What Halloween recipe is a must have for your Halloween?
Ok, the Halloween cooking samplers and recipe magazines are hitting stores now. In fact I just picked up a couple samplers last week and (one being the pil Favorite Brand Name Recipes' "Halloween Food &" Fun and the other being Gooseberry Patch's "Best Halloween Treats") and today I just bought Taste of Home's "Ultimate Halloween." And as I got to thinking about it began to wonder what recipes folks have to have during Halloween time. That "my holiday just isn't the same if I don't have this at least once during October." For me it's Witches Brew. There's various different recipes, mostly drinks of one kind or another, that are called Witches Brew, but only one is for me. I first encounter this one in 2002 in FBNR's "Frightfully Festive Halloween Recipes & Party Ideas" sampler and since then I've picked up a ring bound Halloween cooking and crafting book at Target and rediscovered it in this year's FBNR sampler. It's very simple to make:
"2 cups apple cider
1 1/12 to 2 cups vanilla ice cream
2 tablespoons honey
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg plus additional for garnish
Combine cider, ice cream, honey, cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg in blender or food processor; blen untilsmooth. Pour into glasses, sprinkle with additional nutmeg, if desired. Serve immediately.
Makes four servings.
Serving suggestions: Add a few drops of orange or red food coloring to ingredients in blender to make a scary brew.
Hint: Reduce the fat in this tasty brew by replacing vanilla ice cream with reduced-fat or fat free ice cream or frozen yogurt."
Tasty isn't the right word, this is delicious, it's basically a milkshake made with apple cider instead of milk. Kinda a creamy light brown or tan in color. And I have to have it at least once during October or else Halloween just isn't the same.
What about you folks. What recipe must you have or else Halloween just isn't the same? Please share.