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Vampire Blood Strawberry Floats

Angie Barrett — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 01:05:14 +0000

These Vampire Blood Strawberry Floats aren’t anything to be scared of! They’re homemade floats with edible blood which makes them perfect for Halloween!

“Shared with permission from Nicole at DailyDishRecipes.com”

I love any and all things that have to do with Vampires! So it’s no surprise that I fell in love with these Vampire Blood Strawberry Floats that Nicole made as soon as I saw them! Plus, I love strawberry too!

Sometimes Halloween can still feel like summertime outside and that’s when you need a cold Halloween themed drink to cool you down. That’s where this Vampire Blood Strawberry Float comes in. It’s easy to make, taste like strawberry heaven but it’s got a bit of a bloody wicked side too.

You can grab fake pairs of vampire teeth like the ones pictures almost anywhere around Halloween time. I’ve seen them at the Dollar Tree, Target and a few other stores. Or you if you like to shop online I know that you can order white vampire teeth from Amazon!

So don’t let a little left over summer heat keep you from getting into the Halloween spirit! Grab a glass and mix up a homemade Vampire Ice Cream Float for you and all of your batty friends! I know they’ll probably love them too!

Plus, once you’ve made your drink you have fun vampire teeth to play with!

Vampire Blood Strawberry Floats

Nicole says,

These are literally a basic, but very delicious Strawberry Float, with homemade edible vampire blood.

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Reposted with permission from Nicole at DailyDishRecipes.com

Nicole blogs at DailyDishRecipes.com – She blogs with her daughter, Brielle and they’re Midwest girls, with a little south in their hearts.

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Spooky Bloody Good Cheesecake

Angie Barrett — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 01:03:57 +0000

This Bloody Good Cheesecake Recipe is the spookiest Halloween treat that is sure to be the scary centerpiece of your party! Red velvet cheesecake is baked on a chocolate crust and covered in a blood red homemade gel frosting.

“This post/recipe is from Heather and it originally appeared on SugarDishMe.com”

It’s that time!!! Halloween is near! So here’s what’s up — if you are new here, or you just forgot since last year, or if you maybe don’t follow me on Instagram, then I should explain that I am just a tiny bit into Halloween. And by “tiny bit” I mean WE GO ALL OUT. So this year I decided to go a step beyond the usual handful of Halloween recipes that I share at kind of the last minute.

This year I have partnered with 7 other bloggers to bring you all kinds of Halloween fun – recipes, ideas, how I decorate my house, and… this Bloody Good Cheesecake.

Is this spooky and fun or what?

This bloody cheesecake recipes is actually just the creamiest red velvet. Plenty of chocolate, not too sweet, and with a chocolate graham crust. By itself the recipe is a little bit elegant. But the most compelling part of any Halloween dessert is really the presentation.

So to make this cake extra spooky I made homemade red gel frosting. It is SO easy. You’ll never pay too much to fuss with a mediocre tube of gel frosting again.

here are a few elements going on here to make this cake all bloody and Halloween-ey. FIRST is the red gel frosting that I made with the help of this Wilton icing color. The second is the base I put the cake on. I used a cardboard cake round like this, but if you don’t have any, I’ll tell you that cutting a 10″ circle from a pizza box and wrapping it in foil totally works.

Beneath the cardboard is a foam disc that I bought in the craft section at Walmart. I painted it black using some leftover chalkboard paint, but spray paint will also work. The foam is important because when you serve, you need to be able to get the knife to stand up in the cake without tipping over, plus you want it to be deep enough that it looks like you actually stabbed the cake.

I am SO excited to share with you guys over the next few weeks. Halloween is my favorite!

But if it’s not your thing, this red velvet cheesecake will totally stand alone without the fake blood frosting.

