Halloween Dinner 2011

Stuffed Pizza Snake

Filling:
1 pkg. pepperoni
1 tsp. parsley
2 cups mozzerella cheese, shredded
1 garlic clove, pressed
1 egg
1 teaspoon italian dressing powder

Use frozen bread dough or your favorite bread dough recipe. Roll into a large rectangle and add filling down center. Roll up, pinching ends to seal filling in. Shape like a snake. Mix food coloring with egg white and brush stripes on snake. Bake at 325 degrees for about 20-30 minutes, until golden brown.

Monster Mouths

Ingredients:
3 apples
lemon juice
slivered almonds

Slice apples into quarters. Remove core. Slit a mouth into the outside of apple and dip in lemon juice to prevent browning. Poke slivered almonds into the apple to look like monster teeth.

Jello Worms

I followed the recipe found HERE exactly, except I used strawberry jello and added about 10 drops of green food coloring. They turned out to be the hit of the night. They were definitely worth the effort.

A few helpful things I learned while making them:
1. Straighten out the bend in the straws. It's easier to get them out and makes the worms look better.
2. My fingers got so tired from squeezing the worms out of the straws, so I switched to using needle-nosed pliers to hold the end of the straw while I squeezed down with my other hand. So much easier!
3. I enlisted hubby's help. One of us ran hot water over the straws while the other squeezed them out onto the plastic wrap.

Graveyard Pudding

It's just chocolate pudding, whipped cream and crushed up Oreos with a gummy worm poking out of it. But it's easy and delicious. Orignially, we were going to add little graham cracker tombstones with the kids' names on them, but it didn't happen. Maybe next year.

And here's the whole dinner together, including Witches Finger breadsticks and Monster Booger Dip (spaghetti sauce with green food coloring mixed in). Yum yum, so fun!