Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix ground beef, breadcrumbs, ketchup, egg, pepper and oregano in a large bowl. Form into 18-24 eyeball-sized balls. Press an olive into each eyeball, pimento side out. Pour spaghetti sauce in a baking dish. Place eyeballs on top of sauce, cover and bake for 45 minutes.
About 15 minutes before the eyeballs are done, fill a large pot with three quarts water. Add salt. Follow package directions to cook the spaghetti. Drain noodles and transfer to a serving bowl. Toss with butter or margarine.
When eyeballs are cooked through, carefully spoon onto the spaghetti, irises up. Spoon sauce from the pan around them. Garnish with thinly sliced black olives, to look like eyelashes.
-- Disney, Inc.

Cheesy Eyes
2 cups grated cheese
1/2 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1 cup flour
1 (6-ounce) bottle pimento-stuffed green olives

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Combine the cheese and butter. Add salt, paprika and flour. Mix well. Measure approximately 1 tablespoon of the mixture and form an "eyeball" around one olive. Place the eyeballs so they are "staring" outward on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 minutes.
-- Disney, Inc.

Preheat oven according to directions on pizza crust package. Lay the pizza crust or dough on a baking sheet. Spread with pizza sauce and sprinkle evenly with mozzarella cheese. Bake according to package directions.
While the pizza is baking, mix together the ricotta cheese, milk, 6 drops of green food coloring and 1 drop of red food coloring. Spoon the mixture into a squeeze bottle.
When the pizza is baked, remove it from the oven. Draw a spiderweb on the pizza with the ricotta mixture in the squeeze bottle. Place the plastic spider in the middle of the web. Serve. Makes 1 pizza.
-- "The Halloween Activity Book" by Mymi Doinet

Let the dough thaw. Shape rolls into long, slithery snake-shapes, and wind in spirals around the franks. Press in a couple of raisins to make eyes in snakes' heads; make a slit for the mouths and put a fold of foil inside each mouth to keep it open; make scores across the snakes' tails to simulate rattles.
Brush with egg and allow to rise for 30 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cut ends of licorice rope to make forked tongues and insert in snakes' mouths.
Serve with blood-red ketchup and gooey yellow mustard.
Makes 4 servings.
-- Rhodes Bake-N-Serv

In a large punch bowl, combine the drink mix with 1 cup warm water. Stir until dissolved. Wet the undersides of the gummy creatures with warm tap water and set aside, wet side up, to become sticky.
Add the ice to the punch bowl and slowly pour each liter of sparkling water into the bowl, stirring to combine. Add the limeade and stir. If desired add a few drops of green food coloring for a more dramatic color. Stick the gummy creatures to the outside and the inside lip of the bowl. If they do not adhere, rewet and set aside until "gummier." Makes about 4 1/2 quarts.
-- "The Star Wars Party Book: Recipes and Idea for Galactic Occasions" by Mikyla Bruder (Chronicle Books, $17.95)

Vampire "Flesh" Kabobs
2 pints cherry tomatoes
6 hot dogs, cooked according to package directions
6 rolls string cheese
2 cucumbers
6 wooden skewers

Wash cherry tomatoes and remove stems. Cut the hot dogs, cheese and cucumbers into 1/2-inch slices. Slide the cherry tomato onto a skewer, then a hot dog piece, cheese and cucumber slice. Repeat until all skewers are full. Makes 6 kabobs.
-- "The Halloween Activity Book" by Mymi Doinet

With an electric mixer, beat the butter, peanut butter, sugar and vanilla until creamy and smooth. Refrigerate at least an hour, until firm enough to roll into balls.
Scoop the dough into 1-inch mounds, using a teaspoon or small ice-cream scoop (No. 100), and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Freeze until firm, at least 2 hours.
Melt the white baking chips in the top of a double-boiler over gently boiling water. Pour about 3 tablespoons of the melted chocolate in the cupped palm of your less-dominant hand. (If you're right-handed, put the chocolate in your left hand. Pick up a peanut-butter ball with your other hand and roll it in the chocolate, coating evenly. (You have to work quickly, and may need to do a second coat after the first cools and hardens.) Put back onto the parchment. Roll each ball in the white chocolate, adding more of the melted chocolate into your cupped hand as needed. Refrigerate. After the chocolate has hardened, use the gel-based frostings to decorate as bloodshot eyeballs.
With all due respect, this recipe is adapted from Letty Halloran Flatt's Chocolate Snowball and Other Fabulous Pastries from Deer Valley Bakery. We substituted white chocolate for the bittersweet chocolate called for in her recipe, and added the adornments.