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Main Dish: Spider’s Nest Dip
Dessert: Creepy Crunchy Eyeballs
Beverage Bar: Witches’ Brew
Centerpiece: Halloween Horrorscape
Music: Various Artists, Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture
For more ideas, browse the Halloween Issue of the Semi-Homemade®
web magazine.
Halloween
Sock Hop
Have guests cruise on over in their circle skirts and ducktails,
leave their blue suede shoes at the door and be ready to be-bop to some
hip hop from the soundtrack from Grease and Elvis's 30 #1
Hits CD. Rent a Grease video and play it muted on the VCR
for inspiration, while guests show off their retro rhythm in a Twist dance
contest. To appease monstrously hungry guests, turn your house into a
devilish diner, complete with clingy cobwebs, spooky spiders and a fiendish
feast featuring Spider’s
Nest Dip, Creepy Crunchy Donut Eyeballs (see recipe below) and a smoking
cauldron of Witches’ Brew.
For more gore décor, turn a Gothic candelabra into a Halloween
Horrorscape, a bloody good conversation piece.
Creepy Crunchy Donut Eyeballs
Makes 20 servings
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| INGREDIENTS: | |
| 2 | bags (12 ounce) white chocolate morsels, Nestle® |
| 4 | teaspoons vegetable shortening, Crisco® |
| 20 | glazed donut holes, Entenmann's® |
| 20 | round jellied candies, Gummi Savers® |
| 20 | milk chocolate candies, M&M's® |
| Red food coloring, Schilling® | |
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
PREPARATION:
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or wax paper and set aside.
- Melt chocolate morsels with vegetable shortening in a stainless steel bowl by setting bowl over a pan of simmering water and stirring until smooth.
- Cut two 1/8-inch-slices from opposite sides of each donut hole.
- Drop the donut holes into the chocolate, one at a time.
- Using a fork, coat the donut hole in chocolate.
- Lift and gently shake to remove excess chocolate.
- Place on prepared cookie sheet, cut side down.
- Repeat with remaining donut holes.
- Reserve unused chocolate.
- Place the jellied candies on top surface of donut holes.
- Refrigerate until set.
- Re-heat chocolate if necessary.
- Place a small dab of melted chocolate on the chocolate candies and stick them onto the jellied candies.
- Refrigerate until set, about 10 minutes.
- In a small bowl, mix 2 drops of food coloring with 2 teaspoons melted chocolate.
- Use a toothpick to draw "veins" on the eyeballs.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve.