Spooky Bloody Good Cheesecake

BLOODY GOOD CHEESECAKE Recipe

Created by Angie Barrett on July 31, 2018

Prep Time: 4h 15m
Cook Time: 1h
Total Time: 5h 15m

Yield: serves 16

Ingredients

For the Crust:

5 tablespoons melted butter
8 whole chocolate graham crackers, crushed into fine crumbs

For the Cake:

3 (8 ounce) blocks of cream cheese, at room temperature
¾ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup dark unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
¼ teaspoon salt
4 large eggs, at rook temperature
⅓ cup heavy cream
red icing color

For the Gel Frosting:

¼ cup COLD water
¼ cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 teaspoons cornstarch (see note)
red icing color

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325F. Line a 9" springform pan with parchment paper or foil, letting the paper cover the edges of the bottom of the pan and closing the springform edge around it (this makes for easy removal later on).
Combine the crushed chocolate grahams and melted butter until the crumbs are evenly coated. Press into the prepared pan.
Beat the softened cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add the unsweetened cocoa and mix until combined, making sure to scrape down the sides and the bottom at least once.
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well between each addition. The mix in the vanilla, salt and heavy cream.
Add the red icing color until the batter is a deep red color. I started with ¼ teaspoon and ended up using maybe ½ - ¾ teaspoon total.
Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and spread it over the crust.
Bake for 20 minutes ate 325F. Then reduce the oven temperature to 225F and bake for 30 more minutes. Turn the oven off and DO NOT open the oven door. Just let the cheesecake stay in there until the oven cools to room temperature. This prevents cracking.
Use a knife to gently loosen the sides of the cake from the pan before popping the springform sides open.
To make the gel frosting, stir together the cold water and cornstarch until smooth. Pour it into a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Pour in the corn syrup and stir until the mixture is heated through and smooth. You will need to stir frequently; you can watch it thicken as it cooks.
Remove the mixture from the burner after 1-2 minutes. Stir in the vanilla and red icing color. I used about ½ teaspoon of color to achieve the look here. Let the gel cool before spooning it over the cake.
Refrigerate for 4 hours before serving.
NOTES
For the cake pictured, I actually made 2 batches of the gel frosting. For the first batch I used 4 teaspoons of cornstarch. It makes a thicker gel. I spread it over the top of the cake and let it drip down the sides. Then I refrigerated the cake. That kept the drips in place. The second batch I made with 3 teaspoons of cornstarch and spooned it over the cake when serving. It looks like fake blood and is pretty great.

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Post and Recipe reposted with permission from Heather at SugarDishMe.com

Heather blogs at Sugar Dish Me where she shares tried and true, tested recipes that work well in a home kitchen, without lots of complicated stuff. Her goal on her blog is to give you simple, family-friendly, fresh recipes with un-complicated ingredients, that you can find in a regular store, on a regular budget.

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White Vampire Bite Cake

Angie Barrett — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 01:25:37 +0000

This White Vampire Bite Cake is a tender white cake filled with pockets of red gel and covered with a white vanilla frosting. It’s then topped with a blood red white chocolate ganache and chocolate vampire fangs!

“Shared with permission from Miranda at CookieDoughandOvenMitt.com”

White Vampire Bite Cake is what your Halloween dessert table needs right in the center as the star attraction! Not only is this cake perfect for Halloween with its Vampire charm but it’s really easy to make too.

I think desserts like this that only take a few steps to go from super normal to spooky and wicked for Halloween are the best!

Such an easy and fun Vampire cake! I love the fangs! – Angie, Southern Halloween Queen

I love these kinds of desserts even more that I have a kid because I need desserts that are easy to make but I still want them to make a statement!

Some red gel for fake blood and some fake vampire fangs turn a plain ol’ tasty white cake into a delivish treat.

Oh and guess what! The Vampire fangs on this cake are 100% edible! Mirinda made them using candy melts and a Vampire Fang silicon mold that she found at Walmart.

Although I’m sure you could also find gummy fangs around Halloween or decorate the cake with plastic ones but I love the idea of the candy melt vampire fangs that Miranda made.

White Vampire Bite Cake

Miranda says,

This white cake recipe is pretty darn tasty. It tastes like a sugar cookie!

