I hope everyone had a WONDEFUL Halloween! I spent most of September and October (and if I’m being truthful some of August) with my eyes glued to Pinterest and FoodGawker “pinning” and “heart-ing” every jack-o-lantern – ghost – witch hat – candy corn – caramel apple – Rice Krispy treat – decoration and dessert that had anything to do with Halloween.  I found so many cute things to do to my mantel, door, mirrors, windows and tons of fun and festive treats to make…I can’t wait until next Halloween to try some of them out!  Just kidding, while I do have multiple “pins” that I didn’t get to try I am happy to say that there were a few of them I did.

Thanks to Michaels (yea 40% off coupons) and the 99 cent store I was able to create this creepy scene above my cabinets… (The plates and upside margarita glasses which I already had made perfect “perches” for the crows)

I had to go to a few more stores but it was still pretty inexpensive and I was able to create this scary mantle! 

I knew I wanted to make some Halloween treats for my coworkers.  It was so hard to decide which festive treats to make but I ended up making Rice Krispy Frankensteins, Ghost Nutter Butters and Worm and Dirt Cupcakes. 

The Ghost Nutter Butters are totally worth it and pretty easy – white bakers chocolate melted in the microwave and then dip the cookies in the chocolate. I found that balancing the cookie on a fork worked pretty well. I used the decorator gel from the baking aisle of the store for the eyes.  I would say you could make these 1 maybe 2 days in advance, but any earlier and the chocolate starts to look splotchy. Maybe the Arizona heat (?)

The worm and dirt cupcakes are quite cute, a little time consuming and very messy to eat…so pros and cons. Ingredients: cake mix, chocolate frosting, crushed Oreo ( I used the food processor) and gummy worms.  If you do make these and want it to look like the worm is coming out of the “dirt” buy the smaller worms (usually the generic or Walgreens ones) and then, after you bake and frost the cupcakes use the tip of a knife to make a wide hole in the frosted cupcake and push the worm in the hole a bit.  Then sprinkle the crushed Oreos “dirt” on top. The easy way – drape the worm over the frosting and cover with crushed Oreos 🙂

Lastly the Frankensteins…super ubber cute! However time consuming to dip the top in melted chocolate, draw the face and in real life those pretzel stick bolts do NOT stay put and it really stinks trying to get the pretzel sticks in the Rice Krispy.  In fact the only Frankenstein treat that had those was the one for the picture. LOL.  At the end of the day its a green Rice Krispy treat…eh…good but not great.

I hope you had a chance to try new things too!  Let me know if you discovered a particularly fun or good Halloween treat!