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 Vampire Blood Drop Bites

Everyone will want to sink their teeth into these delicious treats!

Baking time: 20 min.

Set oven to 350 degrees.

What you’ll need:
1 pack of kielbasa

2 tablespoons of brown sugar

¾ cup of ketchup

What to do:

Combine the brown sugar and ketchup together in a bowl, mix well. Slice kielbasa into medium thick pieces and layout on a cookie sheet. Spoon ketchup/brown sugar mix onto kielbasa slices. Place in oven and bake at 350 degrees for twenty minutes.

       ^^ Author's Personal Favorite ^^

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 Vampire Blood Punch

(Drink is NOT alcoholic)

1 gallon cranberry juice
1 gallon orange juice
1 cup raspberry sorbet
1 quart seltzer

Mix the juices together. Add the sorbet, softened, and stir until it disappears. Add the seltzer.

To add a little extra creepiness to your punch, you could float some wax fangs in the bowl or make ice using the plastic full mouth fangs. They come in 12 packs, just fill with water, freeze, push out and float. But beware, they melt fast!

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The Vampire's Delight

Great for an adult Halloween party.
Serves 6-8

(Drink IS Alcoholic)

8 ounces pineapple juice
8 ounces raspberry liqueur
8 ounces cachaca

Mix all ingredients in a large punch bowl. Add ice and serve.

For a ghoulish effect, the night before fill a Latex glove with water and red food dye. Tie off tightly with elastic. Hang this, with the fingers down, in your freezer. Before party, run water over glove briefly. This loosens glove enough to pull glove off the ice. Float the iced "hand" in the punch bowl.

 Vampire Cookies

3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp almond extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
approx 1/2 cup red jam (raspberry/strawberry)

In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and extracts.

Add flour and salt to the bowl and mix them into the butter-sugar mixture at low speed until dough is just combined. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 325F.

Divide dough in half and keep the portion you are not using in the refrigerator.

Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface until it is about 1/8-inch thick. Use a cookie cutter to cut out 2-inch rounds.

Place rounds on a baking sheet, put a teaspoon of jam on each of them and cover with another round of dough. Press edges down lightly, pinching the edges onto the cookie sheet. Use a toothpick and poke two small holes (like a vampire bite) in the top of each cookie.

Bake for 10-12 minutes, until cookies are set.

Cool for about 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Dip a toothpick in some extra red jam and re-insert in the “bite” holes you made before baking to emphasize them, if not already red. Draw a blood trick down from one of the bites with the jam, if desired.

Cookies are best the day they are made.

Makes 2 dozen.