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This menu will delight
all your hungry goblins, no matter what age!
| Jack-O-Lantern
Burgers
Broccoli Boo Salad Wormy Orange Punch Graveyard Cake Popcorn Hands |
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To create these pumpkin
faced burgers, all you need is a regular hamburger patty, buns, slices
of American Cheese and a sharp knife. Using a sharp knife, carve
eyes, nose and mouth out of each cheese slice. Be careful to keep
the design close to the center of the slice because the cheese will spread
when it melts. Once burgers are cooked, wait until just before serving
to add cheese slice. The cheese melts quickly on the hot burger,
so you have to be careful not to add it too soon, or you'll lose the effect.
Serve burgers open faced and allow people to add their own condiments once
they've gotten a good look.
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Broccoli Boo Salad
1 cup mayonnaise or
salad dressing
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons vinegar
8 cups broccoli florets
1 can (11 ounces)
mandarin oranges, drained 
1/2 cup chopped red
onion
6 to 8 bacon strips,
cooked and crumbled
1/2 cup raisins
In a small bowl, whisk
mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar. Cover and refrigerate for at least
2 hours. In a large bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Add
dressing and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate one hour.
Can be made a day ahead. To keep with the theme, add some fake plastic
spiders to the mix, or use as a garnish on each serving. But if your
goblins are quite small, you may want to just decorate the table with the
spiders rather than adding them to the salad.
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Wormy Orange Punch
1 gallon orange sherbert,
softened
1 quart pineapple
juice, chilled
1 liter lemon-lime
soda, chilled
Gummy Worms
Combine sherbert and
pineapple juice in a punch bowl; stir well. Add soda; stir until
sherbert is almost dissolved. Decorate bowl with gummy worms (and
add a worm to each cup) and serve immediately.
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Graveyard Cake
-CAKE-
2 cups all-purpose
flour
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking
soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup water
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1/2 cup sour cream
2 eggs
-FROSTING-
1/4 cup butter or
margarine
3 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons baking
cocoa
2 cups confectioners'
sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
extract
18 cream filled chocolate
sandwich cookies
-GARNISHES-
green and brown decorator's
icing or gel
9 cream-filled oval
vanilla sandwich cookies
1 cup whipped topping
pumpkin candles and
gummy worms
In
a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt; set aside.
In a saucepan, combine butter, water and cocoa; bring to a boil over medium
heat. Add to flour mixture; beat well. Beat in sour cream and
eggs. Pour into a greased 13x9x2 inch baking pan. Bake at 350º
for 35-38 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out
clean. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a saucepan,
combine butter, milk and cocoa; bring to a boil. Remove from heat;
stir in sugar and vanilla. Pour over warm cake. Crumble chocolate
cookies and sprinkle over frosting while still warm. Cool completely.
For tombstones, use
icing to decorate vanilla cookies with words or faces; press one end of
cookies into cake so they stand up like tombstones. For ghosts, make
mounds of whipped topping; use icing to add eyes and mouths as desired.
Refrigerate for at least one hour. Add pumpkins and gummy worms just
before serving.
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Popcorn Hands
As an additional decoration
for each place setting, place one piece of candy corn in the tip of each
finger of a disposable, clear plastic glove (can be found in hardware stores)
and fill glove with popcorn. Tie glove closed at wrist.
Many thanks to Vicki Schlechter and Taste of Home magazine for this wonderful theme idea!
