Recipes For Halloween and Autumn - Swamp Dip, Chocolately Holiday Bark, Cranberry Apple Cobbler

Getting ready for a Halloween or Autumn Theme Party can be a lot of work so when choosing recipes, look for ones that are:

Simple to make
Have few ingredients
Hold up well over time
Pleasing to look at and of course,
Taste great!

We polled our family and friends and here are a few of our favorite Halloween Dishes and Autumn Recipes:

Hot Halloween Appetizer - Swamp Dip (aka Creamy Feta Spinach Dip)

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
1 cup onion, chopped
1 small red bell pepper, chopped
1 tablespoon garlic, finely chopped
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup feta cheese
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1-10 oz. package spinach leaves, stems removed, cut into thin strips
1/8 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
Salt and pepper
Dippers including crackers, bread chunks and assorted vegetable sticks

Melt butter in 10-inch skillet and add onion, red pepper and garlic. Cook over medium heat until softened. Stir in flour and continue cooking 1 minute.

Whisk in broth and whipping cream. Continue stirring until mixture is thickened.

Add cheese, seasoning, yogurt, spinach and hot pepper sauce and stir until spinach wilts and mixture is heated through. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

This Halloween appetizer is best served warm with dippers.

Easy Halloween Dessert - Chocolately Holiday Bark

The best thing about this Chocolatey Holiday Bark recipe is that you can customize it for every holiday or theme party. For Halloween, use white chocolate and candy corn. For a Football party, milk chocolate and candy the color of your favorite team. The possibilities are endless.

Ingredients

16 chocolate sandwich cookies, chopped
1-1/2 cups broken small pretzels
1/3 cup raisins
1-1/2 pounds chocolate, broken into squares
2 cups candy (M & M's, candy corn...)
Sprinkles

Start by spreading the cookies, pretzels and raisins evenly onto a lightly greased small baking sheet.

Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, or in the microwave, stirring frequently until melted. Remove from the heat while there are still a few chunks, and stir until smooth. Watch carefully as chocolate can burn easily.

Drizzle chocolate with a spoon over the goodies in the pan, spreading the top flat to coat evenly. Top with candy and sprinkles. Let cool until firm. Break into pieces and store in an airtight container.

You can usually find sandwich cookies the color of the holiday (orange for Halloween, red for Christmas...). Coordinate the cookies, chocolate, candy and sprinkles to match the holiday or theme of your party.

Most Requested Autumn Dessert - Spiced Cranberry Apple Cobbler

This Autumn Recipe is the perfect dessert for a cool Fall night.

Ingredients

4 cups cranberries
6 Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced thin
2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups plus 1 tablespoon flour, divided
4 tablespoons butter, cut into bits
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening (I use butter flavored)
1-1/2 cups sour cream
2 teaspoons sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine cranberries, apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, ground cloves and 1 tablespoon flour in 3-quart baking dish. Mix evenly and dot top with butter bits

Stir together remaining 2 cups flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Cut shortening in using pastry blender or 2 knives until crumbly. Add sour cream and blend well (dough will be sticky).

Drop dough by spoonfuls on top of fruit mixture. Sprinkle with sugar and bake for 20 to 30 minutes on middle rack until top is golden.

Spiced Cranberry Apple cobbler is outstanding served with Cinnamon Vanilla Ice Cream. It is hard to find in stores so you can make your own. Add a teaspoon of cinnamon to a pint of softened vanilla ice cream and re-freeze. When ready to serve, put a big scoop on top on each bowl of warm cobbler.

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Halloween Food Recipes For Everyone

October 31st is approaching and everybody is busy picking up suitable Halloween food recipes to complement their Halloween party theme. It's good to have traditional things in your party, but it's also good to conjure up some modern and innovative ideas to make your party more interesting.

Food and wine are important. Your Halloween food recipes should be filling and pleasantly presented on the plate. So forget those cut fingers and bloody brains and stick to good and palatable food.

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Halloween Dessert Recipes Are High in Sugar Content - Good Or Bad?

Halloween dessert recipes are an essential component to fall festivities. While many are gathering up all of the essential ingredients to create their spookynite snacks, many will be purchasing sugar in order to mix in to give the desserts a sweet taste. Unfortunately, many people who will be purchasing this ingredient simply do not know or understand that there are dangers associated with this substance.

