Week EIGHT: Pizza Mummies, Swamp Juice and Spider Cupcakes!

PIZZA MUMMIES
from Family Fun Magazine
Ingredients:

• English muffins
• Pizza sauce
• Black olives
• Scallions
• Red or green pepper
• Cheese sticks or slices

Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 350ºF. For each mummy, spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce onto half of an English muffin (toast it first, if you like).
2. Set olive slices in place for eyes and add round slices of green onion or bits of red or green pepper for pupils.
3. Lay strips of cheese (we used a pulled-apart string cheese stick) across the muffin for the mummy's wrappings.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the muffin is toasty.

SWAMP JUICE
from Family Fun Magazine
Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup small tapioca pearls (found in the baking aisle of most grocery stores)
• Food coloring
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 8 gummy fish
• Seltzer water
• Lemonade
• 8 gummy worms

Directions:

1. Bring 6 cups of water to a boil and add the tapioca pearls. Reduce the heat slightly and boil the pearls, stirring occasionally, for 20 to 25 minutes. 
2. Divide the pearls, with the remaining water, between two bowls. Add 4 drops of food coloring (we used 3 drops of yellow and 1 drop of green in one bowl, and 4 drops of blue in the other) and 2 tablespoons of sugar to each bowl. 
3. Stir the mixtures, then allow them to sit uncovered for 20 to 25 minutes. 
4. Drain and rinse the pearls with cold water.
   Spoon 2 tablespoons of pearls into each glass and drop in a gummy fish. 
5. Fill the glasses with seltzer water, then add a splash of lemonade. 
6. Place a gummy worm around a spoon.

SPIDER CUPCAKES
from Family Fun Magazine
Ingredients:

• Chocolate cupcake (body)
• Canned chocolate icing
• Chocolate sprinkles (hair)
• 2 pieces of eye-type candy (we used Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts)
• Clean scissors
• Ruler
• 1 package of black string lace licorice (legs)

Directions:

1. Frost the cupcake with chocolate icing and cover with sprinkles.
2. Press the eyes into place.
3. Use scissors to cut eight 4-inch pieces of licorice for the legs.
4. Holding all of the legs together in a bunch, bend them in half and crease. 
5. Push the end of each leg into the cupcake, four on each side, to assemble the spider.