How to get kids excited about eating
before Trick or Treating.
1.Give your lasagna a mummy make-over.
2.Reshape calzones into bones.
3.Transform pizza into a werewolf's moon.
4.Mold hamburgers into “Hand-Burgers.”
5.Transfigure tuna melts into “Tina melts.”
6.Bring to life Frankenstein turnovers.
7.Metamorphose meatloaf into “Feet-loaf.”
8.Conjure up a “Wickedly Spicy Witch Dip.”
9.Morph meatballs into “Stubbed Toe Subs.”
10.Turn hot dogs into magic broomsticks.
Do you find it hard to get your kids to eat dinner before they get dressed in their costumes and go begging for candy? This Halloween fill your kids' tummies with a bewitching meal before they fill their plastic pumpkins with sweet treats. A few simple techniques from the new cookbook, Hungry Halloween, will help you transform every-day recipes into fun food your kids will love. Hungry Halloween featuring Movie Monster Munchies, Bewitched Buffet, and Dead Man's Diner offers 46 imaginative recipes each complimented by a vibrant full color photograph and detailed step-by-step instructions, so replication is simple enough for a kitchen novice but enticing enough for a kitchen wiz.
Author, event planner, and chocolatier, Beth Jackson Klosterboer, has been cooking up themed cuisine for over 20 years and created this vampire pizza recipe that will cast a spell on your kids and have them begging to take a bite.
Count Pizzala - Vampire Pizza
1 tube refrigerated pizza dough (11 oz.)
1/2 cup pizza sauce
2 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese
1 cup jumbo pitted black olives, drained
1 (4”-5”) strip roasted red pepper or sun-dried tomato
2 narrow garlic cloves, peeled
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a 12” x 18” baking pan with parchment paper. Unroll pizza dough onto the parchment lined pan. Cut a 10” circle in the center of the dough. Remove the excess dough and lay out on a cutting board. Cut three 2 1/2” circles from the excess dough. Place two of the small circles of dough on either side of the large dough circle to form the vampire's ears. Roll the remaining dough circle into a ball and place on the large dough circle for the vampire's nose. Bake for 6-7 minutes until the dough is lightly golden brown.
Remove from oven and add toppings. Spread pizza sauce over entire dough except for the nose. Sprinkle cheese over sauce. Cut one jumbo black olive in half lengthwise. These olive halves will be the vampire's eyes. Place above and to either side of his nose. Finely chop remaining olives. The olives will become the vampire's hair. Sprinkle the chopped olives all along the top of the vampire's head forming his pointed brow. Add the strip of roasted red pepper for his mouth and attach two garlic clove fangs. If your garlic cloves aren't shaped like a fang, cut them into a curved point. Return to oven and bake for 6-10 minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbly. Serve hot.
For step-by-step photos of this vampire pizza recipe and more Halloween ideas, visit www.HungryHalloween.com.
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BETH JACKSON KLOSTERBOER - BIO
Beth Jackson Klosterboer is passionate about Halloween and is excited to share her imaginative Halloween recipes, decorating ideas, and party planning tips. Beth and her husband, Jim, have hosted over a dozen Halloween parties for hundreds of guests and have spent countless hours creating recipes and decorations for each event. As a chocolatier and an event planner, Beth has been cooking up themed cuisine for over 20 years. Her creations were available in her retail stores, BJaiz Yum Yum Shoppe and Candy Garden, in Kentucky and Ohio from 1989 until 2001. Beth currently operates Candy Garden out of a commercial kitchen in her home and focuses her energy on corporate business. To see some of her creations, click on this link. "My Chocolates" Another one of Beth's passions is teaching. Over 1000 kids and adults have taken classes with Beth and learned the art of chocolate making. This year Beth branched out and began teaching cooking classes as well, and is scheduled to teach several Halloween themed cooking classes in the Dayton and Cincinnati areas this October. Since 2008, Beth has won numerous national and local recipe/cooking contests as well as several national essay contests. The recipes and photographs in Hungry Halloween are all original creations by Beth.
