Halloween recipes are so much fun to make!  I always get excited when I see fun ideas that are easy.  This week we’ve got fifteen of those ideas for you! For me, Halloween marks the beginning of all the fun family festivities.  We’re also always hopeful for a little chill in the air too.  Nothing is worse than walking around in a hot costume.  Have fun browsing these fun treat ideas for your Halloween night!

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Easy Halloween Recipes

Scary Sunkist Floats

Candy Corn Crunch

Monster Cake Balls

Mini Monster Whoopie Pies with Orange Cream Filling

Halloween Sugar Cookie Bars

Cool Whip Ghosts

Pumpkin Spice Oreo Cheesecake Brownies

Easy Halloween Bundt Cake

Chocolate Candy Bar Cake

Loaded Mashed Potato Casserole

Pumpkin Dirt Pudding Graveyard Parfaits

Halloween Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Pumpkin Shaped Sugar Cookies

Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars

Caramel Pumpkin Spice Crinkle Cookies

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Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.  It marks the beginning of the fun holiday season for me.  Plus, the fun recipe ideas are always my favorite!  We’ve got TWELVE great, festive treats to help you guys celebrate this month!  Hope you enjoy!

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Scary Sunkist Floats

Gooey Halloween Popcorn Crunch

Mini Halloween Trifles

Dirt Pudding

Frankenstein Rice Krispie Treats

Loaded Mashed Potato Casserole

Candy Corn Sugar Cookie Bars

Halloween Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes

Greek Yogurt Halloween Parfaits

Carrot Pumpkins

Pumpkin Spice Caramel Chex Mix

Black Bottom No-Bake Pumpkin Cheese Cake

Pumpkin Spice Oreo Cheesecake Bars

Pumpkin Spice Crinkle Cookies

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Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.  I’m not sure if it is all the fun foods you can make or if it just marks the start of all the fun holiday madness over the next few months.  I think it is a little bit of both for me.  It just brings out the kid in so many of us!

Every year, I look for fun recipes to make with the kids at Halloween.  The week before that special night I try to make as many fun dishes as possible.  Some years I get to do more than others, but this year I wanted to bring back a fun tradition I always did before having my own children.

I wanted my children to be able to experience surprising one of our neighbors with a Boo Kit!  They are SO FUN to make and receive!  The first time I ever heard of one of these was at work when I was an elementary school teacher.  The teachers would BOO each other.  We had the best time trying to figure out who had gotten us!  I knew my children would love to take part in a fun activity like this and make a BOO Kit for our neighbors!  Plus I wanted to be sure to include a fun little recipe for a Scary Sunkist® Floats in our kit!

You can get as creative as you’d like when making a BOO Kit.  Walmart had a TON of fun items to help me make this one!  I started by purchasing some the Mars® Chocolate Fun Size Mix and some of the 8 oz. 7UP® and Sunkist® Halloween cans.

Next I made a BOO Kit with some fun things to snack on, drink, and create.  Here is a list of some of the items I included in our Boo Kit:
-8 oz. drinks like Sunkist® or 7UP®
-Mars® Chocolate Fun Size Mix
-Halloween sprinkles and cupcake liners
-Halloween coloring book and colors
-Halloween paint craft
-Create-a-pumpkin foam stickers
-Plastic bugs, bats, and skeletons
-Pumpkin light
-Halloween paper straws
-Halloween plates and napkins

Other items you may need:
-Halloween bucket, basket, or large bowl
-Halloween ribbon or baker’s twine
-Clear treat bags or Halloween striped bags

So here is what to do:

Go here to print your Printable BOO card.  Plus you can check out other fabulous ideas!

• Cut out this “We’ve been BOO’d sign.
• Fold the “You’ve been BOO’d” greeting card (page 2) and tape openings together.
• Include the card and sign when gifting BOO kits.

My kids had so much fun going down the street to drop off our BOO Kit!  Now I know they want to get BOO’d so badly as well!

The Scary Sunkist® Floats were a big hit as well!  My kids LOVED them!  We will be making them again on Halloween night…because that’s when we really have fun with all the food!  I made a recipe card for you to include with your BOO Kit too!

Just click here to print a copy for your BOO Kit.

