Fun Halloween Food!

Ghosts on Broomsticks

1 lb white chocolate chips

1/2 cup tiny red cinnamon candies

12 wooden sticks

Directions:

1. Cover 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper. Arrange wooden sticks on the waxed paper, 6 to 8 to a sheet.

2. Melt white chocolate chips in top of double boiler. Remove from heat.

3. Spoon ghost-shaped blobs of chocolate onto the paper, partially covering each stick. Press 2 candies into each ghost for eyes.

4. Freeze ghosts for 15 minutes, or until hard.

Makes about 12

Candy Apples

2 cup granulated sugar

2 cup corn syrup

1/3 cup cinnamon candy

1 cup water

3/4 Tsp cinnamon

1/2 Tsp vanilla

1/4 Tsp cloves

3/4 Tsp red food coloring

6 Med apples

Directions:

1. Remove stems from apples, wash, and pat dry. Insert a wooden skewer in each apple, running through the apple from stem end to base without protruding all the way through the bottom end.

2. Generously spray a baking sheet with cooking spray so it's ready ahead of time.

3. Combine sugar, corn syrup, cinnamon candies, and water in medium-sized saucepan. Cook until candies dissolve, stirring constantly, but be careful not to boil. Add cinnamon, vanilla, cloves, and food coloring and mix thoroughly. Boil mixture to 300 F using a candy thermometer without stirring.

4. As soon as mixture reaches 300 degrees, remove it from heat and quickly dip each apple, one at a time, into the mixture until it is thoroughly coated. Set coated apples, standing on their bottoms with skewer pointing up, on baking sheet until mixture hardens.

5. Let apples reach room temperature before eating.