As October settles in, it’s time to gear up for Halloween, the season of frightful fun. From dark decorations to the perfectly spooky costumes, there’s a lot of planning that takes place to make it a roaring success.
Alongside these activities, there’s nothing better than having the perfect treats to celebrate the season.
Whether you are fueling up for trick or treating or just wish to enjoy the festive period with your close ones, a list of no-bake Halloween treats will always come in handy.
These treats are easy to make and are equally a great activity to try with your kids.
But if you are running short of easy-to-adapt ideas, don’t worry, we’ve curated a list of 11 no bake Halloween treats just for you. With easy ingredients and minimal preparation time, they’re not only convenient for you but enjoyable and safe for the kids as well.
11 No-Bake Halloween Treats To Make With Your Kids
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1. Witch Hat Cupcake Cones
Ingredients:
- Orange icing
- 6 cupcake
- Green food dye
- 6 ice cream sugar cones
- Black colour mist food spray
- Purple icing
- 1 tub vanilla frosting
Steps:
- Add frosting into a bowl. Pour green food colouring and mix until you get the desired colour of green.
- Pipe the green frosting onto the cupcakes and keep it aside.
- Spray the sugar cones with black colour mist. Keep it aside and let it dry.
- Once the cones have dried, pipe the purple icing at the base like a ribbon. You can also use orange icing to draw a buckle on the centre of the ribbon.
- Now, set the sugar cone on top of the green frosting and voila!
2. Frozen Ghost Pops
Ingredients:
- 1 cup white chocolate
- Around 8 mini chocolate chips for the eyes
- 4 popsicle sticks
Steps:
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Slice the banana vertically through its spine, then cut that in half to make four quarters.
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Insert the sticks into bananas, and freeze them on a wax paper-lined cookie sheet.
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Once the
bananas are frozen, you can fill a coffee mug with chocolate.
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Melt it in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time. Stir until the chocolate has melted and is soft.
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Now, dip the bananas one at a time into the chocolate and scrape off the excess chocolate from the back of the banana. Then place it on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper.
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Quickly add the chocolate chips as the eyes before the chocolate hardens.
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Keep it in the freezer until it freezes and is ready to eat.
- Eat it while frozen.
3. Dracula’s Dentures
Ingredients:
- Cookies
- Red frosting
- Mini marshmallows
- Slivered almonds
Steps:
- Cut the cookie in half and add red frosting on each half. Actually, the uglier it is, the better.
- Now place the tiny marshmallows on one cookie. The slivered almonds will become the pangs of the Dracula. Make sure to add them in this step on the cookie.
- Place the cookie half onto the other half, and you are ready to serve.
4. Edible Band-aid
Ingredients:
- White frosting
- Red food colour
- Graham Crackers
Steps:
- Add white frosting to the graham crackers. This should resemble the cotton-ish part of a band-aid.
- Now dip a toothpick in the red food colour and place it on the white frosting. This resembles blood and you can add as much as possible to make it look spooky.
5. Rice Krispies Treat
Ingredients:
- Rice Krispies
- Candy melts
- Edible eyeballs
Steps:
- Put the candy melts in two separate bowls and melt them in a microwave.
- Once they’ve melted, dip the rice Krispies into the candy melts.
- To give it a spooky effect, you can drizzle the candy melts.
- Then add the edible eyeballs on top.
6. Marshmallow Monsters
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Ingredients:
- Candy melts
- Marshmallows
- Candy eyes
Steps:
- Melt any colour of candy you want.
- Keep the marshmallows on a piece of wax paper.
- Use a spoon to press the melted candy over the marshmallows. This way, the candy will drip off the top of the marshmallow.
- Add the candy eyes to your monsters before the candy melts harden. You can add the chocolate sprinkle as well to look like the hair.
- Let it cool and make sure the candy melt has hardened before you remove it from the wax paper.
7. Pumpkin Pretzels
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Ingredients:
- Orange candy melts
- Pretzels
- M&M candy
Steps:
- Start by melting 1 or 2 cups of orange candy melts.
- Then dip the pretzels into melted candy melts.
- With the help of a fork, fish them out again.
- Keep tapping the edge of the bowl to remove the extra candy.
- Now place the covered pretzel on a piece of wax paper.
- Add a green M&M candy at the top of the pretzel and see to it that the candy melt is still in a semi-liquid state. It should basically look like a pumpkin stem.
- Now let the candy harden before you remove the pumpkin pretzel from the wax paper.
8. Silly Apple Bites
Ingredients:
- 2 green apples quartered
- 2 to 3 strawberry pieces (thinly sliced)
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- For the teeth, you can get add sunflower seed kernels or any other nut as desired.
- Googly eyes homemade
Steps:
- Slice a wedge into the middle of the apple quarter.
- Use peanut butter to place the inside of the mouth.
- Then add around 3 to 5 kernels of sunflower seeds as the teeth.
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For the tongue, you can use the thin strawberry slices and place them inside the mouth.
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You can add a small amount of peanut butter on the back of each googly eye and place it on the mouth.
9. Vampire Bat Marshmallow Pops
Ingredients:
- Cadbury’s Double stuf oreos
- Melted chocolate
- Candy eyes
Steps:
- Take an Oreo biscuit and break it from the middle.
- Use two half pieces of the cookie and place them next to each other to look like the wings.
- Next, evenly spread the melted chocolate on top.
- Add the candy eyes and you’re done.
10. Monster Popcorn Balls
Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 6 cups popcorn
- Candy eyeballs
- Candy corn
- Green food colouring
- 5 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
Steps:
- Microwave the butter in a large bowl for 30 seconds. Then add the marshmallows to the bowl and stir it.
- Next, microwave the mixture for 45 seconds. Add the food colour and stir it.
- Stir the marshmallow mixture well and add the popcorn.
- Add butter to create balls and then place them on the wax paper.
- Next, add the monster eyes. You can also use licorice strings for the hair and candy corn for teeth.
11. Oreo Dirt Cups
Ingredients:
- Gummy Worms
- 2 cups cold milk
- Chocolate instant pudding
- Container whipped topping, thawed
- 1 big packet of Oreo (16). Have them crushed.
- 10 plastic cups
Steps:
- Pour milk into a mixing bowl and add the pudding mix.
- Use a whisk to blend the mixture.
- Let the pudding cool for around 5 minutes.
- Place 1 tablespoon of crushed cookies at the bottom of each cup.
- Then add these ingredients in this particular order – a layer of cookies, pudding, and cookies.
- Add two gummy worms cut into half on top of each of the cups.
- Refrigerate it for an hour before you serve.
Save this list of no bake Halloween treats now and make the spookiest foods this season.
Happy Halloween!
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