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How about some “eyeball” nibbles with your Halloween cocktails? This healthy hors d’oeuvre or snack uses a radish base for the white and “veins” of the eyeball. The pupil and iris are a pimento-stuffed olive. All you have to do is peel the radishes and insert the olives (buy large radishes and small olives). Fun…
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Harvest Pumpkin is like a pumpkin pie crossed with a blondie. Photo courtesy Sugardaddy’s. Last week we presented our favorite Halloween candy. This week, it’s Halloween brownies. They’re not decorated with ghosts or tombstones, and only one brownie—Pumpkin Harvest Blondie—has a related Halloween theme. But all 15 flavors of these delectable round brownies and…
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What Should You Hand Out On Halloween? We’ve already weighed in on what we think is the best Halloween candy for those who enjoy the best. For trick-or-treat candy for kids, MSNBC has nominated the five best and five worst of the popular kids’ candies. Their evaluation was based on the saturated fat and sugar…
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Candy apples are a Halloween favorite (photo © Sevenmarie Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0). Yesterday we published a recipe for caramel apples, also known as toffee apples. Today we present candy apples: the same concept, but with a hard, crackly red candy coating instead of the softer caramel. The practice of coating fruit in sugar syrup…
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Here’s a different approach to caramel apples (also called toffee apples*): Use pretty twigs instead of the same old predictable wood popsicle/craft sticks. The recipe comes from the book Sugar, Sugar: Every Recipe Has a Story, by Kimberly “Momma” Reiner and Jenna Sanz-Agero. The book will be published on October 25th, but you can order…
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