Any other time of the year the aforementioned recipes wouldn’t sound very appetizing. But when you are creating a creepy buffet for a Halloween party or a festive pre-trick-or-treating meal then they’re the perfect additions.
The first recipe for Creepy Chili is a Cheplic classic. While my mom didn’t create it (someone from Hormel Foods gets the credit) she did make when I was a kid—-only she used homemade breadsticks not the refrigerated kind. You can’t top this dish when it comes to simplicity and creativity. If you struggle to get your excited little ghosts and goblins to eat something before they hit the streets in their costumes this recipe will come in very handy.
The second recipe for Zombie Cookies is a great dessert to serve at a Halloween party or a wonderful homemade goodie to hand out to trick-or-treaters you know well. (Some parents don’t allow their children to accept homemade treats from strangers.) The spooky cookies are also a great project for kids. They can let their creative juices flow by making these zombie cookies. In the end they leave with a treat that tastes much better than it looks.
CREEPY CHILI
Ingredients:
2 cans (15 ounces) Chili With Beans
1 can (8 ounces) refrigerated breadsticks
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Heat chili in a pot.
Open the breadsticks; cut each strip of dough in two lengthwise.
Shape dough into 16 bones of various sizes.
Bake for 5 to 8 minutes, until crisp.
Serve bones (breadsticks) around chili (use a black bowl that looks like a witch’s cauldron to make it look more festive) so kids can dip bones into chili.
Serves 8.
ZOMBIE COOKIES
Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon powdered ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup molasses
1/3 cup soymilk (or other non-dairy milk)
2 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour
Directions:
Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
Lightly oil two or three baking sheets with vegetable oil, then dust with flour.
Mix the sugar, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Add molasses and soymilk and mix well. Add 1 cup of flour and mix well. Mix in enough of the remaining flour to make a very stiff dough.
On a floured surface, roll out a portion of the dough to 1/8 inch thick. Use a gingerbread man cookie cutter to make zombie bodies.
Decorate your zombies to your liking. Just try to keep a uniform thickness so they will bake evenly.
Carefully transfer cookies to the baking sheets. Bake about 20 minutes.
Remove from oven and cool on a baking sheet for 10 minutes before decorating.
Makes about 48 cookies.
Decorating Tips: Used colored icing to pipe on spooky features such as exposed ribs, shredded clothing, X-shaped eyes, etc.
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