With Halloween just a few days away, I decided to post some recipes that you can make with your little ones on here. They are easy to do and fun too for the little helpers. I know I love to make them with my kids and I know you will too. These Recipes are all in the Halloween spirit . I hope you enjoy them as much as I do .
Sorcerer's Apprentice Broom Snacks
Sorcerer's Apprentice Broom Snacks Recipe:
These brooms might not be able to grow arms and carry buckets of water, but they are plentiful and just as adorable. These tiny brooms are a tasty, three ingredient delight that is sure to sweep your party guests off their feet.
Ingredients:
Mozzarella string cheese sticks
Tiny pretzel rods
Chives or green onion
Directions:
1.Cut the cheese sticks in half.
- Using a small knife, cut the bottom part of each half into strips.
- Insert a pretzel rod into the uncut end of the cheese stick.
- Wrap cheese with chive or thin strip of green onion and knot.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pumpkin Spiders:
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pumpkin Spiders Recipe:
- Line a Cookie Sheet with wax paper
- Place unwraped Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins on paper
- Next Cut your pretzel the best place to cut them is the
two spots at the top as they are shaped the same. - Now that we have the legs cut 8 legs per pumpkin we are
now going to melt some chocolate to stick the legs on with. - Place 1/4 cup Hershey's milk chocolate chips in micowave,
microwave on med. 30 sec. if after stiring if all chips aren't
melted, heat for an addition 10 sec at a time tell melted.
6.After Chips are melted transfer melted chocolate to a heavy
duty plastic storage bag, cut off on corner 1/4 inch. - Now pipe a row of chocolate on the right and left side of each
pumpkin. - Take the legs and place them on chocoate rows.
- Now to attach the eyes take yellows reese piece and
place a dot of chocolate on pumpkin push down eye add
small dot of chocolate.
Easy to Make Halloween Mice Treats:
Easy to Make Halloween Mice Treat Recipe:
- Blott are Marchio Cherries, lay them on a paper towel,
lay another paper towel on top and press to get all mositure
off of them. - Take off the towel set them aside for 1 hr to air dry.
- Now to make chocolate coating. Place 36 Hersey kisses
in a microwavable bowl with 1 tsp. shortening, Micowave
on Med 1 mintue. Then stir. If neccesary micowave and
addition 15 seconds at a time and stir after each 15 sec tell all melted.
4.This coating will make about 24 mice.
5.Place some chocolate in a zip lock bag for latter. - Holding on to each steam dip the cherry into the chocolate.
Shaking to get off extra chocolate place them on a wax
covered tray. with the steam up. - The next step is to put the head together with the ears. to do that
we need to take a Heresy Kiss and our Chocolate, Place a little bit of
the chocolate on the edge. Place 2 almond slices on chocolate. Place them
on your tray. - Next we will put these in the refridgerater for just a few mintues.
- After they are firm. Pick up a head, Place some chocolate on it, press
a body to the head. Then Place it back down on the paper. Place back in
the fridge intell it firms then we can decorate them. - While waiting for them to firm make your royal icing
by mixing 1 cup & 2 Tbs. Powdered Sugar, 1 Tbs. warm water, and
1 1/2 Tsp. Pasteruized dried egg whites and beat together. add 1/2 tea
spoon water at a time tell you get it the way you like. - Place Icing into a pastery bag. Dap eyes and noise
with frosting, now its halloween so they can be scary.
you can tent your frosting red, black, any color.
Halloween Candy Bark:
My photo will show different candy in it cause it is what I had leftover you can use any type of candy to make this just follow this simple recipe and you can't go wrong.
Halloween Candy Bark Recipe:
Ingredients
1 lb. semisweet chocolate chips (about 2-2/3 c.)
1 ½ c. pretzel pieces
1 c. chopped Snickers bars
1 c. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Minis
3 oz. white chocolate almond bark
1 c. Reese's Pieces or M&Ms (The M&M White Chocolate Candy Corn flavor has great Halloween colors)
Directions:
- Line a 15x11-inch rimmed cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
- Using a double boiler, melt chocolate chips.
- Spread melted chocolate in the bottom of the prepared cookie sheet.
- Sprinkle pretzels, Snickers, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Minis over the chocolate
- Melt white chocolate almond bark using a double boiler.
- Drizzle melted white chocolate over the candy and pretzels.
- Sprinkle Reese's Pieces or M&Ms over white chocolate.
- Refrigerate for 30-60 minutes, or until set.
- Break into irregular pieces, and enjoy!
Frankenstein Cupcakes:
Frankenstein Cupcakes Recipe:
What you will need :
1 box cake mix to make cupcakes
Chocolate & Vanilla frosting
green melting candy
marshmallows
skewers
chocolate sprinkles
Mini Chocolate Chips
black icing
Directions:
- Make cupcakes following direction on box, and frost them with chocolate frosting
- Microwave one cup of green melting candy according to the directions on the package
- Spear a large marshmallow with a skewer and roll it in the melted candy coating the sides, Set it on a wax paper line baking sheet.
4.Once you've coated all your marshmallows, place the sheet in the refrigerator to harden the candy.
5.When the coating is set, apply a bit of Vanilla frosting to the top of a chilled marshmallow and dip it in a bowl of sprinkles - Remove the marshmallow from the skewer and stick it on the cupcake.
7.Use vanilla frosting in a piping bag to add eyes and place many chocolate chips for pupils.
