Recipes For Fun Halloween Treats

This time of the year we are beginning to think about Recipes For Fun Halloween Treats.

While it is true that most parents will not allow their kids to eat homemade candy collected in the traditional trick-or-treat, you can still use these delicious Recipes For Fun Halloween Treat to give your kid a fun trick-or-treat party.

I am convinced that it is safer to have a party for the kids than to send them out trick-or-treating. We simply do not live in such a safe society anymore! Why not give the kids all the fun in total safety with a trick-or-treat party and use these recipes for fun Halloween treats.

Here are two of our recipes for fun Halloween treats that are both lollipops. Kids always love lollipops and these are fat easier than they may appear at first. Take a moment to visualize them and you will have not problem with these recipes for fun Halloween treats.

What You Need:

• 1 (3 ft.) roll of chewy fruit snack
• 14 (3 inch long) pretzel sticks
• 2/3 C white baking chips
• 1 t miniature semisweet chocolate chips

How to Make It:

1. Cover a cookie sheet completely with wax paper.
2. Unroll the fruit snack and cut the long end of the snack from end to end into 1/2 inch fringe.
3. Cut the roll into 2 inch segments.
4. Wrap a piece of the fringed fruit snack around one end of each pretzel stick.
5. Use your fingers to press the fruit snack onto the pretzel to make it stick well.
6. Place the pretzel sticks onto the prepared cookie sheet.
7. Place the white baking ships into a saucepan placed over low heat.
8. Stirring almost constantly with a wooden spoon heat the chips for 5 minutes or until completely melted.
9. Remove the pan from the stove.
10. Measure out 1/2 t of the melted chips and pour into a ghost shape over the middle of a pretzel stick to form a ghost.
11. Continue until you have made all 14 ghosts.
12. Press 3 of the chocolate chips onto each ghost head for the eyes and a nose.
13. Allow the ghosts to set at room temperature for 45 minutes or until they have hardened.

If you are strapped for time you can melt the white baking chips in the microwave instead of on the stove.

Place the chips into small microwaveable dish and microwave on high for 30 seconds then stir until the chips have completely melted. Place the completed ghosts in the freezer for 5 minutes to harden.

Makes 14 candies

Preparation Time: approximately 20 minutes

Cooking Time: approximately 5 minutes

Hardening Time: approximately 45 minutes

Total Time: approximately 1 hour 10 minutes

Nutritional Information (approximate values per candy)

Calories 50; fat 3g; sodium 20 mg; carbohydrates 7g; sugar 6g; protein 0g

This is really one of our fun recipes for fun Halloween treats.

Now for the second of our recipes for fun Halloween treats. These may take a little more effort, but think of the fun the kids will get out of them.

What You Need:

• 1 1/2 C of sugar
• 3/4 C of water
• 2/3 C of light corn syrup
• 1/2 t cream of tartar
• 1/2 t peppermint oil
• Black and orange paste food coloring
• 10 lollipop sticks

How to Make It:

1. Butter 10 assorted size round cookie cutters and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet. 
2. Place the sugar, water and corn syrup into a saucepan and place the pan over medium heat.
3. Stir in the cream of tartar and cook the mixture, stirring constantly until the sugar has dissolved.
4. Stop stirring and bring the mixture to a boil.
5. Continue cooking without stirring until a candy thermometer reaches 300 degrees.
6. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the peppermint oil.
7. Be careful to keep your face away from the pan when stirring in the oil as the aroma is very strong.
8. Spoon 1/4 C of the mixture into two separate custard cups and tint one cup orange and one cup black.
9. Pour the remaining mixture into the prepared cookie cutters.
10. Drizzle the black and orange sugar mixtures over the cookie cutters and use a toothpick to swirl the mixture through each lollipop.
11. Remove the cutters just before the lollipops completely harden and place a lollipop stick into each lollipop.

These lollipops can be made with size or shape of cookie cutter.  Once they have hardened wrap them in plastic wrap and tie them with a Halloween bow.  They make great hand out treats for all those scary trick-or-treaters.

Makes 10 lollipops

Well, with these two recipes for fun Halloween treats you are sure to be off to a good start with your kids trick-or-treat party.