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Boo the Ghost (recipes) and shalgram (iou)


Boo the Ghost (recipes)


Boo the Ghost

Yield: Makes 12 to 14 servings



Ingredients:



1(13X9-inch) cake, completely cooled

2cups Light & Fluffy Frosting (recipe follows)

2black licorice drops or jelly beans

1(19X13) cake board, cut in half crosswise and covered

Plastic spiders (optional)









Preparation:





1.If cake top is rounded, trim horizontally with long serrated knife. Trim sides of cake. 2.Using photo as guide, draw ghost outline on 13X9-inch piece of waxed paper. Cut pattern out and place on cake. Cut out ghost. Place on prepared cake board.3.Prepare Light & Fluffy Frosting. Frost ghost, swirling frosting. Arrange licorice drops for eyes and spiders as shown in photo.







Light & Fluffy Frosting

Yield: Makes about 2 cups



Ingredients:



2/3cup sugar

2egg whites*

5tablespoons light corn syrup

Dash salt

1teaspoon vanilla









Preparation:





1.Combine sugar, egg whites, corn syrup and salt in top of double boiler or stainless steel bowl. Set over boiling water. Beat constantly until stiff peaks form, about 7 minutes. Remove from water and beat in vanilla.











shalgram (iou)



shalgram noun. Also (earlier) salgram. L18.

Hinduism. An ammonite or Other fossil, sacred to Vishnu.