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Halloween season is coming to an end so what better way to say goodbye than with some dessert! For the past 4 years, my brother, his now fiancée and myself host a Halloween party with all of our friends. I have always loved baking, probably because I love dessert and my dad enjoys to bake as well. I always make the dessert for the party because I like to get creative with it and I think it’s super fun!
Dig into these recipes and go get the ingredients! There’s still time to make them before Halloween officially ends! Happy Halloween everyone! Time to get spooky!
Chocolate Covered Pumpkin Pretzels
Ingredients
- 1 bag salted mini pretzels
- 2 bags orange candy melts
- 1 bag green chocolates any kind of small circled green chocolate works great here
- 1 tbsp cisco shortening
Instructions
- Start with 1 bag of candy melt in a microwave safe dish with 1/2 tbsp of shortening. Microwave for 1 minute in 30 second intervals, mixing in between, or until fully melted.
- Place pretzel into candy melt, coating fully then put onto parchement paper and add green chocolate candy to top to act as the stem of the pumpkin.
- Let dry and repeat septs for whole bag or for as many pretzels as you want.
- To speed up drying process, place into refrigerator.
Chocolate Covered Oreos
Ingredients
- 1 box double stuffed Oreos
- 32 lollipop sticks
- 2 bags white candy melts
- shortening
Mummies
- 1 tube white icing
- candy eyes
Jack Skellington
- 1 tube black icing
Instructions
- Melt 1 bag of candy melt in a microwave safe bowl with shortening for 1.5 minutes. Mix and add more shortening of the candy melt is still too thick.
- Dip the tip of each lollipop stick into the candy melt and gently put into the oreo. Let fully dry before coating whole oreo.
- Once lollipop stick is dry, place one side of oreo into the candy melt to coat fully, let dry and then do the other side and let dry fully.
Mummies
- While one side of oreo is still wet, place candy eyes onto oreo so they can dry and set.
- Once dry, take white icing and make "mummy wrap" design by going from corner to corner in different directions, overlapping to give "wrapped" effect.
Jack Skellingtons
- Once oreos are fully dry, take black icing to draw on face of Jack Skellington.
Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 box vanilla cupcake mix 1/2 recipe
- 1 box chocolate cupcake mix 1/2 recipe
- 24 cupcake liners
Zombie Hands
- 8 zombie hands
- chocolate sprinkles
- chocolate frosting
- vanilla frosting
Candy Corn Ghosts
- 8 gummy ghosts
- 8 candy corns
- purple frosting
- chocolate frosting
Witch Hats
- green frosting
- purple frosting
- 8 oreos just one side
- 8 hershey kisses
Instructions
- Cut cupcake mix recipes in half so you have 12 vanilla and 12 chocolate cupcakes, 24 total.
- Bake as instructed and let cool before decorating.
Zombie Hands
- Decorate 4 cupcakes (2 vanilla cake, 2 chocolate cake) with vanilla frosting, and place chocolate sprinkles on top. Gently place zombie hand in middle of cupcake, sticking in a little so that it doesn't fall off.
- Decorate 4 cupcakes (2 vanilla cake, 2 chocolate cake) with chocolate frosting, and place chocolate sprinkles on top. Gently place zombie hand in middle of cupcake, sticking in a little so that it doesn't fall off.
Candy Corn Ghosts
- Decorate 4 cupcakes (2 vanilla cake, 2 chocolate cake) with purple frosting. Gently place ghost in middle of cupcake, sticking in a little so that it doesn't fall off. Place candy corn in front of ghost on a tilt.
- Decorate 4 cupcakes (2 vanilla cake, 2 chocolate cake) with chocolate frosting. Gently place ghost in middle of cupcake, sticking in a little so that it doesn't fall off. Place candy corn in front of ghost on a tilt.
Witch Hats
- Frost all cupcakes with green frosting. Then separate oreos so you only have 1 side and place ontop of cupcake. Frost the oreo with a tiny amount of purple frosting and place a hershey kiss ontop. Repeat until all cupcakes are done
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