{Halloween Table} Yogurt Filled Chocolate Cups

• Semi-sweet chocolate chips
• White chocolate chips
• 2 cups vanilla yogurt
• Food coloring paste in two colors of your choice.

Either purchase pre-made chocolate cups, or make your own using a chocolate mold. Melt semi-sweet chocolate chips in the microwave for 1 minute. Stir and continue in 15 second intervals until smooth. Pour into chocolate molds and allow to harden completely, then remove from molds. Melt a few ounces of white chocolate chips in a small  plastic baggie. Cut off just the tip of one corner of the baggie. Pipe in all different directions, drizzling the white chocolate over the chocolate cups giving them a spiderweb effect. Allow to cool completely again.

Set aside a small amount of vanilla yogurt for the design in the center. Color it with desired paste. Color the remaining yogurt with a varying paste. Divide the larger portion of yogurt equally into prepared cups. Drop 1 teaspoon of the remaining color in the center of each yogurt cup. With a toothpick, swirl it around to create a design. To get the spiderweb design, swirl it heavily, but not so the colors are completely blended. Then cut through the color as if cutting a pie, dragging the color out slightly, creating the strings of a web.  

{Halloween Table} Layered Sherbet Potion

• 1 quart vanilla ice cream, softened
• ½ frozen blackberries
• ¼ cup milk
• 1 quart orange sherbet, softened
• ½ cup orange juice

In a blender, combine vanilla ice cream, blackberries, and milk. Cover and blend until smooth. In a bowl, combine sherbet and orange juice. Layer berry and sherbet mixtures into each of 6 chilled glasses. Serve immediately.

Serves 6

{Halloween Table} Spooky Brownie Bites

I don’t know if you are anything like me, but I love tasty and SUPER easy bites to add to a dessert table or any occasion really.  And, because you asked nicely, we are going to share another recipe from our Halloween table last week.

Spooky Brownie Bites

Bake a pan of brownies and let cool on a rack. When cool enough to handle, turn upside down and spill onto waxed paper. Cut the hard outer edge of brownies off and discard (if you have the willpower… I ate ours, he he).

With a large round scoop, spoon scoops of brownie out of the soft inside. Use your fingers to shape into a ball while pushing the crustier parts into the center.

After all the brownie is formed into balls, roll them into colored sugar or sprinkles. Store in a sealed container in the fridge. These can be made up to three days in advance, and they are still soft and yummy!

{Halloween Table} Monster Mash

By popular demand, here are some of the tasty treats from our Halloween table that we posted on Monday.  We promise all the “spooks” at your party will gobble up every bite of this delicious treat!

Monster Munch

• 7 Squares almond bark, divided
• 1 ½ cups pretzel sticks
• Orange food coloring
• 2 cups graham cereal
• ¾ cup Halloween M&M’s
• ¾ cup mini marshallows
• ½ cup chocolate sprinkles

Melt 2 sq. almond bark in small microwave bowl for 1 minute. Remove and stir. Repeat for intervals of 15 seconds until melted thoroughly.

Stir in pretzels until coated. Spread out on wax paper to set.

Repeat the melting instructions for the final 5 sq. of almond bark. Stir in orange food coloring until it’s a  bright orange.

Place cereal in a large bowl and cover with half the orange almond bark. Stir until coated evenly. Add chocolate pieces, marshmallows, and remaining bark. Stir in pretzel sticks. Spread out on waxed paper in small clusters. Sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles. Let set.

After it’s partially set, it can be divided into cups, or drizzled with melted chocolate or colored almond bark for a beautiful effect.

Makes about 5 cups.

Happy Munching!

 

 

{Halloween Table} Spooky Pear Ghosts

For more Halloween fun it doesn’t get much cuter than these ghostly haunts…

Ghoulish Pears

• 4 wooden skewers or craft sticks
• 4 medium pears
• 9 sq. almond bark or white chocolate chips
• Mini Chocolate chips or melted chocolate

Insert wooden sticks into the stem ends of pears. Melt bark according to package directions. Dip pear into bark. Spoon over the top to cover completely. Remove excess by scraping the pear bottom across the bowl rim. Place on waxed paper and allow to set for 1 minute. Decorate with mini chips. Repeat with remaining pears. Chill until firm.