Hot Wassail

Nothing says fall like a glass of hot wassail. So delicious. 

Ingredients 

2 cups orange juice

2 cups pineapple juice

2 quarts apple cider

3/4 cup lemon juice

1 tsp whole cloves

1 cups sugar

1 cinnamon stick, broken

Directions

1. Place all ingredients in a stock pot and simmer for 20 min

2. Remove cloves and cinnamon stick before serving

**Also great in a crock pot or beverage warmer 

Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Chips

 

Ingredients and Directions

1. Use cookie cutters to cut out chip shapes from large tortillas

2. In a bowl, mix together 1/3 cup sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon

3. Arrange chips on a baking sheet and spray with cooking oil, sprinkle cinnamon/sugar on each chip

4. Bake at 350 for 10-11 mins. 

5. In a food processor chop of various fruits into a salsa, add 1 tbsp apple jelly, 1 tbsp white sugar, 1 tsp brown sugar

Serve and enjoy. 

Salted Caramel Cheesecakes

 Ingredients and Directions

1. Combine 1 package softened cream cheese, 1 egg, 6 Tbsp Sugar, 1 Tbsp lemon juice, 1 tsp vanilla

2. Pour in greased silicone mold and top with graham cracker or vanilla wafer cookies 

3. Bake at 375 for 15-20 min

4. Let cool and turn out.  

5. Melt salted caramel candy melts and pour into cleaned molds, place cheesecake in each mold and allow chocolate to harden. Remove from mold and enjoy. 

Mini Pecan Pies

Same recipe as the large pie found here, but in a cute mini size. 

Ingredient

1 cup Karo Light Corn Syrup

3 eggs, beaten

3/4 cup sugar

2 Tbsp Brown sugar

2 Tbsp melted butter 

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecan halves, chopped 

1 pie crust (see here for pie crust recipe) 

Directions

1. Beat eggs in a bowl,  Add all other ingredients except pecans.  Mix until well combine

2. Cut out 12 mini pie crust circles and place in a muffin tin, add a spoon full of chopped pecans to each 

3. Carefully pour filling over pecans in each mini pie

4. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 hour

Roasted Squash Bisque

 

Ingredients and Instructions 

1. Slice open, scrape out seeds and place on a baking sheet the following: 

 1 pumpkin pie, 1 honeynut squash (found at Aldi, can omit if you can't find it) 1 acorn squace, 

1 butternut squash

2. Drizzle with oil and roast at 400 degrees until tender

3. Scrape squash out of the skins and place in a blender 

4. Add 4 cups of chicken stock and blend (you may need separate into a couple batches if all won't fit in your blender at once) 

5. In a stock pot brown 1 cup of diced Prosciutto

6. Add the blended squash mix

7.  Add 1 cup heavy whipping cream, 1 tsp sage, 1 tsp rosemary, 1 tsp salt (or to taste), 1/2 tsp poultry seasoning 

8. Serve and enjoy. 

Halloween Party Food Ideas

Here are the ideas I shared today on Great Day KC Fox 4. 

Sweet Potato Shepards Pies

1. In a skillet brown 1lb ground beef and drain fat

2. Add 1 tsp dried onion, 1 tsp streak seasoning, 1 Tbsp spicy yellow mustard, 1 Tbsp Worcester sauce, 1/2 cup water, 1 tsp beef boulion, 1 Tbsp corn starch and salt to taste

3. Simmer until sauce thickens

4. Meanwhile, peel, dice and boil 2 sweet potatoes until tender

5. Mix sweet potatoes with a little milk until they are smooth mashed potoatoes

6. Place 1/4 cup meat mixture in the bottom of some baking cups, then add some mashed potatoes on top, smooth out and use a toothpick to draw pumpkin lines

7. Cut black olives into Jack-o-lantern faces and place on top.  

8. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 min.  

9.  Add a small piece of green onion for pumpkin stem

Caramel Apple Pretzel Bites

1. Place pretzels on a plate or baking sheet. 

2. Cut caramel squares in half and place on pretzels

3. Either bake or microwave until caramel is melty

4. Place an apple piece on the melted caramel. 

5. Allow to cool and then drizzle with white chocolate. 

Spiderweb Cupcakes

1. Bake and frost the cupcakes of your choice

2. Microwave a cup of mini marshmallows for 30 sec

3. Stir, use fingers to grab some marshmallow and stretch is out then place over each cupcake

4. Add plastic or gummy spiders 

Fall Flavored Hot Chocolate Mixes 

1. In a very large mixing bowl combine: 1 lb powdered sugar plus 2 cups, 1 box chocolate Nesquick, 1 container plain powdered coffee creamer, 1 quart box powdered milk, 1 container cocoa powder, 1 jar pumpkin pie spice. 

2.  Store in a container and add to hot water for hot cocoa

1. In a very large mixing bowl combine: 1 lb powdered sugar, 1 box chocolate Nesquick, 1 container caramel flavored powdered coffee creamer, 1 quart box powdered milk, 1 container cocoa powder, 1 package of freeze dried apples (finely crushed into a powder in a food processor 

2.  Store in a container and add to hot water for hot cocoa

Watch the segment here

Spooktacular Halloween Feast

 Jack-o-lantern Pasties 

Ingredients

2 refrigerated package of 2 pie crusts (or 2 recipe homemade pie crust)

1/2 lb cube steak

1 carrot

1/2 onion

1 potato 

2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 

Salt and Pepper to taste

1 cup water

2 tsp beef bullion (or 2 cubes) 

1 tbsp cornstarch

1 tsp kitchen bouquet 

Directions: 

1. In a food processor mince potato, carrot, and onion. Then add beef and mince again.

2. Add Worcestershire and salt and pepper and pulse until well mixed 

3. I’m a saucepan combine water, bullion, cornstarch and kitchen bouquet. Whisk over medium heat until boiling and let it thicken into a gravy. 

4.Mix meat mixture and gravy in a bowl 

5. Unroll pie crust and cut 8 tops crusts and 8 bottoms bottom crusts

6.  Place about 1/3 cup meat mixture on the bottom crust, brush a little water on the pie crust edge to help with sealing.  Place the top crust on and seal edges

6. Brush top with milk

7. Bake at 400 for 30-40 min until crust is fully cooked. 

Jello Brains with Eyeballs

Ingredients

Brain Jello mold

2 large packages of jello (flavors that will create a light pinky peachy color)

2 cups boiling water

2 cups ice water

9-10 rambutans (fruit)

18-20 blueberries

Strawberry Syrup (optional) 

Directions

1. Fully Dissolve jello in boiling water (stirring), add ice water and mix

2. Pour into jello mold and allow to set in the refrigerator (a couple of hours) 

3. Peel rambutans, cut in half long ways and remove seed (some seed shell may remain that ok)

4. Place a blueberry in each seed cavity 

5. When jello is set remove onto a platter (setting the mold in hot water for a couple seconds can help release the jello from the mold)

6. Arrange "eyes" around the brains and drizzle strawberry syrup if desired for extra spooky.