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cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole blanched almonds, split in half

Preheat oven to 325F. Combine butter, brown sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add flour, 1/4 cup at a time, until dough becomes too stiff to beat. Knead by hand until all the flour is incorporated. Roll pieces of dough into shapes about the size of fingers and transfer to baking sheets that have been sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Using a pin or sharp knife, carve knuckles into dough. Cut out a place for fingernails (almond half). Insert almond into each dough finger. Bake 15-17 minutes or until golden. Cool slightly before cutting.

Cat Litter Casserole
(8-10 servings)

To make dumps:
1 cup Bisquick dough
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 lb. ground beef, turkey or pork sausage

To make litter:
2 cups long grain rice, cooked per package directions.

Tools:
Large mixing bowl
Rectangular baking pan
Deep saucepan with lid
Fork
Paper towels
Large spoon
New stainless steel "pooper scooper"

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Make the Bisquick dough as directed on the packaging. Using clean hands, mix together the dump ingredients in a large bowl. Mold pieces of this mixture into various size/shape "dumps".

Place so they don't touch each other in an ungreased baking pan. Use two if they don't all fit. Bake the dumps for about 20 minutes or until they are all brown, firm and slightly rusty-colored.

While the dumps cook, make the rice. Fluff the rice with a fork, add butter and salt to taste. Set pan aside. If you want to make it look more like kitty litter, try adding a drop or two of green and blue food color.

When "dumps" are done, carefully transfer them onto paper towels to drain.
Spoon the rice and "dumps" into the now empty baking pan, leaving some "dumps" partially uncovered, the way Kitty does when he/she is in a hurry! Use pooper-scooper to serve.

Alcohol Drinks

Brain Hemorrhage Looks like a little brain floating in liquid. Be careful.

Peach Schnapps
Bailey's Irsih Cream
Grenadine
Eyedropper

Fill a shot glass 2/3 full with peach schnapps, then slowly pour about a teaspoon of Baileys (Brain). Drip 1-2 drops of grenadine on top (Hemorrhage). Yum Yum. Drink up all at once.

Nuclear Waste

1/5 Vodka
1 can frozen orange juice concentrate (thawed)
375 ml Blue Curacao (half a fifth)
1 liter Mountain Dew
375 ml Bailey's Irish Cream (sludge)

Pour all of this in a punch bowl. I floated a "frozen hand" in it this year and added a hunk of dry ice every hour or so...but I believe from now on, I will just purchase or figure out some type of ice cube "eyeball" and dry ice.

After Halloween

I chop up the mice and the eyeballs, add chopped up ham luncheon meat, green onions, shredded cheese and mayonnaise and voila! Ham Salad - an easy next day meal on a day where you wake up with a hang over from the brain hemorrhages and nuclear waste from the night before.
What to do with the pumpkin... Pumpkin Pies, of course.

Slice the pumpkin in half, scrape the inside with a spoon to remove wax or mold and loose stringy stuff. Place skin side up on a cookie sheet in a 350 degree oven until tender and juicy (this depends on the size of the pumpkin). Let cool. Peel the pumpkin and cut into cubes small enough to be chopped in a blender. Blend the pumpkin in the blender or food processor and store in freezer until ready to prepare.

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