Halloween Trick or Treats - Part 2

Ah, Halloween! One of our favorite holidays. Although Cass is getting older, she’s still not too old to go trick or treating. This year she had a record setting haul - after sorting out all the smarties and lollipops and other junk candy, she netted 4.5lbs of candy which was 178 pieces of delicious chocolate goodness.

Surprisingly, 178 pieces of chocolate is more than a 13yr old can eat in one sitting. So what did we do with the leftovers?

That’s easy! We baked cookies, not just any cookies, but our traditional Halloween Cookies. Cass and I ‘invented’ the cookie recipe a few years back, taking a traditional chocolate cookie recipe and substituting the chips with halloween candy.

Butterfinger bars, Snickers, Milky Way, Three Musketeer, Twix, KitKat, Baby Ruth, Reese Peanut Butter Cups, M&Ms, Krackle, Crunch, Mr. Goodbar, Special Dark — everything makes it into the cookies. The caramel from many of these candies has a special way of oozing out while baking and becoming super crunchy when it it cools.

I’m not gonna include ‘our’ recipe, this is an easy one to figure out, and it’s more fun to ‘invent’ your own family recipe and create your own tradition. For us, cooking and by extension this blog is our way of spending time together as a family. Laughing, cooking and making more than good things to eat, we are making memories and new family traditions.

Pour yourself a cold glass of milk and enjoy inventing your own recipe.