This kid-pleasing food will be a hit at
your Halloween party. Source:
Better Homes and Gardens.
Haunted Pizza
1 (18 ounce) roll refrigerated
sugar-cookie dough
4 (3.5-ounce) containers vanilla pudding
2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs or 20 chocolate sandwich cookies
with white filling, finely crushed
Assorted whole vanilla wafers, graham crackers, and/or chocolate-filled
oval shortbread cookies
Black, green, red, and white decorator gel icing
Assorted candies, such as fruit-flavored jelly worms, candy-coated,
chocolate-covered peanuts, and gumdrops
Preheat oven to 350 degree
F. Grease a 12-inch pizza pan or 3 baking sheets.
With lightly floured hands,
pat the cookie dough into prepared pizza pan. If using baking
sheets, divide dough into thirds and pat each third into a 7-inch
circle onto the prepared baking sheets.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes
for pizza pan or 8 to 10 minutes for smaller circles of dough,
or until edges are lightly browned. Cook on wire rack.
Spread vanilla pudding
over baked cookie. Sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Cover and chill.
Meanwhile, decorate cookie
tombstones.
Press cookies into pudding
layer of pizza. If necessary, support back of cookies with some
of the candies. Decorate "graveyard" with candies.
Create peering eyes with candy-coated chocolate peanuts; make
shoes, feet, and hands with gumdrops; and arrange jelly worms.
