CUB GRUB

DUMP CAKE 

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Ingredients

2 cans pie filling (any flavor)

1 box yellow cake mix

1 cup walnuts

1 cup butter

Whipped topping

Directions

ü  Spread pie filling in 9”x 13” pan.

ü  Sprinkle cake mix over pie filling.

ü  Top with nuts.

ü  Melt butter and drizzle over top.

ü  Bake at 350° for 30 - 45 minutes.

ü  Top with whipped cream.

HOT POCKETS 

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Ingredients

1 package crescent rolls,

Pizza sauce,

Pepperoni,

Cheese

Directions

ü  Cut up the pepperoni and cheese.

ü  Spoon a spoonful of pizza sauce on one crescent roll.

ü  Put some pepperoni and cheese in the center and fold over and smash edges together with a fork.

ü  Cook at 375° for 15 - 18 minutes

ü  You can also use the same idea for peanut butter and jelly, pie filling etc.

PITA SANDWICHES

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Ingredients

1 package pita bread,

Any meat and cheese,

Lettuce, pickles, salad dressing, mustard, tomatoes...

or tuna fish, or peanut butter, etc.

Directions

ü  Cut pita bread in half,

ü  Open up and make your sandwich the way you like.

ü  Enjoy!

Insect Themed Food

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ANTS-ON-A-LOG

Slice stalks of celery, and spread peanut butter in the groove.

Sprinkle with black raisins.

Variations:

1) aphids-on-a-log (sunflower seeds),

2) gnats-on-a-log (currents).

BEE BREAD

Ingredients

·         1 cup corn syrup

·         1 1/4 cup powdered sugar

·         1 cup peanut butter

·         1 1/4 cup powdered milk

Directions

Combine ingredients,

Then roll into 1-2" balls,

Then roll the balls in powdered sugar to keep them from sticking together.

FLY-IN-THE-BATTER DESSERTS

·         Fly-in-the-batter cookies: Make chocolate chip or oatmeal cookies, adding raisins (flies) or chocolate sprinkles (gnats).

·         Fly-in-the-batter pudding: Vanilla pudding with raisins.

·         Cow Pies: Chocolate pudding with slivered almonds or coconut sprinkles (maggots). Place a few plastic fly adults on top.

CATERPILLAR IN A COCOON

1.       Use a Bundt cake & filling recipe or box, but bake in cupcake tins (greased-do not use cupcake papers).

2.       When cool, dip or cover with a thin layer of frosting, and

3.       Then roll in or sprinkle coconut on top.

4.       Soften (but don't melt!) caramel candies,

5.       Coat with melted chocolate and/or roll in nuts/sprinkles/coconut.

BUTTERFLY MOUTHPARTS

Ingredients

·         1 3-oz. pkg. flavored gelatin

·         1/2 cup warm water

·         1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows

Directions

ü  Grease an 8-9" square pan VERY LIGHTLY.

ü  Mix boxed gelatin (any flavor) with warm water in a 1 1/2 quart size bowl and microwave 1 1/2 minutes.

ü  Stir to dissolve completely.

ü  Add marshmallows, microwave 1 minute more or until marshmallows are puffed and almost melted.

ü  SLOWLY stir mixture until marshmallows are melted.

ü  Allow creamy layer to float to the top-don't mix it all together.

ü  Pour mixture into pan.

ü  Refrigerate until set (about 1 hr.).

ü  Loosen edges with a knife.

ü  Roll up tightly like a jelly roll, then (with seam-side down) cut into 1/2" slices with a sharp knife.

ü  Serve immediately or refrigerate.

SPIDER CAKE

Ingredients

·         1 boxed cake mix

·         Black Frosting

·         1 box green gelatin

·         8 black licorice sticks

·         8 gumdrops, M & M's or other round candy for eyes

Directions

ü  Prepare any boxed cake mix.

ü  Bake it in 2 metal bowls, 1 bigger than the other.

ü  Once unmolded, cut the bigger one (the "body") in half, horizontally.

ü  CAREFULLY scoop out an adequate cavity in each half.

ü  FILL with well-whipped set green Jell-O, and reattach the halves.

ü  Frost both cakes black, arrange on serving platter.

ü  Use licorice sticks as legs.

ü  Use 2 BIG green gumdrops and 6 little ones as eyes.

ü  When the cake is cut into, it spurts green goop, just like a real spider when stepped on.

Variations:

1.       Add a red hourglass to the back for a Black Widow.

2.       Substitute pistachio pudding instead of green Jell-O.

3.       Black cake frosting: add blue food coloring to chocolate frosting or purchase black food coloring from a specialty store.

BUG BLOOD or BUG JUICE

Mix a yellow drink (citrus pop or lemonade) with a blue one (kool-aid).

You'll end up with a radioactive shade of green.

CHOCOLATE PRETZEL SPIDER

Stick two Oreo cookies together with chocolate frosting. Make 8 curved legs by breaking bow-tied pretzels, and attach them around the middle of the spider by sticking them into the chocolate frosting. Use M & M's for eyes on the front, 'glued' with frosting.

As a variation, use sandwich crackers, instead of sandwich cookies, stuck together with peanut butter.

BUTTERFLY SNACKS

Use pretzels as butterfly wing frames, and stick them together with softened caramel candy or peanut butter. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top.

"DIRT" CAKE

Ingredients

·         1 20-oz. pkg. chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed

·         1/2 stick margarine

·         1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese

·         1 cup powdered sugar

·         3-1/2 c. milk

·         2 pkg. instant chocolate pudding

·         1 12-oz. tub whipped topping

·         1/4 c. mini marshmallows (for "beetle grubs")

·         1 plastic flower pot

·         1 plastic flower

·         plastic ants/beetles

·         gummy worms

Directions

ü  Cream margarine, sugar, cream cheese.

ü  In another bowl mix milk and pudding.

ü  Let sit until thick.

ü  Stir in cool whip, mix with cream cheese mixture.

ü  Make sure pot holes are plugged.

ü  Put 1/3 of cookie crumbs in bottom of pot.

ü  Add 1/2 of cream cheese mixture.

ü  Repeat cookie crumbs and cream cheese mixture, add in some gummy worms and the mini marshmallows.

ü  Add extra crumbs on top (to look like dirt).

ü  Refrigerate over night.

ü  Add flower(s), plastic bugs, and the rest of the gummy worms on top.

ü  Use a trowel to serve.