Unless you live at an unpopular trick-or-treating locale and made the “mistake” of bulking up on goodies or are a high-level parent with access to your children’s closely guarded treasure trove of sweets, you probably don’t have as many Halloween treats as you did back in the good old days. While your figure may be thankful for removing the temptations, let’s be honest and admit that your fun-loving heart is yearning to be naughty. However, fret not, my sugar-fiending brethren. This is a delicious opportunity to whip up some simple, fun and most importantly scrumptious Halloween treats.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Salted and Other Caramel Apples
I love that the possibilities are so endless with caramel apples. Almost everything tastes better with caramel – nuts, chocolate, pretzels, crushed cookies … I could go on!
Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These cookies are so wonderfully soft! Eating them feels like biting into pumpkin flavored clouds fluffed with cream cheese icing. Yum!
Maybe it’s just me, but candy corn seems to always turn up tucked into the bottom corners of the candy jar like bad pennies months after Halloween. I’ve never been particularly enamored with this token Halloween sweet, or at least I wasn’t until I tried making them myself. Maybe the best seasoning was the simple, but oh-so-quaint fact that they are homemade – regardless, these suckers are addicting and delicious.
You can never go wrong with a whoopie pies! I just don’t have enough excuses to make them year round. Luckily, you can stick some colored sprinkles on just about anything to make it seasonally relevant. I try to make sure these are (at the very least) double-stuffed with filling.
Hopefully you’ve been inspired to whip up something tasty for this Halloween. Have fun!
