Halloween at Home

Trick-or-treat, y'all

I'm Paula Deen, and I'm so glad you've dropped by because Halloween is my absolute favorite food holiday

But before I show you the tricks to my treat, we'll visit a man who takes his haunted house to New Heights

Then we're gonna head home to Scarborough Witch's Hat Cake. That'll be the hit of the party

And I've got these charming little cheeseball goblins and finally a Halloween treat that'll bite you right back

So light your jack-o'-lanterns and borrow your black cat, because it's fright night

Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee. Hey, this is the most fun time of year

It's Halloween. And I'm fixing to take y'all to a spooky, spooky castle

and I'm going to introduce you to Mr. Halloween. So kids, y'all load up and come with me, cause we're gonna have fun

He he he he he. My friend Peter over at Wings Castle has been scaring the britches off of people for years with his spooky decorations

And today he's offered to show me around his castle to help me get in the Halloween spirit

Hey Peter, how are you? Hey, Paula, how are you? I'm fine. How are you doing

I'm fine. I'm just feeding the fish. Were you all geared up and ready for Halloween? Yes, yes, we're getting there if you want to come in

I do want to come in, but I have to tell you, I'm kind of a little scared

Well, nothing to fear but fear itself. Spectacular. How long have you lived here

33 years now. How much in? Well, welcome to the castle. It's awesome

And how long did it take you to build it? Well, we're still working on it, so..

33 years later. Well, y'all have done a spectacular job with it

Thank you. It's almost indescribable. We have some surprises for guests if they show up

Oh, really? Especially if they like to look in the closet. Ah

Oh, it's a dead person, Peter! It's my neighbor. We got along fine now

Best neighbor you ever had. Yeah. Oh, Peter, I've had such a good time today with you

Okay. No, you're welcome. Here's a little souvenir. Oh, good. You're going to give me a rubber chicken

Yeah. That's great. I'm going to hang him in the kitchen. Okay. Oh, thanks so much, Peter

Bye. Happy Halloween. Same to you. Now that I'm good and scared

what y'all say let's go back to the house and fix up some Halloween treats? Well, how did you like Peter's castle

It was spooky, wasn't it? And he gave me a chicken. You know what I'm going to do with him

I'm going to just hang him right up here until it's time to fry him. He'll be safe right there

Today's show is all about Halloween props. Now, I've just draped a regular cake plate

and we're gonna put the wax paper around so I won't get that messed up

Now, right over here next to me, I have just a box cake mix, one round and one square

What I've done with this one is I've mixed red food coloring into yellow to get kind of an orange cake

So we're gonna start by placing our round layer into the center of our dish

We're going to take our square piece, and we're going to make this just a little more even by t the little puffy part off

I'm going to flip him like that, so we'll have a smooth edge to work with

Okay, so we're going to press down, and then pull those edges around, so we can just pull him right on out

Alright, that's going to be part of our hat. Then we're going to go over to here with this one

We're just going to push straight down and pull away. Straight down and pull away Alright now we got some scraps left This is going to be the top of the hat And I going to take these scraps and stuff them down into that cone

There we go, we're going to kind of press it in like that and set him right there. So

So we're going to use a canned frosting. Get a little start right there

We're going to spread him in and the kids are just going to love this hat

We're ready for our next layer. And place him right about in the center

And we're going to do the same thing again with him. Just going to smooth that around

Okay. We're going to do the same thing for our next layer

because we're getting the height for our hat. One more, last piece

Now I'm going to use a wooden skewer to make sure our hat doesn't fall off of our plate during the party

All right, so we're going to go in just like so, just like that

All right, now we're ever so gently going to try to get the frosting on to the top of

our hat without knocking it down. That may be the trick. So we're going to just start up there and very, very gently bring it down

Just like that. And he kind of fell on us, so I'm going to turn that around and bring it up to the top like that

Now we're ready to turn him and do a little bit more

I came from top to bottom on that first one, but I think I'm gonna try it from the bottom up

and let's see what we've got. I almost think that's gonna work better

So we're gonna start down there, bring that up. Just like that and see what we've got

Oh, I think that's much better, don't y'all? I'm gonna take my spatula now and just start smoothing it out

Look how cute our hat's starting to come alive, isn't it? I'm gonna go around the edge of the hat

Now, no self-respecting witch hat would go without a band, so that's what we're gonna put on next

And this is real, real easy to do. You can buy fruit roll-ups at the grocery store

store and you can cut them to the length that you need and take a paintbrush and

brush it with some white K-Rose syrup but I've made mine out of almond paste

So cute. All right now I've got a tray full of candy that Michael put out for me

and I'm gonna just start placing those candies. All right stick different

candies in our hat. You know, I don't want to do too much to it, because I think it's

just kind of so cute the way it is. I'm going to clean my knife up so that we can brace

our cake as we slip out our wax paper. Coming up next, Kitty. Cheeseball goblins

We're going to move on next to a cheese ball goblin

Great little dish because you can make this the night before and have him right ready for the party

And I'm going to use softened cream cheese, butter, And we're gonna use about a tablespoon of milk

