The process should be started by making several dozen sugar cookies. If you want to cheat on this, there are many cut and back options designed for Halloween you can use. When you have your cookies done, set them aside, you are now ready to begin the preparation for an activity!

Activity # 1

Begin to make bowls of toppings people can place on their cookies. You should have a number of tubs with icing available. Make sure you have a few orange and black, with a sprinkling of other colors. You then will need to gather your creepy ingredients.

Break up some candy corn for broken teeth, have some gummy worms available, and even consider making some dirt from Oreo cookies. While you are going through the side project, think about what your guests might find fun.

When everyone is together, have a challenge to see who can make the creepiest cookie in less than 5 minutes. Let them tear into the options and then have a prize that they can win.

Activity # 2

For this activity, make a sample cookie that people will need to make, and place the ingredients in front of each chair that it will take. Allow everyone to look at the cookie, and then blindfold them, and have them remake the cookie with their hands. Be sure you have creepy feeling items to use.

When they are done, have them remove the blindfold and check out their work. The best cookie wins a prize!

Remember, these are just some ideas you can do, come up with your own ideas as well for the perfect Halloween Cookie activity!

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Aquarium Jello Recipe

Ingredients

* new goldfish bowl or clear glass container
* red hots, gumballs or Jelly Belly gravel beans
* gummy fish or swedish fish
* parsley sprigs (these make great plants but the taste is not the best)
* blue Jello
* ice cubes
* cold water

Directions

1. Start with a clean, new goldfish bowl or clear glass container. In the bottom place Jelly Belly beans, gumballs, or red hots to look like rocks.

2. Mix up as much blue Jello as your bowl will hold. Mix using ice cubes & cold water instead of the cold water called for on the box. Pour this into the bowl over a knife blade or something to keep from disturbing the gravel.

3. If you want it to have ‘seaweed’, poke a couple of pieces the parsley or something similar down into the gravel.

4. When the whole thing starts to jell, use a wooden skewer to push gummy fish into different parts of the bowl.

5. For an added touch of fun you can include plastic ships, divers, treasure chests or creepy underwater sea cretaures.

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Remember to let the kids help. This is a very kid-friendly activity.

Turnover of the Graves

Turnover of the Graves is always a winner because it is fast and easy to make. Buy several turnovers that are rectangular shapes. Don’t panic if the store has none; these are the apple and cherry pies sold two for a dollar at the biggest fast food restaurant in the country. Line a 10″ x 12″ box top with aluminum foil or waxed paper. Take a scoop or two of any chocolaty cereal, and spread it on top of the lining to make the dirt for the graveyard.

Shake some coconut flakes in a couple of drops of green food coloring. Once the coconut is green, set it aside till you are ready to plant the grass. Put the turnovers in the graveyard. Cut them across their width to get 5 pieces each. Melt 20 – 25 large marshmallows in the microwave with a tablespoonful of butter or margarine (about 30 seconds). Stir and then put a drizzle on each grave and toss a bit more chocolaty cereal on top. The marshmallow drizzle holds the dirt loosely, since you want the graves exposed. Scatter the grass over and around the graveyard.

For a finishing touch, add a tombstone by placing a gumdrop at the head of each grave. Make a few piles of chocolaty cereal to indicate digging.

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Ingredients:

1 New Plastic Black Cauldron
1 1/2-2 lb. Oreo cookies
1 8 oz. tub Cream Cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 Stick Softened Butter
3 1/2 cups milk
2 small pkg. Instant Vanilla Pudding
12 oz. Cool Whip

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Directions:

* Cream together cream cheese, powdered sugar and softened butter.
* Mix 3 1/2 cups milk and instant pudding for 2 minutes and add 12 oz. Cool Whip.
* Add the mixtures together.
* Place Oreo cookies in large ziploc bag and crush to desired “dirt” texture with a rolling pin.
* Put 1 1/2 inches of cookie crumbs on the bottom of the cauldron (lined with aluminum foil) and layer the pudding mixture and crumbs. End with pudding mixture. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
* Just before serving, add 1 more inch of cookie crumbs and decorate with gummy worms, gummy spiders, and other creepy items.

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1) Using green food coloring, mix with a container or two of white icing (any flavor is fine- we use a butter cream) into a fun witch green color. Frost the cooled cupcakes with plenty of the frosting and set aside.

