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Well with all the talk of Halloween I though how can we prepare for all the fun activity's? Well here is were you can post poems,youtube,fun facts, and trivia on Halloween to get us ready for the guild events!


This is so cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqz8lO9DG5E

*laughs its a harder holiday!

Halloween Party Recipes!

Black Cat Cookies

1 cup chunky peanut butter
1/3 cup water
2 eggs
1 (18.25-ounce) box chocolate cake mix
M&M's plain candies
Red hot candies

Preheat oven to 375 F. In a large bowl, beat together peanut butter, eggs, and water. Gradually add cake mix. Mix well. Form dough into 1-1/2-inch balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Flatten balls with bottom of glass dipped in sugar. With fingers, pinch out 2 ears at top of cookie. Add M&M's for the eyes and red hots for the nose. Press the tines of a fork into the dough on either side of face to form the whiskers. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Pumpkin Pie Biscotti
Makes about 96

3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup mashed canned pumpkin
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1-1/4 cup macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped

Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice in a large bowl; stir well. In another bowl, combine pumpkin, eggs, and vanilla, stirring well with a wire whisk. Slowly add pumpkin mixture to flour mixture, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened. (Mixture will be very crumbly; it will gradually become moist after stirring.) Melt butter n a large skillet over medium heat; add macadamia nuts. Cook, stirring constantly, until nuts are browned. Remove from heat and cool completely. Knead or gently stir cooled nuts into dough. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and divide into 4 portions. Lightly flour hands and shape each portion into a 1 x 15" long log. Place logs 3" apart on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake for 23 minutes; cool logs 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 300. Cut each log diagonally into 1/2" slices using a serrated knife. Place slices on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 15 minutes. Cool completely on wire racks.

Sensational Double Layer Pumpkin Pie
Makes about 6

4 Ounces cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon milk or half and half
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 cups whipped cream topping
1 graham cracker crust
1 cup cold milk or half and half
2 small vanilla flavored instant pudding packages
1 can pumpkin pie filling -- (16 oz)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 Teaspoon ground cloves

Beat cream cheese, 1 tablespoon of milk, and sugar with wire whisk until smooth. Gently stir in the whipped cream topping. Spread on bottom of graham cracker crust. Pour 1 cup milk into bowl, add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk for one to two minutes--mixture will be thick. Stir in pumpkin and spices with wire whisk. Mix well. Spread over cream cheese layer. Refrigerate four hours, or until set.