Raspberry Cranberry Jello Salad (Donna)

1 (6 oz package) raspberry jello
1 1/2 cups of boiling water
2 Tbs. orange rind grated
1 (16 oz) can jellied cranberry sauce
1 (8oz) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup diced celery
1 package instant lemon pudding
2 cups milk
1 (8oz) cool whip
1 cup walnuts or pecans chopped
Dissolve jello in water, add rind and cranberry sauce and
chill until thick. Stir in pineapple and celery. Pour
into a 9x13 pan and let it set. Prepare pudding as package directs.
Spread on jello and refrigerate. Before serving spread with
Cool whip and sprinkle with nuts.

Pumpkin Pie Bites (Peggy S.& Christy)

1 spice cake mix
small can pumpkin
Mix together, add semi-sweet chocolate chips. Drop bite size dough onto baking sheets. Bake at 350* for 8 min.

Yam Casserole (Joycelyn)

1 large can yams
1/2 cup sugar
1/8 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1/2 cup crushed pineapple
1/2 cup chopped shredded coconut
1/4 cup melted margarine
Melt margarine and mix all ingredients together. Place yam mixture in 8X8 pan.

Topping

Mix together:
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup melted margarine
1/2 cup brown sugar
Spread topping over yams. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Cranberry Sauce (Joycelyn)

10 oz. fresh cranberries chopped in food processor
20 oz. can crushed pineapple
1/3 cup agave (sweetener)or sugar
Drain liquid from pineapple(is should be about 1 cup...add water if necessary to make it 1 cup). Place pineapple juice and agave in sauce pan and bring to a boil.
Add chopped cranberries to hot pineapple mixture and cook for about 10 minutes. Add drained crushed pineapple to pan and cook another 1-2 minutes.
Chill in refrigerator. Serve cold.

Stuffing (Reba)

2 loaves of cheap white bread
Cube then mix with a little seasoning salt for color--let dry overnight. Stir with hands.
In an electric fry pan:
Saute 1 lb. butter
2-5 stalks celery chopped
1 onion chopped
When cooking add 1/4 to 1/2bottle of sage.
Add bread slowly and mix in chicken broth (2-3 cans chicken broth--small) to make moist.
Place in 9X13 pan and bake at 350 for 30-45 minutes OR Stuff in a turkey

Halloween Fingers (Keri)

1 1/2 c peanut butter
6 c powdered sugar
1 cup margarine
1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Mix together until well blended. Shape into fingers. (Shape around a pretzel stick --for the bone)
Pretzel sticks (optional)
sliced almonds for fingernails
red food gel for blood
Add almond fingernails and food gel to shaped fingers.

Witch Hats (Gail)

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Chocolate striped packaged cookies
Colored frosting
Hershey Kisses
Turn cookies chocolate side up, place a mound of colored frosting in center, then place a Hershey Kiss on top of icing.

Pumpkin Woopie Pies (Joycelyn)

1 cup canned pumpkin
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 package 2-layer-size spice cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 recipe Marshmallow-Spice Filling (see recipe below)

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degree F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or foil (grease foil, if using). In a large mixing bowl beat pumpkin and butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Add cake mix, eggs, and milk; beat on low speed until combined, and then on medium speed for 1 minute.

By the heaping tablespoon, drop mounds of batter 3 inches apart on cookie sheet; keep remaining batter chilled. Bake 15 minutes or until set and lightly browned around edges. Carefully remove from parchment or foil; cool on wire rack. Repeat with remaining batter, lining cooled cookie sheets each time with new parchment or foil. If desired, place cookies in a covered storage container with waxed paper between layers to prevent sticking. Store cookies at room temperature for 24 hours. Prepare Marshmallow-Spice Filling up to 2 hours before serving. Spread about 2-1/2 tablespoons filling on flat side of one cookie; top with a second cookie. Repeat. Serve immediately or cover and chill up to 2 hours. Makes 15 whoopies.

Marshmallow-Spice Filling: Up to 2 hours before serving, beat together 1/2 cup softened butter and one 8-ounce package softened cream cheese until smooth. Add 2 cups sifted powdered sugar, 1/2 of a 7-ounce jar marshmallow cream, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1/2 teaspoon each ground cinnamon and nutmeg. Beat until well combined.

Recipe compliments of Betty Crocker

Pumpkin Spice Cake Balls (Joycelyn)

These are pumpkin spice flavored cake balls. Made like Bakerella's famous cake balls and cake pops. For directions and tutorials go here Be sure to check out all the different styles of cake balls and cake pops for every season and flavor while you are visiting this site.

This is the cake recipe used for this recipe

1 box French Vanilla cake mix (I used a yellow cake mix)
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
3/4 cup water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs

Pumpkin Dip (Mary)

Peggy brought some delicious sweet pepper that went great with this dip too.

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Pumpkin Cheese Cake (Carolyn)

Monster Mouths (Keri)

Apple Slices
Peanut Butter
Mini Marshmallows
Pineapple Juice
Slice apples and soak in pineapple juice. Dry slices off and smear thin layer of peanut butter on each slice. Place marshmallows on one slice add another lice (peanut butter side down) on top.

