Halloween Candy and Cookies

Here is a quick and easy treat you can make for any Halloween event. I made these coffin candy boxes using a Wilton mold, black candy melts, and luster dust.  They are super easy...just melt the candy and pour it in the mold.  Pop them in the fridge until they are nice and solid, then they just slide right out of the mold.  I brushed a little luster dust on the tops, but they look great without any decoration too. I filled it with mini m&m's and the entire treat is edible.

 

 

Wrap them up with some Halloween ribbon and you have a quick treat for your ghoul's night out.

Tag is made using a Stampin' Up! stamp.
 

 I also made some cookies.  This was my very sad and rushed attempt at a Jack Skellington cookie.

 

Thanksgiving Snacks

These are my little snacks I made for Thanksgiving this year.

Candy Acorns

I found the idea for these acorns on Pinterest....love me some Pinterest! I couldn't get it to link back to the directions, but it was easy enough to figure out.  Here's how I made them: Open mini Nutter Butter cookies and remove the peanut butter. Put a small skillet on the the stove eye and get it hot, touch the bottom of the Hershey kiss to the skillet to melt it, then stick the melted part to the Nutter Butter.  Melt the bottom of a chocolate chip and put it on top as a stem.

Turkey Cake Pops

Make your chocolate cake pops.  Be sure they have chilled for about 30 minutes then use melted chocolate as glue to put the candy corn feathers on.  Let those chill for a few minutes, then add the eyes (made ahead of time from royal icing), beak (pointed end of candy corn), and waddle (candy sprinkle).



Breaking Dawn Goodies

Some of my Twilight Saga crazy friends and myself decided to go see the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn.  Well, you just can't go to a movie that late without a midnight snack - goodie bags are a must!!

I used the Martha Stewart "Drippy Goo" punch to add some blood at the bottom of the tag.  To make the blood look wet, I added a little diamond glaze.

The goodie bags have Ghirardelli dark chocolate squares (with gooey red rasberry filling inside), vampire fang cookies, and vampire bite cookies.  Oh, and plastic vampire teeth...of course.   :-)

These vampire bite cookies are so much fun.  They are filled with red jelly on the inside, so when you bite into them, they "bleed".  I got the idea and recipe from Baking Bites blog. Check out it out for the complete recipe.

 I made these sugar cookies using the Wilton Vampire Fang pan. 

Bunco!

It's Bunco night with my girl friends, so I made us a quick batch of cookies.  The edges aren't perfect, but they are still cute.

Shark Snacks

Here are some fun shark snacks that you can use for your next pool party or summer celebration. I made these for a swim team event.   

Shark sugar cookies with royal icing.

White chocolate shark suckers made with candy molds. The eyes are royal icing (also on the cookies).

Shark fin cup cup cakes.

The fins are made from fondant.  I used the top portion of a Halloween moon cookie cutter for the fin shape.

Good bye Halloween

I am so sad to say good bye to Halloween.  I love this time of year and it seems to have come and gone so quickly this year.  I guess it is time to move on to the next holiday, but before I do, I am going to do one last last Halloween post. 

These pretty cookies look hard to make, but they are very easy.  Bake sugar cookies.  Then you will want have a new rubber stamp or one that has been cleaned really good.  Your "ink" will be gel food coloring.  Roll the fondant out and stamp the image.  Then cut with a circle cutter.  Let the "ink" dry a little before putting the fondant on the cookie. Use regular frosting as the glue to hold the fondant to the cookie.  This idea is great for any holiday.

These finger and claw cookies are made using the Wilton finger cookie mold.  I used Royal icing to decorate.

Wrap hot dogs with cresent rolls and bake.  Use mustard for the eyes.

Mummy dogs...so easy and so yummy!