Candy corn.

We will be baking 100 of these ghost cookies to give away in Jamaica for Halloween. 50 will be vanilla with chocolate chip eyes and mouth, 50 will be chocolate with white chocolate chips eyes and mouth. 75mg of magical goodness in each cookie!

Sherry, are you making candy corn?

I also thought of pumpkin bread or pumpkin cornbread, but I think those are more Thanksgiving.

Ricky, those are durned cute!

Yeah, Brach’s from Publix.

Wow! Great ideas! Thanks! And I trust you about the pumpkin bars. Just trying to figure out the right thing for the right people. :)

I get it when it comes to the right thing for the right group.

I was a kid when my mom first made the pumpkin bars. They’re pretty much moist cake with cream cheese icing in bar form. You can easily halve the recipe using a 9x13x1 sheet pan.

You might also try a search for “Halloween hand pies.” I’ve seen some cute ones.

There’s always candy corn mixed with salted peanuts!👍🏻

I always associate pumpkin treats more with Halloween. Though I do look forward to a pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving.

I love a "char-bootery" board. I do not have any pictures of the last one I did. But it was fun to serve if fiddly and tedious to make. It was basically standard things like cheese and meats, cut or shaped into halloween shapes, or labelled as something creepy. (Olives as frog eyes, Figs cut in half as ogre ears, and handful of candy corn thrown on as goblin toenails) Silly things like that.

For homemade treats though. Halloween specifically makes me think of chocolate, pumpkin, rice krispie treats, and apples.

These finger sugar cookies with almond fingernails are also fun and can be made well in advance.

Those fingers are really spooky and fun.

I looked at my pinterest board and found these. I used to make treats for my grandson's school events so was always looking for cute ideas.

similar with video instructions: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1027242996240893832/

These are more adult themed if you don't want to do dessert/sweets:

That jack-o-lantern puking salad made me giggle. And think, "It's dippy". Which made me giggle. I'd been thinking sweets, but given that candy is definitional to Halloween, I'm thinking now about guacamole. I make guacamole that people love (the secret, as in most cooking, is moisture control--and picking good avocados). I already bought some candy corn, but it would be a nice decorative edge for the tray, with Jack-L disgorging the green stuff and purple chips. I love the cut out creatures, but I think my friends would prefer chips for actual dipping.

Thank-you all for all the great ideas!

We get 2,000 TOTers on Halloween, so no time to cook with all the decorating! Maybe I'll try making something since all the grandkids will be coming this year!

What about the Homemade Chex Mix? It is much better than the commercial one. You can control the ingredients and salt so much better.

LOL! Sherry, I think I had a little Chex mix once when I was a kid. I didn't even know there was a way other than "home made" from packaged treats. How do you make it for Halloween, besides adding candy corn?

When we were kids, it WAS a recipe, now it comes premade and is not near as good. It is mostly brown, so I would count that fall.

Dad always made stuffed dates for Christmas. Whole dates with a half pecan inside, and rolled in powdered sugar. They were very good.

I cannot get past the look now. To me they look like those big roaches or pamelitto bugs (Sp). You could make those, lol.

I am sure you have seen the cake that looks like a very dirty kitty litter pan.

The sugar cookie ”fingers” was an idea I got from Martha Stewart long ago. Hers were actually made with pretzel dough for both fingers and toes.

I thought these brownies and skeleton cookies were cute with the royal icing piping.

No, I haven't seen the kitty litter cake. So I looked it up. Eew. The stuff it's made of sounds as gross as it looks. I can see it for 14-year-old boys to make themselves to gross each other out. I'm sticking with nice things. Well, the pumpkin puking is ooky, but the guacamole will be lovely! But I have the ingrdients. I could add some palmetto bugs. That would be fun! I refuse to make legs, but I think if they're stuck around here and there, the idea will come across... Hm... Maybe change it up a little so sugar doesn't get into the guacamole....

LOL, I well remember the kitty litter cake!

I have not made the kitty litter cake, but I am tempted this year,

I love the eyes on the piles of bones. ;) Like they have to be ensorcelled because the eyes decay first....

Maybe I should make some little pretzel fingers to dip in the guacamole? They like pretzels...

Ha - I have a whole cookbook called Gross Grub with recipes for kitty litter cake and much more. There's one called 'boogers on a stick' made from pretzel sticks dipped in melted American cheese colored green 😄

And this is cute - cheese sticks and pretzel sticks:

MarthaStewart.com has plenty of Halloween themed creations - I think that's where I've seen the ghostly chips and salsa idea...?

https://www.marthastewart.com/1502347/halloween

plllog, the pretzels and guac would be fun!

Carol, I’ve gotten several ideas from Martha over the years. The Creature Chips and Guacamoldy came from her. I’ve used various flour tortillas for the chips…plain, spinach, whole wheat, sundried tomato, but just the plain are fine.

You could always make “feetloaf” if you needed a main dish.😊

LOL!