Here, I will be exploring the dangers of sugar in Halloween dessert recipes. If you have a sweet tooth, or you are concerned about your health and the health of those that will be consuming these Halloween treats, it is important that you pay special attention to the contents of this article.

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When an individual consumes the sugar in Halloween dessert recipes, and other sweets, it throws off the natural homeostasis process. If you are wondering what this is, it is really simple to understand. Homeostasis is simply the equilibrium, or "balance" in the body that is considered to be "ideal".

It basically means that all of components of the body are working in harmony together for proper maintenance. As sugar enters the body, it throws off this natural and required balance in the body. One of the first areas that are affected in a negative fashion is the immune system of the body.

Sugar will actually have a negative impact on the defenses that the immune system sets up in order to fight against potentially threatening diseases and sicknesses. When the immunity of the body is suppressed, many health complications may arise.

Now, when creating those Halloween treats this year, there is a large possibility that children will be consuming them. If you will be using sugar as an ingredient, you may want to consider the effects that it can have on these kids. It has been discovered that adrenaline increases quite rapidly in the body of a child when they consume foods and beverages that contain sugar.

Furthermore, these children have been observed in experiencing high levels of anxiety and even signs of hyperactivity. Many medical professionals and parents who have observed the effects of sugar on children have noticed that many of these kids are not able to concentrate effectively.

Irritability and depression are also common side effects. Before creating a menu of all the Halloween dessert recipes that you will be creating this fall, be sure to consider not using as much sugar and finding another source of sweetener to add other than straight sugar. This is only a small list of the dangers associated with this substance.

Halloween Dessert Recipes Are High in Sugar Content - Good Or Bad?

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Halloween Party Foods: Five Disgusting Desserts

Halloween is the one holiday where your imagination can run wild. In addition to making food taste good, you get to make it look gross, too. Here are five disgusting desserts for your next Halloween party or get-together.

1. Slasher Cake

The idea behind this is a violent killer with a knife. Use any kind of cake you like, in any flavor. You'll need to frost the top with a light colored frosting. Using a tube of red gel icing, or some royal icing colored red, create lines and pools of "blood."

If you have a severed body part prop, this gets even more gross. Put the hand, foot, finger, or eyeball on top the cake, with a pool of blood icing around the cut area.

For a final sickly touch, have a large knife nearby. Put red icing along the blade and in several spots on the handle, to look like bloody fingerprints.

2. Graveyard Cake

This is fun for kids to help you with. You can be as careful and painstaking as you like, or keep it simple.

Use a cake in a large baking pan, or a sheet type cake. Frost it, preferably with a dark colored frosting for nighttime, or green for daytime. You can sprinkle shredded coconut for grass.

Add tombstones using flat cookies or brownies. Use piping gel to add small crosses, RIP, or other words as inscriptions. Stand them up in the frosting. You might need to use toothpicks if they won't stay upright.

Make it elaborate by adding a fence from short pieces of licorice sticks or other firm stick-like candies around the edge. You can sprinkle gummy worms or fake bugs on top.

3. Black Cat Poop

These look disgusting, but they are one of the easiest treats to make. Simply use rice cereal treats made with a chocolate cereal. Or dip regular cereal treats into melted chocolate, then place on a cookie sheet to harden. Be sure to shape the treats into logs, while they are still warm, instead of letting them cool in a pan.

4. Zombie's Alive Cupcakes

Use any type of cupcake with any color frosting. Get plastic novelty tiny hands, or make some from marzipan or modeling chocolate. Stick them on the top of the cupcake, with the fingers pointing up, to look like zombie hands coming out of the ground. You can put a puddle of red icing at the bottom, to look like the wrist is bleeding.

5. Severed Head

You'll need a face mold for this. Place a layer of plastic wrap in the mold, then pour in a no-bake dessert. Use something like a gelatin dessert or no-bake cheesecake. After it has set, spread a puddle of strawberry or raspberry jam or sauce on a serving plate. Unmold the face on top of that.

There you have five easy, fun, and disgusting desserts for your next Halloween party. Even though these look gross, they taste terrific. Try them for yourself and see. Bone Appetit!

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