With Halloween just around the corner, its the right time to get your spook on! Whether you and the little ones are out trick or treatin’ or catching up on some of the greatest horror movies in history, you’d want to check out these creepy but super cute Halloween themed treats to accompany you and the family on the scariest night of the year. Have your little ones help make and decorate the treats, they’ll have a blast in the kitchen!

Ghost Banana Popsicles

Ingredients

• Medium banana
• One cup good quality white chocolate*
• Mini chocolate chips for eyes
• Popsicle sticks

Instructions

• Cut banana in half lengthwise, then in half to make four quarters. Insert popsicle sticks into bananas, and freeze bananas on a wax paper-lined cookie sheet.
• When the bananas are frozen, fill a coffee mug with chocolate. Melt chocolate in the microwave 30 seconds at a time, stirring until the chocolate is melted and soft.
• Dip the bananas one at a time into the chocolate, scraping off the excess chocolate from the back of the banana, and place it on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper.
• Quickly add the chocolate chips for the eyes before the chocolate hardens (you have to work fast here).
• Return to the freezer until frozen and ready to eat. Eat frozen.

Fudgy Witch Hats

Ingredients

• Fudge covered Cookies 
• Hershey Kisses
• Frosting in Halloween Colors

Instructions

• You can either buy coloured frosting or get a tub of white frosting and add food colouring to it.
• Transfer icing to a piping bag or zippered bag and clip a corner.
• If you are using cookies that only have one side fudge-covered, make sure that side is facing upwards.
• Pipe icing in the middle to act as “glue” and place an unwrapped kiss in the middle.
• You can pipe extra icing around the kiss to even up the look.

One-Eyed Monster Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 box Yellow Cake Mix
• 1/2 cup butter softened
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 1 egg
• green food colouring
• powdered sugar
• candy eyeballs

Instructions

• Beat butter, vanilla, egg and cream cheese until fluffy.
• Mix in the cake mix. Add green food colouring until it’s the colour you want. I used neon green. Chill for 30 minutes.
• Roll into balls and dip in a bowl of powdered sugar.
• Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. While warm push eyeballs into the centre or all over the cookie. 
• Voila! Enjoy these deliciously spooky cookies with a glass of warm milk.

OREO Eyeballs

Ingredients

• OREO chocolate sandwich cookies 
• Blue, Red and Green gel decorating gel
• Black/brown M&Ms or Reeses pieces
• Small paintbrush 

Instructions

• Carefully remove one of the chocolate cookies from the OREO. You will end up with chocolate smudges on the frosting, that’s perfectly fine.
• Add a glob of blue or green gel icing.
• Place 1 M&M in the centre of the icing.
• Put a small dab of red food colouring in a bowl or on a plate, like a painter’s palette. Using a teeny tiny paintbrush, carefully paint red vein lines on the white frosting of the OREO.

Sweet Twinkie Ghosts

Ingredients

• Twinkies
• White melting chocolate
• Edible Googly Eyes
• Wax paper

Instructions

• Cut the bottom off your Twinkies.
• Line a cookie sheet with your Silpat mat or wax paper.
• Melt your chocolate in the microwave. Be very careful when you do this-cook it for 30 seconds to a minute at a time and then stir. You don’t want to overcook this or it will be ruined.
• Using a spoon, drizzle the white chocolate over your ghosts. Let it form a little pool at the bottom and be sure to do the back too-this helps it stand up.
• Put your ghosts in the freezer to set up (this just takes about ten minutes).
• Add the eyes by adding a tiny bit of the melted to the back of them and pressing them into place.
• And you’ve got a perfect Halloween treat!

Spider Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Shortening
• 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
• 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 2 tbsp Milk
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1 3/4 cup Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1/4 cup Sugar (For rolling)
• Miniature Reese’s cups, unwrapped and frozen
• Candy Eyes
• 1/2 cup Chocolate Chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375.
• In a large bowl, beat together shortening, peanut butter, egg, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and milk.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
• Gradually add dry mixture to wet mixture and beat until blended.
• Form into 1″ balls.
• Roll in sugar and place a couple of inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden.
• Immediately, gently press an upside down frozen peanut butter cup on top of each cookie and move to a wire rack to cool.
• After placing and moving all of the cookies on the wire rack. Place the candy eyes while chocolate is still slightly soft.
• Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow cookies to firm.
• Place chocolate chips in the corner of a zippered sandwich bag.
• Microwave for 20 seconds, knead and repeat until chocolate has melted.
• Cut a very tiny piece off of the corner of bag to allow for piping and draw 8 legs on each spider cookie.
• Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to allow legs to set.
• Once it sets, you can pop one of these creepy crawlies into your mouth.

Crispy Pumpkins

Ingredients

• 3 Tbsp. butter
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• red & yellow food colouring or orange gel colouring
• 5-1/2 cups mini marshmallows
• 6 cups crispy rice cereal
• mini tootsie rolls
• candy for decorations M&M’s, candy corn, etc.

Instructions

• In a large saucepan, melt and slightly brown butter on medium heat. Add vanilla extract and marshmallows. Stir until marshmallows are completely melted. Add food colouring until desired orange colour is reached. Add cereal and stir until completely combined. Turn off heat and let sit for a few minutes, until cool enough to handle.
• When the mixture has cooled enough, spray your hands with cooking spray and mould cereal mix into circles. Unwrap a tootsie roll and press into each pumpkin top. Add candy for the eyes and noses, go crazy with the decorations, it is Halloween after all.