White Christmas Punch

White Christmas Punch
Submitted by: Carol Anderson

6 oz. Can frozen limeade
7 cups water
3 cups sugar
juice of 2 or 3 limes
2 qts. 7 up or sprite
Stir sugar into water stir until sugar is dissolved. Add remaining ingredients
except sprite. Freeze.
To serve: Partially thaw ice. Pour sprite over it. Use a potato masher to break up ice and make into a slush.

Caramel Popcorn

Caramel Popcorn (Streetman family)

Ingredients:
2 Bags Microwave Popcorn Popped (We like Homestyle Pop-Secret)
1 Cube of Butter (1/2 Cup)
1 Can Eagle Condensed Milk
2 1/2 Cups Golden Brown Sugar
1 Cup Light Karo Syrup
1 tsp. Vanilla
Colored M&M’s (Halloween mix or Christmas Mix.... With Peanuts is esp. Yummy)
Instructions:
Pop Popcorn and spread out evenly on a cookie tray that has the little sides. The 2 bags will do about 2 trays.
In a pot melt the butter but do NOT brown.
Stir in the condensed milk, brown sugar, Karo Syrup, & vanilla.
Bring to boil on Medium/Medium High Heat.
Boil 5-7 minutes (NO longer than 7) until the “softball” stage.
Softball Stage: When you can take a small spoonful/ drop of the mixture and drop it into a glass of cold water it will make a little softball that stays that way.
Am I making any sense???? If you over boil it the caramel will get REALLY hard after it cools on the popcorn.
Drizzle mixture over popcorn.
Mix in M&M’s after the popcorn cools slightly to avoid melting/bleeding of colors.

Fun Thanksgiving Turkeys from Pillsbury.com

Check out these cute and easy Turkey cookies that Becky Peterson found.
http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=40040

Soft Sugar Cookies

Soft Sugar cookies

Submitted by: Alauna Westover

1/2 cup butter

1 egg

1/2 cup sour cream

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix and add:

31/4 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

Roll out and cut out shapted. Bake at 325 for 10 mins.

Edible Eyeballs from Familyfun.com

Edible Eyeballs from Familyfun.com http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50282

Carrots
Cream cheese
Pitted black olives
1. Simply slice carrots into 1-inch-thick chunks, top each with a blob of cream cheese and one half of a pitted black olive, and serve.

Brain cupcakes from Familyfun.com

Brain cupcakes from Familyfun.com http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50461

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
12 Cupcakes (Classic Cupcake Recipe)
Buttercream Frosting
Food Coloring

1. Bake a batch of classic cupcakes. 2. Spread a coat of light orange icing (we stirred drops of yellow and pink food coloring, and just a touch of green, into 2 cups of buttercream frosting until we had a hue we liked) on a dozen cupcakes. 3. Use a pastry bag fitted with a number 10 round tip to top them with fat zigzags. It works best to first pipe two zigzags down the middle and then fill in the sides.

Creepy Eyeballs from Familyfun.com

Creepy Eyeballs from http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=40173

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
1 package white frosting
1 box vanilla wafers
Green or blue "LifeSavers"
Red gel icing
Chocolate chips
1. Spread frosting on vanilla wafers. Put one life saver on each wafer. Place a chocolate chip in the middle of the LifeSaver". With the red gel icing, draw bloodshot lines on the frosting. Then eat!