Start your Halloween Party with a delicious pumpkin soup that just happens to have a spider spinning its web across the top. Children will love to make the cobweb design by dragging a toothpick through concentric rings of sour cream or yogurt. More than a meal, this is a Halloween art project that's edible!
{Makes 6-8 servings}
You'll need:
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 large carrot, diced
4 tablespoons of olive oil
2 teaspoons of Dijon mustard
2 cups of vegetable broth (chicken broth is OK too)
Cover the veggies with 1 cup of broth. Cover the pot and simmer until tender.
Ask
mom or whoever is helping you to transfer the veggies to the food
processor. Pulse the processor to chop the carrots as small as
possible. Return the broth to the pot.
Add the pumpkin, mustard, honey and spices. Heat on low for 1 hour until all the flavors are well blended.
When the soup is ready, ladle it into the serving bowls.
Spoon about 5 tablespoons of yogurt or sour cream into the zipper bag.
Cut
a small hole in the sandwich bag. Squeeze a mound about the size of a
nickel in the middle of the bowl. Then make a small ring around it.
Then do a medium sized ring and finally a large ring near the edge of
the bowl.
Insert the tip of the toothpick into the
middle of the yogurt and gently slide the toothpick toward the edge. Do
it again and again like spokes of a wheel. When you're done it will
look like a spider web.
Add a small round piece of olive to be your spider.
