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                                                               Today brings us to Friday, and our fifth Halloween recipe.  This recipe is for your adult Halloween party, although if you have kids that like deviled eggs, these eyes may just disappear before yours.  

 These devilled eggs are gruesome looking but really taste great and they will be the hit of the party.  For the best bloodshot effect serve them within 2 hours of preparation.

Bloodshot Ghoul Eyes

 What You Need:

• 3 Cup of hot water
• 2 Tablespoon red food coloring
• 1 Tablespoon of white vinegar
• 6 hard boiled eggs, cracked but not peeled
• 1/3 Cup of Kraft mayonnaise (it’s gluten-free)
• 1/4 Cup of green onions, chopped fine
• 2 Tablespoon cilantro, minced
• 2 teaspoon gluten-free Dijon style mustard
• 12 ripe olives, sliced
• 1 teaspoon ketchup Read the rest of this entry »

Today, I have a main dish entree for your Halloween party. 

These witches fingers will really “grab” your guest’s attention.  The Cajun seasoning gives these strips a bold taste while the cornflake covering helps to keep the chicken moist during baking. 

These chicken fingers are really good, but if you are making them for children leave out the cajun seasoning, as it may be too much bite. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is another recipe for you to use at your Halloween Get-Together.  If you’re looking for a recipe for a scary punch you can find the recipe for Icy Spiders in my Punch here. 

There are other Halloween recipes on this site, just go to the recipes page above and look for Halloween.

Halloween Mini Rounds Read the rest of this entry »

I’m back today with another Halloween recipe for you.  Today’s recipe is Ghoulishly Good Banana Chunks and these treats are easy enough to have your little goblins help make them.

Ghoulishly Good Gluten-free  

Banana Chunks Read the rest of this entry »

I really can’t believe that we are almost to the end of October and Halloween is just next week. 

Are you planning any Halloween parties or going to any parties?  My hubby and I will be hosting our two, 4 year old granddaughters next Saturday night for a sleepover at Granny and Granddad’s house. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re having a gluten free halloween party you’re definately going to be needing some drinks to go with all that yummy food and candy.  I came across a really good punch that just happens to gluten free and really tasty.  And for the kids it’s a fun and spooky addition to the party.

 Icy Spiders in My Punch

What you need:

• 12 gummy spiders
• 1 surgical glove (non powdered)
• 1 gallon green fruit punch (Walmart’s Great Value Kiwi Strawberry brand) is a gluten free brand
• 1 (2 liter bottle) ginger ale
• 1 quart Raspberry Sherbet (Edy’s Brand) is gluten free

Fill an ice cube tray 2/3 full of water*.  Add a gummy spider to each section of the ice cube tray.  Place in the freezer for at least 4 hours or until solid.  Fill the surgical glove with water and tie the end closed.  Place the glove in the freezer and freeze at least 4 hours until frozen or overnight.  Pour the fruit punch into a 7 quart punch bowl.  Stir in the ginger ale until well combined then add the raspberry sherbet.  Place the frozen spider ice cubes into the punch.  Remove the glove from the frozen ice hand and lay that in the middle of the punch.

Kids love the scary aspect of this punch along with its great taste.  You can use any flavor or color of gluten free fruit punch you like and lemon lime soda can be used in place of the ginger ale, if you prefer.

* If you don’t want the ice to water down your punch, use ginger ale in the ice cube tray and surgical glove instead of water.

Makes approximately 32 servings. 

Mary Blackburn

Living Guten Free

Today I have another recipe to make your gluten-free Halloween delicious.  I also have some more candy that I’ve found to be gluten-free.

• All Just Born Brand candies are gluten free.  That includes their Peep brand marshmellow candies, (all varieties), Mike & Ike, Teenie Beanie Jelly Beans and more.
• M & M’s, all brands except the krispy kind
• Skittles
• Tootsie Roll Industries, posts that all their candies are gluten free
• as does Ferrara Pan Candy Company
• Laffy Taffy
• Betty Crocker Halloween Fruit Flavored snacks
• Heath Milk Chocolate English Toffee small size bars
• Swedish Fish
• Snickers Bars fun size and minis
• Wonka Giant Pixy Stix
• Starburst Fruit Chews
• and Double Bubble Bubble Gum

As I come across more I’ll let you know here.

Here is another homemade treat for your tricksters.

                                            Wickedly Good Popcorn Balls

1. 4 quarts popcorn, popped
2. 2 (1 oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate
3. 2 cups granulated sugar
4. 1/2 cup light corn syrup
5. 1 cup of water

Preset the oven to 200 degrees.  Place popcorn into a large heat proof bowl and place it in the oven to keep it warm.  Put the chocolate into a heavy saucepan over low heat.  Stir constantly, and heat the chocolate for 5 minutes or until completely melted.  Stir in the sugar and corn syrup until well blended.  Add the water and stir to blend in.

Adjust the heat to medium and stir continuously until it comes to a steady boil.  Continue cooking until a candy thermometer reaches 250 degrees or hard ball stage.

Remove the popcorn from the oven and pour the chocolate mixture over the popcorn stirring to evenly coat popcorn.  When the mixture cools enough to be handled, form it into 3 inch balls.  Place popcorn balls on a wire rack to cool.

These popcorn balls are a good change from the regular popcorn balls we all grew up with.  When forming these balls, dip your hand into cold water to keep the popcorn from sticking to your hands.  Wrap the popcorn balls in plastic wrap or for a fancier look, pretty orange and black cellophane paper found at most craft stores, and tie the ends with a halloween ribbon.

We’ll be searching the aisles at the grocery store for more gluten free candy all this week, so check back often.

Mary Blackburn

Living Gluten Free

Having Celiac Disease or a gluten intollerance as an adult is inconvenient, but when you have a gluten free child, Read the rest of this entry »