Homemade Halloween Candy Ice Cream

Every year, without fail, I end up with a ridiculous amount of candy leftover after the trick-or-treaters have gone. I have made Day After Halloween Brownies in the past, but this year, because it is still so warm, I decided to make Homemade Halloween Candy Ice Cream using my leftover candy!

This recipe for Halloween Candy Ice Cream can be adapted for any candy you would like in your ice cream. I went with an assortment of chocolate candy: mini candy bars, Reece’s, M&M’s, Kit-Kats, and Snickers, because that’s what I had on hand.

Feel free to add in whatever candy you have leftover, just make sure it ends up being about 2 cups of chopped candy.

Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups various Halloween candy, chopped

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Easter Basket Snack Pack Pudding Cups #SnackPackMixins

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Holidays are a great time to come up with some creative recipes! This recipe is a cute and easy to make Easter dessert using Snack Pack Pudding Cups, Honey Maid Graham Crackers, Oreos, Coconut Flakes, and other Easter Candy to make mini Easter Baskets!

 

 

I picked up all of the ingredients for this recipe at Walmart. The SUPER Snack Packs, Honey Maid Graham Crackers, and Oreos can all be found in the same aisle (at least at my Walmart in Philly)!

 

 

Some stores even have a special display featuring the SUPER Snack Packs and ideas for mixins for Easter. The display has a recipe tear pad with more recipes if you’re looking for more inspiration. (Walmart also has a coupon for $0.50 off SUPER Snack Pack Pudding Cups at the moment.)

 

Ingredients:

  • 1 (6-pack) Creamy Chocolate SUPER Snack Packs
  • 2 Honey Maid Honey-flavored Graham Crackers
  • 6 Oreos
  • 2 tablespoons coconut flakes
  • 1 tablespoon green sprinkles, plus more for decoration
  • “Easter basket candy” of your choice (small chocolate bunnies, chocolate eggs, marshmallow chicks, etc.)
  • 6 pipe cleaners (or fuzzy sticks)

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Halloween Chewy Crispy Bars

These Halloween Chewy Crispy Bars are a great use of leftover Halloween candy, or would be a really awesome treat to give out on Halloween!

They are simple to make and can be cut into any size you please.

This recipe is adapted from Cooking Light’s October 2013 issue.

Ingredients:

  • Cooking spray and parchment paper
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 (10 ounce) package mini marshmallows
  • 6 cups rice cereal
  • 2/3 cup candy corn, plus more for decoration
  • 2/3 cup M&M’s, plus more for decoration

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Marble Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Cookies

This time of year, I love finding recipes that incorporate candy bars. I tend to have an influx of candy in my house so I might as well use it to make awesome baked goods right? I received a couple of Equal Exchange Candy Bars recently and couldn’t stop snacking on them!
Equal Exchange is the nation’s leading Fair Trade brand of coffee, chocolate and tea. They recently launched a new line of organic, fairly traded candy bars with flavors including milk chocolate peanut butter, milk chocolate crisp with puffed rice and quinoa, and dark chocolate fruit and nut with raisins and almonds.
The milk chocolate crisp lives up to its name, the puffed rice and quinoa added a nice crunch to the milk chocolate. The dark chocolate fruit and nut is the perfect mix of chocolately goodness, nuts, and fruit. The website describes it perfectly as trail mix in candy bar form.  My favorite of the three though was the milk chocolate peanut butter bar a perfect and classic combination for a reason! I decided to use the chocolate peanut butter bars in a cookie but wanted to find a cookie that sort of resembled the chocolate bar itself.
I adapted this cookie recipe for Marble Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Cookies from a Bakergirl recipe for Marbled Peanut Butter & Chocolate Snickers cookies.
Ingredients:
Peanut Butter Dough
  • 2 cups creamy peanut butter
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup mini chocolate chips

Chocolate Dough

  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 Equal Exchange Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter bars
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter chips
Photo courtesy of Equal Exchange

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“Irish Potatoes”

I am Irish, on my father’s side. So, more appropriately, I’m Irish American (among other things). Even more specifically, I am Irish Philadelphian. (Yes, I may have made that phrase up. But there are a bunch of us so I think the phrase should exist.)

Now I’m sure you were very interested in what my heritage is, but there is a reason I’m telling you this. Philadelphia has this… candy? dessert? … we will go with “treat”… called an Irish Potato.

It’s cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and coconut rolled into a little ball and coated in cinnamon. So it ends up looking kind of like a potato, hence the name.

A super cute potato, that is

I’m under the impression this treat is essentially a Philadelphia-only thing. Friends from New York and D.C. both look at me like I’m crazy when I bring these up. But they are delicious and an integral part of every St. Patrick’s Day for me, so I needed to share them!

 

Ingredients:
  • 4 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 cups sweetened coconut, lightly packed
  • 1 teaspoon cocoa powder (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Day After Halloween Brownies

If you’re like every other American adult the day after Halloween, you have a whole lot of random candy sitting in your house. My guess is you either 1. want to get rid of it ASAP or 2. consume it all in one sitting. Well friends, I have a recipe to satisfy both ends of the spectrum.  Two Peas and Their Pod had a wonderful Peanut Butter Snickers Brownies recipe on their site that got me thinking. Any chocolately goodness could be thrown in these brownies to make a yummy dessert! So I used Dark Chocolate Reese’s and Peanut Butter M&M’s to make these Day After Halloween Brownies! Past that, the recipe is the same as Two Peas and Their Pod, so thank you very much for posting this great idea!
Feel free to use whatever chocolate you have lying around the house. Just be sure to end up with about 1 1/2 cups of candy to make the recipe consistent.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 4 large eggs
  • 3/4 cup dutch processed cocoa
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped candy (I used about a dozen Reese’s Cups and a bag of Peanut M&Ms)
  • 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter

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