Homemade Halloween Treats

Impress your party guests with these easy-to-make Halloween goodies

Hosting a Halloween party this year? You’re going to want to thrill your guests with your table full of festive treats. Skip the pre-made candy, and create your own Halloween goodies with these easy recipes. Your guests will be impressed, and (hopefully) a little grossed-out, when you serve up these tasty snacks.

Popcorn Hands

These tasty hands make a perfect goodie bag to hand out at the end of a party.

Ingredients

• Disposable food handling gloves
• Popcorn
• Candy corn
• Plastic Halloween rings

Instructions

1. Pop the popcorn. Microwave or air-popped popcorn both work.
2. Take out your desired number of disposable food handling gloves, and stick one piece of candy corn at the end of each finger.
3. Once the popcorn has cooled, stuff it inside the gloves. Make sure the popcorn fills the fingers as well.
4. Tie off the openings to the gloves with a rubber band, twist tie or ribbon.
5. Decorate the gloves by placing a festive plastic Halloween ring on one of the fingers.

Halloween Fruit Tray

A healthy snack is good amongst all that candy, and here are a couple recipes that will make fruit fun.

Pumpkin Oranges

Ingredients

• Mini Mandarin oranges
• A black permanent marker

Instructions

1. It’s quite simple, just take a black permanent marker and draw faces on the mini mandarin oranges so that they resemble pumpkins.

Banana Ghosts

Ingredients

• Bananas (desired number)
• Mini chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Peel the bananas and cut them in half. When peeling, make sure you keep the bottom of the banana intact so that both ends have a rounded edge.
2. Take the mini chocolate chips and press them into the banana, near the curved end, to make a ghost face.

Monster Mouths

Sticking to the healthy fruit trend, this goodie is both tasty and scary.

Ingredients

• Green and red apples (desired number)
• Peanut butter
• Red jam (either raspberry or strawberry)
• Slivered almonds

Instructions

1. Cut the apples into thin slices – and be sure to keep the skin on.
2. On the outer curved side of the apples, nearest to the skin, stick the slivered almonds into the apple to make jagged teeth.
3. To make the apples into a mouth, take two apple slices and, using peanut butter or jam, glue them together in the shape of an open mouth. You can mix up the flavours by alternating between the two “glues.”

Frankenstein Pudding Cups

Nothing screams Halloween like a green treat!

Ingredients

• Vanilla pudding mix
• Green food colouring
• Oreo cookie crumbs
• A black permanent marker
• Small clear plastic cups

Instructions

1. Make the vanilla pudding according to the directions on the box.
2. When the pudding is done, add a few drops of green food colouring and mix in thoroughly. Keep adding the food colouring a drop at a time until you reach your desired colour.
3. Set the pudding aside and begin to draw scary cartoon faces on the clear plastic cups with a black permanent marker.
4. Once the faces have been drawn on, scoop the green pudding into the cups, leaving about an inch of space at the top.
5. Sprinkle Oreo cookie crumbs on top of the pudding for the hair. Store the pudding cups in the fridge until ready to serve.

Witch Hats

Cure any chocolate craving with these wicked witch hats.

Ingredients

• Chocolate Digestive cookies
• Hershey’s Kisses
• ¼ cup chocolate chips
• Red Twizzler Strings liquorice (also known as Twizzler Pull n’ Peel)

Instructions

1. Melt the chocolate chips in a double-boiler pan.
2. Flip over your desired number of digestive cookies so that the chocolate side is facing up.
3. Unwrap the Hershey Kisses and dip the bottoms into the melted chocolate. Press the kisses in the center of the cookies to create the tip of the hat.
4. Wrap a single Twizzler String around the Hershey’s Kiss and tie in a bow.

Candy Corn Marshmallows

Quick and easy to make, these little guys will win over the kids.

Ingredients

• 1 bag of jumbo marshmallows
• 8 ounces of white chocolate baking wafers
• Orange food colouring
• Yellow food colouring
• Chocolate chips

Directions

1. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.
2. Separate half of the chocolate into one bowl, and half into another.
3. Add yellow food colouring to one bowl of melted chocolate and orange food colouring to the other, mixing until you get your desired colour.
4. Take your marshmallows and dip the bottom in the orange icing, about a half of the way up. Do this with the entire bag, placing them on parchment paper when you’re done.
5. Repeat the process, except with the yellow icing, going only about half way up where the orange icing is. Place them on parchment paper when done.
6. Melt a very small amount of chocolate chips in the double boiler. Using a toothpick, dip one end into the chocolate and add two small eyes to each marshmallow.

Ghost Pretzels

This sweet and salty treat has a little Halloween flair.

Ingredients

• 1 bag of pretzel sticks
• 4 ounces of white chocolate baking wafers
• Mini chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Melt the white chocolate wafers in a double boiler.
2. Taking one pretzel at a time, dip them in the melted chocolate, about three quarters of the way down the pretzel stick.
3. Place the pretzel on parchment paper, and while the white chocolate is still soft, take three chocolate chips, for the eyes and the mouth of the ghost, and press them into the white chocolate.
4. Repeat the process for the remainder of the pretzel sticks.

Witch’s Fingers

It may take your party guests a moment or two to warm up to this Halloween snack.

Ingredients

• 2-3 bags of Cheese Strings
• A bag of dried cranberries

Instructions

1. Open the bags of Cheese Strings and cut each string in half.
2. Take a small knife and cut one tip of the halved Cheese String to make a triangular shape. Do this by shaving off each side of one end, so that the tip is pointed.
3. Take your knife and add lines in the Cheese String where knuckles would appear.
4. Take out one cranberry per cheese string, and press it into the pointed end to make a fingernail. This can also be done with fruit roll-up snacks, if desired.