2) Take a chocolate ice cream waffle cone and set it flat on top of the cupcake. You can also place a chocolate wafer on the cupcake first in order to make it look more like a witches hat. Melt 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips in the microwave on 50% power so the chocolate doesn’t burn. Then, drizzle the cookie halves with the melted chocolate and press the cones down into the melted chocolate. Let the cones set on the cookies to cool. When fully cooled, the cones and cookies should form a pointed witch hat. Place on top the cupcakes

3) Make the witches face and hair. Decorate the cupcakes using licorice for the hair and mouth, and a couple little m&m for the eyes and a candy corn piece for her nose. You can also use small green gumdrops or other small candy for the witch’s nose and features.

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Here are some creative Halloween cookie recipes that will be the star attractions at any Halloween party or frightful get-together.

1. Boneyard Cookies

These are tasty and a bit scary all at the same time. Similar looking to the Meringue Bone Cookies, but with a much different taste and a special creep out factor with a gooey raspberry inside!

Ingredients

* 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
* 1/2 cup cornstarch
* 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
* 2 eggs
* 1 teaspoon almond extract
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* 2 to 3 tablespoons seedless raspberry jam
* 16 to 18 ounces white baking chocolate, chopped

Directions

* In a small bowl, combine confectioners’ sugar and cornstarch. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extract. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to sugar mixture and mix well.
* Shape dough into a ball; flatten into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate for 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
* On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-1/2-in. bone-shaped cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.
* On the bottoms of half the cookies, spread 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon jam down the center; top with remaining cookies.
* In a microwave, melt white chocolate at 70% power for 1 minute; stir. Microwave at additional 10- to 20-second intervals, stirring until smooth.
* Dip each cookie in chocolate, allowing excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set. Yield: 34 sandwich cookies.

Nutrition Facts: 1 cookie equals 155 calories, 8 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 23 mg cholesterol, 54 mg sodium, 19 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 fat, 1 starch.

Recipe From Taste of Home

2. Chocolate Mummy People

This is a terrific cookie to make for parties or just for fun with your kids and it always a hit with everyone because they are so neat! You can use the standard white frosting for the wrap or you can even use green and white to make a creepy and slightly grosser version. These make the perfect party favor as well. Just wrap them up in some clear cellophane with a bow and hand one to each guest as they leave- they won’t forget what an amazing time they had!

Ingredients:

1 pouch Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
2 tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa
1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 egg
1 container (1 pound) Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
12 small jelly beans, cut in half
Betty Crocker® black decorating gel (from 0.68-ounce tube)

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. In medium bowl, stir together cookie mix and cocoa. Add butter and egg; stir until soft dough forms.

2. On floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with 5-inch gingerbread man cutter. On ungreased cookie sheet, place 1 inch apart. Gather dough scraps; reroll until all dough is used.

3. Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are just puffed and tops are dry. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.

4. Spoon frosting into reasealable freezer plastic bag; partially seal bag and cut 1/4-inch hole in 1 bottom corner. Or use decorating bag with flat tip with 1/4-inch-wide opening (#44). Gently squeeze bag to pipe frosting on cookies for bandages. Attach jelly beans for eyes; use black gel to make pupils in eyes. Store cookies in airtight container.

Nutrition Information: 1 Cookie: Calories 400 (Calories from Fat 140); Total Fat 15g (Saturated Fat 6g, Trans Fat 4g); Cholesterol 30mg; Sodium 240mg; Total Carbohydrate 62g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 43g); Protein 2g Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 4%; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium 0%; Iron 4%

Exchanges: 1 Starch; 3 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 3 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 4

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Recipe and photograph provided courtesy of Betty Crocker/TM General Mills All Rights Reserved
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3. Halloween Faces Sandwich Cookies

These delicious Halloween cookies and the perfect cookie to make with little kids since you don’t have to make anything perfect- in fact the stranger the better with these silly faced monster or pumpkin cookies! Let kids hold a competition to see who can make the scariest face or silliest grin.
Ingredients:
¾ cup marshmallow crème
1 container of vanilla frosting
A tube of royal icing or decorator icing in different colors
Food Coloring
Colorful candies, sugars and sprinkles (look for orange, black and green colors)
1 package of your favorite prepared cookie dough (purchase in the refrigerator section of your grocery)

Directions:
Preheat the kitchen oven to 350 degrees F.
Use a floured surface and rolling pin to roll the cookie dough so that it reaches a thickness of 1/8 inch.
Cut out the cookie shapes using Halloween cookie cutters or just leave in circle shapes.
Bake cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet according to package.
Allow the Halloween cookies to cool for about a minute and transfer to wire racks.
Mix the vanilla frosting and marshmallow crème together in a large bowl.
Make sandwiches by layering the top of one cookie with this mixture and placing another cookie on top of it.
Decorate edges and top of cookie sandwiches with colored sugars, Halloween candies or sprinkles. Frost the face of each cookie and decorate with candies and sprinkles and frosting to make creepy faces, cute pumpkins or scary cats!
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4. Black Cat Halloween Cookies

