Oreo Hot Chocolate

Happy Halloween! Check out our previous Halloween recipes, Graveyard Dirt Cake and Halloween Parfaits.

I had a tough time finding these Halloween Oreos, but I was glad I did, they were perfect for this cute dessert, and hot chocolate is great now that the weather is starting to get cold.

This recipe comes from Sweet C's Designs.

Ingredients:
-1/4 cup water
-2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
-1 1/2 cups milk
-4 oreos, crushed

This makes about 2 servings.

Crush the Oreos in a bag.

Mix all the ingredients in a saucepan. When I first put this
in the pan the cocoa powder didn't mix in well, but after
it was on the heat for a few minutes it all mixed in well.

Garnish with an Oreo.

I thought these pumpkin ones were cute.

The first time I made this, it got pretty thick, it was almost pudding like and was really hot, so I had to wait a while before I could drink it. This time it was really good, I only left it on the stove for about 2 minutes, and was a lot thinner.

Halloween Parfaits

I thought this recipe was really adorable and liked that it was so easy to make with a pretty presentation. Just mix the pudding, crush up the Oreo's and then layer.

This recipe comes from Frog Prince Paperie.

Other Halloween Recipes: Graveyard Dirt Cake.

Ingredients: 
-Vanilla Pudding
-Orange and black non-pariels
-Oreo's, crushed

Pudding, non-pariels, pudding, Oreo's, repeat. 

Enjoy!

Graveyard Dirt Cake

This is our first post for Halloween this year. Look for more holiday themed recipes later this week. The pictures for this were really cute. The name cake is a little misleading, it is more of a pudding, I ate it with a spoon. I liked that this was really themed without being too elaborate.

This idea comes from Lil Luna.

Ingredients:
-1 package Halloween Oreos
-8 oz. cream cheese
-1 cup powdered sugar
-1 large container cool whip
-1/2 cup butter or margarine
-2 boxes vanilla pudding
-3 cups milk
-1 tsp. vanilla
-square cookies
-candy corn pumpkins

Layer the bottom of the pan with crushed Oreos.
Save some though for the top.
I used the orange Halloween ones.

First beat the cream cheese and butter with a mixer.
Then fold in all the other cake ingredients.

Spread over the Oreo crust.
Sprinkle with more crushed Oreos.

Decorate with pumpkins and tombstone cookies.

I didn't put the pumpkin candies on until right before I took the pictures and served this, I think that was a good choice because a few hours later a lot of the orange had melted into the cake and turned it orange. I thought the orange Oreos looked good on top, and the cookies were easy to make this look like a graveyard.

Strawberry Ghosts

Happy Halloween!

J. and I started dating a little over two years ago in September 2010 so the first holiday when we were dating was Halloween. When we started dating I didn't have this blog and we didn't do nearly as much cooking, but we really liked to bake together. These Pillsbury ghost cookies were one of the first things we baked together so when I saw this recipe to make strawberry ghosts I knew that would be a perfect recipe for us to make together for Halloween. You can find the original recipe here.

If you're looking for this week's soup Wednesday post check here.

See another Vegetarian & Cooking! post with strawberries -- Chocolate Covered Strawberry Shots.

Ingredients:
-30 fresh strawberries
-8 ounces white baking chocolate, chopped
-1 teaspoon shortening
-1/8 teaspoon almond extract
-1/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

This wasn't the first time that I had melted chocolate, use the microwave on half power and microwave the chocolate for 30 seconds, stirring in between.

Dip all of the strawberries in the white chocolate and press two mini chocolate chip eyes onto each strawberry before the chocolate hardens. It helps to have a partner for this part. 

Strawberries with just eyes. 

Once all of the strawberries have eyes, freeze them for 5 minutes. 

Once the chocolate is hardened on the strawberries melt the remaining mini chocolate chips in the microwave and then draw on mouths using a toothpick or skewer.

Boo!

These were so fun to make and tasted delicious! Two more pictures before I go, I found this card in a specialty shop a few weeks ago and it was too cute not to buy.

A deliciously wicked Halloween indeed. Keep checking back daily because I have a lot of really great recipes lined up for November.