Halloween Recipes Pumpkin Shells

Halloween Recipe Ingredients:
Makes about 3 dozen miniature pasties

• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1 lb. can pumpkin(or 2 cups fresh, roasted in the oven then pressed through a strainer)
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. ginger
• 1/4 tsp. cloves
• 1 2/3 cups evap. milk (1 can)
• 1/2 tsp. allspice
• 9 oz pie crust pastry (enough for two single standard pie crusts)

Halloween Recipes Procedure:

Bake the pie filling only (no crust) in a large greased casserole dish in hot oven (425F) for 15 minutes. Keep oven door closed and reduce temp to moderate (350 degrees F/180 degress Celsuis) and continue baking for 45 minutes or until table knife inserted in center of dish comes out clean. Cool on wire rack. Make or purchase pie crust pastry. Roll thin and cut into circles approx 4" in diameter. Put a spoonful of the cool pumpkin mixture towards one side of the center of the circle. Fold over the crust into a half-circle and firmly crimp the edges closed. Slice three small slits in the top for venting, place on a greased cookie sheet, and bake only until crust is a light golden-brown.

The pumpkin filling will begin to make the crust soggy, so best baked the day of serving. Can be made ahead by freezing the assembled pasties unbaked on cookie sheets, then thawed and baked the day of serving. Great served at room-temperature, then you don't have to worry about your guests possibly burning their mouths from the steaming hot pumpkin inside!

Halloween Recipes Eerie Eyeballs

Halloween Recipe Ingredients:



Yields approximately 9 dozen bite-sized eyeballs

• 3 oz (small box) lemon gelatin (can be sugar-free)


• 1 cup hot water


• 1/2 cup miniature marshmallows


• 1 cup pineapple juice


• 8 oz cream cheese (can be lowfat/Neufchatel)

Halloween Recipe Procedure:

Dissolve lemon gelatin in 1 cup water in double boiler, add marshmallows and stir to melt. Remove from heat. Add pineapple juice and cream cheese. Beat until well blended. Cool slightly. If you have a truffle candy mold or round ice cube trays, spary them with non-stick cooking spray first, then pour the mixture in the molds and leave to set in the fridge. Otherwise pour into a deep ceramic dish and chill until thickened or firm enough for scooping into eyeballs. Using a melonballer, scoop full balls of the mixture and set aside for decoration. To decorate, use liquid food coloring and an old detail paintbrush and get creative. You will need black food coloring for the pupils. Also, if you are in a hurry, instead of painting the colored irises, you can carefully dip the ball in a small pool of food coloring to approximate the iris, but still paint on the pupils. Note: if you are using the melonballer method, you might need to add one package of plain gelatin to your mixture. The molds work fine with just the lemon gelatin to make gently squishy eyeballs.