Have some fun and decorate your house for the party or just Halloween night with these cute Black Cat Halloween Cookies that look fantastic perched insode a painted pot. You can paint a standard clay pot in Halloween colors or use a decorative basket or bucket and fill it with these cat cookies. They make the perfect centerpiece at any party and will delight everyone.
Ingredients:

* 1 cup butter (no substitutes), softened
* 2 cups sugar
* 2 eggs
* 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 cup baking cocoa
* 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 24 wooden craft or Popsicle sticks
* 48 candy corn candies
* 24 red-hot candies

Cookie Instructions:

1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Roll dough into 1 1/2-inch balls. Place 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheets.

2. Insert a wooden stick into each cookie. Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Pinch top of cookie to form ears. For whiskers, press a fork twice into each cookie. Bake at 350°F for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are set. Remove from the oven; immediately press on candy corn for eyes and red-hots for noses. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Serves 12

Source: Cat Crafter

5. RIP Dirt Nap Cookie Pudding Cups

This recipe is the same as our dirt nap pudding and is pudding along with a fun cookie labeled with RIP. Just take some chocolate pudding and place it into a small plastic cup, top with oreo cookie crumbs and place a RIP cookie on top (you can be creative with the type of cookie) and thats it! Simple and delicious and sure to be a hit at your Halloween party.

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For The Brain Cupcakes-

* Pink or white paper cupcake liners
* 1 recipe batter for Red Velvet Cupcakes (below)
* 1 recipe Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting (below)
* Red and Pink food coloring
* Chocolate brain candies (optional)
* Pastry bag and large round tip

Red Velvet Cupcake Recipe Ingredients:

* 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 1/2 cups sugar
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
* 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
* 1 cup buttermilk
* 2 large eggs
* 2 tablespoons red food coloring
* 1 teaspoon white distilled vinegar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:

* 1 pound cream cheese, softened
* 2 sticks butter, softened
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 (12-cup) muffin pans with cupcake papers.

In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. In a large bowl gently beat together the oil, buttermilk, eggs, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla with a hand held electric mixer. Add the sifted dry ingredients to the wet and mix until smooth and thoroughly combined.

Divide the batter evenly among the cupcake tins about 2/3 filled. Bake in oven for about 20 to 22 minutes, turning the pans once, half way through. Test the cupcakes with a toothpick for doneness. Remove from oven and cool completely before frosting

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:

In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla together until smooth. Add the sugar and on low speed, beat until incorporated. Increase the speed to high and mix until very light and fluffy.

Brain Cupcake Instructions:

1. Cool the cupcakes completely and right before serving bring them out to frost and decorate.

2. If you are using frosting for the brains, mix a drop of pink food coloring into the frosting to make it a pinkish brain color.

3. Using a pastry bag or clear plastic bag with the tip cut off, pipe the frosting in squiggly lines on half of each side of the cupcake to resemble the two hemispheres of the brain. You can use small squiggly lines with a small piping tip or bigger ones, it makes no difference as long as you get the desired effect you are looking for.

If you choose not to use food color the white frosting would look fine as well or you can make it even more creepy by adding a few drops of red  dye on top of the brain itself! (image)

4. If you would prefer to use brain candies instead, just frost the cupcakes with the vanilla frosting and place some food dye on top of the frosting, places your brain candies which you can either purchase or simply make yourself with these neat Bite Size Brains Candy Molds add a bit more of the red food coloring and that’s it- bloody creepy exposed brain cupcakes that looks gross but is super tasty! To make the candies you can melt chocolate and pour it into the small brain molds and let it set for a few hours. These also make great treats to top just about anything else you can think of.

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You can even use store bought cupcake mix and vanilla or butter cream frosting for a quick yet gross Halloween recipe mix. I love the simple look of white cupcakes with white frosting mixed with the cherry pie filling to give it a delicious flavor and a spooky ‘bite’.

White Cupcake Ingredients:

* 1 cup butter, softened
* 3 cups white sugar
* 7 eggs
* 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 cup sour cream

Cupcake Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Place cupcake liners in 18 cupcake holders.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each. Then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and mix until all of the flour is absorbed. Finally, stir in the sour cream. Mix for 1 or 2 minutes just to be sure there are no lumps. Pour the batter into the prepared cupcake tin.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until lightly brown on the top. Be careful not to overcook.