Scary Sunkist Floats

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Ingredients

• 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
• 8 oz. Sunkist®
• Whipped topping
• Optional Toppings: gummy worms, plastic bats, spiders, and sprinkles

Instructions

1. Add ice cream to a cup.
2. Slowly pour in Sunkist®.
3. Top with whipped topping, plastic spiders, bats, gummy worms and/or sprinkles.

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I just love Halloween so much!  It has to be one of the funnest food holidays ever!  The recipes get so creative and kids and adults alike love them.  So I’ve put together a great list of spooky treats perfect for all that Trick-or-Treating fun!  Enjoy!

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I have a confession to make.  I really dislike making cake balls or cake pops.  Now don’t get me wrong.  They are one of the best little desserts ever!  However, I just don’t enjoy working with temperamental chocolate and struggling to make a perfectly smooth cake ball.  So why would I choose this little activity to do with my kids?

Well, I knew the more imperfect these little monsters were, the better they would turn out.  It was a win-win.  The kids would have fun, and I would get to make cake balls and not stress about how ugly they turned out.  Plus I got to eat my fill!

Now I did employ a few cake ball tricks that I’ve read up on in order to not have a globby chocolate mess.  I also pre-made and froze my cake balls, so that I had them ready to go when the kids and I had an afternoon to make these.

Plus, my mom had my 2 year old, which allowed my older kids and I to create in a pretty peaceful environment.  I miss getting to do stuff with them.  Life is a little chaotic these days with a 2 year old and a 3 month old.  I am having to really make an extra effort to do stuff with my two “big” kids.  Playing a board game or a card game usually turns into a nightmare lately.  So I really loved that we had this time to make these little monsters while our other little monster was away.

They really got into making one-eyed, two-eyed, and three-eyed crazy ones.  I dunked them in the almond bark, while they got ready to create.  They had to work quickly to get those sprinkles on before it started to harden.   You can use any  cake mix, but we used red-velvet because they are a favorite at our house.

I think we will be making these a Halloween tradition!

Monster Cake Balls

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Ingredients

• red velvet cake mix plus ingredients to bake cake
• 1 16 oz container of thick and creamy cream cheese icing
• 1 24 oz package white/vanilla almond bark
• A variety of sprinkles
• candy eyes (large and small variety)
• chow mein noodles (found in asian food section)

Instructions

1. Bake cake according to package directions.
2. Allow cake to cool and crumble with fork in a large bowl.
3. Mix in cream cheese icing until all combined.
4. Roll into 1 inch balls and place on a parchment or wax paper lined cookie sheet to freeze for at least an hour. (Place in a plastic freezer bag after this until ready to use).
5. In a microwavable bowl, place 6 oz of almond bark. Microwave for 30 seconds, stir, microwave 30 more seconds, stir. At this point, microwave 20 to 30 more seconds. Time will vary according to your microwave. If it still has some clumps, just stir until they melt.
6. Take about 6 cake balls out of the freezer. Using a fork, dip them into almond bark and place on a sheet of wax paper and begin to decorate one at a time.
7. Once all almond bark is used, rinse and dry bowl, and repeat with 6 more ounces of chocolate.

Notes

*Microwaving smaller amounts of chocolate helps it melt better and prevents over-heating.
* Leaving cake balls in freezer until ready to use helps them to not fall apart in warm chocolate.

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Mini Halloween Trifles

Gooey Halloween Popcorn Crunch

Creepy Mini Pizzas

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I LOVE Halloween!  Not the super scary/gross Halloween…but the fun kind!  It is one of the funnest food holidays, and there are always a ton of cute things to make for kids the whole month.  The weekend before Halloween I usually make mummy hot dogs, ghost pudding cups, and this little treat!  It is so simple to make and put together.  It’s just a fun dessert for all your little people!

This year we are hoping for a better Halloween in our neighborhood.  It is a fairly new neighborhood and there are a ton of houses.  It should be a candy-lovers dream!  Last year, however, it rained and poured on Halloween night and our city did not reschedule trick-or-treating.  Boo!  This year they promise to set a new date to trick-or-treat if the weather looks bad.

We plan on cooking a big gumbo and having lots of fun treats like this one to munch on before we go out and collect all the goodies.

We will have a Wolverine,  a Dorothy,  a Sophia the First, and a Baby Superman, so we should have some fun!