Click here to find the entire recipe on CookieDoughandOvenMitt.com

Post and Recipe reposted with permission from Miranda at CookieDoughandOvenMitt.com

Miranda blogs at Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt, she loves peanut butter, food network, and shoes but dislikes coconut. She is a stay-at-home mom who lives in upstate NY and creates super cute desserts that she shares on her blog!

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Vampire Hot Chocolate

Angie Barrett — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:46:13 +0000

The Perfect Halloween hot chocolate that is 100% Vampire approved! Vampire Hot Chocolate with sugar blood! “Some are born into sweet delight, some are born to endless nights.”- William Blake. This poem line isn’t directly related to vampires but it does seem to fit doesn’t it. It does sound like it’s perfect for this Vampire Hot Chocolate too!

“This post/recipe originally appeared on my main blog BigBearsWife.com”

There is never a thing as “too much hot chocolate”, right? I’m sharing this Vampire Hot Chocolate with y’all today and I bet you’d love the Melting Witch Hot Chocolate recipe on the blog too!

I mean it really hurt me to even write those words together in a sentence!

Once the air outside starts to cool down a tad and the nights become a little chilly, it’s time for all the hot chocolate, right?!

But who am I kidding, I started drinking hot chocolate back at the end of August.

What does the weather look like for y’all around Halloween? Our Halloween weather can be kind of funny. To be honest, I’m just tickled to death when it’s nice and cool outside when Halloween gets here!

I remember a few Halloweens that required a light sweater when I was in high school but most of our Halloween nights were warm (and sometimes humid).

Thankfully, my husband keeps the apartment temperature at a frigid Antarctica degree temperature so I’m able to pretend like it’s fall/winter all year long!

That’s why this Halloween Vampire Hot Chocolate is happening!

It might be warm or comfortable outside but it’s freezing in here, so I’m warming up with hot chocolate, and lots of it.

So I went with Vampire name when I was naming this hot chocolate recipe but I suppose that you could also call it “Bloody Hot Chocolate” if you’re not into Vampires.

But to be honest, I think it kind of makes me sound like I’m trying to fake a British accent haha.

I think the dripping red sugar* blood on the glass of this Halloween drink kind of makes it seem more “Vampire” like. haha.

*I used Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar for this recipe! <3

Happy Haunting! Check out all of the spooky Halloween recipes and crafts on BigBearswife.com!!

Vampire Hot Chocolate

Created by Angie Barrett on July 20, 2018

“Some are born into sweet delight, some are born to endless nights.”- William Blake. This poem line isn’t directly related to vampires but it does seem to fit doesn’t it. It does sound like it’s perfect for this Vampire Hot Chocolate too!

Yield: 4 CUPS VAMPIRE HOT CHOCOLATE

Ingredients

FOR THE VAMPIRE HOT CHOCOLATE

3 cups of whole milk
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
8 ounces white chocolate, chopped into tiny pieces
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
red food coloring

FOR THE WHIPPED CREAM

1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar

FOR SUGAR BLOOD

1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1 cup Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
red gel food coloring

Instructions

FOR THE WHIPPED CREAM

In the bowl of a mixer add 1 cup heavy cream, vanilla and the Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar.
Whip on medium high until stiff peaks form

FOR THE VAMPIRE HOT CHOCOLATE

Add the whole milk, heavy cream, vanilla, chopped white chocolate and mini chocolate chips to a medium saucepan.
Heat over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally. Heat until the chocolate is melted and the hot chocolate starts to simmer.
No not let it burn or boil!
Stir in a drop or two of red food coloring.
Pour hot chocolate into prepared mugs. Top with whipped cream.

FOR SUGAR BLOOD

Combine water and light corn syrup into a small sauce pan. Pour in Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar and stir.
Heat on medium heat WITHOUT STIRRING until the sugar mixture reaches 300F on a candy thermometer (I\'ve actually used a cheap meat thermometer for this before tool)
Once it reached 300F add the food coloring and stir.
Let it cool for just a second and then dip the rim of clean glasses into the sugar mixture.
Dip to coat and then immediately sit it upright so the sugar blood will drip as it hardens.

