Pumpkin Carving Party

We had a great time Saturday after hosting our first pumpkin carving party. Everyone's pumpkin turned out great and they looked really good when they were all lite up at night. After reading many of your blogs I've gotten to try a couple of recipes that I've been printing off.

Menu included:

Pricilla's Corn Dip

Jenny's Pumpkin Spice Blossoms

Maria and Josh's Pretzels and Queso Sauce

Pigs in the blanket

Crawfish and Corn Chowder

Punch

S'More Shooters

Chex Mix

For the punch I tried a recipe from Country Home magazine. I didn't have a pumpkin mold so I thought I would try the plast container from my Dole fruit snacks. (I save all sorts of stuff, you never know what you can use it for.) The looked sorta like pumpkins, but when I floated them in there they didn't anymore. I would make the punch again it tasted really great and it was good to have some fruit juice for the kids. I might leave out the whipping cream floaters though. When they all melted and you're drinking the drink it's like some thick funky taste. Recipe says you can use mixed berry juice or apple juice. I went with the mixed berry juice.

The S'More Shooters were great around the fire. I see why they were ment to be shooters, I made larger glasses of it and it's so rich you can't finish it. I think if you thin it out a little with more milk then you can have a larger glass of it, but either way it was a winner. I forgot to take a picture so I'll have to add one later.

Priscilla's corn dip was do die for and just as yummy as she said it would be. I know have to make it for Thanksgiving to share it with my family.

Jenny's cookies came out really pretty and little did anyone know if used 4 ingredients! I couldn't find the pumpkin spice kisses like she used, so I used the caramel apple ones and they tasted good.

My hubby got suckered into helping me and was in charge of the pigs in the blanket. since I used the lil smokies I had him cut the crescent rolls in half so they wouldn't end up all bread. Thanks dear you did a wonderful job!

While he did that I worked on Josh and Maria's pretzels with cheese dipping sauce. These were also a big hit. I had trouble getting my pretzels to look alike so gave up and just rolled out balls. They turned out to be the perfect size to snack on.

I'll post my chowder recipe on an upcoming post. It was another item I forgot to take pictures of before it got eaten up.

We set up the backyard with my new fire pit that I won from the Red White and Blue Rhino contest.

We carved our pumpkins and while a friend of ours toasted the seeds for us to snack on we gathered around the fire and roasted marshmallows and made smores.

Check out our creations. Don't they look great? Can't wait to do it again next year!