Fake Blood - Easy Recipe for Lots of Uses

With Halloween just around the corner, surely you've said aloud "I'd sure love to get my hands on some realistic-looking fake blood." And why not? Fake blood has tons of household and workplace uses. Trick or treating costumes, red copier fluid, casserole fillers, law-suit evidence...and of course, the old "I've bitten the head off this plastic bat" trick, used time and again by the master of fake blood uses, Ozzy Osbourne. The possibilities are simply endless.

And here once again to give you timely recipes that you didn't know you needed is Moi. That means "me" in French.

Angela's Old Fashioned Fake Blood (from Angela's Church Supper and PotLuck Cookbook, Random House, 2010)

Ingredients:
1 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 quart White Corn Syrup
1/2 cup Non-sudsy Soap
1 oz. Red Food Coloring
15 drops (counted accurately) Blue Food Coloring

Directions:
1) Mix peanut butter with enough corn syrup for the consistency of thin mucous.
2) Stir in soap and food coloring.
3) Mix well, by hand.
If necessary, stir in more corn syrup until it reaches your desired thickness.
Refrigerate in an airtight container up to two weeks. If freezing for later use, please use a label to avoid confusion and horror.

*sources - chemistry-about.com