Disney's in the Desert

Witch Fingers

The nails totally make these look so realistic! I’ve been making these over the last decade- since Conner was a baby, but I had an idea to take it a step further this year with the fingernails! 🙂

If you choose to skip this part (and not paint the gel icing on), they still look pretty spooky with the sliced almonds!

Ingredients

1/3 c white chocolate

Green food coloring

Pretzel rods

Sliced almonds (I buy the toasted kind but it really doesn’t matter as long as they’re sliced!)

Black gel icing (optional)

Directions

If you’re going to go all of the way like I did with the ‘nails’, you’ll want to take each sliver individually and paint on the gel icing. I used a clean/brand new paint brush and it was really easy by just dipping a little of the brush into the icing from a clean bowl. Let those fully dry on parchment paper (about an hour or so). Next, melt your white chocolate and add 2-5 drops of food coloring depending on how dark you want the color to be. I like them a little lighter so I don’t do as many! Mix until the color is to your liking and dip the pretzel rod in about 1/2 way. Lay them flat on a clean piece of parchment paper and while the chocolate is still wet on the pretzel, add your nail! I took a toothpick and added 3 lines to look like real fingers to the top and bottom of the chocolate.

Enjoy!!

We Eat Wednesday: Char-BOO-terie Board

You know I love a good grazeboard – especially when my kids are home from school on the weekends or during a break. A week ago they got to enjoy a week long break, and I knew I’d be heading the direction of my easy grazeboard lunches once or twice!

I decided to jazz it up with Halloween right around the corner and made a ‘char-BOO-terie’ board for one of them. It was literally so easy – and there are tons more ways to incorporate fruits/veggies on here, but I just used what we had on hand.

  • Pumpkins: clementines peeled with a small piece of celery on top
  • Witches Brooms: these were the ‘sweet’ of the board (I usually add one in after they eat their protein/veggies!) Reeses mini cups and a pretzel stick
  • Creepy Lips + Teeth: apple slices with peanut butter and mini marshmallows (for teeth!) in between
  • Ghost Grahams: graham crackers with yogurt + candy eyes + icing gel for mouth

Fill in between with proteins (we did ham for this board), crackers, cheese, celery, etc!

There are lots of other ideas out there, but this is what we recently did! I added some spiders that came with our cobweb decor and a skeleton hand for extra spook factor!

Ghostie + “Mummie” Cookies

Make these in a snap! Nothing from scratch and only a few store bought ingredients. Literally ready in minutes and your kids will think they’re spooky fun!!

“Ingredients”

1 package Nutter Butter cookies

1 package of white chocolate (for melting)

Gel writing pen or icing (finer tip is best)

Candy eyes

Directions

Start with a small amount of white chocolate (not the entire package unless you’re making a lot) and melt over a double boiler or in the microwave. I used the microwave for this because I was rushed for time and just check it after 20 second intervals and stir until melted – make sure you don’t leave it unattended in the microwave or your white chocolate will turn hard and be ruined.

For the ghosts: take a spoon and pour the white chocolate on the peanut cookie a little more than half way. These will dry quick, so work swiftly. Once dry, take the gel pen/icing and add 2 little eyes and an oval for the mouth.

For the mummies: take a spoon and pour the white chocolate over the entire peanut cookie and spread around. Add candy eyes while it’s still melted and before it’s hardened. Let dry for 2-3 minutes or so and then take your spoon and drizzle over more white chocolate to make them look like mummies.

Enjoy!

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