Halloween Kids Class Party Treats – Spooky Spiders, Ghosts, and Pumpkins, oh my!

Nicole Hood — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:30:00 +0000

Halloween is almost here y’all and I am so excited I can hardly stand it! This time of year is always busy for us with Ava’s birthday the week before along with family visiting and festivals and events just about every day {or so it seems}. But the girls and I always make fun matching costumes and we love to creative delicious Halloween treats to give to friends and family. This year for Ava’s preschool party we had to come up with a clever way to decorate sealed store bought food. We decided on Ava’s two favorite treats: cheesesticks and orange cups made into pumpkins and ghosts, of course. For Stella’s music class party we made Oreo spiders, which was a fun craft that the girls loved making {and eating}. Check out the pictures and instructions below and let me know what you are making for your kids Halloween treats this year!

My sweet girls dressed up as butterflies this year.

Mommy matched, of course!

Ingredients:

Mozzarella Cheesesticks
Mandarin Orange Cups
Halloween Oreos
Pretzel Sticks
Candy eyeballs
Candy Corn
Black Decorative icing

Directions:

For the pumpkin orange cups and ghost cheesesticks it doesn’t get much easier than this- grab a black Sharpie and get creative drawing funny and spooky faces!
For the Oreo spiders, I broke 4 pretzel sticks in half and pushed 4 halves into each side of an Oreo cookie to makes legs.
Cut off the white part of candy corn and stick two into the bottom of each Oreo for fangs.
Now add a couple dots in the center of the Oreos tops and press on candy eyeballs.

How each and fun are these creations?! Happy Halloween!

*I used the pumpkin face templates from here.

The Oreo Cookies Spiders are from Positively Splendid.

Ava loved taking the pumpkin orange cups and the ghost cheesesticks to her preschool class party.
Only store bought and sealed food was allowed so these were easy non candy foods to bring that the kids loved!

For Stella’s music class we brought Oreo Spiders along with candy bracelets and goodie bags and napkins for taking home.

My Mom is visiting for Ava’s birthday and she helped decorate the ghosts.

Make sure you wipe the moisture off the cheese first. Then use a Sharpie to draw the faces.

My talented artist Ashton drew the funny faces on the orange cups.

I used the face templates/ideas from this page and just printed out the page for reference.
Check it out here.

Time to make Oreo Spiders!

I love this idea from Positively Splendid.

I stock up on different sizes of candy eyeballs around Halloween time.

They are so fun to use in Halloween bark, cookies, brownies, and treats like these.

Oreos are a favorite so I knew when I saw the fun Halloween
Oreos I wanted to make a treat with them for the kids class.

This works best with double stuff Oreos. The more cream, the better everything sticks.

For the Oreo spiders, I broke 4 pretzel sticks in half and pushed 4 halves into each side
of an Oreo cookie to makes legs.
Cut off the white part of candy corn and stick two into the bottom of each Oreo for fangs.
Now add a couple dots in the center of the Oreos tops and press on candy eyeballs.

We also picked up these Halloween candy bracelets for the girl’s to give to their classmates.

I found them at Target and they were in a box of 26, which just so happened to be the perfect amount for both of their classes!

Happy Halloween friends! Hope you enjoyed these easy spooky treats!

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Coconut White Chocolate Oreo Cookie Truffles

Nicole Hood — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:46:00 +0000

Hello there! During this next week of “catching up” posts you know I had to blog a couple of my favorite chocolate recipes from Christmas! I found this fantastic recipe from Kraft for White Chocolate Oreo Truffles. Doesn’t your mouth start watering just thinking about these decadent little treats? It’s seriously taking all my self control right now not to ask my poor hubby to run to the store for Oreos right now!

Enjoy this recipe and stay tuned this weekend for the recipe for my other “lick your fingers it’s that good” Christmas treat: Peppermint Bark!

Ingredients:

1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, softened

32 Golden Oreo Cookies, finely crushed (about 3 cups)

1-1/2 cups flaked coconut, toasted, divided

2 pkg. (6 squares each) White Chocolate, melted

Makes about 35-40 truffles!

Mix Oreos in a food processor until finely crushed.

Toast the coconut.

Mixcream cheese, cookie crumbs and 1 cup coconut until well blended.

Heat chocolate in a double boiler (simply a small bowl a top a saucepan of simmering water) until melted, stirring constantly.

With your hands roll cookie mixture into one inch balls.

Dip in melted chocolate; place in single layer in shallow waxed paper-lined pan.

Tip: Use two forks to roll balls in chocolate until evenly coated.

Sprinkle with remaining coconut.

Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm.

These make great bite size party desserts and look adorable in Christmas gift baskets!

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Halloween Kids Class Party Treats – Spooky Spiders, Ghosts, and Pumpkins, oh my!

Ingredients:

Directions:

Coconut White Chocolate Oreo Cookie Truffles

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