Pumpkin Witches Recipes

WITCHES' BREW

Steps:

• To make the frozen hand: Wash and rinse the outside of a rubber glove. Turn glove inside out and set aside. In a 4 cup measuring cup, combine the thawed raspberries and cranberry juice.
• Pour 2 cups of the raspberry mixture into a small saucepan. Sprinkle the gelatin over and let stand 2 minutes. Warm over low heat, stirring constantly, just until gelatin dissolves. Mix back into the reserved raspberry mixture in the measuring cup.
• Pour raspberry mixture into the inverted glove. Gather up the top of the glove and tie securely with kitchen twine. Freeze until solid, or several days if possible.
• To serve: Carefully cut glove away from frozen hand. Place frozen hand, palm side up, leaning against side of a large punch bowl. Pour in ginger ale and sparkling cider. Garnish with gummy snakes.

SPOOKY WITCHES' FINGERS

Steps:

• Combine the butter, sugar, egg, almond extract, and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl. Beat together with an electric mixer; gradually add the flour, baking powder, and salt, continually beating; refrigerate 20 to 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease baking sheets.
• Remove dough from refrigerator in small amounts. Scoop 1 heaping teaspoon at a time onto a piece of waxed paper. Use the waxed paper to roll the dough into a thin finger-shaped cookie. Press one almond into one end of each cookie to give the appearance of a long fingernail. Squeeze cookie near the tip and again near the center of each to give the impression of knuckles. You can also cut into the dough with a sharp knife at the same points to help give a more finger-like appearance. Arrange the shaped cookies on the baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the cookies are slightly golden in color, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Remove the almond from the end of each cookie; squeeze a small amount of red decorating gel into the cavity; replace the almond to cause the gel to ooze out around the tip of the cookie.

OLD WITCHES MAGIC PUMPKIN NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Beat together eggs, oil, water and pumpkin.
• Add flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, raisins and walnuts.
• Mix and pour into 2 loaf pans.
• Bake at 350 for 1 1/4 hours.
• Cool, then remove from pans.
• Beat together cream cheese, butter, vanilla and icing sugar.
• Spread over cakes.
• Sprinkle with chopped walnuts if desired.

AUTUMN PUMPKIN-WITCHES COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Spray baking sheet or line it with parchment.
• In large bowl, combine pumpkin, sugar, oil, and egg.
• In separate bowl, sift flour; add ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
• Add in pumpkin mixture, blending well; add in pumpkin seeds.
• Drop small scoops of dough (approx. 1 1/8 inches) on to sheet, approx 2" apart.
• With wet fingers, swirl each mixture into wider, flat disk-like shape.
• Bake about 8 minutes, until edges begin to brown.
• Remove from oven and let cool.
• While cooling, make filling. You may use mixer or mix by hand.
• Mix sugar, butter, pumpkin, and vanilla. Whip it until spreadable.
• With about 1 tablespoon of filling, sandwich cooled cookies together.