Halloween Ideas

Hints for halloween fun

Take a teaspoon or so of black paste for food and stir it into any basic sugar cookie recipe. The dough will turn a rich black that`s perfect for making bat cookies. Regular green food coloring does nice things to Halloween Jello. Make a bowl of orange jello and when it`s semi-solid drip several drops of green coloring onto the surface and stir them in gently. They`ll swirl into dark demonic tornado clouds - a dab of back whipped cream made by adding more of that black paste to partially whipped cream makes a pleasantly disgusting finishing touch. Scrambled eggs feel and look much more like brains than cold spaghetti - add a few drops of green, red and blue food coloring as you`re beating the eggs and the final product will frighten even the most hardened child. A drop of two of red coloring turn grapefruit sections pale pink making them into very convincing thumbs. Drop a pint of cherry tomatoes into a pot of boiling water, blanch them for a minute and then drain and slip off their skins. Instant bloody eyeballs. If you stir baking soda into vinegar, it`ll foam right out of the glass. You can also shake salt over a lighted jack o lantern candle and make blue sparks.