Haunted Graveyard Food

HALLOWEEN HUMMUS GRAVEYARD

Steps:

• Drop garlic in proscessor bowl while machine is running.
• Process until minced.
• Add chickpeas, olive oil, tahini, salt, cumin and 4 tablespoons lemon juice.
• Process until smooth. Mixture should be thick enough to hold up the crackers and broccoli. If it is too thick, add the extra lemon juice.
• Spread in a 8x8 pyrex or similar sized dish.
• Line the sides with pretzels to make a fence around the perimeter as well as a walkway. Add the broccoli and parsley to look like trees and bushes. Place the crackers to look like tombstones.

GHOSTS IN THE GRAVEYARD

Steps:

• Beat pudding mixes and milk in large bowl with whisk 2 min. Let stand 5 min. Stir in 3 cups COOL WHIP and half the cookie crumbs. Spread into 13x9-inch dish; sprinkle with remaining crumbs.
• Refrigerate 1 hour. Meanwhile, decorate sandwich cookies with decorating gel to resemble tombstones.
• Insert decorated cookies into top of dessert just before serving. Add candies. Drop large spoonfuls of remaining COOL WHIP onto dessert to resemble ghosts.

HAUNTED GRAVEYARD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°. Grease 12-inch pizza pan. Stir powdered sugar, margarine, vanilla and egg in medium bowl until well blended. Stir in baking mix until soft dough forms. Pat dough in pan. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until light golden. Cool completely.
• Stir food color into frosting; spread over cookie. Sprinkle crushed chocolate cookies on half of frosted cookie.
• Use pretzels to form fence and tree; add candy corn for leaves. Arrange cookie halves in frosting for tombstones. Flatten gumdrops; cut to form bat, moon and ghost and place on cookie. Add pumpkins and gummy worms.

HAUNTED GRAVEYARD PUDDING

Steps:

• Pour cold milk into a large bowl; add pudding mix and stir together; beat with a wire whisk for several minutes.
• Stir in half of the crushed Oreos.
• Spoon mixture into an oblong casserole dish or baking pan.
• Sprinkle top of pudding with the rest of the Oreo cookies.
• Refrigerate for 1 hour, or until ready to serve.
• Just prior to serving, use the decorator icing or gel to write on the tops of the cookies some messages like"RIP" and stick them partway into the pudding, slightly bent.
• Make ghosts with the can of whipped cream, basically as a big blob, with 2 chocolate chips stuck in for the eyes.
• Place the candy pumpkins around on top of the crushed cookies, and sprinkle with jimmies to fill in the empty spots.
• Serve chilled.