Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Pumpkin Seeds

We had some freaking huge pumpkins to carve this year, plus I made a dinner-in-a-pumpkin so we had a TON of seeds to roast. I did half salty and half sweet. The sweet are SO yummy. I got the recipe from a friend of mine. Here's a LINK to the recipe but I'll put it here too.

Sugar and Spice Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
1 cup raw pumpkin seeds, rinsed and dried
6 tablespoons white sugar, divided
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Spread pumpkin seeds in a single layer on a baking sheet. Toast for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, until dry and toasted. Larger seeds may take longer.
In a large bowl, stir together 2 tablespoons of white sugar, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Set aside. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the pumpkin seeds and sprinkle the remaining sugar over them. Stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar melts, about 45 seconds. Pour seeds into the bowl with the spiced sugar and stir until coated. Allow to cool before serving. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.

Savory Pumpkin Seeds
Happy Halloween!

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Haunted Halloween Tricky Treats

I know that there are alot of photos here but just describing these foods with words just doesn't cut it. Here are the Mummy Calzones that I made. Fun stuff but I should have made like 2 more!
Guacamole dip with carrot fingers! Can't get enough of guacamole dip!! made by Natalie H.
I bought these fabulous jell-o creepy hand molds this year. So fun! I put sour cream and crushed pineapple in green jell-o but it was too pastel-y green so I added a few drops of yellow food coloring in it to make it more...slimy color. EECK!
Aren't these super fun spider web cupcakes? But who made them? Who gets the credit? Sorry! I can't remember!
Finger bread sticks. YUM!! Made by Kristin
Pumpkin dough nuts. Cute, cute! Made by Maria
I made (made?! they were really frozen. So I guess I re-heated) these mini corn dogs cut in half with the intent to be eye balls but I don't think that was achieved but there were still tasty. You can't really screw up corn dogs, huh?