Halloween treats

[Doris_Pinks]

Spending the (grrrr) rainey day sorting out our Halloween party menu for Saturday, thought some of you with young uns might like to give these a try!

Graveyard pudding.

In a clear glass rectangular dish crush up xtra chocolate chip cookies,(if you can get oreo cookies, they look the best!) enough to make a layer and keep some for the top.  Put some gummie worms through this, making sure some will be visible on the sides.

Make up chocolate angel delight and pour over crumbs. Sprinkle this with crushed biccies to look like soil. (may need 2 packets depending on size of dish)

Get some finger tea biscuits, and put them into the pud to look like gravestones, we ice ours with RIP etc!!
Add a few more worms crawling out of the soil and you have a very easy sickly goulish pud!  (see further down in thread for photo)

Severed fingers..........................



1 cup (225g) butter softened
1 cup (125g) Icing sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon almond essence
2 3/4 cups (316g) Plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
whole blanched almonds
tube red decorating gel

beat together butter sugar egg & essences. Beat in the flour, baking powder and salt. (If you want witches fingers add green colouring here, we prefer the au naturel look!)
Divide the dough into 4 equal parts, cover and refridgerate for 30 mins.
Preheat oven to 325f, 160c, gas mark 3.
Take a quarter of the dough out and using about a heaped teaspoonful, roll it into a finger shape,  you can enclose some gel in the middle if you wan't it to look more realistic when you bite, but we find it is a messy and fiddly job! press an almond firmly into one end for the nail, squeeze in around the middle for a knuckle, adding creases, cuts, gashes etc with the back of a knife.
Repeat with rest of dough.
Place fingers on a lightly greased baking tray, and bake for 20-25 mins. Let cool for 3 mins. Gently lift up almond and squeeze red gel onto the nailbed (makes my toes curl!) and press almond back so gell oozes out. Add gel to any cuts or gashes you may have made, cool on wire racks and..........ermm enjoy! (they actually taste great ;D)

[Doris_Pinks]

[Twospot Ladybird]

Perfectly gruesome  ;D

[Treacletop]

 ;D Thanks... have a party tomorrow night so might see if I have time to do these. Fingers look great!! Have spent today carving pumpkins...getting rather good now! Tired hands though!

[Derekthefox]

Will be having a quiet evening hopefully, but they look absolutely ghastly!

Derekthefox :D

[the_snail]

I like the fingers  ;D I bet you cannot get something as good as them in the shops. Well done  :)

The_Snail

[Heldi]

I love those fingers and the gruesome pud...I could eat it all by myself yum yum !!

[BAGGY]

You can also make swamp with lime jelly and foam crocodiles.  I sometimes do it for the cubs and then put chocolate angel delight on the top and green licorice laces as seaweeed.  It looks gross, tastes gross and the colours send the kids loopy.  They love it.

[Doris_Pinks]

 ;D  ;D  ;D  Baggy!

[daveandtara]

oh Baggy!!!!
  i bet their mums dread them coming home after an evening with you!Doris,
  those fingers look such fun we'll be making them even tho we're not partying this year!
Tara xx    ;D

[Treacletop]

Hi Tara!!!!!

Was it you who told Jim this site?? I'm on here most days now!!!

How are you?

[Doris_Pinks]

Pudding as promised!  Normally have more gummy worms etc on top but ran out!