Goblin Grins | Fried Yam Bat Sandwich | Halloween pops | Pumpkin Bites
Goblin Grins
Ingredients:
- Pea pod-1
- Red bell pepper-1
- Slivered almonds
Instructions:
- Take a pea pod and use knife to cut a portion of it at one side.
- Use your hand and knife together to make a tongue shape from a red bell pepper. Then put in the top of the red pepper in the pea pod through the opening of the pea pod.
- Decorate this with few slivered almonds. It should look like teeth.
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Fried Yam Bat Sandwich
Ingredients (organic when possible):
- Yams
- Mini bead loaf in dark color (pumpernickel or whole wheat)
- 3. Long and flat slices of sandwich pickles.
- 4. Red leaf lettuce
- 5. Mustard, Ketchup, eggless mayo such as veganaise
- 6. Vegetable oil
Instructions
- Prep yams.
- Slice yams into 1/8” – 1/4” thick disks after washing and peeling it. A mandolin slicer can make your job easier.
- Use mini cookie cutters to slice spooky shapes into the centre of the disks.
- If you want then you can always use a knife and your creativity to make some interesting shapes.
- Fry vegetable oil in the frying pan.
- Keep the shapes unchanged inside the discs when you fry them on a medium temperature.
- Fry until they can be pierced with fork.
- It should not take more than 1 minute on each side.
- It should look beautiful and retain its color. Be careful and don’t overcook.
- Try to enhance its flavor. Slice pickles in half before you assemble them.
- Make layers properly to see each of the colors and ingredients.
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Halloween pops
Ingredients:
- Wooden pop sticks-6 or 8 inches
- Sticky worms
- Sugar-2 cups
- Corn syrup-2 to 3 cups
- Water-2 to 3 cups
- vanilla extract- 1/4 teaspoon
- Lemon, orange, or cherry extract- 1/4 teaspoon
- Orange food coloring- Few drops
Instructions:
- Take a baking pan and lay a silicone sheet on it.
- Make a gummy worm triangle by placing sticks on the pan.
- Put 3 pieces of gooey worms on top of the tip of each stick.
- Use a small, dirt free and dry saucepan to blend sugar, corn syrup and water.
- Boil it on a high temperature until the temperature of the pan reaches 305 degree F.
- Use a pastry brush, dipped in water to wash any sugar crystals which are stuck at the sides of the pan.
- When the temperature reaches 305 degree F then quickly remove the pan from heat and dip its bottom part into an ice bath for few seconds.
- You should be careful about the candy, it should not be cooked.
- Use a wooden spoon to stir tenderly after adding extracts and food coloring. Colors should be equally distributed.
- Put the syrup over the sticky gummy worms, just over the stick.
- Cool the candy for approximately 20 minutes.
- Serve it immediately after lifting the silicone.
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Pumpkin Bites
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin or butternut squash- 1 pound.
- Dense German style rye or pimpernickle bread- 6 thin slices
- Basil Pesto- ½ cup
- Small sprigs watercress- 24
Instructions:
- Take a 1¼ inch round cookie cutter.
- At first cut 24 separate balls from pumpkin piece or butternut squash.
- Steam until tender for approximately 8 minutes.
- Cool it.
- Then cut out 6 rounds from each slice of bread and spread each round with ½ teaspoon pesto.
- Use pumpkin balls as toppings (on top of pesto).
- Pierce each pumpkin ball once using a toothpick and attach watercress spring in hole.
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