Cherry Filling:
1 can cherry pie filling

Cherry Filling Directions:
You can either use the filling as is, or place it into a blender to puree. Depending on the flavor you are looking for you can a bit of sugar to the mixture or not. Have some fun with the recipe and enjoy.

Vanilla Frosting Ingredients:

* 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
* 1 cup shortening
* 2 egg whites
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 2 1/2 tablespoons cake flour
* 1/4 cup low-fat milk
* 2 drops any color food coloring (optional)

Frosting Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine the confectioners’ sugar, shortening, egg whites, salt, vanilla, flour and milk. Beat with an electric mixer, gradually increasing to high speed, until light, fluffy and smooth, about 5 minutes.

Final Bloody Vampire Cupcake Assembly
After the cupcakes are baked and completely cooled, take a paring or small knife and cut a small hole out of the center of each cupcake. Spoon the cherry filling into the cavity left in the cupcake. Then, using the leftover pieces of cake plug the hole and frost as usual. When your guests bite into the cakes, the “blood” will come seeping out!

For added effect, use a toothpick to dribble a little more “blood” on the frosting, like a vampire bite.

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I totally love yummy Halloween cakes, and this pumpkin cheesecake is so fun too-  while this recipe is not the easiest, it is definitely one of the best! You can spook it up by adding some cobweb piping, fake spiders, or make it creepy with worms coming out of the crumbly crust- have some fun decorating with just about anything you like.

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted

Filling Ingredients:

3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3 eggs
1 (15 ounce) can solid pack pumpkin
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

Topping Ingredients:

2 cups sour cream
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Melted chocolate, piping icing in various colors, spider candies

Instructions:

Smash up the wafer crumbs and butter and press into bottom of and sides of your greased spring form pan to create your cheesecake crust. In a big mixing bowl beat the cream cheese and sugars until nice and smooth. Add in the eggs and beat on low speed. Whisk in the pumpkin, cornstarch, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice. Pour mixture into the crust and bake at 350 degrees F for 1 hour. Cool for at least 10 minutes before doing anything else to the cheesecake, but don’t turn off the oven just yet. Mix up the topping ingredients’ and spread this over the top of the cake. Place back in the oven for 6 minutes to melt. Run a butter knife around the edge of the pan first to loosen everything to make release easier later on. Allow to cool at room temp and refrigerate over night.

When you are ready to create your master piece, remove the cheesecake from the pan and pipe on spider web decorations. If you need a good cheesecake pan- I recommend the Calphalon Nonstick Springform Pan. You can place a candy spider in each little web or add fun plastic toys for a really creepy look. If you are not a baker, you can buy one of those no-bake cheesecakes and decorate it just the same and no one would be the wiser!

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Ingredients:

* Three large, 6 ounce boxes of peach or watermelon flavored gelatin for flesh toned color.
* One 12 ounce can of lite evaporated skimmed milk (99.5% fat free). No other milk will work!
* Oil Cooking Spray (to lubricate the plastic mold)
* Green Food Coloring
* Three ½ cups of water(2 ½ cups boiled, 1 cup cold)

Recipe Instructions:

* Spray a small amount of vegetable oil inside of the cavity of the plastic mold. Wipe off any excess oil.
* Place gelatin from the boxes into a large bowl and add 2 ½ cups of boiling water. Stir gelatin with a whisk until it is completely dissolved.
* Stir in one cup of cold water.
* Add skimmed milk and stir for two minutes. (If a clear brain is desired, leave out the skimmed milk and add an additional 1 ½ cups of cold water)
* Add a few drops of green food coloring to produce the flesh tone color, re-stir.
* Pour gelatin mixture into the plastic brain mold.
* Leave approximately one inch space from the top of the mold.
* Place mold in fridge carefully. You can wrap a towel around the bottom of the mold to keep the mold upright.
* Refrigerator overnight.

Extracting the Jello Brain From the Mold:

*Carefully shake the mold until the gelatin is loosened from the plastic mold.
* Put on a cooking glove, and place the open palm of your hand on the top of the gelatin, and turn the mold over.
* Shake the mold again.
* Continue to carefully shake the mold until the brain plops out onto your gloved hand.
* Place mold onto a plate or a platter.
* Cover the mold with a plastic food wrap and return the mold to the refrigerator until you are ready to put it on display and serve it.

Grab a creepy looking brain mold from Halloween Mart along with a few other fun body parts or costumes you might like! To make more brains, just clean out the mold and start again- you can use any flavor mold or add some creepy liquid red jello over the top for a really gross Halloween recipe. Have fun and get the kids involved with it and watch them as the jello pops out- so much fun. You can also add fruit or nuts inside the mold- so experiment and enjoy.

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