Graveyard Treat

* Exported from MasterCook *

Graveyard Treat

Recipe By : 1993
Serving Size : 12 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Desserts

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 1/4 C. chocolate wafer cookie crumbs
divided
1/4 C. sugar
1 stick margarine
8 oz. low-fat cream cheese -- very soft
1 C. confectioners' sugar
1 container Cool Whip -- (8 oz.)
2 C. boiling water
1 pkg orange jello -- 8 serving size
-- (or 2 4 serving
-- size)
1/2 C. cold water
ice cubes

Decorations: assorted rectangle-shaped (with rounded edges) sandwich
cookies (something which has ends which are the general shape of the top of
a tombstone - it's the shape that counts here), both vanilla and chocolate;
decorator icing tubes in orange, green and brown; candy corn and pumpkins
(approximately same size as candy corn)

1. Mix 2 C. of the cookie crumbs, sugar and margarine in 13x9" pan. Press
firmly onto bottom of pan. Refrigerate.

2. Mix cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 C. Cool Whip. Spread
evenly over the first layer. Chill.

3. Stir boiling water into gelatin bowl for 2 mins or until dissolved well.
Mix cold water and ice to make 1-1/2 C. Stir into gelatin until slightly
thickened. Remove any remaining ice. If jello is not slightly thickened,
refrigerate until it is. Gently spoon over cream cheese layer.

4. Refrigerate 3 hours or until firm. Spread remaining whipped topping
over jello. Sprinkle with remaining cookie crumbs.

5. Decorate as graveyard. To make tombstones, using icing, decorate top
half of sandwich cookies with items like "Boo," "RIP," skull and crossbones,
pumpkins, or circles with smaller circles inside to look like scary eyes,
add squiggly lines for frightening eyebrows. When icing has dried, insert
bottom halves of cookies into dessert in uneven rows of 2 and 3 cookie to
simulate a graveyard, using about 13 cookies in all.

Scatter candy corn and pumpkins around "tombstones."

ORIGINATOR Grace Wagner (wgmm@main.citynet.net)
DATE 10/21/96


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