This is a fun Halloween recipe that was actually created for children with braces but is a good treat for anyone. This recipe and others can be found in The Braces Cookbook: Recipes You (and Your Orthodontist) Will Love.
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Black-Cherry Bats
What you need:
2 (3-oz.) packages black-cherry gelatin (dry)
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup grape juice
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
Directions:
Empty both packages of dry gelatin powder into a large bowl. In a medium saucepan, stir together the water and juice; bring to a full boil then remove pan from heat. Pour hot juice mixture slowly into bowl, stirring constantly with a large spoon. Keep stirring for two minutes or until all granules have dissolved. Add lemon juice and stir to mix.
Pour mixture into a 9″ round or square pan and place pan in refrigerator. Chill for at least 3 hours or until firm. Cut into squares with a knife, or into bat-shapes with cookie cutters (available at craft stores or discount department stores) dipped in hot water. If pieces are hard to get out, set the entire pan for a minute onto a cookie sheet filled with a quarter-inch of hot water. Makes two dozen squares. Keep chilled.
Citrus Orange Pumpkins
repeat the directions with:
2 (3-oz.) packages orange gelatin (dry)
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup orange juice (no pulp) or lemonade
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
Use tiny pumpkin-shaped cookies cutters as desired.
Ingredients
- 2 (3-oz.) packages black-cherry gelatin (dry)
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup grape juice
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 (3-oz.) packages orange gelatin (dry)
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup orange juice (no pulp) or lemonade
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- Use tiny pumpkin-shaped cookie cutters as desired.
- Empty both packages of dry gelatin powder into a large bowl.
- In a medium saucepan, stir together the water and juice; bring to a full boil then remove pan from heat.
- Pour hot juice mixture slowly into bowl, stirring constantly with a large spoon. Keep stirring for two minutes or until all granules have dissolved. Add lemon juice and stir to mix.
- Pour mixture into a 9in round or square pan and place pan in refrigerator. Chill for at least 3 hours or until firm.
- Cut into squares with a knife, or into bat-shapes with cookie cutters (available at craft stores or discount department stores) dipped in hot water. If pieces are hard to get out, set the entire pan for a minute onto a cookie sheet filled with a quarter-inch of hot water.
- Keep chilled.
- To make the Citrus Orange Pumpkins, repeat the directions above but with the ingredients listed for the Citrus Orange Pumpkins.
About the Book:
Developed by a three-generation braces-wearers family, The Braces Cookbook: Recipes You (and Your Orthodontist) Will Love offers 50 comfort-food recipes perfect for tender-teeth days, plus tooth trivia, web resources and hints for packing lunches, eating out and creating quick meals.
The whole family will enjoy “substitution specials” that put a braces-friendly twist on classic favorites. Coming in December is the new, revised edition of The Braces Cookbook, with full color photography and expanded resources – all the information you need, all in one place. www.MetalMouthMedia.net.
