Halloween Treat Ideas

Instead of regular cookies how about ghost cookies? Using your favorite cookie recipe, you can shape the cookies into little ghosts. Your kids can decorate them with different color icing, or use M&M's right after they are taken out of the oven.

Here is a great recipe for brownies shaped into ghosts. Make the brownies as you normally would, then before they cool, cut a ghost shape using a paring knife.

Then melt white chocolate and using a piping bag, make the outline of the ghost on the brownie. After it has cooled you can pipe in the eyes and mouths, using any color frosting you choose.

If you'd like to make bat cakes, simply follow the steps to make a chocolate cake. Place the prepared ingredients onto a baking sheet. When the cake is finished, you can cut out bats with a paring knife. Set them aside to cool.

Melt some dark chocolate and pipe in their eyes and noses. In fact, you can use dark chocolate to make the bat wings and attach them to either side of the bat cakes. Your kids will be in chocolate heaven!

Halloween is a time of costume making and preparing special treats. It's the one time of the year in which kids are allowed to not only help in making treats, but consuming them as well.

Whatever treats you prepare on Halloween will be handed down to your kids, and their kids. So have a great time and enjoy the day with your family on the "sweetest" day of the year.

If your kids are anything like most these days then they really look forward to Halloween. They love autumn and all of the yummy treats that come with the season.

One of the healthiest Halloween snacks of the season are salted pumpkin seeds. When you are carving your pumpkins, save the insides, remove all of the seeds, and rinse them in a large bowl. Once they are rinsed, fill the bowl with warm water and add about 1/4 cup table salt.

After the salt is dissolved add your pumpkin seeds, and let the pumpkin seeds sit in the salt water for about an hour. Lay out a few paper towels, remove the pumpkin seeds from the water and let them drip dry for a few minutes. Now lay the pumpkin seeds out on a cookie sheet and spread them around evenly. Bake them in a 325° oven until they have a golden brown color. Make sure you turn and mix them so that tall of the seeds dry out and get baked. Pumpkin seeds are a healthy Halloween snack containing lots of vitamins and healthy oils.

Another relatively healthy Halloween snack is the traditional popcorn ball. These are easy to make and are fun for Halloween parties for kids. The ingredients you will need include three quarters of a cup of light corn syrup, one quarter of a cup of margarine or butter, 2 teaspoons cold water, 2 5/8 cups confectioners sugar, 1 cup marshmallows and 5 quarts of plain popped popcorn.

Now add the corn syrup, margarine, confectioners sugar, marshmallows and cold water to a saucepan placed over medium heat. Continue to heat and stir until the entire mixture begins to boil. In a large bowl, mix the popcorn with the hot mixture making sure to coat each kernel.

Use a bit of vegetable shortening to grease your hands lightly and then shape the popcorn into balls being sure to move quickly before the mixture cools. You can now wrap these delightful Holloween snacks with colored cellophane or plastic wrap. Tie the cellophane closed with a seasonal or Halloween themed ribbon for added fun!

Halloween is all about the treats. So, how can you make some fun treats at home that your little ones will love? It's easier than you might think.

Do you have some Halloween Cookie Cutters? That's all you'll need to make these first three fun and memorable Halloween treats.

Terrifying Tortilla Chips: Start with some flour tortillas and spray a bit of canola oil on them. Sprinkle parmesan cheese or cinnamon and sugar on them. Then cut fun shapes out of the tortillas with a bat, ghost or pumpkin cookie cutter. Put the shapes into the oven for a crispy treat.

Spooky sandwiches: Make your favorite sandwich. Peanut butter and jelly works just fine. Then, using a cookie cutter, press hard into the sandwich and you'll get a spooky treat. If you use a pumpkin shape cookie cutter, add licorice or candy corn to make eyes and nose on a jack-o-lantern face.

Creepy Cheese and Cold Cuts: Buy packaged cheese (the kind that you peel the plastic off). Also, buy some cold-cuts. Using a cookie cutter, make spooky shapes. Present the cheese and cold cuts on a platter as an appetizer - or have a sandwich smorgasbord and allow your guests to use the creepy cheese to make their own sandwiches.

Here are a few more last-minute ideas for Halloween fun.

Wicked Witch Fingers: Do you have some dough and almonds? Believe it or not, you can make witch fingers. Just stretch out the dough into a "finger-shape" including a knuckle. Then, take the almond and press it into the end to make the fingernail. You can experiment with different colors to make witch fingers creepier. "Paint" the fingernail with food coloring (grey or black is perfect), or make the dough a creepy green color. Oooh%u2026 spooky!

Green Anything: Take your favorite foods and add a drop of green food coloring to them. Are you in the mood for French toast? Make it green. How about pudding? Make it green. You can even serve green milk with your cookies. You'll be the coolest mom on the block.

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