Spider Web Dip and Halloween Chips

1 package flour or corn tortillas (corn are easier to cut, but both are good)
Halloween cookie cutters
Grape seed oil for frying or olive oil spray for baking
Salt

Place tortillas one at a time on the counter and cut out shapes with the cookie cutter, set aside.
Option 1- Preheat oven to 375. Spray the tortilla shapes on both side with olive oil and place on a cookie sheet and bake for 5-8 minutes, then turn over, continue baking until chips turn golden brown. Sprinkle with salt.
Option 2- Heat grape seed oil in large skillet. Fry tortilla shapes until golden brown. Sprinkle with salt. (You can use any oil, I used grape seed oil because it has a higher boiling point, so it doesn't smell as strongly, has less flavor and is healthier.)


8 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. jar of salsa
1 cup guacamole
1/2 cup sour cream

Mix the cream cheese and salsa together until smooth. Spread into 9 inch dish. Top with guacamole leaving 1 inch border uncovered. Put the sour cream in a zip lock bag and cut the corner of the bag off. Pipe the sour cream in circles over the guacamole, then use a knife to lightly cut lines out from the middle to make the web design.

Butternut Squash Soup

Monster Eyes and Cocoa

Large Marshmallows
Chocolate Hershey's Bar
M&M's
Sucker sticks
Cocoa

Carve small wholes in the front/middle of the marshmallows. Place the stick half way through the bottom of the marshmallows. Put broken pieces of the chocolate bar in a ziploc bag and microwave 10 seconds at a time until melted. Cut the corner off of the bag and fill in the wholes, then carefully place an M&M in the middle. Refrigerate until completely cooled. Enjoy with a hot cup of cocoa!

Katie's Dessert Bars

New York Style Cheese Cake

(This picture is actually from the last time I made it)
Crust:

1 cup flour
½ cup sugar
1 tsp grated lemon

Mix ingredients, then make a whole in the center and mix in:
1 stick softened and sliced butter
1 egg yolk
¼ tsp vanilla

Chill dough for 1 hour. Butter a 9 in spring form pan and press 1/3 crust dough into the bottom of the pan. Cook at 400 degrees for 10 min. Wait for the crust to cool completely. Butter the sides of the pan and use the remaining dough to makes sides. Fill the crust with the filling and finish cooking.

Filling:
(Preheat oven 475 degrees)
5- 8 oz cream cheese packages
1 ¾ cup sugar
3 tbs flour
5 eggs + 2 egg yolk
2 tsp lemon rind ( I don't always use this in the filling)
½ tsp vanilla
¼ cup heavy cream

Beat the first 3 ingredients in a bowl, then beat in 1 egg at a time. Mix in remaining ingredients. Pour into pan and bake 10 min @ 475 then turn down to 225 degrees for 90 min. turn off oven do not open door leave cheesecake in for 1 more hour, then open the door but leave in for 30 min. refrigerate until cold.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

1 lb of powder sugar
1 stick of butter
2 cups peanut butter
3 cups rice krispies

Melt the butter and peanut butter. Stir in the powder sugar until smooth
Add the rice krispies, only a little at a time you may not use all 3 cups. It should feel like the consistency of play dough.
Roll into balls about the size of a walnut

1 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips
1 bag of milk chocolate chips
1/4 stick of paraffin, wax for candy. (If you can't find it you do not absolutely need it)

Microwave chocolate for 30 seconds
Stir
Then microwave 20 seconds at a time and stir after each 20 seconds
Dip the balls into chocolate and put on wax paper on a cookie sheet and freeze for about an hour.

Chicken Salad

Boil boneless skinless chicken breasts then cool and shred.
....Add to taste....
half light mayo and half light sour cream
1 squirt of mustard
Garlic Powder
Onion Powder
Celery Salt
Salt and Pepper
Cashew nuts (cut in halves)
Grapes (cut in halves)