Beth would love to share her talents with your readers or viewers. Contact Beth at beth@hungryhalloween.com for an interview, a copy of re-printable recipes or for additional information.
To see Beth demonstrating a Creme Brulee pie recipe click this link.
REVIEWS
The Perfect Little Halloween Book
(blog post by Sara Moulton, chef, author, TV personality)
When I was on book tour in the spring a young woman showed up on my doorstep holding a flowerpot filled with popcorn, made completely out of chocolate. I was blown away. Her name was Beth Jackson Klosterboer and she told me she had worked as a chocolatier and event planner for over 20 years. Her newest venture was going to be a Halloween book. I asked her to send it to me when it came out and now that I have looked at Hungry Halloween I must recommend it to anyone who loves to have fun on this very unique holiday. As Beth says in her introduction,
“Whether you are baking to host an elaborate Halloween bash or are simply in search of a fun treat to serve your kids on beggar’s night, Hungry Halloween is a great resource filled with delicious and imaginative recipes.”
Now, I can testify to the imaginative part — when I did my show on the Food Network, every year for ten years we did at least one Halloween show and it became hard to find new and unusual stuff to demo. Everything in this book seems new and unusual to me and, the recipes have the added bonus that most of them are made from scratch. No scary ingredients used here!
Beth developed, styled and photographed the 44 recipes herself. There are many “how to” photos and templates at the back of the book to be used for design. It would be easy for anyone, even a novice cook or baker, to follow these recipes.
Beth has a website as well: http://www.HungryHalloween.com which you might want to check out for more ideas. She lists sources on the website for the special equipment needed to make the recipes. The sources are featured in the right hand column at the very bottom of the home page. If you scroll down, there are pictures of each of the items with a click-able link directly to the amazon.com page.
These items are all on the list: brain mold, disposable pastry bags, gel food coloring, paste food coloring, spray food color, decorating tips, stencil rollers, blank (a.k.a. clear) stencil sheets, lollipop sticks and the skull pan, as well as, most of the candy molds and cookie cutters.
There is only one item that is not available on Amazon.com. The werewolf sucker mold is available from Cybercakes.com at http://cybercakes.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product1660.html
and, most important, where can you find the book? On Amazon.com.
AMAZON.COM REVIEWS
5.0 out of 5 stars Whether for a huge bash or to amuse your family, these are truly novel & creative cooking ideas, September 27, 2010
By A. Chandler "ArtistAlana" (Austin, TX) - (#1 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Hungry Halloween: featuring Movie Monster Munchies, Bewitched Buffet, and Dead Man's Diner (Volume 1) (Paperback)
This isn't my first Halloween cookbook. I have many. Trouble is many of them have cute names for recipes such as "witches fingers" but putting a whole olive at the end of a breadstick isn't tasty, nor does it look like a finger to partygoers who didn't read the recipe name. This book is different. They are the most amusing and creative dishes I'd ever seen for a Halloween bash or to just amuse your kids or loved ones on Halloween. Heck, I said I loved the 7 layer dip with the witch on the top layer made out of guacamole so much surrounded by a sour cream background, I'll never serve it another way year round. It's funny as all get out!
This is the kind of book you can't possibly even flip through without saying "LOOK AT THIS!" and showing the pictures to someone else in the room. For example, she makes a lasagna that looks just like a mummy with the noodles overlapping exactly like mummy bandages and eyeballs peeking out. These are VERY artistic but the beauty is you don't have to be an artist to create them--they are simple and if you really have difficulty being creative she helps out even further with stencils in the back of the book you can just overlay to do designs on things like wonton shells. Most things I think you could just eyeball to get perfect though. Had I not really read through the whole book I would have missed the stencils...you only need those for a handful of the dishes, but if you want to get really artistic, it allows you to do so without being an artist. However, most dishes don't call for any artistic ability and even if you didn't want to use the stencils for, say, painting Dracula on wontons, you could take the idea and recipe and even have your kids paint a simple pumpkin on the wontons. It shows you have...but you also have the option on a few recipes to get into more detail with little effort via the stencils.
