My favorite time of year, Halloween and the smell of Fall. Here are some great snacks I found for Halloween! I love baking, but most of all, I love creativity! Enjoy!
Quick Spooky Snack
Combine a package of Chex Party Mix with candy corn and black and orange M&M's. Found at Parents.com
Monster Mash-Mallows
from Parents.com
Ingredients
•1/4 cupgreen melting wafers
•1 cuporange melting wafers
•1 cuppurple melting wafers
•Lollipop sticks
•24 largemarshmallows
•Sprinkles, candy corn, and candy icing decorations
•1/4 cupchocolate chips, melted
Directions
1. Place melting wafers in separte small bowls. Microwave for 15-second intervals, stirring in between, until melted. Insert one end of lollipop sticks into melted green wafers. Push green-colored end of each stick into a marshmallow. Let set 3 minutes.
2. Dunk marshmallows into orange or purple melted wafers, shaking off any excess coating. Place on a sheet of wax paper, and top with assorted sprinkles or decorations.
3. To make faces, place melted chocolate in a resealable plastic bag, and snip off one tiny corner. Pipe face designs onto marshmallows.
Choking Hazard Alert: Remove any decorations or small pieces of candy before giving treats to children 3 years old or younger.
Wicked Witch Cupcakes
from: Martha Stewart
These great-tasting, ghoulish-looking cupcakes are a wickedly easy treat for a Halloween party! Our trick: Keep kids antsy for the festivities happily busy by letting them help with the simple decorations.
Ingredients
Makes 12
•24 brown mini M&Ms plus , more for filling (optional)
•Hershey's Chocolate Cupcakes
•Dirty Green Simple Buttercream
•12 chocolate sugar cones
•1 pound black licorice laces, cut into 1/4-inch, 1/2-inch and 2-inch lengths
•12 candy corns
Directions
1.Using a melon baller, scoop out the center of each cupcake, and fill with mini M&Ms, if desired.
2.Cover the tops of each cupcake with a generous mound (about 1/3 cup) of buttercream. Insert one candy corn into each cupcake to form a nose. Using brown mini M&Ms, insert two into each cupcake to form eyes. Place two short lengths of licorice above the eyes to form eyebrows for the witch. Place the shorter licorice lengths above the eyebrows to form bangs. Place an inverted cone on top of bangs, pressing gently into buttercream to adhere. Place the longer licorice lengths under the cone hat to form the hair.
Say "boo" to ordinary fare by packing this school lunch for your child. Familyfun.com
Ingredients
Sandwich
Red pepper
Clementine
Green fruit leather
Instructions
Use a paring knife to cut a sandwich into a skull or bite-size fingers, as shown. For the latter, add red pepper nails. To turn a clementine into a jack-o'-lantern, press on green fruit leather shapes.
Ghost Sticks
These inexpensive treats are great fun to make with your any age child! They're a new twist on the chocolate covered pretzel. They're fairly simple, and you can munch them as soon as you make them, or use them to add a touch of fun to any Halloween display. Check out the other ideas section below for more ways your preschooler can help you use these Ghost Sticks for Halloween fun and giving.
How To Make It
Step 1:
Melt the white chocolate or white chocolate bar in a bowl in the microwave, or on the stove with a double boiler. Follow the instructions on the chocolate package for best results. If you are using a double boiler be extremely cautious with your preschooler around the boiler. An adult should do the melting and dipping portion of the project.
Step 2:
Dip the pretzel into the melted chocolate, and lay on aluminum foil, or wax paper to cool.
Step 3:
While the chocolate is still soft let your children help you insert two chocolate sprinkles for eyes, and a mini chocolate chip for a mouth.
Brain Power Cupcakes
Here's a treat to put you in a Halloween mind-set. Add brain power with these creepy cupcakes.
Ingredients
12 Cupcakes (Classic Cupcake Recipe)
Buttercream Frosting
Food Coloring
Instructions
Bake a batch of classic cupcakes.
Spread a coat of light orange icing (we stirred drops of yellow and pink food coloring, and just a touch of green, into 2 cups of buttercream frosting until we had a hue we liked) on a dozen cupcakes.
Use a pastry bag fitted with a number 10 round tip to top them with fat zigzags. It works best to first pipe two zigzags down the middle and then fill in the sides
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