Post and Recipe reposted with from my other blog BigBearsWife.com

Angie runs this blog, “Southern Halloween Queen” where she shares her love of Halloween with her own recipes and fun recipes/projects from other Halloween loving bloggers! She also runs her first blog, BigBearsWife.com that’s packed full of Southern recipes, her love of Disney and fun vacation ideas!

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Vampire Magic Shell – Bloody Magic Shell

Angie Barrett — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 02:14:23 +0000

Dip homemade popsicles or store bought ones into this Vampire Magic Shell – Bloody Magic Shell for a hauntingly special treat! Or drizzle it over scoops of ice cream for an eerie evening dessert!

“This post/recipe originally appeared on my main blog BigBearsWife.com”

Muhahahaha it’s October!! That means that we can totally be all about everything that’s Halloween! Ok,so let’s just pretend that I haven’t been all about Halloween since the last week of August! haha

Now we can officially be all about Halloween without judgment.

Oh and the best part about Halloween and October? We went to Disney World to celebrate Halloween this year!

Ok, well we didn’t actually go on Halloween, we went a few weeks before Halloween. However it was still awesome to see all of the Halloween decoration out!

I’m sure I’ll be chatting more about that later (ok YOU KNOW I’ll be chatting more about that later) but let’s talk about this magic shell!

It’s the magic shell that’s just perfect for Halloween! Why? Well because it’s Vampire Magic Shell – Bloody Magic Shell!

Yeah, I could decide on if I should call it, Vampire Magic Shell or Bloody Magic Shell for Halloween so I just went with both.

You know what magic shell is right? The chocolate coating that hardens when it touches cold ice cream?

Well now you have a Halloween version!

It’s still hot here in the south for Halloween most years so I can totally see myself enjoying one of these fudgesicles that’s been dipped in magic shell!

I tried a few different options before I found the one I liked, the one that I’m posting today. I tried out a few recipes that called for vegetable oil, I tried some that called for cake mix and a few that called for tons of food coloring.

Some were ok and some were downright weird.

I had high hopes for the red velvet cake mix one I tried out but it fell short and turned into more of a dried blood color than the bright red I was going for. The food coloring tries always ended with way too much food coloring that only yielded a weird pink and the vegetable oil ones just didn’t harden like I wanted it to.

So then I turned to coconut oil and the red melting candy wafers that I had in the pantry. I had almost given up my idea when I spotted the bag of red chocolate in the pantry! I’m so glad that it caught my eye because it was exactly what I needed for this!

So whip up some Vampire Magic Shell – Bloody Magic Shell this evening for your little vampires and monsters.

Side note! If you’re looking for the cherry magic shell like Dairy Queens, just make this and add in a little oil based cherry candy flavoring.

Happy Haunting! Check out all of the spooky Halloween recipes and crafts on BigBearsWife.com!!

Vampire Magic Shell – Bloody Magic Shell

Vampire Magic Shell - Bloody Magic Shell

Yield: 2 cups

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes

Dip homemade popsicles or store bought ones into this Vampire Magic Shell - Bloody Magic Shell for a hauntingly special treat! Or drizzle it over scoops of ice cream for an eerie evening dessert!

Ingredients

2 cups red chocolate candy melts
1/2 cup coconut oil

Instructions

Pour candy melts and coconut oil into a medium microwave bowl.

Heat in 30 second burst, stirring after each burst, until melted.

Pour candy melts and coconut oil into the top of a double broiler, add water to the bottom pot of the double broiler and melted on medium -low heat until melted. Stirring as it melts.

Store in an air tight container at room temperature.

Notes

THIS MAGIC SHELL WILL HARDEN ONCE COOLED! TO USE - REMELT IN MICROWAVE OR IN A HOT WATER BATH ON THE STOVE. Do not let water touch magic shell!

Linking this to Meal Plan Monday #34

Post and Recipe reposted with from my other blog BigBearsWife.com

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