Halloween Dessert Recipes are Tasty Trick or Treats

What's a Halloween party without Mini Pumpkin Pies, Kitty Litter Cake, Tombstone Cookies, Homemade Candy Corn, Halloween Cupcakes, Hairy Spiders and Creepy Eyeballs? Easy Halloween desserts and recipes are only a click away.

Wicked Good Halloween Treat Recipes
Parents.com has the cutest Witch Cupcakes made with store bought cupcakes, frosting, ice cream cones, nonpareils, chocolate chips, tube icing and chocolate jimmies. They're easy and adorable.

SeriousEats.com has a Homemade Candy Corn Recipe by none other than the CakeSpy herself, Jessie Oleson. Jessie's been tempting us all for years with her sweet-thangs, and her Candy Corn Recipe is amazing. Do check her out at SeriousEats.com and search for Cakespy: Homemade Candy Corn. You may never go back to Brach's Candy Corn again.

Bakerella.com always has nifty recipe ideas and Halloween is no exception. This year they have these teeny tiny Pumpkin Pie Bites made in mini muffin tins. You can make it with homemade pie crust or save time and use ready to roll refrigerated pie crust. Roll out and cut the crust using a small pumpkin cookie cutter. Press them into the muffin tins and fill them with your favorite pumpkin pie filling recipe. Bake until their puffy and slightly browned. Remove from the oven and let cool completely before decorating. Drizzle or decorate with chocolate icing. Make sure to check out Bakerella.com to see what the finished Pumpkin Pie Bites look like.

Kitty Litter Cake Recipe. Yes, you read that right. Allrecipes.com has an edible Kitty Litter Cake made in a rectangle pan with cake mix, instant pudding, vanilla sandwich cookies and Tootsie Rolls. Add a plastic cat box scoop to serve and you're done. If you don't believe me, go take a look. Kitty Litter Cake at allrecipes.com.

What's Halloween without Halloween Cookies? Make it easy on yourself and buy a few cans of refrigerated sugar cookie dough, or make your own sugar cookie dough. Roll the dough out, and following your favorite recipe, bake as directed. Cool before decorating with colored icings, jimmies and candy pieces. Or cut out sugar cokie dough into the shape of tombstones. Decorate the Tombstone Cookies with chocolate icing, let cool, then write RIP on them. Easy-peasy.

Familyfun.go.com has a monstrous list Halloween treat recipes. Creepy-Crawly Cupcakes, Hairy Spider Cake, Vampire Cupcakes, Forked Eyeballs, Daddy Longlegs Cupcakes and Pumpkin Cupcakes.

And speaking of cupcakes, the Sweetestkitchen.com makes some awesome Zombie Halloween Cupcakes, inspired by the movie Zombieland. Chocolate cupcakes, Oreo Cookies, chocolate buttercream, Oreo Fudgees Sandwich Cookies topped off with a florescent green zombie hand cupcake pick. Go check out their easy Halloween recipe.

Easy Homemade Halloween Cupcakes & Ideas
The easiest cupcakes to make are with a boxed cake mix and a can of butercream frosting.

Bake the cupcakes and let cool completely - any flavor will do, but chocolate cupcakes seem to be the favorite among kids young and old.
Color either homemade frosting or canned frosting with orange, black and green cake coloring. Wilton makes the best coloring. Use the gel in the little bottles for the brightest most vibrant colors. Spoon each colored frosting in separate small pastry bags with a coupler ring and the cake decorating tips of your choice.
Small round pastry tips are for writing, whiskers, grass, spiders legs, etc. Wilton even makes a "grass" tip with many small holes so you can make a whole yard full of green grass with almost no effort. Star tips in various sizes are good for Dairy Queen type swirls and borders.
Assemble a selection of candies and jimmies like; licorice whips, Twizzlers, Skittles, Chicklets, gumdrops, marshmallows, green, black and orange M&M's for decorations.
Spread a thin layer of frosting over the entire cupcake, sealing the edges all the way to the paper cupcake liner. Let the kids decorate the cupcakes to resemble bats, spiders and spider webs, skull & cross bones and ghosts.
Another cute Halloween cupcake idea is to frost a chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting, dip in chocolate jimmies, add Red Hots for eyes, and licorice strings for the spider's legs. Your kids will have a blast doing this themselves.

Written by Donna Diegel
Exclusive to HULIQ.com

Posted October 22nd, 2009 by Donna Diegel

Halloween Dessert Recipes are Tasty Trick or Treats

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