Whip up some sweet Halloween treats for your favorite ghosts and goblins

Cupcakes and cookies are great treats to take to work or school for Halloween. Once the decorations are solid on the cookies they can be stacked or overlapped on a plate for easy transport. Place cupcakes in a single layer in a baking pan with a cover (or use foil, just remember not to set anything on top!). Turn a favorite dessert into a scary Halloween treat by adding gummi worms or other edible Halloween decor.

Halloween Treat Idea #1: Bones in the Graveyard

Using your favorite meringue recipe (or our recipe for Meringue Phantom Cookies), form the meringue into bone shapes and bake as directed. Crush Oreo or other chocolate cookies until it resembles dirt. Once the meringue shapes are ready, place the "dirt" on a platter and top with the "bones". You can garnish it with spiders, gummy worms, and other Halloween decor.

Some more Halloween treat recipes:

»»Candy Corn Popcorn Balls Recipe
»»Halloween Vanilla Cobweb Frosted Cupcakes Recipe
»»Spooky Shortbread Tombstones Recipe
»»Hairy Daddy Longlegs Cupcakes Recipe
»»Popcorn Balls Recipe
»»Sewer Worms Recipe
»»Halloween Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
»»Chocolate Spider Cookies Recipe
»»Halloween Nutella Spiced Sugar Cookies Recipe
»»Worms Recipe

»»Visit our entire Halloween treats recipe section
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Halloween Treat Idea #2: R.I.P Brownies

Prepare and frost a batch of brownies. You can use a mix or one of our recipes for brownies. Next make a batch of cookies (sugar cookies work well for this) and either use tombstone shaped cookie cutters, or cut them freehand. Frost and decorate the cookies to look like headstones with phrases like "R.I.P" on them. Using frosting, attached the finished cookies to brownie squares. Garnish with other Halloween decor like tiny pumpkins, goblins, ghosts, candy corn, etc.

Halloween Treat Idea #3: Oozey Orange Halloween Cupcakes

Oozy Orange Halloween Cupcakes

Category: Halloween Candy Treats & Sweets
Serves/Makes: 8    |   Difficulty Level: 3    |   Ready In: 30-60 minutes
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***Filling:***
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/3 cup sugar
yellow and red food coloring
6 ounces chocolate chips
***Cupcakes:***
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups water
1/2 cup vegetable oil PLUS
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
***Frosting:***
white frosting
Yellow & Red food coloring

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Line cupcake baking pans with paper cupcake liners or spray with vegetable spray.

In small mixing bowl, use electric mixer to combine cream cheese, egg and sugar. Blend in 2 drops yellow food coloring and 1 drop red food coloring, adding more coloring if necessary to reach desired shade.

Use mixing spoon to stir in chocolate chips; set filling aside.

In large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt; set aside.

In a second small mixing bowl, combine water, vegetable oil, vinegar and vanilla. Add contents of small mixing bowl to large mixing bowl and stir with mixing spoon to combine.

Using a tablespoon, fill cupcake liners half full with cupcake batter, then place 1 teaspoon filling at center of each. As cupcake bakes, the batter will rise to surround the filling.

Place pans in oven; bake approximately 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of one of the cupcakes comes out clean.

For the Frosting: Make your favorite frosting and add a few drops of yellow and red food coloring.

This cupcake has a double frosting whammy: you've got the stuff on the top of the cupcakes and then you've got the stuff that oozes out of the middle (if you don't want it quite so sweet, just leave off the frosting on the top; maybe place a gummy worm on the top of each cupcake instead).

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