Casserole in a Pumpkin Shell (Laura S.)

1 med pumpkin, cut out a lid and clean out
2 lbs hamburger
4 potatoes cubed
3 carrots, grated or chopped
1 med onion chopped
2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp oregano
1 tsp vinegar
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 can tomato soup
3 eggs beaten

Place pumpkin on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Pumpkin should remain firm. while baking put together casserole mixture.
brown hamburger and onion. Cook Potatoes and carrots until tender. Mix spices, tomatoe soup, and eggs. blend together.
Pour over meat and vegetable. mix.
Pack into pumpkin with lid on. Return to oven and bake at 350 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. the last 20 minutes take lid off stir and continue to bake.
When serving, if you like pumpkin you can scrape the edges if you don't you can just eat the casserole.

Grape Salad (eyeballs) (Laura S.)

3-4 lbs grapes

take off stems. wash. dry.

8 oz cream cheese
8 oz sour cream
1/2 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla

mix together. stir in grapes.. spread in a cookie sheet or cake pan.

1/2 c brown sugar
1 c pecans (or any chopped nuts) (optional)

spread over top. refrigerate and serve.

Pumpkin or Applesauce Cookies (Laura S.)

1/2 C shortening
1 C sugar
2 eggs

cream

1 C applesauce or pumpkin

cream

2 C flour
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp nutmeg

mix together. Add in Chocolate chips. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes

Pumpkin Roll (Laura S)

3 eggs
1 C. sugar
2/3 C. canned pumpkin
1 tsp. lemon juice

3/4 C. flour
1 tso. baking powder
2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 C. chopped nuts
Combine

beat eggs on high for 5 min. Beat in sugar, add pumpkin and lemon juice. Fold in flour mixture. Pour in jelly roll pan and sprinkle with nuts (optional). Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar and roll up on a towel (dust towel too!) Chill for 2-3 hours. Mix 8 oz. cream cheese, 4 Tbsp butter, and 1 tsp vanilla, and 1 C. powdered sugar. Frost cake and roll it back up (remove the towel). Put in fridge or can be wrapped in plastic and put in freezer.

Meatballs (Gail)

1 lb hamburger
1 egg beaten
2 potatoes, grated
2 carrots, grated

Mix all together, form into meatballs. Cook in oven 350 for about 10 minutes or until done.

I put them over rice with a sweet and sour sauce over. You can freeze them and use them in any ways you prefer.

Apple Snack Pizza (Keri)

How do you split one apple between three kids? Make this simple snack for
after school and they'll never complain about sharing an apple again!

1 flour tortilla
1 apple, peeled and thinly sliced
Butter
Sugar
Cinnamon
Caramel ice cream topping

Butter tortilla. Sprinkle with sugar to taste. Arrange apple slices on tortilla.
Sprinkle with a little more sugar then cinnamon. Bake at 350 till apples are
firm tender. About 20 - 30 minutes depending on thickness of apples. Let cool
about ten minutes then drizzle with Caramel ice cream topping. Cut with
pizza cutter.

Apple Dumplings (Keri)

2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking pwd.
1/2 c. shortening
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 c. milk (or a little more)
3 - 5 peeled and grated apples

Mix everything but apples together to make dough. Roll dough into rectangle and spread apples over top.
Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Roll and cut like cinnamon. (Makes about 12)
Put rolls in a 9x13 pan and cover with sauce. Bake at 350 for about 1 hour.
Sauce:
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 c. water
1/2 c. margarine
Bring to boil then pour over rolls and bake.

Cool slightly then serve with whip cream or ice cream.

Waldorf Chicken Salad (Judy)

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Dutch Oven Potatoes (Mary)

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Chili Cheese Potatoes (Peggy)

4 large potatoes microwaved 8-10 min
1 can chili heated
1 cup shredded cheese
split potatoes on plate. Pour chili over the top and then top with cheese.
Opt. minced onions and olives add flavor and color.

Apple Walnut Salad (Donna)

2 apples cubed
1 cup diced celery
½ cup chopped walnuts

Cover with yogurt and serve(We like French Vanilla)

Apple Enchiladas (Donna)

1 (21 oz) can apple pie filling
6 (8inch) flour tortillas
Ground cinnamon
½ cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup water

Preheat oven to 350 , Grease a 2 quart baking dish
Spoon about one heaping quarter cup of pie filling
Evenly down the center of each tortilla, Sprinkle
With cinnamon; roll up, tucking in edges; and place
Seam down in dish.

In a medium saucepan, combine butter, brown
Sugar and water, Bring to a boil, stirring constantly:
Reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes.
Pour over Enchiladas and let stand 30 minutes.

Bake 20 minutes, or until golden

Caramel Apple Dip (Joycelyn)

1 17 oz. jar Mrs. Richards Butterscotch Caramel Sauce
1 8 oz. package cream cheese

Let cream cheese soften to room temperature. Mix caramel sauce and cream cheese together until smooth.

Chill and serve with granny smith apple wedges.