8.Use black icing to creating the mouth
Bat Cupcakes:
Bat Cupcakes Recipe:
Ingredients
12 baked and cooled cupcakes
1 can(s) (16 oz) vanilla frosting
Wilton royal blue icing color
Blue Jimmies (sprinkles)
Wilton jumbo confetti and
Halloween confetti sprinkles
1 tube black decorating frosting
White fondant
Wilton dark chocolate candy melts
Directions:
- Tint frosting with blue icing color. Spread cupcakes with frosting and sprinkle with blue Jimmies. Use jumbo confetti and Halloween confetti sprinkles for eyes, attaching with small amount of frosting.
- Pipe on black frosting mouth. Pinch fondant with fingers and cut into 24 triangles for fangs.
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper. Melt candy melts as package directs and transfer to ziptop bag with small hole snipped in one corner. Onto prepared pan, pipe 24 (4x2-in.) wings. Pipe 24 (1/2-in.) eyebrow shapes. Refrigerate 10 minutes. Pipe candy melt lines onto wings; refrigerate. Peel wings and eyebrows off wax paper. Insert wings and eyebrows into cupcakes. Add fondant fangs.
Wicked Witch Cupcakes:
Wicked Witch Cupcakes Recipe:
Ingredients:
24 (2 1/2 in.) cupcakes, baked in paper liners
1 1/2 can(s) (16 oz each) chocolate frosting
20 chocolate wafer cookies, finely crushed
2 cup(s) white rolled fondant (we used Wilton’s Ready-to-Use White Rolled Fondant)
Gel or paste food color (black, purple, green, yellow)
2 scalloped biscuit cutter
Directions:
- Frost cupcakes with chocolate frosting. Place chocolate wafer cookie crumbs in a small bowl and dip cupcakes into crumbs to coat tops.
- Tint 1 cup fondant black and 1/2 cup fondant purple. Use green and yellow to tint remaining 1/2 cup fondant a lime color. (Cover with plastic wrap when not using to prevent drying.)
- Roll 1 tsp lime-colored fondant into a 5-in. rope; cut in half for legs. Roll a scant tsp purple fondant into a ball, cut in half and shape each half into a shoe. Repeat, making legs and shoes for all of the cupcakes. Place 2 legs onto each frosted cupcake, brush end of legs with water and attach a shoe to each.
- Roll black fondant into a thin round. With biscuit cutter, cut out 48 circles for witches' hats. (Press together scraps and reroll to get the full 48.)
- Place one circle on top of each cupcake for a hat brim. Form the rest of the circles into cone shapes; secure to hat brims with a little water.
Spider Bite Cake
Spider Bite Cake Recipe:
Ingredients:
24 (2 1/2 in.) cupcakes, baked in paper liners
1 1/2 can(s) (16 oz each) vanilla frosting
24 chocolate-covered marshmallow cookies (such as Mallomars)
48 (from a 12- or 16-oz bag) Tootsie Roll Midgees
Brown tube icing
Regular M&M’s and mini M&M’s
Directions:
1.Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting, reserving 1 Tbsp. Place cookies on top.
2.Cut Tootsie Roll Midgets into 4 pieces each. Using the palm of your hand, roll each piece into a 3-in. rope. Press into rope with tines of a fork to make texture lines. Press 8 ropes onto each frosted cupcake for legs.
3.Pipe small dots of tube icing onto cookies for eyes and nose; press on M&M's for eyes and mini M&M for nose. With a toothpick, dot eyes with reserved white frosting.
Friendly Ghost Cupcake:
Friendly Ghost Cupcake Recipe:
Ingredients:
24 (2 1⁄2-in.) cupcakes, baked in paper liners
2 can(s) (16 oz each) vanilla frosting
2 1/2 cup(s) M&M’s Premiums Mint
Chocolate or green jelly beans
24 doughnut holes
1 1/2 cup(s) ready-to-use white fondant
Black chip crunch sprinkles (separated from Wilton’s container of rainbow chip crunch sprinkles)
Directions:
- Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting; gently press M&M's or jelly beans into frosting. Dab a bit of frosting on the bottom of each doughnut hole and place one on top of each cupcake.
- For each ghost, roll 1 Tbsp white fondant into a 3 1⁄2-in. circle. Drape fondant over doughnut hole and gently place 2 sprinkles for eyes into fondant.
Crispy Coffins
Crispy Coffins Recipe:
Ingredients:
3 tablespoon(s) butter, cut up
7 cup(s) miniature marshmallows
7 cup(s) (from an 11.2-oz box) jumbo whole-grain Rice Krispies
1 coffin cookie cutter
1/2 can(s) (from a 16-oz can) chocolate frosting
1 tub(s) red decorating frosting
Crushed chocolate sandwich cookies
Directions:
- Line a 13 x 9-in. baking pan with nonstick foil.
- Melt butter and marshmallows in a 12-in. nonstick skillet over mediumlow heat until smooth. Stir in cereal. Stir over low heat until evenly coated. Spread evenly into foil-lined pan.
- Let set at room temperature until firm. Cut into coffins using 4-in. coffin cookie cutter (or cut rectangles and trim into coffins). Scraps may be cut into coffin parts and decorated as well.
- Spread edges with chocolate frosting, pipe with red on top and let stand at room temperature to set. Arrange on platter with crushed cookies as dirt.