Treacherous Treats

With Halloween being 2 days away, I decided last minute to whip up a little something that the kids could give their teachers. It was super easy and quick.

All you need is any kind of some small container, ribbon, glue dots, and candy. I made the labels in photo shop using this free printable from Peonies and Poppyseeds. They have a lot of fun ideas that you should go and check out.

See I told you, super easy. This is a fun gift for teachers or anyone else for that matter. 

Happy Haunting!!

Black and White Cupcakes

Are you ready for Halloween? I'm super excited to see all the fun costumes when the kids come trick-or-treating! This is one of the highlights for me on Halloween. 

Another highlight would be all the yummy treats like these yummy black and white cupcakes I made for the kiddos. The frosting is the best part; (isn't it always?) with the almond flavoring and the fluffiness from the cool whip. These would be great to make for your Halloween party!!

Black and White Cupcakes
Makes 1 1/2 dozen cupcakes

1 box white cake mix
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
Black food coloring paste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin cups with paper liners; set aside. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Remove one-third of batter(this will be your white batter). To the other batter, add cocoa powder and desired amount of black food coloring. Beat at medium speed until well combined. Beginning and ending with black batter, alternate about 1 tablespoon of each batter into muffin cups, filling about two-thirds full. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; let cool in pan, and let cool completely on wire rack. Frost.

Fluffy White Frosting
Makes about 3 cups

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
1 (12-ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon almond extract

In medium bowl, combine cream cheese and butter. Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Beat in whipped topping, confectioners' sugar, and almond extract, beating until smooth.

*Cupcake toppers are from Silhouette taped to a lollipop stick.

Recipe adapted from Phyllis Hoffman Celebrate

Halloween Jello Cups

Today, I thought I would surprise the kids with a fun after school snack. Jello cups in Halloween colors. Yes, it took pretty much the whole day to make but it was worth it to see the surprise looks on their faces.

They were actually pretty easy to make, it just takes time for the jello to set up. All you need for this spooky treat is 3 different jello flavors, I used grape, lime, and orange. I also used the quick set method from the jello box so I wouldn't have to wait as long between each color then topped it with some cool whip! 

Feather Boa Halloween Wreath

A few years ago, my kids informed me that we didn't have enough Halloween decorations. This was true, we didn't. Although I enjoy Halloween, I LOVE Fall even more and so that is how I decorated the house. 

Every year now, I try to add a few more Halloween decorations to our collection. Here's a quick and simple Halloween wreath that just took minutes to make. 

Supplies needed:

Round craft foam

2-3 Boa's

Accent pieces-Jack-O-Lantern is from Tai Pan Trading. Pumpkins and green twigs from Micheal's

Wrap boa around foam frame, pinning down the end pieces with straight pins. Then add accent pieces. The pumpkins and plastic twig pieces had stems on them so I just poked them into the foam. The Jack-O-Lantern was wired on around the foam then covered up by the boa.

Halloween Sugar Cookie Bars

I don't know about you but I'm a sucker for any kind of cookie and that includes sugar cookies covered in frosting. My husband and I started a 90 challenge which includes no sugar, so these were the cookies we chose to make over the weekend before the challenge started today. 

These are just like regular sugar cookies that you would roll out and cut into shapes with cookie cutters but much, much easier. No rolling out, just spread the dough into a pan then bake, cool, and frost!

When making the frosting I added a few drops of orange food coloring for a Halloween looking cookie with chocolate sprinkles on top. Since we won't be eating any treats come Trick or Treating day, these yummy cookies completely satisfied that sweet tooth!

I found this recipe here at Cooking Classy.

Simple Halloween Lantern

Now that the kids are back in school, I'm hoping to have a little more time to begin projects again. I love this time of year when the weather begins to cool down and all my favorite holidays are coming up.

Halloween is just around the corner so here is a simple project that anyone can do. All you need for this little decoration is a black lantern that I got at Walmart in the camping section and a variety of Halloween colored ribbon.

Since the lantern was already black it made it easy to just cut various ribbon and tie to the top.

You can also add little accents if you want, like this clip on spider that I picked up at the craft store. Viola, super easy!

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