Jolene's Recipe Journal

If Halloween is all about the treats, Trick or Treat Brownie Trifles deliver. Fudgy brownies, creamy pudding, fluffy whipped topping, and a mix of candy and cookies.

  If you love cookies and cream desserts, you will love these Cookies and Scream Cupcakes ! Fluffy white cupcakes have crushed cookies folded into the batter and a whole cookie hidden at the bottom.  They’re topped with creamy frosting, colorful Halloween sprinkles, and Peeps ghosts. Best of all, they’re quick and easy to make with a simple cake mix.

Eyeball Cookies are a spooky, no-bake Halloween treat that kids will love making! Using just Nilla Wafers, chocolate chips, and icing, you can turn simple ingredients into creepy-cute cookies with colorful irises, chocolate pupils, and bloodshot veins.

Halloween is the perfect time to get creative in the kitchen. From spooky sweets to savory bites and festive drinks, these recipes are all treats, no tricks!

Whether you're taking your little ghosts and goblins trick or treating, leaf peeping or sitting around the fire pit, nothing hits the spot like warm apple cider. 

Have you ever tried a monster shake or freakshake? These over the top milkshakes are so easy to make at home! 

Cookies are always a hit around here and I'm always looking for interesting ones to try. These Kiss From A Vampire cookies were on the Taste of Home website a while back and I came across the printout when I was deciding on this year's HalloweenTreatsWeek recipes so I thought I'd give them a go.

Welcome to 2023’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek event! If you're new here, welcome! If you're a returning haunt, welcome back! HalloweenTreatsWeek is a yearly blogging event that is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife. You'll find that this fun and spooky event is an online, week-long event that is filled with some frightfully fun Halloween treats and recipes from some fantastic Halloween loving bloggers!

We took a trip to New York back in August and we got to try so many iconic foods.   The black and white cookies were one of our favorites.  While this isn't exactly the same as the original, it's a fun spin on it, perfect for Halloween!

If you're looking for an easy and adorable Halloween treat, these Mummy Brownies are it! With fudgy brownies, icing bandages, and candy eyes, they're spooky, sweet, and so much fun to make. My guys are pretty die-hard boxed brownie mix fans, but every once in a while, I see a recipe that I know they will love.  I found these fun Mummy Brownies in a Taste of Home Halloween round up, and I knew they'd be a big hit here.

My husband has been asking me to make caramels for quite a long time.  I'll admit, I was intimidated by the candy-making process, and kept putting them off. I looked at recipe after recipe,  finally settling on these Creamy Caramels from Taste of Home.

To wrap up AppleWeek 2018, I'm revisiting a family favorite, Apple Nachos from Taste of Home.  I've made these dozens of times with so many variations.  Sometimes I do it all from scratch, sometimes I cheat and use jarred caramel ice cream topping and warmed up marshmallow creme.  Sometimes I use roasted salted pepitas or sunflower seeds. Mini cinnamon chips are great in place of the chocolate chips.

Happy Halloween!  Weather's been a bit nuts here in New England, rain, heavy winds. We were without power for quite a while on Monday, and I had to toss most of my treat plans out the window.  Luckily, these Ultimate Oreo Caramel Apples come together in no time at all, and in a pinch, you can melt the caramels and chocolate on a gas grill.

This was my kid's first year not Trick Or Treating, but I still wanted to make him something special.   I spent a week or so browsing Pinterest, and this recipe from Southern Living caught my eye.    Cheesy beef in a pie crust?  I'm in! 

When my son was younger, I loved making special meals for Halloween.  Mummy dogs, breadstick bones, and forked eyeballs were some favorites. These Taco Pumpkins were a huge hit as well. I first saw the idea from Taste of Home in 2009.  The ingredients were not something that he'd eat back then, so I adapted it to his tastes. It really doesn't get any more simple. I used leftover taco meat and Fiesta blend cheese. Roll refrigerated biscuits out slightly to flatten them.  Place one biscuit on the baking sheet, add 2 to 3 tablespoons taco meat and then sprinkle with cheese.  How much? I don't know, life's just too short to measure cheese, don't you think? Top with another biscuit.  You can go two ways now.  You can get artistic and cut out jack o'lantern faces, or just score lines to make it resemble a pumpkin. Cut out stem shapes from one of the biscuits, and I like to do the little curlycues too.  Press them onto the pumpkin to seal them together...