Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, everyone!


We had a little Halloween party over the weekend, and I wanted to share recipes for some of the goodies that I made.  In the coming week, you'll see recipes for some pumpkin peanut butter dip, pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, black bean dip, and you've already seen the Halloween Rice Krispie Treats I made.  


I just wanted to share a few photos with you, as well, to give you a little preview of what's to come this week!

Made by Megan, Anthony, and Julia!  Yum!

Check out Maeby in her costume, too!!  

World's cutest and least threatening shark.

The poor little girl HATED it.  Because of that, we only kept it on her for about 5 minutes to take some pictures, then we let her run free.  When Sean put it on her, she wouldn't move.  She just stood there, very stiff-legged, with a look on her face that said "I'll get you for this".


Have some fun today and look for more recipes from me as the week goes on!

Halloween Rice Krispie Treats

So Sean and I had a little Halloween party over the weekend, and since I've somehow managed to not post any Halloween-related recipes, I thought I'd share one with you that I served at the party.  It's your basic Rice Krispie treat, but jazzed up for Halloween.  I hope you enjoy them!

This recipe was originally found at Pass the Plate.  


You'll need:


3 tbs butter
4 cups mini marshmallows
1/2 cup peanut butter
6 cups puffed rice cereal 
12 oz. bag of candy corn


In a large saucepan, melt the butter over low heat.  Add the marshmallows and stir until completely melted.  Stir in the peanut butter until it has melted, too.  This is kind of a sticky mess... so be prepared!  Remove from the heat and stir in the cereal and candy corn until everything is well coated.  Use a buttered spatula or piece of wax paper to evenly press the mixture into a well-greased 13x9x2-inch pan.  Let them firm up, cut into desired shapes/sizes, and enjoy!


If your store happens to be out of regular candy corn (coughWalmartcough...) go right ahead and use some of the other varieties.  I used some (somewhat racially insensitive...) Indian Corn, because I was a little wary of the caramel-flavored candy corn.  By the way, when did they even come out with the flavored candy corns?  I completely missed out on that one.

Enjoy these!