Kitchen Tip = Rolled and Dropped Cookie Tips

Some quick tips for perfect holiday cookies

Witches’ Brew Ice Cream Soda

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons Chocolate Syrup
• Cold Ginger ale
• 3 scoops (about 3/4 cup) orange sherbet
• TWIZZLERS Strawberry Twists / Red Licorice

Directions

1. Combine syrup with small amount of Ginger ale in 16-ounce soda glass.

2. Add sherbet; fill glass with more soda.

3. Cut tips off licorice to make a straw. Serve immediately.

Makes one 16-oz. serving.

Patrick Mummy Pizza Bites

Just in time for Halloween.

Ingredients =
English muffins
Pizza sauce
Black olives
Scallions
Red or green pepper
Cheese sticks

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 350º F.
2. For each mummy, spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce onto half of an English muffin.
3. Set olive slices in place for eyes and add round slices of green onion or bits of red or green pepper for pupils.
4. Lay strips of cheese (we used a pulled-apart cheese stick) across the muffin for the mummy’s wrappings.
5. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the muffin is toasty.

Finger Cookies

Creep out everyone at your Halloween party with finger cookies.

Yield: 5 dozen

Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1 cup Butter, softened
1 Egg
1 tsp Almond extract
1 tsp Vanilla extract
2 2/3 cups Flour
1 tsp Salt
3/4 cup whole Almonds
2 squares of melting chocolate, or chocolate bark

Combine the sugar, egg, butter, almond extract, and vanilla in a bowl. Mix in the flour, and salt. Cover and refrigerate the dough for about 30 minutes, or until it’s firm.When you’re ready to shape the cookies, only take out a small portion of the dough at a time. Shape the cookies into fingers by rolling and working with your hands. Score the top of the cookie with a knife or spatula to make it look like the wrinkles in your knuckle. Press an imprint into the tip of the cookie with your finger to make a spot for the almond finger nail. Press an almond into the tip of each finger to look like a fingernail.Placed on a cooking sheet lightly coated with no-stick cooking spray and bake at 325` for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the cookies are a very light golden brown. Let the cookies cool on a drying rack.Use melting chocolate to go around the outside of the almond nail, giving a ghoulish appearance. Just melt the chocolate, put it in an icing piping bag, and cut a very small hole in the tip. Then pipe around the nail.

If you use red melting chocolate the look will be even more dramatic, you can also make small drops of chocolate blood, or chocolate cuts on the cookies if you really want to gross out your guests.The witches finger cookies will make great party treats, but you can also bundle them up in a decorative container and use them for your Halloween party favors.

Tricia Mummy Dogs

Tricia Mummy Dogs

INGREDIENTS
1 can (8 oz) refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
2 1/2 slices American cheese,
1 pkg ( 40) mini hot dogs / cocktail sausages
Mustard or ketchup

DIRECTIONS
1. Heat oven to 375°F.
2. Unroll dough; separate at perforations, creating 4 rectangles. Press perforations to seal.
3. Cut each rectangle with a pizza cutter lengthwise into 10 pieces, making a total of 40 pieces of dough. Slice cheese slices into half then into 40 small strips
.4. Wrap 1 piece of dough around each hot dog and 1 strip slice of cheese stretching dough slightly to completely cover hot dog. About 1/2 inch from one end of each hot dog, separate “bandages” so hot dog shows through for “face.” On ungreased large cookie sheet, place wrapped hot dogs (cheese side down)
5. Bake 13 to 17 minutes or until dough is light golden brown and hot dogs are hot.
6. With mustard, draw features on “face.”