That'll just help it make it more workable for us. All right, we've got our cream cheese

and our butter incorporated. So now we're gonna add Mexican cheese. And you can find this already shredded

in the cheese section of your grocery store. And I'm gonna let him sit as long as I can

Now I've got another one in the refrigerator because for my party I'm probably gonna be

making three of these to last all night Get this one out of the fridge And it should be nice and firm

And I've got my wax paper hanging right here ready. I'm just going to start playing until

I have the shape head that I want. All right, I think he's just about perfect

Set him right in the center of our plate. Over here, I have a bowl of beaten cream cheese

It has no flavoring or anything in it. And we're gonna frost our goblin

with the plain cream cheese. So you can see how smooth and soft this is

and I beat it real well, so it's ready to frost our head

Now you could have the inside of this goblin any color that you wanted

So here comes the fun part. We're gonna start with some ears

And by just lightly tinting a regular tortilla chip, green is gonna make him some fabulous big-o ears

We're just going to stick that ear right in there. Alright, how's that looking

The next thing we're going to do is his eyebrows. I could actually use the red bell pepper or the green

Alright, so how's that for his eyebrows? And another eyebrow

For his eyes, we're going to use a small pimento olive. And his nose, which is my favorite, find an ugly, ugly pepper

And these are just salad peppers, and I kind of like that one

That looking good? All right, we're going to use carrots for his teeth

And you see, he hadn't done too much brushing on them. Now, for Veet, we're gonna use a big olive

And for his toenails, I've got some beautiful red bell pepper. Now, isn't that a beautiful manicure

We're just gonna tuck them right in there. And I think we're gonna give him three toes

Now, I think it's safe at this point to start slipping our paper away

And now he's got to have a real pretty do by using just shredded purple cabbage

So how's that for a good-looking goblin? A few crackers. Look at that

He's all ready for the party. And next, we're going to see what's slithering through the grass

So don't go away. I promised y'all that I was going to make you something that slivered through the grass

Well, that's what we're fixing to make next. We're going to bake a snake

Now, this is just an ordinary canned crescent roll that we're going to start with

which makes it real easy. I'm going to put a little flour on our board

because we don't want it sticking, but not too, too much because I don't want it so dry

that I can't seal those perforated edges. I'm going to just press them together

so our snake won't have any holes in him. But I think we've got those looking pretty good

Okay, we're gonna take our flour and dust our rolling pin. Roll him long ways and try to get as much length

out of this piece of dough as we can. Right, there we go

We got a pretty good looking snake going on. Right now I'm just gonna use a mustard

and I'm using kind of a spicy mustard. I'm just gonna spread this on

Now you can use any kind of meat you want. I'm using a salami, love salami

and I'm just gonna line them up just like that down the middle

until I get to the end of the pastry. And then I'm gonna come in with some real thin ham

Lay it like that All right now we gonna add some cheese and you can add any kind of cheese you want I using a little jack I like a white cheese with our snake And we going

to fold that over, and fold this over, and I'm going to take our brush, and we're just

going to dampen that edge just like that so that we can seal him up. Okay, now I'm going

to flip him one more time. I'm going to kind of roll him up together kind of tight and

I'm going to work him so he keeps getting a little longer and a little longer and then

I'm going to taper out the tail. Just make him as pointed as you can down there. All

Now we're gonna come back and work on his head. Not a big one, but just a little head

All right, bathe him in an egg bath. This is gonna give the skin of the snake

a real shiny, pretty finish. All right, now we're gonna paint our snake

Just use food coloring that's been beat up with a little yolk, and you'll want it

To kind of run down the sides like that, kids can use their imagination and the future artist

will just have a ball playing with this one. So I'm going to give his head a little brown color

Then kind of blend it in there with the rest of him

Like that. All we have to do now is put two cloves in for his nostril

we're gonna transfer him to the cookie sheet. Get him slithering up there onto that pan

Does he look pretty good? Okay. All right, here he goes into the oven

And let's go see what the other one looks like. I put one in a little bit earlier

and let's see what he looks like. He looks pretty good, doesn't he

And we're gonna stick that red bell pepper tongue in there. Just like that

Now all we need to add is the eyes. How do you like that

I'm just going to bite him before he bites me first. And he really is a tasty snake

Stay tuned, because coming up next, a few more tips to make it real scary

While I was putting this menu together, I thought of a few things that y'all just might

like to know in case y'all want to make it. Now, a great way to be able to do the vegetables to your goblin the night before is shave your

cabbage and your carrots and your bell peppers and put them in ice water

and the next morning he will have the prettiest, curliest hairdo you've ever seen

And I think the best tip I got is the one that Peter gave me

He told me to take a rubber glove and fill it full of punch

Look at it. Tie it up with a twist tie. You'll want to tie that tightly

Throw it into your freezer. And when you're ready to pour your punch into your punch bowl, your hand makes your ice cube

I hope that all your little ghosting goblins love the menu that you prepare for them

the cream cheese goblins, and the witch's hat, and the snake. So until next time, America, I wish you love and best dishes from my Halloween to yours

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