Making spooky Halloween party snacks for your little trick-or-treaters? These simple holiday snacks are fun and easy to make. Try baking them with your children for a delightful holiday activity.
Rice Krispies Spooky Hands Treats
Invest in a box of sanitary gloves (the thin, disposable, transparent kind, without powder). Mix up a batch of Rice Krispies Treats (Rice Krispies, marshmallows and butter-follow instructions on the box of Rice Krispies.) Drop a few red hot cinnamons into each finger of each glove. Then pack the still-warm Rice Krispie treat mix into each glove, making sure to get the mixture down into each finger. Serve these creepy hands to your Halloween party guests, and let them cut the hands open and enjoy.
Celery Goblin Fingers
These Halloween treats are somewhat healthy and definitely tasty, if you can get over the idea that you're eating a goblin finger. Cut celery logs. Spread peanut butter on each log, and then add a strip of fruit roll-up cut to fingernail size and shape on the end of each log. If you want to, you can add another celery log on top to make the finger look completely green on the outside, or you can serve these as one-layer logs.
Spider Cupcakes
Bake chocolate and vanilla cupcakes in Halloween-themed cupcake paper liners. Frost the cupcakes with orange or purple icing. Use black licorice shoestrings and big fat black gumdrops to make spiders on top of each cupcake. Use orange icing to make eyes on the spiders.
Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
Roll out sugar cookie dough (you can buy it pre-made in the refrigerator section of your grocery store) into spooky shapes. Use cookie cutters (bats, ghosts, cats), bake as directed and decorate with icing and toppings of your choice.
Swamp Water Punch
Serve your Halloween party guests this delightfully disgusting-looking swamp water. It tastes much better than it looks! Combine one 2-liter bottle of lemon-lime soda with a pint of lime sherbet and a pint of orange sherbet. Float lime slices in the punch bowl.
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