What To Do With Halloween Leftovers

By Jennifer who can be found blogging at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.

Now that Halloween is here and will soon be over, you may be wondering what to do with all the leftovers candy and pumpkins.

Here are some ways to handle all the excess stuff.

First, CANDY, CANDY, CANDY!!! What to do with it all? (Besides stash it and save it for ourselves and hide in a corner stuffing our faces while the kids ask,”What is that?” and we respond,”Oh, it’s nothing.” Am I the only one that does that?)

Here are some better suggestions:

1. Have your child go through his stash and pick out enough cand y to have 1 or 2 pieces a day for the next week and toss the rest.

2. Save extra candy to use in a birthday party pinata or goody bags.

3. Give away extra candy to a food bank. They can use it to give to needy children on special occasions or as a little treat after their meal.

4. Save candy to use as decorations on cookies, cupcakes or gingerbread houses.

5. And for the really frugal minded, you could freeze it and give it out again next year.

6. Cut it up and mix it in ice cream and have your own fancy candy bar ice cream.

7. Save it for your kid’s class parties.

8. Find a place in your area that sends candy to our troops. (They do not accept chocolate because it melts but will take other candy donations.)

9. Chopped Snickers, Baby Ruths and M & M’s can be used in cookie recipes instead of chocolate chips. YUM !!!

10. And my favorite suggestion is to use it to make special desserts such as
Candy Bar Chocolate Brownies,
Kit Kat Bar Smoothie
and
Butterfinger Layer Cake

There are plenty of yummy recipes out there to use up your Halloween candy.

Now what to do with those un-carved pumpkins. I know many of you are saying, bake a pie. Well that is great if you bake, unfortunately, I don’t. So this is what I did with our pumpkin after Halloween last year.

Thanksgiving: Meet Mr.Turkey Pumpkin.