TJ Thyne

So I was messing around tonight and found a recipe that I had tucked away on recipezaar.com.

Severed Fingers Halloween Cookies - makes 30 cookies

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons red food coloring
  30 blanched almonds
  2 large eggs
  1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
  1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
  1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
  5 tablespoons granulated sugar
  1 pinch salt
  1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour

Directions

• 1)Heat oven to 350°. Line two baking sheets with Silpats (French nonstick baking mats) or parchment paper, and set aside.
  2)Place food coloring in a shallow bowl. crack each whole almond into halves. and toss them into the bowl with the food coloring and stir them until the color is evenly distributed. leave them in the bowl and stir them every so often until the color is as dark as you like.
  3)Separate 1 egg. Set aside the white. In a small bowl, whisk together yolk, remaining egg, and vanilla. Set aside.
  4)In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter, confectioners' sugar, granulated sugar, and salt. Beat on medium speed until well combined. Add egg mixture, and beat until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add the flour, and mix on low speed just until incorporated. Wrap the dough in plastic, and chill until firm, 20 to 30 minutes.
  5)Divide the dough in half. Work with one piece at a time, keeping remaining dough covered with plastic wrap and chilled. Divide the first half into fifteen pieces. On a lightly floured surface, roll each piece back and forth with palms into finger shapes, 3 to 4 inches long. Pinch dough in two places to form knuckles. Score each knuckle lightly with the back of a small knife. Transfer fingers to prepared baking sheets. Repeat with remaining dough.
  6)When all fingers are formed, brush lightly with egg white. Position almond nails; push into dough to attach.
  7)Bake until lightly browned, about 12 minutes. Cool completely.
  note: To make the knuckles more creepy just shape them big and uneven. To keep them from puffing out too much roll the fingers extra skinny (skinnier than you want them to look if that makes sense). I also try to get them out of the oven before they brown. I sometimes add a bit of almond extract to dough.

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/Severe ... ies-135850

ETA: picture and link.

So instead of doing homework, I've found another. Hodgins would love this.

WORMS!!


Ingredients

• 1 (6 ounce) package raspberry gelatin powder or grape flavor gelatin
  3 (1/4 ounce) envelopes unflavored gelatin
  3 cups boiling water
  100 flexible plastic straws
  1 tall slender 4 cup container (same height as extended straws)
  3/4 cup whipping cream
  12-15 drops green food coloring

Directions

• 1)In a bowl, combine gelatins.
  2)Add boiling water; stir until gelatins completely dissolve. Chill until lukewarm, about 20 minutes.
  3)Meanwhile, gently pull straws to extend to full length; place in tall container.
  4)Blend cream and food coloring with the lukewarm gelatin mixture. Pour into container, filling straws.
  5)Chill until gelatin is firm, at least 8 hours, or cover and chill up to 2 days.
  6)Pull straws from container (if using a carton, tear carton away from straws). Pull straws apart; run hot tap water for about 2 seconds over 3 to 4 straws at a time. Starting at the empty ends, push worms from straws with rolling pin, or use your fingers; lay worms on waxed paper-lined baking sheets.
  7)Cover and chill until ready to use, at least 1 hour or up to 2 days.
  Worms will hold at room temperature up to 2 hours.

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/Halloween-Worms-3092

*Gross* :puke-huge:

Sorry.. eventhough it's candy it looks too real..

It does. I love it! I don't know if I could eat them at a party or anything like that, but they'd be fun to make. But I taste everything I make so....hmmm.

Are you all getting in early for halloween? Fill up a latex glove with water and tie the end and put it into the freezer. Remove glove and ice hand to put into the punch. But then I'm sure you guys would have done that one before.

Hahaha. Nice. I want to do that to my mom tomorrow.

ohhh, got an idea for the ice gloves. fill up the gloves with either the same kind of punch or a different kind of punch as not to water down the punch in the bowl. Using a different kind of juice would be cool to contrast colors. Or you could use food coloring to turn the punch a nasty color without altering the taste of the juice too much.

If you still want them clear, they do make "mystery" flavor kool-aid.
It's white, but has a flavor.
(:

Those worms look a little too real haha..

LOL Awesome !!! but I wouldn't eat , hahah look to real for me...

So I found a few more. This one's easy as ummm, Ice cream?

Eye-Scream Treats
Yield: 4 pairs of "eyeballs"

1 quart vanilla ice cream
Strawberry syrup (such as Hershey's)
8 M&M's (blue, green, or brown)
Black decorating gel

1. Scoop ice cream into balls and set on wax-paper-lined cookie sheet. Freeze until ready to serve (at least 20 minutes).

2. Place two ice cream balls on each serving plate, an inch apart.

3. Drizzle syrup onto each ball to create a bloodshot effect. Put an M&M (logo facing down) at the center of each and top with a drop of black decorating gel to form a pupil.

http://www.parenting.com/activity-parti ... eam-Sweets

Here's a kid friendly one.



Choco-Caramel Critters

Yield: 12 bugs
• 24 caramel candies, such as Brach's Milk Maid Caramels
• Red licorice laces, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
• 3/4 cup milk- or semi-sweet chocolate chips
• For decorating: sliced almonds, red hots, colored candies, sprinkles

Safety note: Always supervise children under 4 with small candies, raisins, and other choking hazards.

1. Flatten each caramel into a circle between 2 sheets of waxed paper.

2. lace 3 pieces of licorice on each side of 12 of the caramel circles for legs. Top with remaining caramel circles and press closed.

3. Melt chocolate in a small bowl in microwave for 60 seconds, stirring halfway through, until smooth.

4. With a butter knife, spread the top of each bug with chocolate to cover.

5. Decorate with sliced almonds for wings and red hots for eyes, or let kids use any Halloween candy you have on hand.

http://www.parenting.com/gear-article/R ... l-Critters