Pumpkin Pizza

Papa Murphy's Pizza usually sells pumpkin shaped pizzas around Halloween and we usually buy one for a quick easy meal. This year we made our own and it was so easy.

 I just made our favorite pizza crust, rolled it out into a funny shaped circle and then gathered the top together for a stem.

Addie and I both decorated one. After I took this picture she decided to add another layer of sauce for the hair.

Happy Halloween!

Last Minute Halloween Ideas

We are running out of time before Halloween so here are a few fun ideas I have seen around the internet that you could whip up in the next few days.

These adorable Witch Hats from See Vanessa Craft

Candy Corn Ghost People from Knead to Cook

Frankenstein Cookies from Munchkin Munchies

Monster Cookies from Artsy Fartsy Mama

Halloween Jello Cups from Simply This and That

Don't forget my Halloween Cups.

Healthy Halloween Snack

With all the candy and sweets around Halloween it's nice to give my kids something a little healthier but still fun and festive. I saw this cute idea on Serving Pink Lemonade and ran to the store with my little one. I told Addie I had a surprise snack for her after preschool and when she saw these she was as excited as she would have been if it was a cookie.

You could also just draw with a sharpie on the skin of a little clementine, like over on Homespun with Love. If only those were in season around here.

 

Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

Aren't these cookies adorable? I saw them on a wonderful recipe blog called High Heels and Grills and knew immediately I had to make them. The recipe is just the basic sugar cookie bars with the addition of some yellow and orange food coloring. Which make them a perfect Halloween treat. 

Cookies:

• 1/2 cup salted butter, softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 T. sour cream
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 t. baking powder
• 1/2 t. salt
• Orange and yellow food coloring

Frosting:

• 4 cups confectioner's sugar
• 1/2 cup salted butter, softened
• 3-4 T. of milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract {I used clear vanilla, so the frosting would be more white, but any kind works}
• A pinch of salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F and grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
3. Add egg and combine well.
4. Add sour cream and vanilla and mix until completely combined.
5. Slowly add the flour, baking powder and salt to the wet mixture and stir until well combined.
6. Color all of the dough yellow and remove half.
7. Press one half of the yellow batter into the dish, it will not seem like enough dough but just keep squishing it down.
8. Add orange food coloring to the rest of the yellow dough.
9. Spread the orange batter out, I broke of the orange batter into globs and then smooshed them all together. 
10. Bake for 17-20 minutes
11. Set aside to cool completely.
12. FOR THE FROSTING: In a medium bowl, cream powdered sugar, butter and milk until light and fluffy.
13. Stir in vanilla and salt and combine well.
14. Frost your cooled cookie bars evenly.
15. Cut into triangles and serve.

Recipe adapted from: High Heels and Grills

Of course this is how Addie's cookie turned out. Can't eat a cookie without some sprinkles. 

These are a perfect easy treat to take to neighbors and friends. I found this cute Spider You've been Booed! at Grey Square Designs. They have a free printable you can download.

Mummy Cups with Peanut Butter Popcorn

I saw some mummy cups like these in a magazine but they used fabric for the strips. I thought gluing on paper strips would be just as cute and so cheap because we already had all of the supplies.

All you need is:

• Paper ripped into strips
• Glue
• Pastic or paper cups
• Goggly Eyes

Put some glue on the cups and just start glueing the paper onto the cups. Try to cover all of the cup leaving no holes. Once it's covered glue on the eyes and fill them with whatever you like. 

This was such a fun easy craft to make and would be adorable as a little party favor or a treat for someone just wrapped up in cellophane and tied with a bow. I would have done that if I had any cellophane.

My girls loved making these too, this is how my 4 year olds turned out. She says it looks spooky.

We filled ours with Peanut Butter Popcorn which is one of our favorite snacks for movie night or game night. It is super simple to make and so addictive. Once you start eating it, you'll never stop. 

Peanut Butter Popcorn

1/2 c. Light Corn Syrup
1/2 c. Sugar
1/2 c. Peanut Butter
1 t. Vanilla
6 - 8 c. Popped Pop Corn (about 1/2 c. un poped corn)

1. Mix corn syrup, sugar and peanut butter over medium heat just until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Take off heat and add the vanilla.
3. Stir in the Popcorn and eat! Watch out, it's HOT for a few minutes.                     

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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! From my chick to you and yours.

More fun food

I have seen so many fun Halloween ideas this year. They just seem to keep coming. If we had more time I would make some of these, found on some of my favorite blogs.

1. Candy Corn Cupcakes from Our Best Bites
2. Shrunken Heads from Our Best Bites
3. Brain Cupcakes from Annie's Eats
4. Spider web cake from Armelle the blog
5. Crunchy Doughnut Eyeballs from Armelle the blog
6. Candy Corn Cookies from Bake at 350

Cheap Halloween Decor

I love this picture. Doesn't it look old and spooky.

I saw this post and got inspired to do some cheap Halloween decorating. This is one of my favorite ideas. Just get some black frames and print out Boo in different fonts. This project cost me $3. I just got the frames from the dollar store, one of them wasn't black so I just painted it.
Have fun.

For more frugal ideas visit Life as Mom.

Halloween Witch

Look at this cute Halloween Witch sign I got to make. I can't take any credit for it because I was just given the stuff and told what to do. But I think it's pretty cute.

Scary Food

I don't like Rachel Ray the person but I do love some of the Halloween food ideas found in her October Magazine. I will be making some of these this month!Buried alive muffins

Severed Hand Toast

Hash Brains

Meatloaf cupcakes with Mashed Potato Frosting