Mini Halloween Trifles

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Ingredients

• 1 box white cake mix with necessary ingredients to make cake
• 1 3.4 oz box chocolate pudding mix
• 2 cups milk
• 4 oz cool whip or homemade whipped cream
• orange, purple, and green food coloring gel
• jarred hot fudge
• plastic spiders

Instructions

1. Make cake according to package directions.
2. Divide batter into three separate bowls,
3. Using food coloring gel, place about 1/4 tsp of each gel into the different bowls to make one orange, one purple, and one green. Add more gel to get desired color.
4. Pour colored batter into three 8 inch cake pans
5. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Check for doneness with a toothpick.
6. Let cakes cool.
7. Whisk pudding mix with 2 cups of cold milk. I whisk it until combined, let it sit for a few minutes to thicken, and then I mix it again for a few seconds.
8. Cut cakes into small 1/2 inch cubes.
9. Begin layering: Place a small amount of cake cubes in the bottom followed by a few tablespoons of chocolate pudding, repeat cake cubes and pudding. Place a small dollup of hot fudge in the center. Top with cool whip.
10. Place a few teaspoons of hot fudge in a small plastic ziploc. Cut a really small hole in the corner of the bottom to use to pipe out hot fudge. Pipe fudge into concentric circles on cool whip. Use a knife and very slowly drag and pull knife through the circles to create a spider web. Place a plastic spider on top of the web. *Caution your kids not to eat the spider please 🙂

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 You MUST make this Gooey Halloween Popcorn Crunch!  You will probably want to make this more than once if you do!  Make this for friends, co-workers, teachers, and your kids, and they will LOVE you!  Then make a batch on Halloween night to hand out to your favorite trick-or-treaters!

It’s like caramel popcorn seriously kicked up a notch!  I bagged some up and took them to our good friends’ house.  Cute little packages tied up in strings….one of my favorite things!

What do you need to make Gooey Halloween Popcorn Crunch:

• kettle corn
• pretzel sticks
• sliced almonds or pecans
• Honey Nut Cheerios
• candy corn (optional)
• Halloween sprinkles
• butter
• sugar
• light corn syrup
• Make sure you have a big bowl and a candy or electric meat thermometer

How to make this gooey treat:

• It is super easy to whip up.  To make it even easier, use pre-popped popcorn.  You can also buy microwave kettle corn.  It takes about a bag and a half.
• Put everything in a BIG bowl and stir in the sugar coating.  Spread it out on a large sheet pan or 2 11 x 17 pans and try very hard to resist snacking before it is all set up!

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Gooey Halloween Popcorn Crunch

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Ingredients

• 6 cups popcorn (I used pre-popped Kettle corn)
• 4 cups pretzel sticks
• 2 to 3 tbsp sprinkles
• 2 cups Honey Nut Cheerios
• 3/4 cup sliced almonds or pecans
• 1 cup candy corn
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 1 1/2 sticks butter

Instructions

1. In a LARGE bowl, mix popcorn, pretzels, sprinkles, Cheerios, and almonds.
2. In a saucepan, heat sugar, corn syrup, and butter to 234 degrees while frequently stirring. (Mixture will be boiling and foamy for about 2 minutes while reaching this temperature).
3. Remove from heat.
4. CAREFULLY pour sugar mixture into bowl over popcorn mix.
5. Stir to coat evenly.
6. Mix in candy corn.
7. Spread out onto wax paper lined sheet pan to cool and set up for a few hours.
8. Break up and store in an air tight container or storage bag.

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Candy Corn Crunch

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Candy Corn Crunch

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Ingredients

• 4 cups Golden Grahams
• 4 1/2 cups Rice Chex
• 1 cup sweetened coconut
• 3/4 cup sliced almonds
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 1 1/2 sticks butter
• 1 1/2 cups candy corn

Instructions

1. Mix cereals, coconut, and almonds in a LARGE bowl.
2. In a medium saucepan, melt butter, sugar, and corn syrup.  Heat over medium high heat until mixture reaches about 234 degrees.  It will really be foamy and bubbly at this point.  Remove from heat.
3. Very carefully, pour over cereal mixture in bowl and begin mixing to coat cereal.  Add candy corns and mix a little more.
4. Spread out on wax paper-covered sheet pans to cool and harden a little.  Store in sealed container or plastic bag for a few days (if your group even lets it last that long:)

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