These ghostly decorated strawberries are a boo-tiful Halloween treat to serve to hungry goblins this spooky season!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Welcome to 2023’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event!

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#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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Halloween Ghost Strawberries

Ingredients

• 8 large strawberries stems attached
• 6 oz white almond bark
• black decorating icing

Instructions

• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Wash the berries and pat dry.
• Add the almond bark to a microwaveable bowl and heat for 60 seconds. Stir then heat again in 15 second intervals until smooth.
• You can use your fingers and hold the stems or insert a toothpick in the top center to hold the berries.
• Use a spoon to spread a strawberry sized circle ending in a swoosh to the side (your ghost shape) of melted almond bark on the parchment paper.
• Dip a berry in the melted almond bark and coat completely up to the stem.
• Use a spoon to spread a strawberry sized circle ending in a swoosh to the side (your ghost shape) of melted almond bark on the parchment paper.
• Place the dipped berry, before it dries, on top of the melted circle.
• Remove toothpick and repeat with remaining berries.
• Using the black icing add two circle eyes and a larger circle mouth on each berry.
• Let dry completely then serve.  They can be stored in a covered container in the fridge if you make in advance.

Start with 8-10 fresh, large strawberries. 

Wash them and pat dry. 

You can use either white chocolate or vanilla almond bark for dipping the berries.

I think the almond bark is smoother and work better for dipping so that is what I used.

Add the almond bark to a microwaveable bowl and heat for 60 seconds. Stir then heat again in 15 second intervals until smooth.

You can use your fingers and hold the stems or insert a toothpick in the top center to hold the berries.

Dip a berry in the melted almond bark and coat completely up to the stem.

Use a spoon to spread a strawberry sized circle ending in a swoosh to the side (your ghost shape) of melted almond bark on to a parchment paper lined baking sheet. 

Place the dipped berry, before it dries, on top of the melted circle.

Remove toothpick and repeat with remaining berries. 

Using the black icing add two circle eyes and a larger circle mouth on each berry. 

Let dry completely then serve.  They can be stored in a covered container in the fridge if you make in advance.

• Today’s Halloween Offerings:

  • • • Royal Icing Ghost S’more Squares from Big Bear’s Wife
      • Harry Potter Letter Caramel Apple Pies from Semi Homemade Recipes
      • Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Ghosts from For the Love of Food
      • Candy Corn Pudding Shots from Sweet ReciPEAs
      • Oreo Eyeball Cookies from Best Cookie Recipes
      • Jack-o-Lantern Sandwich Cookies from The Redhead Baker
      • Monster Rice Krispie Treats from Savory Experiments
      • Hocus Pocus Macarons from Jen Around the World

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As a true girlie girl my favorite color is {of course} PINK. So for my birthday this year I decided to invite a few of my girlfriends and their kiddos to a Pretty in Pink themed lunch at a local restaurant. Everyone wore pink and we celebrated with pink cupcakes and pink sparkling wine! Then I wanted to continue my Pink Party so Ava and I had a Pretty in Pink Picnic this week! We made Hot Pink Chocolate Strawberries and Painted Pink Heart Sandwiches and sipped on Pink Lemonade.
My sweet girl loved it! I see us having picnics often in our future
Check out our pictures and instructions for our pink goodies below! 

Pretty in Pink Picnic

 

 

 

 Hot Pink Strawberries

• Melt white chocolate until smooth then add coloring (I used pink icing coloring and swirled a toothpick of color in the chocolate) until you get a pretty bright pink. 
• Dip whole strawberries in the melted pink chocolate. 
• Lay on wax paper to dry. 
• Keep cool in the fridge until ready to serve. 

 

 

Pink Painted Heart Sandwiches

•  Using a large cookie cutter cut out shapes from sliced bread.
• Fill a small bowl with milk.
• Add a small amount of food coloring in desired color to milk and stir to combine.
• Using a new paint brush or a basting brush, brush colored milk on one side of each bread slice.
• Lightly toast painted bread then spread with butter or jam or put two slices together to make colorful sandwiches. We made pink peanut butter and jelly heart sandwiches!

My picnic basket is very unused so I was excited to fill it up today!

My Picnic Tips:

7. Have fun and enjoy yourself!
 

 

Mommy and Me Picnics are the best!

 

A quick and simple floral centerpiece: 

A Perfectly Pink Birthday!

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Strawberry Limeade

Makes 4-6 glasses

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups strawberries stems removed and sliced
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 part lemon lime soda I used about 1/4 of a liter
• 2 parts seltzer preferably lemon lime seltzer, if not add a couple extra tbsp lime juice
• turbinado sugar optional for rimming glasses
• juice from 1 lime
• limes sliced for garnish
• ice

Instructions

• Add berries and sugar to a bowl and let macerate for about 30 minutes.
• Add berries to a food processor (or blender) and pulse until smooth.
• In a large pitcher add ice (about 1/3 of the way), then top with 2 parts seltzer to one part lemon lime soda.
• Stir in a few scoops of strawberry puree and add juice from 1 lime.
• Stir well then taste. Add more strawberry and lime juice if needed.
• I add thinly slice lime to the pitcher and garnish the glasses with lime wedges and a sugared rim.

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