DIY Spooky Snacks

October 20, 2024

Halloween is about all things wicked—and wickedly delicious! Have a frightfully fun time making these easy, spooky treats.

Witches’ Hats:

• Ice cream cones with even/flat tops
• Assorted small candies for the hidden filling
• Tate’s Bake Shop Snickerdoodle Cookies
• Frosting
• Fruit roll belt

Position the ice cream cone vertically, tip-side down. Fill the cone ¼–½ of the way with small candies. Using a piping bag or plastic bag with a small hole cut at the tip, pipe frosting along the rim of the cone. Lightly press a cookie face-side up onto the top of the cone. Place hat cookie-side down and pipe frosting along the crease where cone meets cookie. Line the crease with a strip of a fruit roll, pre-trimmed to your desired width and length. Repeat with remaining cones, cookies and candy. Handle finished hats from the bottom.

Mini Witches’ Hats:

• Muddy Bites Waffle Cone Snacks
• Tate’s Bake Shop Tiny Cookies
• Black frosting
• Red candy beads (baking décor) or fruit roll (optional)

Lay the cookies bake-side up on a flat surface. Using a piping bag or plastic bag with a small hole cut at the tip, pipe black frosting along the rim of a Muddy Bite, then press it onto a mini cookie. If desired, pipe black frosting along the crease where cone meets cookie with more black frosting. Press in red candy beads, or line the crease with a strip of a fruit roll, pre-trimmed to your desired width and length.

Monster Apples:

• Apples, cored and quartered
• Peanut butter or nut butter of your choice
• Pine nuts
• Kiwi slices, halved
• Candy eyes

With apple slices skin-side up, use a spoon to drag a small dollop of peanut butter lengthwise onto the apple’s surface. Lightly press pine nuts into peanut butter, leaving room for the candy eyes and kiwi slice. Tuck the cut side of the kiwi slice into the peanut butter, below the pine nuts. Press two candy eyes into the peanut butter above the pine nuts.

Boo-berry Sprites:

• Blueberries
• White frosting
• Black frosting

Lay blueberries bottom-side up. Using a piping bag or plastic bag with a small hole cut at the tip, pipe two dots of white frosting onto each blueberry. With a different piping bag or plastic bag with a smaller hole cut at the tip, pipe two smaller dots of black frosting onto the white dots.

Pumpkins:

• 1½ tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
• 2 cups mini marshmallows
• 3 cups Rice Krispies
• All-natural yellow food coloring
• All-natural red food coloring
• Green Apple Laffy Taffy for leaves and vines
• Dot’s Homestyle Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel Sticks or regular pretzel sticks

Melt butter in a medium saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat. Working quickly, add Rice Krispies and stir until the cereal is well-coated. Add a few drops of yellow food coloring, then stir. Add in a drop of red, then stir, adding more if necessary, stirring between each red drop. Use a spoon to scoop out small portions of the mixture and roll it into balls using your hands.

Snap pretzel sticks in half and poke one into each ball. Cut pieces of Laffy Taffy into triangles, and lightly press them onto the balls. Cut strips of Laffy Taffy and roll into a thin vine with your fingers, and press into balls in a squiggly pattern.

Graveyard Cups:

• Homemade Instant Vanilla Pudding + 2 teaspoons cocoa powder, or to taste
• 1 package Oreos
• Gummy worms
• Sour Patch Kids
• Red candy beads
• Pepperidge Farm Milano Cookies
• Black frosting

Make the Homemade Instant Vanilla Pudding, making sure to add in 2 teaspoons cocoa powder. Whack a sealed package of Oreos with a rolling pin to break them up into little pieces (if you end up needing to whack them more, place them into a gallon-size zip-top bag). Mix with pudding, and spoon portions of the mixture into small cups. Top with gummy worms, Sour Patch Kids and red candy beads.

Lay Milano Cookies flat and vertical. Using a piping bag or plastic bag with a small hole cut at the tip, pipe the letters “RIP” in black frosting near the top end. Tuck the cookie into the pudding cup. Enjoy!

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