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Caramel Filled Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes- #HalloweenTreatsWeek

October 12, 2019

Say Boo! Caramel Filled Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes are yummy chocolate cupcakes filled with a frightfully delicious surprise caramel filling.  A spooktacular treat.

This post and recipe is part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek where I have posted some great Halloween recipes along with other wonderful bloggers. 

Caramel Filled Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes are simple chocolate cupcakes that have a fun surprise in them. They are definitely not a tick but a great Halloween treat!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: cupcakes, halloween, halloween cupcakes

Monster Munch Chex Party Mix – #HalloweenTreatsWeek

October 7, 2019

Halloween Monster Munch Chex Party Mix is an irresistible snack mix made with Chex, chocolate, candy corn, creme pumpkins and festive sprinkles.

This post and recipe is part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! I would like to thank our amazing sponsors: Dixie Crystals, Adam’s Extract, Wilton, Sweets and Treats Shop, Treat Street USA and Litehouse! These wonderful sponsors provided the prize packs for our giveaways and also sent samples and products to the #HalloweenTreatsWeek bloggers to use in their recipes.

Post Contains Affiliate Links. Read my full disclosure HERE

Monster Munch Chex Party Mix is the perfect Halloween treat for parties. Put out a big bowl of the mix and it will be gone in a flash. No one can resist that sweet crunchy Chex mix.

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Filed Under: Cookies, Bars, and Candy, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: candy corn, chex mix, halloween, snack mix, sprinkles

Quick Halloween Mini Cheesecakes with Oreo Cookie Crusts

October 30, 2018

These Halloween Mini Cheesecakes are yummy, but best of all they are quick to prepare. Just use an Oreo Cookie as the Crust to make assembly nice & easy.

Halloween is tomorrow!!! Are you ready for some spooky fun?!?!?! I’m so ready!

I’m ready to go trick or treating with the kiddos. Fun family costume, lots of candy, and a few drinks along the way. The perfect Halloween!

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Filed Under: Cakes and Cupcakes, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: cheesecake, halloween, mini cheesecake, Oreo Cookie, oreo crust

Super Cute Ghost Halloween Cupcakes

October 6, 2018

This post and recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine.

Oh boy! I am so glad that it is Saturday today. This week has d-r-a-g-g-e-d on. I haven’t felt well, Price had to work late a whole bunch, and everything was just annoying.

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Filed Under: Cakes and Cupcakes, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: candy corn, cupcake, ghost candy, halloween, halloween cupcakes

Super Spooky Graveyard Cake

October 4, 2018

You’ll think that you are having an encounter with zombies when you see this Super Spooky Graveyard Cake. Beware the chocolate and zombie hands!

This post and recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine.

Post Contains Affiliate Links. Read my full disclosure HERE

This cake is so ridiculously good that it will make you high five a creepy zombie!!!!!

I knew the minute that I saw these neon green zombie hands that I needed to make a fun cake that zombies were digging their way out of. Ah, reminds me of so many episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when the vampires dug themselves out of their graves. So much dirt! So much gore!

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Filed Under: Cakes and Cupcakes, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, halloween, oreos, zombie candy

“I’ve Gone Batty” Halloween Brownies

October 2, 2018

“I’ve Gone Batty” Halloween Brownies are the fun Halloween treat that will have you flapping your wings with joy! Fun for kids of all ages!

This post and recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine.

Our daughter is OBSESSED with Vampirina at the moment.

It’s a cute Disney Jr show that features Vee, a young vampire who is adjusting to her move from Transylvania to Pennsylvania. Only a few friends know she is a vampire. She can’t get “Batty!” or she will turn into a bat and her secret will be known.

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Filed Under: Cookies, Bars, and Candy, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: bat brownies, brownies, halloween, halloween bat brownies, oreos

Frankenstein’s Monster Pudding Cups

October 1, 2018

Frankenstein’s Monster Pudding Cups are the perfect treats for kids! Your kids can help make them and then gobble them up!

Ugh! I have a cold! I just want to lay in bed, but, instead, I bring you HALLOWEEN TREATS WEEK!!!!!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: frankenstein, halloween, pudding

Halloween 2017

November 1, 2017

Halloween is my favorite holiday.

I just love the fun festivities for the night. And the costumes are tons of fun.

