Here’s a spooky treat to serve at your Halloween party this year.

This salty and sweet snack is a festive addition for your dessert table!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Welcome to 2023’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event!

If you’re new here, welcome! If you’re a returning haunt, welcome back!

#HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife . You’ll find that this fun and spooky event is an online, week-long event that is filled with some frightfully fun Halloween treats and recipes from some fantastic Halloween loving bloggers!

For this years 6th annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 18 hauntingly talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! You can following the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media to collect all of these frightful recipes to use at your own Halloween parties and events!

Make sure to check out all of the fun Halloween recipes below that we’re sharing this week!

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Chocolate Spiderweb Pretzels

Ingredients

• 1 cup chocolate chips white, semi sweet, milk
• 40-60 thin pretzel sticks
• Halloween sprinkles
• decorative mini spiders

Instructions

• Line a baking sheet with wax or parchment paper.
• Melt chocolate either in a bowl in the microwave for 45-60 seconds or in a double boiler on the stove until smooth.
• Add a baggie to a jar and scoop melted chocolate into it then seal, twist, and cut a very small tip off the corner.
• Arrange pretzels in a snowflake shape on the lined pan using around 10 pretzels for each design.
• Squeeze a circle of chocolate in the center of each pretzel design, to hold them together.
• Continue to squeeze chocolate in circles around the pretzels, starting from the inside and going outwards.
• Quickly before it dries add sprinkles and a spider decoration.
• Repeat with remaining pretzels and chocolate.
• Let dry completely then lift off the paper and serve or wrap in goodie bags as gifts.

Notes

Note: To speed up the hardening time for the chocolate, place in the fridge. 

Start by choosing your chocolate. I originally wanted white chocolate but I do not think it gets the right liquidy consistency.

So I switched to my favorite semi sweet chocolate which worked well and tasted great!

Melt chocolate either in a bowl in the microwave for 45-60 seconds or in a double boiler on the stove until smooth.

Add a baggie to a jar and scoop melted chocolate into it then seal, twist, and cut a very small tip off the corner.

Arrange pretzels in a snowflake shape on the lined pan using around 10 pretzels for each design. 

Squeeze a circle of chocolate in the center of each pretzel design, to hold them together. 

Continue to squeeze chocolate in circles around the pretzels, starting from the inside and going outwards.

Now you have a spiderweb!

Quickly before it dries add sprinkles and a spider decoration.  

Repeat with remaining chocolate and pretzels. 

Let dry completely then lift off the paper and serve. 

To speed up the hardening time for the chocolate, place in the fridge. 

These individual treats are cute in goodie bags as Halloween boo bag gifts too! 

Fun and just a little bit creepy!

Today’s Halloween Offerings:

• Halloween Puppy Chow from The Spiffy Cookie
• Halloween Cheese Ball from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
• Bubbling Cauldron Caramel Apples from The Redhead Baker
• Air Fryer Bloody Intestines Cinnamon Rolls from It’s Shanaka
• Spiderweb Pretzels from For the Love of Food

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I’m so excited for spooky season 2023!

For my first recipe this Halloween, I created these decadent chocolate spider cupcakes.

Easy to make and fun to serve during Halloween celebrations and movie nights, these Spooky Spider Chocolate Cupcakes are a favorite decadent treat to enjoy this spooky season!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Welcome to 2023’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event!

If you’re new here, welcome! If you’re a returning haunt, welcome back!

#HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly Halloween blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife . You’ll find that this fun and spooky event is an online, week-long event that is filled with some frightfully fun Halloween treats and recipes from some fantastic Halloween loving bloggers!

For this years 6th annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event we have 18 hauntingly talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! You can following the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media to collect all of these frightful recipes to use at your own Halloween parties and events!

Make sure to check out all of the fun Halloween recipes below that we’re sharing this week!

Spooky and sweet spider cupcakes are scarily delicious!

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Spooky Spider Chocolate Cupcakes

Makes 12 large cupcakes

Ingredients

• 12 chocolate cupcakes I used Halloween Funfetti mix
• 15 oz jar green vanilla frosting I used Halloween Funfetti frosting with sprinkles included
• 12 Oreo cookies I used Halloween design colored Oreos
• black decorative icing
• candy eyeballs included with the Funfetti frosting
• Halloween colored sprinkles included with the Funfetti frosting

Instructions

• Bake cupcakes according to package. Cool completely.
• Frost the cupcakes with the icing, covering the tops completely with a generous scoop.
• Top each cupcake with a Halloween Oreo in the center.
• Using the black icing, draw four lines on either side of the Oreo cookies (eight total) as spider legs.
• Now add Halloween colored sprinkles to the open area of frosting on each cupcake.
• Add a dot of icing onto the back of each candy eyeball.
• Press two eyes, icing side down, onto the top center of each Oreo cookie.
• Serve and enjoy!

How cool is this Halloween Funfetti combo?! The green frosting even comes with sprinkles and candy eyeballs. 

This fun recipe is so easy to make and adding Halloween themed cupcakes, frosting, and cookies made it even better (and yummier)!

Bake cupcakes according to package. I used spider web themed cupcake liners.

Cool completely. 

Frost the cupcakes with the icing, covering the tops completely with a generous scoop.

My girl helping me with the fun green frosting.

Frost all the cupcakes. 

Top each cupcake with a Halloween Oreo in the center. 

Using the black icing, draw four lines on either side of the Oreo cookies as spider legs. 

You want to make eight total legs. 

Now add Halloween colored sprinkles to the open area of frosting on each cupcake. 

Add a dot of icing onto the back of each candy eyeball. 

Press two eyes, icing side down, onto the top center of each Oreo cookie. 

How cute…I mean spooky… are these?!

They even look like they are smiling! 

All done and ready to serve!

Today’s Halloween Offerings:

• Evil Dragon Deviled Eggs from Big Bear’s Wife
• Chocolate Cherry Skull Cakes from Semi Homemade Recipes
• Witch Hat Garlic Bread from Cheese Curd In Paradise
• Candy Corn Cookie Cake from The Spiffy Cookie
• Wicked Good Apple Cider Muffins from Our Good Life
• Spooky Spider Decadent Cupcakes from For the Love of Food
• Monster Mash Cereal Cheesecake from Sweet ReciPEAs
• Pumpkin Cheesecake Bites from It’s Shanaka
• Halloween Brains Cupcakes from An Affair from the Heart
• Breadstick Snakes from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
• Jack O’Lantern Tostadas from Palatable Pastime
• Witches Broom Cookies from Best Cookie Recipes
• Baked Intestine Pie from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
• Spooky Roasted Potato Skulls from Savory Moments
• Mummy Donuts from The Redhead Baker
• Caramel Apple Bark from Best Dessert Recipes
• Mummy Dogs from Savory Experiments
• Halloween Taco Dip from Jen Around the World
• Easy Spider Cupcakes from Hezzi-D’s Recipe Box
• Creamy Pumpkin Hummus from Jolene’s Recipe Journal

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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:

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.

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.

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

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