Cherry Pie Pops

Notice the bloody bones on the "I Dig You" heart :D

This recipe is VERY simple and quick! I used the Pillsbury ready made pie crusts. Roll out the dough and use a cookie cutter.

For my pie pops I used Duncan Hines LITE cherry pie filling.

I scooped a couple cherries into each heart and placed the lollipop stick in the center. I find the dough gets a little dry and does not seal well so I used a pastry brush and brushed water on the hearts edges.

Once I sealed the edges I double sealed it with a fork all the way around.

I baked them for 10 minutes at 450



Pancake Sausage Balls

Tonight I made a boooomb ass dinner. I made these...

Pancake sausage balls. All you need are three items....sausage, pancake mix and oil.

I mixed kosher salt into my sausage before making them into little meat balls and throwing them on the pan with some oil.

I recommend a wooden skewer for this but all I had were popsicle sticks so I cut one in half and used it for the dipping/frying. Before you dip the sausage balls into the pancake mix make sure you dab off all excess oil so the batter will stick. I recommend using less water for the batter so its thick enough to coat your meatballs.

I also find that using the buttermilk pancake mix was perfect because they fluffed up into beautiful balls once fried. You just dip them in your hot oil for several seconds until browned. I did not have a deep fryer so I poured oil in a pot, turned the burner on hi and fried them like that instead. Not really a good idea because it fucked up my pot BADLY...plus.....my smoke alarm went off three times.

WA LA! Beautiful right?

You can put powder sugar on them and eat them like that or dip them in syrup...which I did. I'm not a maple person. I found they tasted heavenly with butter syrup.

Breakfast for dinner is ALWAYS a good choice. I hate breakfast too but there's something about having it at night. It just feels wrong.



Deviled Spider Eggs

Classic Deviled Egg Recipe:

6 hard boiled eggs cut lengthwise

1/4 c mayo

1/2 tsp white vinegar

1/2 tsp mustard

1/8 tsp salt

1/4 tsp black pepper

black olives

paprika for garnish

Pop egg yolks out into a small bowl and mash with fork. Add mayo, mustard, salt, vinegar and pepper. Mix horoughly. Fill the empty egg white shells with the mixture using a pipe bag and sprinkle lightly with paprika. Next cut your olives in half like shown below. Cut lengthwise just like your eggs. Use one half for the spider body and cut up the other half in strips for the legs.

Aaaaaand WA LA! Spider eggs!



Hot pink zebra peanut butter kiss cookies

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/4 cup shortening (I prefer Crisco baking sticks, butter flavor)

1/4 cup butter, softened

2 tablespoons milk

1 egg

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Cream together the butter, shortening, and peanut butter. Mix in sugars, egg and milk. Add the remaining ingredients. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Roll the dough into 1 1/2 - 2 inch balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet at least three inches apart. Using a fork make a crisscross pattern by pressing down on the cookie. Dip the fork in flour between cookies to prevent the dough from sticking. Bake between 9-10 minutes. Let cookies cool several minutes before removing them from cookie sheet.

Make your balls then roll in pink sugar crystals. Next flatten them all out on the baking sheet. Not too flat though, you don't want them thin!!!

After the cookies are finished baking, immediately place a Hershey Hug in the middle of the cookie, pressing it down about 1/2 way. The Hug will keep it's shape as long as it's not touched (the chocolate will half melt from the heat of the cookie). Once the cookie and the chocolate cool completely, the Hug will become solid again and the cookies can be packaged or placed in an airtight container to store.

Aren't they beautiful?! They sparkle too! Their so cute I don't even want to eat them. This is by far the best peanut butter cookie recipe I have tried. I am sure they would have been much more better if I used Reeses peanut butter, but the store I went to did not have any. I used Jif reduced fat creamy. Honestly I do not know why I got reduced fat. With all the sugar and chocolates on these cookies a calorie less or two does not matter :/

Chocolate Mousse Torte

What you will need for this is Nilla Wafers, 4 semi sweet chocolate bakers squares, 2 3.9 oz. pks jello chocolate instant pudding, 2 cups + 2 tbs cold milk, 1 8 oz. tub cool whip, 1 8 oz. pkg Philadelphia cream cheese, 1/4 cup sugar, 3/4 fresh raspberries

Stand wafers around inside edge of 9-inch round pan lined with plastic wrap. Melt 3 chocolate squares as directed on package.

