Mystery Ingredient & Halloween Fun: Creepy Sprinkles Lab

I’m joining Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday

and the return of The Mystery Ingredient Club!

 Our Mystery Ingredient this month~

Wilton Creepy Sprinkles Lab,

timely for planning a Happy Haunting!

Thank you Michael Lee!

The Creepy Sprinkles include Bones, Black & Green Jimmies,

Orange Sugar, and

Black, Green & Orange Jimmies.

I couldn’t resist adding a few Candy Eyeballs

from Wilton along with the sprinkles

(I found mine at Target).

I had a surplus of apples from Apple Picking~

2 1/2 inch Gala apples~

a fun size to serve in a cupcake liner

 and to make chocolate-dipped & sprinkled

Halloween Treats!

I used both chocolate and vanilla flavored bark coating from the baking aisle in the grocery store. Follow the directions on the back of the package for melting.

I inserted a ‘food-safe’ twig in the apple prior to dipping but you could use a craft stick or dowel.

Since I didn’t have access to an apple tree, after much googling, I determined that our River Birch trees are considered ‘food-safe’.

There is a bit of a trick to making these treats~

you need to let the chocolate set up a bit,

before using the sprinkles, but it once the coating begins

to harden, it happens quickly.

Dip your apples into the chocolate coating and let the excess chocolate drip off your apple and back into your cauldron. . .

Set your dipped apples onto wax paper and spoon the sprinkles onto the apples while the chocolate is setting up (rolling the apples in the sprinkles rather than sprinkling them on makes a scary mess ).

I mixed part of vanilla with the chocolate together in a separate bowl to swirl together and coat a few of the apples.

The candy bone sprinkles took more time, placing them right before the chocolate was set, otherwise they slide down the chocolate coating in an avalanche for a bone chilling effect. . .

Bone setting is a project requiring patience

or for a die-hard Halloween enthusiast :)

I had the orange sugar left

 from my Creepy Lab~

a lethal rimmer with an arsenic label

for a sinister cocktail. . .

And I found spooky Halloween stickers from World Market

 for $3.99. . .

Each tube from the Creepy Lab just happens

 to hold 1 1/2 ounces of potion. . .

 

Pick your Poison

and shake up a Skeletini~

Skeletini Ingredients:

~1 1/2 ounces of Poison #9, aka vodka, citrus-infused or Creepy Crystal Head Vodka 

 ~ 1/2 ounce Witches’ Brew, aka Grand Marnier

~ 1 1/2 ounces of Vampire Blood, aka Pomegranate juice

~1 ounce freshly squeezed poisoned lime juice

~ Black Cat Arsenic, aka orange sugar for rimming

Adjust the ratio of your potions if you’d

like a more lethal cocktail :)

Add only add top quality

spider bites if you dare. . .

 Skeleton Hand Servers, Target, several years ago. Similar ones from World Market, here.

 Sinister hand votive holders, Target several years ago.

Cocktail Shaker Pottery Barn, several years ago.

Skeleton Martini Glass, Pottery Barn

Thank you Michael Lee for providing the Halloween fun

and Creepy Sprinkles as the Mystery Ingredient!

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