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Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Basic Witch, halloween, Halloween Costumes

Halloween. 2015

October 31, 2015

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Autumn loves Minnie so much that when I found a Minnie costume that would fit actually fit her I snatched it up. Of course, I based our costumes off of her’s so Price was Mickey and I was Daisy Duck.

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But first, we started our Halloween a day early as Autumn went to daycare in costume on Friday in a spider costume. She actually wears it regularly. ha!

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Price and I were having a rough week so we decided to perk ourselves up by having tons of fun on Halloween.

As it is our last Halloween up here, we decided to go up to Salem to enjoy the festivities up here. Price and I had been once before for Halloween with our friends Emily and Peter and it was a lot of fun and really busy. We didn’t want to deal with the crazy crowds so we decided to go up for breakfast, enjoy the morning there, and head home before lunch.

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We went to The Ugly Mug for breakfast. (thanks for thesuggestion Twitter Peeps!!) It was so good that we are already planning on our next visit there.

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Minnie and Mickey!!!

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After breakfast, we headed out to wander around Salem.

We first visited the Witch Trials Memorial before heading over to the adjoining Charter Street Burning Point.

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I love the rich history that is scattered throughout New England. It’s incredible in Boston and the surrounding areas.

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Boil Boil Toil and Trouble

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Witches were everywhere!

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At least this witch was a nice one!

I told Autumn to wiggle her nose like Samantha. She looked at me strange.

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There is a fantastic exhibit called Stickwork at the Peabody Essex Museum that we will come back to visit in depth one day. Especially in the snow!

Also, they have another exhibit that we want to see one day so we will be back soon.

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I will defiently miss Fall in New England when we move. I can’t stop taking pictures of the changing pictures so I can capture all the carious hues of greens, yellows, oranges, reds, and purples that fill the trees and sidewalks.

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I mean, come on…

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There was a festival for kids on the Salem Common. They had dressed up characters that Autumn loved/was scared of, games, bounce houses, and face painting.

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The bounce house maze experience was greeted with so much enthusiasm (she tried to go in before it was fully set up!!) but some big kids (4 yo’s?) ventured back through and they didn’t mean to scare her but did so we had to yank her from the side and she clawed for her freedom. Poor Minnie!!

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Hey dude. Thanks for settling Salem.

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We wrapped up our Salem adventure with some more wandering around and some shopping just after 11am and headed home.

Autumn was so upset to be leaving but she was just over tired from the busy morning as the hysterics lasted a minute before she was passed out for the ride home.

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Keep it up New England. You rock this time of year.

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We carved our pumpkins in the afternoon after watching a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Halloween special (but of course!). Plus, I made an apple crisp and a frity flax oat bran bread. The house smelled so good from the baking and the hot cider we had warming on the stove.

Later on, Autumn and I went out for an hour for trick-o-treating. It was confusing to her but she had fun with it.

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She was wiped out after it so she ended up going to bed at 6pm! Now that’s a great day!!!

Unfortunately we don’t get a lot of trick-o-treaters. It’s a nasty cycle in our neighborhood… kids don’t go here because people don’t hand out candy>>> people don’t hand out candy because kids don’t come here. This doesn’t sit well with me as I LOVE to hand out candy to kids in costumes.

I ended up calling my Dad to see what we would be getting ourselves into next year when we are down in FL with him and he had to just rub it in that he had 300 kids. OMG!!!!!

I’m thankful we had such a great day celebrating Halloween in Salem this year.Mickey, Minnie, and Daisy had a great Halloween!!!

 

 

Filed Under: Exploring, Living, New England Tagged With: halloween, Salem Halloween, salem ma

Halloween Monster Cupcakes

October 27, 2015

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Boo! Halloween is less than a week away and we are still scrambling with our costumes.

Well, we have Autumn’s all set as she is going at Minnie Mouse – of course! But Price and I are trying to figure out what to do for us. Get dressed up? Skip it? Do a family theme? Do whatever?

Ultimately, it will be fun as Autumn will love it, so it will be great but right now I’m all over the place.

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Don’t get me wrong, I love Halloween but the dressing up part leaves me all panic-y until the last minute. We’ve had years when we have gone all out for parties but the past 3 years have been hard with either being super pregnant, having a wee one, and now a toddler who gets to bed at 6.30. Limits out trick or treating time, plus not many people give out candy by us, which is why we don’t get many, which is why I say to myself, why bother dressing up? I’m just in a quasi sick funk this week and need to shake it off!!

