Halloween is usually the time when kids get to really enjoy sweets. During the Halloween season, you can see bags of treats and candies sold in almost all the grocery stores. It can get pretty boring to see the same treats and goodies being handed out during the trick or treating. Here are some creative ways to make Halloween treats more exciting.
Bake some fun and Halloween themed cookies. You can use your favorite cookie recipe or even store bought cookie dough and use cookie cutters in fun shapes like ghosts. You can then have the kids decorate the ghost cookies with various colors of icing and sprinkles.
Try baking brownies and before they totally cool, cut it into a ghost shape using a paring knife. You can then use some melted white chocolate in a piping bag to outline the ghost shape. Don’t forget to draw the eyes and mouth. You can continue on by decorating the ghost brownie with colored frosting.
What about spooky cup cakes. Bake cup cakes according the the regular directions and cool. You can then frost it with orange colored frosting. Purchase some bat rings – you can find these in your local birthday party store – you can even use skull rings or spider rings and place the ring on tip of the frosted cup cake. This is something easy enough for the little kids to do.
This is one of the kids’ favorite times of the year. With these fun and easy treats – you can actually have kids help out and have fun in the Halloween festivities. Enjoy preparing these sweets with your kids – this might even be a Halloween tradition for your family. And when the kids grow up, they can pass on the tradition to their own kids. Have a great time and enjoy these fun and sweet activites and treats with the kids – they do grow up so quickly.
