Mini Haunted House Recipes

Steps:

• On work surface or serving plate, assemble house with 8 cinnamon graham crackers as walls and chocolate frosting as mortar. Frost tops of remaining 4 graham crackers; place on house for roof. Place pumpkin seeds on frosted roof for shingles. Use chocolate frosting to attach licorice pieces to outline house. Use more chocolate frosting to attach shortbread cookie crisps on house for windows. In small bowl, mix white frosting and orange food color. Frost shortbread cookie windows. With small round tip, pipe chocolate frosting for window panes. Pipe RIP on remaining shortbread crisps.
• Use chocolate frosting to attach fudge-covered graham cracker to house for door. Use frosting to attach jelly bean for door handle and 3 pieces candy corn above door. Sprinkle plain and chocolate crumbs around house. Place candy rocks in front of house for walkway. Use chocolate frosting to stand RIP shortbread next to house. Use chocolate frosting to stand up chocolate cookie sticks around house for fence. Decorate with candy pumpkins and bone sprinkles.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°. Line a 13x9-in. baking pan with foil, letting ends extend up sides. In a large heavy saucepan, combine sugars, butter, water and, if desired, coffee granules; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; add chocolate chips and stir until melted. Cool slightly., Whisk eggs until foamy, about 3 minutes. Add vanilla; gradually whisk in chocolate mixture. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt; stir into chocolate mixture., Pour into prepared pan. Bake on a lower oven rack until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs (do not overbake), 30-40 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack., Lifting with foil, remove brownies from pan; let cool completely. Discard foil. Cut off corners of brownie to resemble a house. If desired, cut scraps into pumpkins and ghosts using cookie cutters. Tint frosting as desired with paste food coloring. Decorate brownie house with frosting and candies.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°. Grease 12-inch pizza pan. Stir powdered sugar, margarine, vanilla and egg in medium bowl until well blended. Stir in baking mix until soft dough forms. Pat dough in pan. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until light golden. Cool completely.
• Stir food color into frosting; spread over cookie. Sprinkle crushed chocolate cookies on half of frosted cookie.
• Use pretzels to form fence and tree; add candy corn for leaves. Arrange cookie halves in frosting for tombstones. Flatten gumdrops; cut to form bat, moon and ghost and place on cookie. Add pumpkins and gummy worms.