Halloween Treats

Yesterday you got to see some tricks! Now let's have some treats!!

This first idea came from Pinterest! I have made little S'mores packages before with just plain marshmallows, chocolate bars and graham crackers. This is the same idea with a Halloween twist on it. I can remember when Peeps was just an Easter treat with chicks. These sugar coated marshmallows are now seen for Valentines day, Halloween and Christmas.

I wish I designed this Peeps cake. How cool is it with purple and green fondant. Check out all the ghosts and pumpkins in the scene!

{photo from Peeps.com}

Are you a Peeps fan? Do you like them fresh or do you prefer to open them and let them get stale? What holiday character would you come up with?

So while I don't do fondant, I know how to make a bundt cake....then butcher it!!!!!!!

I actually let my daughter and her friend "butcher" the cake after I spread the buttercream icing. They had fun making pools of glittery blood and then stabbing it with little candy butcher knives! The Devil's Food cake was delicious and oh, so moist!

What treats are you making for Halloween?

Sticky Pretzels

As promised a fun treat to make for any occasion, but made especially fun on the holidays! I call them sticky pretzels, but they are also referred to as Turtle Pretzels. Here are pictures of me and my daughter making some before Halloween.

These are really simple to make. I found these bat and pumpkin pretzels at Walmart. I lined a cookie sheet with foil, coat with non-stick spray and arrange pretzels 1" apart. Top each pretzel with a caramel. Bake in 300` oven for 5-8 minutes, just until caramels begin to melt.



Remove cookie sheet from oven and spoon about 1 tsp. melted chocolate onto each caramel. Immediately press 1 pecan half onto each pretzel. Place cookie sheet in freezer until candy is set, about 10 minutes.





Ingredients:
24 small pretzels
24 unwrapped caramels
3/4 cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
24 pecan halves (you can toast them if you like)


Recipe modified from Foodgeeks.com

Tricks, Treats and Happy Halloween!

This week has been so busy. Not much time for scrapping or stamping. Here are some of the goodies I have been busy with this week.

You can't trick or treat with a plain bucket, let's decorate it!

My little baking girl all dressed up in a pumpkin apron and even a pumpkin spatula courtesy of her Grammy!


She always volunteers to lick the beaters!

The best philly cream cheese sugar cookies. YUM!

It's not Halloween without Jack Skeleton's head on a plate.

I also made some yummy sticky bat and pumpkin pretzels that I will share with you tomorrow! Not all of my "creations" involve paper, scissors and glue!

Spooky Delights!

I was able to snap a photo of the goodies I made for my Friday Night Club Members. It is October and Halloween is around the corner, so I wanted to create a spooky atmosphere for the gathering. I greeted everyone at the door in a black witch hat and some of the ladies dressed in spooky attire earning them free tax on their orders. I prepared some yummy skull cupcakes and decorated their water bottles with the Ahoy Matey stamp set and October Annotations stamp.