Scary Halloween Dessert Recipes

Needed:

1 Red velvet cake mix

Cream cheese frosting

1 bottle (1 ounce) red food coloring

1 medium size package Vanilla pudding

Meat fork or medium wooden spoon

Frosting bag

Prepare the pudding as instructed on the package. Put about 5-10 drops of red food coloring into the pudding and stir. Set aside.

[NOTE: You can add more food coloring to the pudding if it doesn't change into a dark enough red for you.]

Prepare the red velvet cake as instructed on the box. Do not frost the cake yet.

While the cake is cooling, put the

Once the cake has cooled, use the meat fork (or the handle end of the wooden spoon) and poke holes in the top.

Pour the pudding into the frosting bag. Squeeze pudding into the holes that you made with the meat fork (or spoon). Frost the cake.

[OPTIONAL: For added effect you can add marshmallow eyeballs, candy spiders/bats, or even Peeps that are in the shape of ghosts.]

Dracula's Heart

Needed:

Jello heart mold

2 boxes of strawberry or watermelon jello

Red food coloring

½ cup Karo syrup

1 package of cream cheese

Put the cream cheese on low heat and melt it. Stir regularly to keep it from burning.

Take the Karo syrup and add the food coloring [3.4 drops should produce the right shade for 'blood'. If not, add a few more drops until you get the shade of red you desire.]

Mix the red Karo syrup into the cream cheese and stir. Turn the heat off and let the mixture cool.

Make the jello according to the directions on the box. Pour half of it in the jello mold.

Add the cream cheese "blood" then add the rest of the jello.

Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

You will want to serve this on a deep plate because when you cut into the heart, it will "bleed."

Graveyard Cake

Needed:

Cake mix (your choice of flavor)

Dark chocolate frosting

Tubes of cake decorators icing - suggested colors: green, red, black

Milano cookies (headstones)

White chocolate dipped pretzels (fence)

Candy pumpkins

Marshmallow ghost peeps

Oreo crumbs (graveyard dirt)

Novelty candies: skulls, eyeballs, bats

Prepare the cake as instructed on the package.

While waiting for the cake to cool, decorate the Milano cookies with names, Halloween images, symbols, etc.

After the cake has cooled, transfer it to a large serving tray, then frost it.

Sprinkle the top of the cake with the Oreo crumbs, then insert the 'headstones' onto the cake. Left over Oreo crumbs can be placed around the cake, on the tray.

Decorate the rest of the cake with the novelty candies, peeps, and candy pumpkins. Place the white chocolate dipped pretzels (the fence) about ½" - 1" from the edge of the cake.

Bloody Eyeballs

Makes 10 desserts

Needed:

1 large package of red jello

Whipped cream topping

Blueberries or flat chocolate chips

Individual dessert dishes

Prepare the jello according to the instructions on the package. Set aside and let thicken slightly.

Take 2 scoops of the whipped cream topping and place them on a dessert dish. Put 1 blueberry (or chocolate chip) in each of the scoops of whipped cream topping.

Pour ¼ to ½ cup of jello into the dessert dishes around the 'eyeballs.' Leave the top part of the eyeball (where the blueberry or chocolate chip is) exposed.

Refrigerate for 1 ½ to 2 hours.

[Optional: For added effect, you can take a syringe and inject some red food coloring (or strawberry preserves) into the eyeball so that when someone bites down on it, 'blood' comes out.].