spirit with your family, easy recipes for kids will be a big hit. If you’ve already
roasted pumpkin seeds, dessert recipes will be fantastic because kids love sweet treats! Try these at home with your kids:
Candy Corn Cookies
- 1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
- 1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 1 egg
- Orange paste food color
- 2 oz semisweet chocolate, melted, cooled
Line a 8×4-inch loaf pan with wax paper and make sure it extends over the sides of your pan. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, butter and egg forming a soft dough. Place 3/4 cup of the dough on a surface and knead food color into dough using an amount sufficient to get desirable color. Knead until color is uniform. Press dough evenly in bottom of pan. Divide the remaining dough in half and press one half into the pan on top of orange dough. Knead melted chocolate into other portion of dough until color is uniform. Gently press over plain dough in pan. Refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
Heat oven to 375°F. Remove dough from pan. Cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Cut each slice into 5 wedges. Place wedges 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are very light golden brown.
Edible Eyeballs
- 3.4-ounce box vanilla pudding mix
- Jelly beans
- LifeSavers Gummies
- Plastic eggs
- 2 empty egg cartons
Make the pudding according to the directions on the box. Fit a jelly bean in the center of a gummy Lifesaver and place it in one half of the plastic egg. Do this for each eyeball. Fill the egg with a dollop of the pudding (so it’s the size eyeball you’d like) and place in the egg carton for support. Place in the freezer for about 3 hours. You want them to be firm. To remove after they’ve set, let them rest at room temperature for about 5 minutes and then gently squeeze them out of the plastic egg.
4 No Bake Halloween Treats For Kids
Ghost Cookies – Dip Nutter Butter Cookies in melted white chocolate and let dry completely on parchment paper. Then decorate with chocolate chips for the eyes and whatever else you like.
Witch Hat Cookies – Place an chocolate cookie on parchment paper and top with an Hershey’s kiss, attaching it with a small spot of frosting. Decorate with icing.
Spider Cookie – Insert 8 pretzel sticks into the creamy center of an Oreo cookie. On top, stick on two raisin eyes with a little spot of peanut butter.
Mini Witch Brooms – Cut Fruit By the Foot snacks in 2-inch sections. Moisten one edge with a few drops of water and wrap around a pretzel stick. Cut slits along the bottom of the Fruit By the Foot to resemble broom bristles.