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We have long-standing traditions in my family, namely supper baked in a pumpkin. I upped the interest a couple of years ago by baking the stuffing in individual-sized pie pumpkins and this year I'm changing up the filling to include wild rice, nuts and dried cranberries (used to be comprised of ground beef and cream of mushroom soup). Hopefully no one will freak out on me. I do a different dessert every year too ... this year it's Caramel Apple Cupcakes that a favorite blogger of mine came up with. http://justjennrecipes.com/caramel-apple-cupcakes/2008/10/22

I'm going a little overboard for the "Sweet Treats" potluck at work. I have made pumpkin cream cheese truffles, tonight I am making peanut butter cookies with peanut butter M&Ms (in Halloween colors), and Thursday I am making chocolate cupcakes with a Hershey's pumpkin spice kiss in the middle with pumpkin cream cheese frosting! Whew!

Ooh...where exactly do you work uptowngirl? As for us, it is expected to be a rainy Friday and while we'll stay home answering the door and handing out candy, we'll likely have something that fits in with the cold, rainy weather: chili or lasagna is my initial thoughts.

I've got iced cookies resting now and I'm planning on making a slew of goodies from recipes I steal from this site (among others.) I'm so excited!


It'll be in the high 70s here, or Chili would DEFINITELY be on the menu. It's the perfect season for it.


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I am so halloween-fooded out... The afterschool program where I work has really been taking to a total extreme.

Emily

I'm going really easy. I'm making chocolate chip cookies with reese's cups in them. My mom used to make them for every bake sale when I was a kid. I thought it'd be a good cookie plus candy treat for Halloween for my coworkers. Not that it really needs a recipe, but I found one if anyone wants it: http://www.recipezaar.com/31311

I won't be making much of anything for Halloween since I have a terrible cold and shouldn't be cooking (for others), but I will make my favorite dessert AFTER Halloween and pretend (I'd make it for myself but that would be bad since I'd eat it all). My favorite is a jell-o recipe my mom got out of a magazine when we were kids. It's the Graveyard Gelatin Dessert- the one with crushed chocolate sandwich cookies, cream cheese and orange jell-o. This one: http://tinyurl.com/6qk38u

No cooking for me! I'm going to New York City for the weekend! However, I do plan to order some wonderful fresh preservative-free iced Halloween cookies (ghosts and pumpkins) from madCake, a good local bakery, have them tied up in a box, and take them to New York City as a hostess gift!

Chili. Every year.