Yesterday, my kids and a few friends spent the morning making a creepy, delicious Halloween feast. They had at least as much fun making the food as they did eating it. I’m going to post the recipes in a series of blogs over the next week. All of the ideas are from a Pillsbury Halloween magazine. Thanks for the great ideas Pillsbury!
These Gobble-up Ghosts were fun to make and taste as good as they look.
You’ll need pretzel sticks, some fruit roll-ups, a package or two of white vanilla baking chips or almond bark and some mini chocolate chips.
Have your child line a cookie sheet with waxed or parchment paper. Then, have them unroll the fruit snacks and cut them into pieces around 1 inch long. Show them how to cut a 3/4 inch fringe on the long side of the strip. Then, have them stretch and wrap the uncut end of the fruit roll-up around the end of a pretzel stick to form a broom. Have them space the brooms out on the waxed paper.
Melt the white chocolate according to the directions (I like to use the microwave so I don’t burn it) and help your child drop the melted chocolate onto the pretzels to look like ghosts. Remind them that they look better if they’re NOT perfect. Ghosts are blobs, after all. Then, have them put mini chocolate chips on the ghosts to form faces. Be sure to do this before the white chocolate hardens.
Let them cool and harden and peel them from the paper. Voila! Try to share them with your kids, even if you want to gobble them all up yourself. I know I couldn’t resist them.
Coming soon: Creepy Meatball Caterpillars, Yummy Hot Dog Mummies and Marshmallow Monsters
Tags: almond bark, fun, ghosts, halloween, kids, party treats, pretzels, treat, white chocolate
Creative Mama 
October 17, 2009 at 12:40 am |
This is hilarious! How cool – my kids will love this treat!