Halloween cookbooks are a great way to entice your guests to the festivities that you will be hosting this Halloween. You can find these types of cookbooks in many different areas. However, considering the fact that they are seasonal, they also have the tendency to be a little bit on the expensive side. In this article, I will share with you the secrets on how to find great deals on Halloween cookbooks.

If you are gearing up for the fall festivities, you are sure to want this resource at your disposal. You no longer have to put in special orders to get a great deal on literature that explains how to prepare certain recipes throughout the year!

One of the best places to find great deals on Halloween cookbooks is to visit the thrift stores that are in or near your community. Many individual, after a period of time of accumulating books, will donate their extra ones to thrift stores. As a matter of fact, if you pay attention when shopping for books at these types of stores, you will find that the cookbooks are among the most popular and common types that can be found.

In addition to this, there are many cookbooks that are sold at local yard sales and flea markets. You will be quite surprised at the variety that you have to choose from when shopping at these special sales in your town. You may find cookbooks for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more! The best part is, they will probably only cost pennies on the dollar! Now, you just can’t get a deal like that everyday!

The internet is loaded with websites that specialize in selling Halloween cookbooks. Many times, you can find cookbooks at a discount if they are considered to be “out of season”. You may want to research these types of resources. In addition to this, there are popular online auction websites, such as Amazon and eBay where many different types of deals can be found when it comes to literature that is used in the kitchen.

Not only can you find standard cookbooks on these websites and others, you can also find eBooks that detail many exciting recipes for Halloween! Finding great deals on Halloween cookbooks may be a bit challenging, but it can be done. All it takes is a little time to devote to the project, and a bit of creativity and you can find the cookbook that is right for you!

By: Daryl Plaza

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If you have read a few of my other articles about Halloween, then you probably know that I recommend not giving out anything that is home-made. This can make Halloween a bit of a disappointment for those of us who love to make some devilishly delightful treats for the kids in the neighbourhood but before you hang up your witch’s hat, try making a few treats for kids you know or for your child’s class.

See there is always an alternative and although you may not be handing out the treats on Halloween night, you are still handing out some type of Halloween goody. One of the bonuses of baking for kids you know or for a class, is that you can be much more creative and messy.

Now for the recipe since I am sure that you are wondering when we will get to it. I’m sure that many people have made Worms and Dirt or a Dirt Cake and that is all this recipe is, slightly modified for Halloween.

What you need:

• Gummy Halloween Candies (skeletons, spiders, eyeballs, things that go “ewww” in the candy store.)

• Clear Plastic Cups (this recipe should make between 10 to 12 servings)

• 1 package of softened cream cheese (the 8 ounce package)

• ½ cup of softened butter

• 3 ½ cups of milk

• ½ cup of confectioners’ sugar

• 1 large container of Cool Whip (frozen whipped topping) Make sure it is thawed.

• 1 package (about 20 ounces) of Oreos or similar cookie

• 2 packages of instant vanilla pudding

• (optional: orange food coloring)

Directions:

1. Before you start anything, make sure you pull out your witch’s hat and caldron to get into the spirit of brewing up a tasty treat.

2. In a food processor, grind the cookies into chunky crumbs. Not a powdery crumb but one that has large and small bits. Set it to the side.

3. In your caldron, combine the cream cheese, butter and sugar. Blend together with a mixer at medium speed.

4. In a separate caldron, yes you will need to pull out your spare, blend together the milk, whipped cream and the vanilla pudding powder.

5. Combine both caldrons together to create a pudding and cream cheese mixture. If you would like to add a more Halloween feel to the dish, add a few drops of food coloring to create an orange colored mixture.

6. Take the clear plastic cups and spoon a layer of cookie mixture on the bottom of the cups.

7. Next, spoon in a layer of cheese and pudding mixture. Repeat with the cookies until you get about an inch or two from the top of the cup.

8. As you work, drop in a few of your Halloween gummy candies or wait until the end and arrange them on the top. You can make some interesting pudding tops with the proper candies. A haunted house, a cemetery, or a bunch of bugs and eyeballs coming to the surface of the dirt. Not only are they yummy but they are delightfully disgusting.

And with that, it’s time to pull out the old broom (you know the car or minivan) and deliver your treats to the school, party or home of your choosing. Make sure you refrigerate them first before serving and don’t forget those magical words that will not only make them delicious but the biggest success of the Halloween holiday.

By: Sirena Van Schaik

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Although Halloween has always been about chilling things like haunts, hobgoblins, and hexes, some get more stimulated about things that are pretty disgusting. Although your kids may not wish to eat carrots or spinach throughout the year because they consider them to be ‘disgusting,’ this is one time of the year when they are going to go wacky for the chance to slash into a brain, or to maybe gobble down a handful of lopped off digits. We may never realize the difference, but we can certainly go with it. If you really want your event to be a success you’ll want to try some fun and gross Halloween recipes to dish out on this fun day.