What are you doing? Are you getting dressed up? Skipping it? Handing out candy? Turning the light off?

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I recently brought these Monster Cupcakes to Autumn’s daycare for the kids to enjoy. They enjoyed them as a fun afternoon treat to celebrate the upcoming Halloween.

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These cupcakes are really easy to make. You can follow my instructions and use a boxed mix and cans of frosting, or you can make it all homemade. It just depends on your preference (and time constraints). You really can’t go wrong with how you decorate them either. It’s fun to be creative. Plus you can def involve kids!

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Whip a batch of these frightfully delicious cupcakes for Halloween!!!

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Halloween Monster Cupcakes

Makes 18 cupcakes

Ingredients

  • 1 box of cake mix for the cupcakes, and accompanying ingredients
  • 2 containers of frosting in bright colors
  • 5 Twizzlers’ Pull and Peels candies
  • 36+ eye candies

Process

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line 18 cavities of 2 muffin tins with cupcake liners.
  2. Prepare the cake mix according to the package instructions.
  3. Evenly portion out the batter in the 18 cupcake liners. Bake according to package instructions. (As you are putting a bit more batter in each cupcake to make 18, instead of 24, it might take a bit linger than the package instructions.)
  4. Once the cupcakes have fully cooled, frost half with one color, and the other half with the other color.
  5. Cut the Twizzlers in half, then half, and half again to create 8 1″-long pieces. Either fray the pieces by separating the 9 ‘fibers’ while leaving a bit connected at one end. Or completely separate the 9 ‘fibers’.
  6. Decorate each cupcakes with 2-3 candy eyes and the Twizzlers pieces to make fun hair!

 

 

 

Filed Under: Cakes and Cupcakes, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: cupcakes, halloween, halloween cupcakes

Thirsty Thursday: Blood-Red Wine Punch

October 25, 2012

Blood-Red Wine Punch is the perfect wine punch for Halloween parties or girls night. It’s light, fruity, and the prettiest ruby color. Cheers!

I have been waiting for this Thursday for a long time. And it’s finally here!!!!! Woohoo!!!

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Filed Under: Drinks, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: cranberry, halloween, Halloween drink, Halloween Party Drink, halloween punch, hot chocolate, Rachael Ray

Thirsty Thursday: Slime Rickey

October 18, 2012

With just less than 2 weeks until Halloween Amanda and I decided to have 2 Thirsty Thursday posts with a spooktacular Halloween theme. We each will share one drink that is for great for trick-or-treaters of all ages (non-alcoholic) and one boo-zy one that you can enjoy at a party. This week I am sharing a fun drink that kids will just love and Amanda is sharing one that will put a smile across any grown ups’ face.

 

 

A Slime Rickey is perfect for kids as it is a lime rickey but there are some spooky eyes floating around in the glass! Just kidding! Those creepy eyes are just grapes and some maraschino cherries. Make and freeze the eyeballs in advance and you can whip up these drinks for the kids for a party or to refresh them after a long night of trick-or-treating. Perfect drink to sip on while sorting out all the candy!

Check out Amanda’s drink called a Bloody Tooth Cocktail! A reddevilish delight for parents after a long night of trick or treating! Sure to put a smile on your face!

Slime Rickey

Makes 4 drinks

Ingredients

  • 8 oz of lime juice (approximately 6 limes)
  • 4 oz of simple syrup
  • 16 oz of seltzer water
  • green grapes, round is preferred
  • maraschino cherries
  • crushed ice

Process

  1. To make the frozen eyeballs: chop maraschino cherries into tiny pieces. Score a ‘X’ at the end of the grape. Insert the piece of cherry into the grape. Arrange on the baking sheet and freeze.
  2. Combine 2 oz of fresh limes juice with 1oz of simple syrup in a glass. Add crushed ice and then seltzer. Put at least 5 frozen ‘eyeballs’ into each drink and enjoy!

Filed Under: Drinks Tagged With: grapes, halloween, Halloween non-alcoholic, Halloween Party Drink, kids Halloween drink, Lime Rickey, limes, maraschino cherries, seltzer, Slime Rickey

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