Celebrate Halloween with a recipe that is a cross between a dessert and a craft – it’s an edible decoration! Try a variety of Halloween cookie cutter designs and use different candy colors. This is a recipe your kids are going to enjoy making! Spellbound Treats make great decorations or a fun treat to send home with your Halloween party guests.
You will need
• Halloween cookie cutters, metal or copper
• Heavy duty aluminum foil
• Cookie sheet or jelly roll pan
• Vegetable oil (or canola oil)
• Assorted hard candies, like Jolly Ranchers
• Wooden skewer
• 1/8” wide ribbon or string
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Line the sheet pan with foil or parchment. Take another small piece of foil and place the cookie cutter on the foil. Then fold the foil up the outside and into the inside of the cookie cutter shape. This will prevent the candy from melting out of the cutter.
3. Brush the foiled lined shape with oil. Place lined cutters on the lined sheet pan.
4. Choose the colored candy you want for each cutter. You can even mix colors! Crush the candy and arrange pieces in a single layer on the foil bottom inside the lined cutter. Place the sheet pan in the oven and bake for 5 to 10 minutes (depending on your oven, the size of your cutters and how crushed your candy is) until the candy melts and spreads.
5. Remove from the oven, cool for a minute or two, and use the wooden skewer to poke a hole near the top of the candy shape. Dipping the end of the skewer in oil helps prevent the skewer from sticking to the candy.
6. Continue to cool and then pop the candy out of the cutter and peel off the foil.
7. Cut a length of ribbon and thread through the hole.
sherry b dessert studio is located at 65 King Street in Chappaqua. The studio, with take-out and eat-in options, is owed by Chef Sherry Blockinger who combines her love of American desserts and French technique. Custom orders available. 238-8300. sherryb.com.
