Halloween food!

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We're doing Halloween at work tomorrow (actually on Halloween -- go figure), including "trick-or-treating" and (yet another @#!%$#%$) potluck.

For trick-or-treating, I made s'mores fudge, adapted from a cookingforengineers.com recipe:

1 14-oz can sweetened condensed milk
5 tbsp butter
1 shot Frangelico (optional)

Heat until butter is melted. Remove from heat.

Stir in:
12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 ounces white chocolate chips (Or use 1# of whatever you have on hand)
...until everything's melted and smooth.

Then stir in the equivalent 3 or 4 coarsely broken graham crackers, and finally 1-1.5 cups mini marshmallows, depending on just how marshmallowy you want it. The mixture should be cool enough not to melt the marshmallows at this point.

Pour into an 8-inch square baking pan lined with wax paper, parchment or plastic wrap, and chill until firm. Cut into 1-inch squares.

Makes 64 bite-sized pieces if you actually get the fudge evenly distributed in the pan, but it realistically makes 49 for me.


For the potluck, I made Bread of the Dead (yeah, I know Dia De Los Muertos is Nov. 2, not Halloween, but it works).

Recipe here:
http://bread.allrecipes.com/az/PandeMuertosMexicanBreadof.asp

Except I doubled the recipe, used butter instead of margarine (I don't keep margarine on hand) and I made skull rolls instead of loaves.

We'll see how this goes over...

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1. They both sound good. Will try the bread tomorrow. n/t