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👻Halloween Recipes: Cyclops Punch, Who’s Buried in the Brownie? MonsterDoodle Cookies
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👻Halloween Recipes: Cyclops Punch, Who’s Buried in the Brownie? MonsterDoodle Cookies
Are you looking for easy Halloween recipes to help sweeten up your Halloween celebrations this week? I’ve got three recipes to share with you. I want to share a super easy (and a little bit spooky) Who’s Buried in the Brownie? recipe using Mars Minis. I’m brewing up a super fruity Cyclops Halloween Punch using Hawaiian Punch and 7UP. And I’ve got a fun way of using M&M’s in a snickerdoodle cookie to turn them into MonsterDoodle Cookies. I hope you enjoy my Halloween Recipes and I’d love to hear how you give dessert a spooky twist at your house!
I used the Mars Chocolate Minis (Snickers, Milky Way, Twix and 3 Musketeers) to add a sweet surprise inside my brownies. I call them Who’s Buried in the Brownie? because you don’t know which candy was buried in your brownie until you bite into it – even then it’s a little tough to guess. Now I didn’t plan on my brownies imploding – but a few of them did and I rolled with it by using white frosting to create a skeleton hand reaching out of the brownie instead of a tombstone with a question mark on it. Place the wrapped Minis around the brownies so your family can start guessing what’s buried inside their brownie!
- 1 box of Brownie Mix
- Oil, Water & Eggs (as instructed on box)
- Mars Minis (Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers)
- White Frosting (small tube)
- Follow the instructions on the box of Brownie Mix to preheat the oven and combine all ingredients
- Scoop just enough brownie batter to cover the bottom of your each square in the pan then place one Mars Minis in the middle.
- Cover each Mars Minis with batter then cook for recommended time on box (should take less time than a large pan).
- Cool brownies after they finish baking and decorate with tombstones and skeleton hands using the small tube of white frosting.
Mix together Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red, 7UP, and apple juice to create Cyclops Halloween Punch. I wanted to make a fruity punch with a Halloween twist to it, so I used slices of lemon and green grape halves to create a “Cyclops Eye” on top of each cup of punch. To use the lemon ends that didn’t go into decorating, I squeezed them into the punch to add more zing.
- Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red
- 7UP
- Apple Juice
- Lemons (1 lemon per 4 servings)
- Green Grapes (fresh grapes for cyclops eyes, frozen grapes for edible ice cubes)
- Freeze green grapes to use as edible ice cubes.
- Mix 3 parts of Hawaiian Punch with 1 part 7UP and 1 part apple juice into a punch bowl (so if you measure out 3 cups of Hawaiian Punch then you'll add 1 cup 7Up and 1 cup apple juice to it).
- Add the frozen green grapes to the punch bowl.
- Slice the lemons using the middle slices as cyclops eyes (4 slices from the middle of each lemon. Squeeze the lemon ends into the Cyclops Punch.
- Slice the green grapes for the center of the cyclops eye.
- Serve the Cyclops Punch by pouring into a clear plastic cup and adding the slice of lemon and green grape half.
It’s so easy to make my MonsterDoodle Cookies because you use a snickerdoodle cookie mix and just add M&M’s to it both before and after they bake.
- 1 box of snickerdoodle cookie mix
- Egg & Butter (as instructed on box)
- M&M's (at least 2 cups)
- Follow the instructions on the box of snickerdoodle cookie mix to prehead the oven and combine all ingredients.
- Stir in 1 cup of M&M's last.
- Use a scoop or spoon to form balls of dough, roll in the cinnamon sugar and place on a cookie sheet.
- Bake following the directions on the box. Immediately after removing them from the oven, press one M&M into the middle of each cookie.
Halloween Recipes: Cyclops Punch, Who’s Buried in the Brownie? MonsterDoodle Cookies #SpookyCelebration #cbias #shop
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💀Trix Snack Mix Recipe & DIY Sugar Skull Pumpkins for Dia de los Muertos
My family is observing Dia de los Muertos this year by serving my Trix Snack Mix in Sugar Skull Pumpkins. I’ll show you how to make both the snack mix and the pumpkins! I wanted to teach my children about a holiday of a different culture, and I’ve always been a big fan of sugar skulls so I decided that we would observe Dia de los Muertos from October 31 thru November 2. I shopped at Walmart for Trix cereal as a delicious fruity base for my snack mix and I’d love to show you how to make this easy snack mix too!
When I shop at Walmart for cereal, I look for Big G cereals that come in a “Giant Size” because those boxes are the most affordable (if you look at price per ounce) and they last the longest in our pantry! I’m a big fan of Walmart’s everyday low prices because it makes it more affordable for me to shop for groceries for my family. With two growing boys in our family, we go through cereal fast! Trix cereal is a favorite because if it’s fruity flavor. I also shopped the dried fruits and nuts section in the product area of Walmart in order to buy the other ingredients I needed for my snack mix.
My goal for my Trix Snack Mix was to make it the perfect mix of sweet and salty. The pepitos (pumpkin seeds), plantain chips and honey sesame sticks are all salty. The Trix cereal, greek yogurt covered almonds and apple cinnamon bites are all fruity and sweet.
I think it’s so important to commemorate deceased members of our family. They are an important part of who I’ve become today, and I want my children to know about them through my stories. Dia de los Muertos is a holiday celebrated in Mexico that involves families gathering to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died.
My kids loved watching me paint the Sugar Skulls. I used foam carvable pumpkins so that I can same them for next year! The artwork takes some time to do, so I knew I didn’t want to have to throw them away after we were finished observing the holiday. If you want your kids to help decorate Sugar Skulls, I recommend using small real pumpkins.
This Trix Snack Mix using #BigG cereal is so easy to make because you simply add the ingredients together and stir! Here’s my recipe to print along with easy substitutes you can make:
- 5 cups Trix cereal
- 1 cup pepitas (dried & salted pumpkin seeds)
- 1 cup apple cinnamon bites (or dried apple)
- 1 cup plantain chips (or banana chips)
- 1 cup greek style yogurt almonds (or yogurt covered raisins)
- 1 cup honey sesame sticks
- Mix together all ingredients and serve in a Sugar Skull Pumpkin.
I was so excited that I finally got to make Sugar Skulls because I love this form of artwork. I used foam carvable pumpkins instead of real pumpkins so that I could preserve my artwork and use it year after year. Here are the instructions:
DIY Sugar Skull Pumpkins for #DiaDeMuertos
Directions
What you’ll need:
- foam carveable pumpkin
- white parchment chalk paint
- fine tip paint pens (black & bright colors)
- small round plastic container
- white ribbon
- hot glue gun
- Carve a hole in the top of your pumpkin for your small round plastic container to fit inside. Your carveable pumpkin should carve just like a real pumpkin!
- Paint your pumpkin with the white parchment chalk paint and let it dry
- Paint your pumpkin with a second layer of white parchment chalk paint and let it dry
- Draw your Sugar Skull design using a pencil
- Outline your Sugar Skull design with a black paint pen
- Fill in your design with the black and color paint pens
- Hot glue a white ribbon around the edge of your container if it will stick out of the pumpkin
- Fill the container with your Trix Snack Mix and enjoy!
Which recipe would you love to make with Trix cereal?
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Make Trix Snack Mix w/#BigG cereal from @Walmart
Serve inside Sugar Skull Pumpkins to observe #DiaDeMuertoshttps://t.co/eoAM42CkqA #ad pic.twitter.com/aOC1PKiEAe
— Freebies 4 Mom (@Freebies4Mom) October 27, 2016
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Originally published October 27, 2016.
