halloweening with the littles
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 12:43PM some shareable ideas we had fun with today in D's little school:
Candy Corn Cookies
How-To:
- Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe.
- Divide the dough into three equal portions. One portion stays white, color one portion orange, and melt 1-2 squares of unsweetened chocolate to mix with one portion to make it chocolate.
- Line small bread loaf pans with parchment or waxed paper. Fill with chocolate, then orange, then white dough. My recipe (which is fairly large) filled 3 mini loaf pans.
- Place dough in freezer for about 20 minutes.
- Remove from freezer and from bread pans. Then slice to desired cookie thickness (it will vary with your sugar cookie recipe, but I found that my cookies spread more than I liked unless I kept them about the thickness of this picture).
- Cut dough slab into triangles (I had little vultures gobbling up the excess from the edges).
Bake at 350 for 10 minutes (or according to the directions of your own recipe).
Ghost Bag
I'm all about keeping control when it comes to the combo of paint & kids (despite Kay's more fun example), so I lifted each child (one at a time) to sit by the kitchen sink, painted white on the bottom of their foot, stamped it onto the bag, then swiveled said foot straight into the sink for washing. It worked well and they reveled in the tickly nature of the task. And the eye gluing. There was much consternation in the choosing of eyes.
I also loved these ideas:
Dip Nutter Butter cookies into white chocolate, then make eyes & spooky mouth with dark chocolate...so simple & cute. The idea comes from KidCuisine.
Jim thought these owls looked creepy, but I loved them (and I guess creepy is the point!). Kudos to The Custom Cakery for such originality.
And I couldn't find who to give credit to for this one, but loved these stacked sugar cookie pumpkins. I'm not sure who would need to eat a six-stack of sweetness, but they are so unique & well-done.
