Spider Crunch – Funk & Weber Designs/Needle and ThRead: Stitching for Literacy
This is a wild and wacky, tasty and thrilling recipe from one of my mostest favorite people!
Jen is the mastermind behind the campaign: Needle and ThRead: Stitching for Literacy
To learn more, check it out here: Needle and ThRead-Stitching for Literacy
As both a needlework designer and professional wordsmith (author) this programs allows Jen to unite her two loves.
For more Halloween Recipes, check out the October 2006 Archives here at TheArmchairChef.com.
Enjoy!
Tink
*When I dream, I cook and bake like an artist!*
| TheArmchairChef.com Halloween Countdown 2007 SPIDER CRUNCH |
| I “outgrew” trick-or-treating before I was ready to stop dressing up. To fill the gap, I convinced my family to turn our entryway into a sort of haunted house, surprising (and scaring) trick-or-treaters. My sister, a zombie (just that night, not in real life), answered the door. I was some hyper witch-pet inspired by the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. When the kids walked hesitantly into the entryway, I leapt out and got in their faces, sniffing them, smacking my lips, and hissing “tassssssty!” Then my mother, in full witch regalia, swooped in with a cackle that became legendary, and I cowered before her. My father stayed outside with the dog, hiding in bushes and scaring the pants off of parents who waited in the drive while their kids faced the horrors behind the front door. The spooky music in the background was The Nutcracker played at a slow speed.That’s that crazy Funk family for you.
Also crazy is this tasty but conceptually gross recipe!Jen Funk Weber |
| Ingredients |
| 1 (12-ounce) package chocolate chips (milk chocolate or semi-sweet) 1 cup creamy peanut butter, divided 1/3 cup powdered sugar 2 cups toasted rice cereal 1 cup of a combination of things to get caught in the spider’s web: raisins, gummy animals, animal crackers |
| Step by Step |
| 1) Put cereal and critter combo in a large bowl. Leave a few critters out to use as decoration later. Set aside. 2) Melt chocolate chips and 3/4 cup peanut butter in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. 3) Remove from heat, and add sugar, stirring until smooth. 4) Pour chocolate mixture over cereal and critters. Stir gently to coat. 5) Press coated mixture into a circle or spider web shape, and smoosh extra critters onto the mass here and there. 6) Put remaining peanut butter in a small plastic bag and snip a tiny piece off one corner of the bag. Pipe a spider’s web onto the chocolate mass by making concentric circles or following the outline of the shape. Beginning at the center circle (or odd shape), drag a toothpick or knife out to the edge across all the concentric rings at intervals to complete the web image. 7) Now you can eat the spider web and all the critters caught in the spider web. YUM! |
| Funk & Weber Designs Needle and ThRead: Stitching for Literacy |
| Funk & Weber Designs introduces Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy, a multi-faceted program promoting needlework and literacy.Part 1. We are designing a series of bookmark patterns. A minimum of 10% of profits from sales of these patterns will be donated to literacy programs, libraries, or schools. We’ve invited other designers to join us, offering the program logo in exchange for a commitment to donate a portion of profits to literacy.Part 2. We are hosting the first annual Bookmark Challenge from October 1 – November 15. During the Challenge, independent needlework shops are invited to collect hand-stitched bookmarks from their customers then donate them to a local library or school during Children’s Book Week, November 12-18.
Please join us by stitching a bookmark to reward a child for reading accomplishments. Visit the Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy Web site for further details and a list of participating shops. Part 3. With the help of the Arctic Needle needlework shop, Arctic Needleworkers embroidery guild, and the Anchorage Public Libraries, we are hosting two Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy Make-It/Take-Its at Anchorage public libraries this month. Come stitch a bookmark with us! For beginners and experienced stitchers alike, school-age and up. Materials are free to participants. Sunday, October 14, 2-4 p.m. at the Loussac Library in Anchorage, AK Saturday, October 20, 2-4 p.m. at the Muldoon Branch in Anchorage, AK Reading and stitching make the world a better place. We hope you’ll take time this month to do both. |