Get into the spooky spirit with these Halloween-inspired dishes from The Loveless Cafe!
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Monster Pancakes
Servings: 10 large pancakes
Ingredients:
- 1 bag Loveless Cafe Belgian Waffle & Pancake Mix
- 1 tablespoon food coloring
Directions:
- Prepare pancake batter according to package instructions
- Add food coloring
- Pour mixture onto your preheated griddle and cook to your liking
- Place finished pancakes to the side
For the icing...
Ingredients:
- 1 jar marshmallow cream
- Food coloring
- Candy eyes
Directions:
- Heat jar of marshmallow cream in your microwave in 10 second intervals, stirring in-between each until you reach a slime consistency
- Stir in a few drops of food coloring
- Drizzle over the top of pancake stacks, sticking on candy eyes to your liking
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BBQ Pumpkin Peppers
Servings: 6 peppers
Ingredients:
- 6 orange bell peppers
- 1 pound Loveless Cafe Pulled Pork BBQ
- 1 cup potatoes, shredded
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1 tablespoon Loveless Dry Rub
- 1/2 cup Loveless Cafe Sweet with a Bite BBQ sauce
- 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Rinse peppers, slice off the tops and hollow out the insides, be sure to remove any seeds and white part inside. Be sure to keep the tops of the peppers
- With a small paring knife cut out a jack-o-lantern face
- Mix together pulled pork, potatoes, cream cheese, Dry Rub, and ¼ cup BBQ sauce
- Place peppers in casserole dish. Fill each pepper with the mixture and shredded cheese, alternating layers one after the other
- Replace pepper top back on top
- Bake in oven for 25 minutes until hot and desired tenderness
- Refer to Part 2 for directions on crispy onions
- Once peppers have baked thoroughly, remove from oven and remove tops of peppers. Add crispy onions, and replace top again
- Drizzle remaining BBQ sauce over peppers and serve
For the crispy onions...
Ingredients:
- 1 yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 2 cups Loveless Cafe Fried Chicken Breading
Directions:
- Slice onion into thin pieces. Shake the onion slices in bowl of Fried Chicken Breading until covered completely
- Pour vegetable oil in frying pan and heat to 350°F
- Fry thinly sliced onions for 5 minutes
- Place onions on paper towel and set aside until ready to garnish peppers
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Peach Pumpkin Pies
Ingredients:
- 2 refrigerated pie crusts
- 1 cup Loveless Cafe Peach Preserves
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 1/2 teaspoons water
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper
- Roll out your pie crust on a floured surface until dough is approximately ⅛ inch thick and cut out pumpkin shapes with a cookie cutter
- Use a knife to cut out faces into half of your pumpkin shapes for the top of each pie
- Beat egg yolk and water together to make egg wash
- Brush each bottom pumpkin with egg wash and poke holes with a fork
- Spoon about one tablespoon of peach preserves onto each bottom pumpkin
- Cover each filled pumpkin with a face side and use a fork to seal the edges
- Brush tops with egg wash and bake for approximately 12 to 15 minutes or until browned