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 Scarapo Witch's Hat Cake. That'll be the hit of the party

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

So light your jack-o'-lanterns and borrow your black cat, cause it's Fright Night

Hey, this is the most fun time of year

It's Halloween. 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. Hee hee hee hee hee hee. 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? How are you? Hi, 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. Peter! 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

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 gonna take our square piece

and we're gonna make this just a little more even by t the little puffy part off

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

Okay, so we're gonna press down and then pull those edges around

so we can just pull him right on out. All right, that's gonna be part of our hat

Then we're gonna go over to here with this one. We're just gonna push straight down and pull away

Straight down and pull away All right now we got some scraps left This is going to be the top of the hat

And I'm going to take these scraps and stuff them down into that cone

There we go, and kind of press it in like that and sit him right there

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, 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 gonna do the same thing for our next layer because we're getting the height for our hat

One more. Last piece. Now I'm gonna use a wooden skewer to make sure our hat doesn't fall off

of our plate during the party. All right, so we're gonna go in just like so

Just like that. All right, now we're ever so gently gonna try to get the frosting on to the top of our

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

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 going to try it from the bottom up and

let's see what we've got. I almost think that's going to work better. So we're going to start

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

and you can cut them to the length that you need and take a paintbrush and brush it with some white K-Ro syrup

But I've made mine out of almond paste. It's 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. Ooh

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 gonna clean my knife up so that we can brace our cake

as we slip out our wax paper. Coming up next, kitty, cheese ball goblins

We're gonna 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

I'm going to use softened cream cheese, butter, and we're going to 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 got another one in the refrigerator because for my party I 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 gonna stick that ear right in there

All right, how's that looking? The next thing we're gonna do is his eyebrows

I could actually use the red bell pepper or the green. All right, so how's that for his eyebrows

And another eyebrow. For his eyes, we're going to use a small pimenta 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

Is that looking good? All right, and 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 gonna start with, which makes

it real easy. I'm gonna put a little flour on our board, cause 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 gonna just press them together so our snake won't have any holes in him

But I think we got those looking pretty good. Okay, we're going to 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 going to use a mustard. And I'm using kind of a spicy mustard

I'm just going to spread this on. Now, you can use any kind of meat you want

I'm using a salami. Love salami. And I'm just going to line them up just like that down the middle

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

Lay it like that All right now we going to 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're gonna fold that over, and fold this over, and I'm gonna take our brush

and we're just gonna dampen that edge just like that so that we can seal him up

Okay, now I'm gonna flip him one more time. I'm gonna kind of roll him up together kind of tight

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

We're gonna taper out the tail. Just make him as pointed as you can down there

All right, 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 yoke

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 gonna give his head a little brown color and 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

And we're going to 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 you like that

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

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

Real scary. Psst. .

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. Thank you