The author apparently has huge Halloween parties based upon the clever photos in the book such one depicting a "Dead Man's Diner" where they made a kitchen bar (I am guessing--it looks so much like a diner it's hard to tell if it is someone's real kichen) look exactly like a 50s diner but all the food looks like it's made from body parts and the servers have "bloody aprons". It's crazy and clever...you get more than just recipes. If you are one to do an all-out bash on Halloween, you get ideas that are VERY clever but easy too.
Here's the odd thing...the food is good!! I know that's the whole point of a cookbook, but I've found in the past that Halloween cookbooks are often for the visual, not the taste.
There are color photos of every dish
There are theme party ideas with photos of actual parties...real parties that utilized the theme are included
There are ideas of how to use things sold at the party stores during Halloween such as a brain or face mold
The book is 100 pages, easy to follow
Conclusion: I bought another Halloween cookbook the week before this one. It didn't even come close to the super clever stuff in here.. I just love this book.
This may be Beth Jackson Klosterboer first book but the passion she displays shows a true dedication for the ghoulish. She "gets" exactly what Halloween is - fun, creepy and sometimes just a touch ghastly. Sure this may make some moms cringe a little, but there is plenty here for the whole family to enjoy. Some of my favorite ideas are the green tinged popcorn (a sweet concoction perfect for filling a cauldron), a creamy vanilla panna cotta "brain", and calzone "bones" filled with a ricotta cheese with marinara blood on the side for dipping. This is a seriously fun book and I am counting down to Volume 2!
Scarry Jerry (http://www.myscarryhalloween.com/)
This book is so unique, page after page of incredible culinary concoctions to make any Halloween party-goer OOh, and AAh.
Author Beth Jackson Klosterboer, has served up an amazing array of ghoulish treats,
with full step by step photographs. An amazing way to make your Halloween get- together unique, check out the the Portrait of a Monster Artichoke, and Spinach Dip decorated with a blue corn tortilla picture of the Frankenstein's Monster; phenomenal.
One note your cooking skills should be up to snuff, this is definitely not a book for the total novice, a basic knowledge of pastry making, will certainly come in handy as well.
Lewis Arthur (Amazon.com)
What an amazing book! I love Halloween, the parties, the costumes, the crafts and food and Beth Klosterboer had me at the first page. So much thought, creativity and work has gone in to this book--the recipes and projects are amazing and there is something fun here for the whole family. Beth provides not only clever party ideas/recipes but the templates and tips to pull them of with ease. What a wonderful addition to my cookbook/craft book collection!
Lauri Lufkin (Amazon.com)
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SCHEDULED APPEARANCES
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HUNGRY HALLOWEEN IN THE NEWS AND ON THE WEB
MY RADIO INTERVIEWS HALLOWEEN WEEKEND
Aside from the party, I am preparing for two radio interviews this weekend. On Friday night at 10:00 p.m. EST, I will be live with Kim Iverson on her radio program "Your Time with Kim."
On Sunday at 12:00 p.m. EST, I will be interviewed by Chef Jamie Gwen on "Food and Wine with Chef Jamie Gwen. I am so exited and honored to be on her show. Even more excited that my idol and hero Jacques Torres is also on the show that day. Jacques is a master chocolatier and owns several shops in NYC. His show on Food Network served as a major inspiration in my life. Michael Chiarello, from Food Network fame, who I also admire will be on the show as well. I can't believe that I am on the same show as two such amazing and famous chefs. I am truly blessed. If you'd like to listen to the show, got to http://www.chefjamie.com/ and click on the Listen Live button on Sunday. The program begins at 11:00 a.m. EST/8:00 a.m. PST and I'll be on at 12:00 a.m. EST/9:00 PST. You can also tune in to KFWB News Talk 980 to hear the show.
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