Halloween

Samoa Halloween Bites

~ lindy

Samoa Halloween Bites

Makes 30 using 1 tablespoon scoop

*1 (11 ounce) Bag Caramel, unwrapped (Kraft)

*2 tablespoons Milk

*2 cups Unsweetened Shredded Coconut

*Mini Vanilla Wafers, 30 or more

*1 to 1 and 1/2 cups Dark Chocolate Melting Wafers, Ghirardelli

*Disposable Plastic Food Gloves, for easy forming into balls

*Bloody Axe Candy, Wilton

*1/4 cup Red Candy Melts, melted according to directions on package

*Pastry Bag, optional for piping on red melted wafers on Samoa bites

*Silpat or Wax Paper lined 1/2 baking sheet

Melt caramel squares in the with milk in a glass bowl over sauce pan filled with 2 inches of water or just make sure the water doesn’t touch the bottom of the bowl aka double boiler, on medium low heat just until melted.

Add to the melted caramel the coconut and stir to combine, remove from heat and allow to cool slightly. Then wear food safe gloves for scooping out a tablespoon of the mixture at a time and making sure to smooth out the tops of the scooped half circle and place on top of a mini vanilla wafer. Repeat until all the caramel coconut mixture is used.

Refrigerate for about 15 to 20 minutes. Then remove them from fridge and dip in chocolate using the same method as the caramel except place Dark Chocolate Wafers Only Into the double boiler and just until melted, remove from heat and dip the caramel coconut bites. I like to set the bite on a fork and dip bite into chocolate and then tap the fork on bowl and scrap off excess chocolate on the rim of the bowl removing any excess chocolate and slide/place on a half baking sheet lined with Silpat aka baking mat or use wax paper. Refrigerate for about 15 minutes or until set. Remove and add about 1/4 teaspoon of the red melted wafer mixture, allowing it to drip down the sides and add the axe. Allow them to set, serve immediately or store in an airtight container for a few days.

Also see Halloween Eyeball Party Food

Enjoy!

Lindy

Skeleton Brownie Crazy Shake

~ lindy

 Skeleton Brownie Crazy Shake

Fudge Brownies

*1 cup Sugar

*1 cup Light Brown Sugar

*1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract

*1/4 teaspoon Sea Salt

*4 Eggs

*1 cup Butter

*1/2 to 3/4 cup All-purpose Flour

*1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips or Dark Chocolate Chips

*1/2 cup Jet Black Cocoa Powder or Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa Powder

Mix together in a bowl sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, salt and eggs and set aside.

Melt the butter on medium low heat in a sauce pan and add chocolate chips stir just until chocolate chips are melted and remove from heat and set aside.

Sift together the flour and cocoa powder into a bowl and set aside.

Slowly add the melted mixture to the creamed sugar mixture, stirring until combined and then fold in the flour and cocoa mixture.

Pour the batter into a 9 X 13 good quality baking pan, lined with parchment paper and sprayed with Pam or your favorite cooking spray.  Spread evenly the batter and bake in a 350*F. Oven 30 to 40 minutes depending on the type of baking pan used.  Use the tooth pick test, if it comes out clean brownies are done.

Cut Brownies to the size to fit your skeleton bone molds.

Recipe adapted from foodnetwork

White Chocolate Skeleton Bones

Supplies need:

*White Melting Wafers (melt 1/2 a cup of wafers at a time in the microwave in 30 second increments stirring between increments just until melted) I like Ghirardelli 

*Candy Molds, Wilton Candy Mold at JoAnns or Amazon or See Skeleton Bones mold, Walmart and Coffin Molds Walmart

*Jet Black Powder Cocoa or Hershey’s Dark Cocoa Powder for dusting and aged look

*Piping/Pastry Bag, cutting small hole in the tip or use small round decorating tip or silicon Chocolate decorating bottle.  Add melted wafers to bag or bottle and pipe or squeeze into molds.

Allow the filled molds to set in the fridge about 15 minutes or until set.  Remove the molds from the refrigerator and carefully remove bones and brush them with cocoa powder with food brush or I used a plastic bag with 1 to 2 teaspoons cocoa powder and drop one bone at a time into the bag shake and remove from bag.

Use melted candy wafers as glue for attaching bones to the brownies.

Chocolate Drizzled Mini Mugs

*12 Mugs, chilled

*1/2 Gallon Vanilla Bean Ice-cream, softened

*Dark Chocolate Ghirardelli Melting Wafers, (melt 1/2 a cup of wafers at a time in the microwave in 30 second increments stirring between increments just until melted)

**Piping/Pastry Bag, cutting small hole in the tip or use small round decorating tip or silicon Chocolate decorating bottle.  Add melted wafers to bag or bottle and pipe or squeeze onto the rim and stop for 1 second and allow a drip and continue around the rim dripping as you go, then freeze again and add softened vanilla bean Ice-cream. Freeze until ready to serve and add skeleton brownies.

Also see Halloween Eyeball Party Food

Enjoy!

Lindy