If you can prepare Jell-O, you can find some pretty rank Halloween recipes on your own. You might have to browse online to discover them, but there are some really interesting Jell-O molds out there that can help you to form brains, fingers, and other interesting body pieces. If you would like to dish out a heart in a bowl of blood, this is the direction to go. You have to come up with the right colouration for these gross Halloween recipes, but they should be easy enough to make. Don’t forget to use strawberry sauce, or something else that is deeper red, to have for the blood. Things are much more sickening when they come with some blood.

You can likewise do some intriguing things with spaghetti for rank Halloween recipes. Things like this are screeching out to be prepared into something truly yucky. You can come up with a heavy, dark red sauce and then use it to make what would look like guts. This may not make things good to eat, but they are going to be very interesting. Find some type of item that you can use to present the intestines, and you are going to truly gross your kids out – just like they have wished you would do.

If you are effective with baking, you can make some disgusting Halloween recipes that call for ornamenting things with eyeballs and other icky items. You can build cupcakes that look like jumbo eyeballs, or perhaps you could cut up a cake to decorate as something that is going to repulse and please your children or your other invitees. These thoughts for gross Halloween recipes work swell at home, but don’t forget to share them with others that you know. If you are having a party of any type, be sure you have sufficient amounts to service all of your guests. It’s a celebration they are not going to forget any time in the near future.

By: Cheryl Pierce

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HALLOWEEN “GHOUL-ADE”

1 envelope Kool-Aid grape flavor unsweetened mix
1 envelope Kool-Aid orange flavor
unsweetened mix
2 cups sugar
3 quarts cold water
1 quart chilled ginger ale

Mix both envelopes Kool Aid together with sugar, in large pitcher. Add water and mix. Just before serving, add ginger ale.

Add a Nice “Touch” – Float a Frozen Hand in your Halloween Punch!

Fill an unpowdered surgical glove with water.
Tip: Do not overfill as water will expand as it freezes.

Add a little food coloring for a more authentic look.

Securely twist tie the end and hang from a shelf in the freezer.

Once frozen, cut off the glove and place hand in punch bowl.

BUBBLING BAT BREW

Two 12 oz. cans frozen grape juice
One 2 liter bottle of ginger ale
One half-gallon lime sherbet

Make grape juice according to directions on can. Add to punchbowl. Add the ginger ale and stir thoroughly. Add sherbet just before serving.

Make Your Bat Brew Really “Cook” …

Punch out or cut holes in lid of a sealed plastic container.
Drop in a piece of dry ice.
Before serving drop the container into the punch bowl.
Verrry Spooky!

Important Note: Always handle dry ice with gloves.-

SPIDER CIDER

1/2 gallon cider
1 apple
12 tsps. powdered orange breakfast drink
nutmeg
cinnamon
clear plastic cups

Prepare cups by drawing a spider or gluing a spider sticker on the outside bottom of each plastic cup. Next, chop up apple into small pieces.

Heat cider on the stove till very warm and pour into 8 drinking cups. Stir 1 1/2 tsps orange drink powder into each cup, along with a dash of nutmeg and cinnamon.

Sprinkle 6 or 7 apple pieces into each cup, stir and serve. Wait for the shrieks when kids discover their spiders!

**COOL WAYS TO SERVE YOUR HALLOWEEN PUNCH**

*Serve juice or punch in beakers.

*Set out dips or punch in pumpkins you have carved out and cleaned, or black plastic cauldrons.

*Use licorice as straws, just cut off both ends and sip through the center.

*Moisten the edges of party glasses with egg white and dip in sugar for a sweet finish!

By: Patricia Jensen

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As Halloween fast approaches, people begin thinking about the parties, costumes and fun. But one of the more important aspects of this great day is the food. There are thousands of different recipes that can be used, on Halloween to make the spookiest but tastiest solutions.

If you are having a Halloween party or get together, then you will want to make the best food for your guests. When people think of Halloween they think of sweet treats and other sugary edibles. But you should keep these to a minimum, the reason for saying this, is because of the fact that you do not want to hype all your guests up on sugar, especially young children as they may begin to get very naughty. You could in fact create a vast array of foods such as chicken or fish in the shape of a hand or finger, with ketchup smothered all over it. This will surely give your guest a fright!

Halloween food does not have to be hard to create, if you cook normal food it should come as a breeze to you. All you will basically have to do is change the shape and the look of your traditional meals such as meatballs for example. Instead of just creating your normal meatballs why not make them in a form of scary eyes? You can use cheese, olives and tomatoes to shape the meatballs in anyway that you wish.

Moving onto drink, people usually like to supply punch on Halloween parties. Why not try to spice this up with a quarter of lemon lime soda and a touch of sherbet? You could then finish it of with a nice misty and dirty looking cocoa powder.

The trick to make Halloween food work is the preparation; you should always keep the food simple and familiar, but add that little extra twist. Make the food look different; you can use food colourings as a major transformation for Halloween food. You should also try renaming the food so it sounds a lot spookier.

Halloween is a great event to enjoy, it is not only for kids but it is great to have a social gathering with close family and friends. What other chance do we get to socialise with loved ones except for Christmas. You should make the most of the day and have as much fun as you can imagine, as Halloween only comes around once a year.

By: Musa Aykac

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