Melted Witches Recipe

Here is the much requested Melted Witches recipe - it's from the Taste of Home Halloween Food and Fun cookbook, which has many more cool Halloween treats if you can track it down at the grocery store.

Melted Witch Puddles

1 tsp water
4 drops yellow food coloring
1-1/2 cups flaked coconut
2 cups (12oz) semisweet chocolate chips
6 Tbsp shortening, divided
36 Oreos
36 Bugles
4 cups vanilla or white chips
36 pretzel sticks

In a large plastic bag, combine water and food coloring; add coconut. Shake to tint coconut and set aside. Melt chocolate chips and 2 Tbsp shortening; stir until smooth.

For witches hats, place about 1/3 cup chocolate mixture in a plastic bag; cut a small hole in a corner of the bag. Pipe a small amount of chocolate on a cookie. Dip a Bugle in some of the remaining chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Position over chocolate on cookie, forming a witch's hat. Set on waxed paper to dry.

For brooms and puddles, melt vanilla chips and the remaining shortening; stir until smooth. Place mixture in a plastic bag; cut a small hole in a corner of the bag. Pipe mixture into the shape of a puddle onto waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Immediately place a hat on the puddle. Place a pretzel stick alongside the hat; sprinkle coconut at the end of the pretzel stick.

Chill for 15 minutes or until set.