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Use your favourite gingerbread cookie recipe to make these fun Halloween treats. I like this recipe from Kraft Canada for  Gingerbread People . Ingredients: 3/4 cup butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 package (4 servings) butterscotch instant pudding  2 eggs 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tbsp ground ginger 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg Tube white icing Directions: Beat butter, sugar and dry pudding mix in large bowl with mixer until light and fluffy. Blend in eggs. Mix all remaining ingredients except icing.  Gradually add to pudding mixture, beating well after each addition.  Refrigerate 15 min. Heat oven to 350°F.  Cut into gingerbread-man shapes. Place, 2 inches apart, on baking sheets sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 10 to 12 min. or until edges are lightly browned. Cool completely.  Use icing to draw skeletons on the gingerbread cookies. For mummies draw lines with the icing, covering the whole cookie place mini chocolate chips for eyes. Enjo

Use your old jars to make these easy Halloween decorations. This is a good craft for kids or adults and adds to the Halloween ambiance. Cost: Under $5.00 Time: About 20 minutes Material Mason jars Black, white and orange construction paper Felt or other fabric to cover jars Elastics Twine Flameless candles Glue stick Directions: Cut a strip of white or orange paper to the size of your jar Using the black paper cut out Halloween shapes, cat, pumpkin, witch etc.  Glue a Halloween shape onto the strip of white or orange paper Roll paper with the shape facing out, place in the jar. Turn on the flameless candle place in the jar, replace the lid. Cut a large circle of the fabric. Place fabric on top of the jar, secure with an elastic then tie the twine to cover the elastic.

On the left soaked in beer and on the right soaked in water, both delicious! I wasn't going to post any more football themed food but these pizza dough pretzels were too good not to share! I used this recipe from  Hungry Happenings . It was easy to make and delicious. All you need is Pillsbury pizza dough, baking soda, sea salt and beer or water to soak the dough in. And mustard for dipping! Definitely worth trying.

Last football season I started my fun with football themed food . This is what I've made so far this year. Avocado dip: 2 avocados 1/2 cup chopped cherry tomatoes 1/2 cup sour cream 1 tbsp lemon juice salt and pepper to taste Directions: Cut avocados in half, remove pits and spoon into a medium bowl. Mix until fairly smooth. Stir in tomatoes, sour cream and lemon juice. Add salt and pepper to taste. Touchdown dip: Salsa Avocado dip 2 red cherry tomatoes cut in half 2 yellow cherry tomatoes cut in half 2 tbsp sour cream Tortilla chips Directions: Spoon half the salsa into an oval or rectangular dish (slant the dish towards you to keep the salsa from spreading. Spoon the avocado dip into the dish, leaving room for the remaining salsa on the other end of the dish. Add the remaining salsa to the dish. Spoon the sour cream into a sandwich bag. Cut one corner of the sandwich bag. Pipe the sour cream across the avocado dip to look like a f

We tell our kids not to play with their food but potato stamps are a great exception to the rule. They get to have fun, make a mess and play with food all while working on their letter recognition and spelling. Material: Potatoes  Paper Paint and paintbrush Directions: Wash potatoes and cut into chunks (you can make about 3 stamps out of a large potato) Use a small knife to outline and cut out the letters Set out paint, paintbrushes and stamps (for less mess and better stamps paint the stamps with a paintbrush before stamping)  Spell out and stamp your child's name and favorite words Happy stamping!

Glazed cranberry muffin donut with iced coffee I found the idea for baked donuts  on the back if a box of Krusteaze Cranberry muffins, they were delicious and as easy as making muffins! Directions: Prepare muffin mix with 3/4 cup of water Pour muffin mix into a resealable freezer bag, cut one corner Pipe dough into circles on a greased baking sheet Bake at 350º for 7 minutes Decorate: Glazed: whisk together icing sugar and milk. Drizzle over the donuts Sprinkles: Sprinkle chocolate or multi-colored sprinkles on the donuts before baking and one with sprinkles Now...what else can I make into a donut...

Every year on September 1st I get the urge to take out the comfy sweaters, jeans and the slow cooker! Today it was far from sweater weather but over cast so slow cooker chicken didn't feel out of place.  I love this recipe, which is a modified version of this Kraft recipe slow cooker chicken "osso buco" . You can add any veggies to it and prep is as simple as cutting and dumping.  Slow Cooker Saucy Tomato Chicken Ingredients: 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts 1 large carrot finely chopped 1 celery stalk finely chopped 1 can garlic and olive oil diced tomatoes 2 tbsp sun dried tomato and oregano dressing 1 tsp lemon juice 1/4 cup flour pepper Directions:   Cut chicken breasts into chunks. Place chicken, flour and pepper into slow cooker, stir to coat Add the rest of the ingredients to the slow cooker, stir to combine Set the slow cooker to slow 4 hours. Cooking times are tricky, my slow cooker is big and cooks fa