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Zombie Brains

Zombie Brains are surprisingly tasty Halloween treats!  Bwhahahaha!    They are sorta cute – but the name gives them the eeewww factor that makes little boys growl with delight.  (And I would be delighted if you would pin the photo above!  Thanks!) This is a very easy Halloween treat. The biggest problem I had was that […]

Grasshopper Guts – Halloween Treat

Pin Pretty Please!!! Grasshopper Guts are a  Halloween twist on a classic kids treat!  This one is simple, not too sweet,  and easy to make for your Halloween party.  If your preschool regularly allows homemade treats,  it also qualifies for the G snack.  🙂   The F snack?  Smashed Frog, of course.     For a […]

Smashed Frogs – Halloween Candy

Notice that Smashed Frogs cereal snacks only take one half bag of fall colored M&Ms.  They only come in the big bag so don’t look for a little one.  If you can’t find the fall colors, you’ll have to pick out the brown and yellow and orange ones from a regular mix.  And that also […]

Sweet Firecrackers

Sweet Firecracker mints — A surprising treat for Fourth of July!  Sweet liberty, the shot heard around the world and firework celebration rolled into one.  This is a cream cheese mint recipe updated with intense coloring and a surprising — yet subtle —  flavoring that refreshes!  Cinnamon gives these cute little treats their firecracker kick.   […]

Peppermint Patties

 I asked Bytes what kind of birthday cake he wanted.   None, he says, but I do have a recipe  you could make instead.  He disappeared into that mysterious office and popped back with a recipe for peppermint patties.  You know the kind that makes your breath arctic fresh and makes little hand drawn pictures swirl […]

Candy Corn Fudge

Candy Corn Fudge . . .   Just another pretty fudge. Candy Corn Fudge . . . . Just because I can. The coloring I used was Wilton’s gel and to give it a strong color I scooped out a bit with the edge of a teaspoon.   I  mixed the coloring into the sweetened condensed milk […]