         

Beat pudding mixes and 2 cups milk in medium bowl with whisk 2 min. Add melted chocolate; mix well. Stir in 1 cup cool whip; pour into prepared pan.

Beat cream cheese, sugar and remaining milk with mixer until blended. Stir in 1 cup of the remaining cool whip; spread over pudding. Top with remaining wafers. Refrigerate 3 hours.         

Shave remaining chocolate square into curls. Invert torte onto plate; remove plastic wrap. Top torte with remaining cool whip, berries and chocolate curls.  

How to Make Chocolate Curls:

Warm chocolate square by microwaving it, unwrapped, on HIGH for a few seconds or just until you can smudge the chocolate with your thumb. Hold the square steadily and draw a vegetable peeler slowly over flat bottom of square, allowing a thin layer of chocolate to curl as it is peeled off the bottom of the square to make long, delicate curls. Or to make shorter curls, use the same technique using the narrow side of the chocolate square.

Isn't it beautiful? Yes....yes it is!

And it tasted AWESOME! Thumbs up to moi.



Cheese filled eyeballs

Another recipe out of my Halloween cook book. For this recipe you will need: 2lbs ground beef, black olives, 8 sticks string cheese, 3 eggs, 1 cup bread crumbs, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp pepper, marinara sauce.

Set oven to 375 degrees and spray a pan or baking dish with cooking spray to place the meatballs in. Now take your sticks of string cheese and cut each one into 6 pieces.

Mix all the ingredients listed above. Place the olives aside. You will use those at the end for the finishing touch. Once all your ingredients are mixed together, roll your meatballs and stick a piece of cheese into each one like so...

Bake for 20-25 minutes until fully cooked and place a olive slice in the center of each eyeball! Serve with marinara sauce!



Spooky spiderweb pizza

I made this recipe from my Betty Crocker Halloween cook book. Very easy and took practically no time at all. For this you will need the following: Refrigerated roll out pizza crust, pizza sauce, black olives, alfredo sauce, pepperoni, mozzarella cheese.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Spray your pizza pan with cooking spray and then roll out your dough. Then pop it in the oven for 8 minutes.

After it has baked for 8 minutes take it out and place your pepperoni and olives all over the pizza about 1 inch away from the crusts edge. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.

Then pour your pizza sauce on top of all the toppings.

 

Next get a piping bag or plastic ziplock bag and fill it with the alfredo sauce.

Cut the tip off the bag.

Then start in the middle by making circles all inside the pizza all the way around.

Take your knife and drag it through starting from the center. This creates the web look.

Do it all around the pizza until it looks like this.

Lastly place olive slices all over as to create the look of spiders!

Place in the oven for another 10-12 mins.



Zombie lady fingers

What you will need

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

Red or neon pink food coloring (I used neon because its more brighter)

Green and blue food coloring (I added the blue make streaks of different colored greens)

If you don't have one of the two extracts above no worries just double up on whichever one you have.

Instructions

Combine the sugar, egg, butter, almond extract, and vanilla in a bowl. Mix in the flour, and salt. Next add your food coloring into the dough mixture. I added neon green and neon blue and kneaded the dough around to create a streaking effect. DO NOT over knead or the colors will all mix into one. You want streaks. Cover and refrigerate the dough for about 30 minutes, or until it’s firm.

Preparing the almonds

Get your whole almonds and place them in a bowl. I used a teacup. If you do not have a paint brush then use a marinating brush like I did. I used a rubber bristle one. If you do not have one then just use a spoon and toss them around with the red food coloring. Remember a little dye goes a long way so don't drown them or the skin of the almond will get too soggy and wrinkle to where it peels off. When all the almonds are coated place them on a paper towel to dry.

Shaping the cookies

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

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Place on a cooking sheet lightly coated with no-stick cooking spray. I really don't think you need to spray the pan because these cookies are loaded with butter so their already lubed up for easy transfer when done. I normally use a sheet of wax paper every time anyway so you can also do that if you don't have cooking spray. Bake at 325` for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the cookies are a very light golden brown on the bottom. Let the cookies cool on a drying rack.

This is what the dough should look like if you want the different shades of green in it.

Dying the almonds a little at a time with only a few drops for each batch.

Setting to dry on the paper towel.

TA DA!!!!!!

I'm bitchin' in the kitchen. Rockin' my monster kitchen apron about to bake me up a batch of zombie fingers.