These homemade Halloween treats are easy to make!

Halloween is a fantastic time to bond with children because you can blend creativity with fun. You and your kids will have the opportunity to decorate the house and come up with Halloween costume ideas for trick-or-treating. You can also create your own little traditions where you spend quality family time, share spooky stories, and cook together. Here are some homemade Halloween treat recipes that are quick and easy, and that you can make with kids. Here’s how to celebrate Halloween in India:

Halloween Bark

Ingredients:

• 200 gm white chocolate
• 75 gm dark chocolate
• 1 tsp orange food coloring
• 1 tsp black food coloring
• 70 gm orange, brown, and yellow candies like chocolate coated peanuts, orange and yellow Gems

Instructions:

• Take a silicon baking sheet or like a baking tray with parchment paper.
• Chop the white chocolate into fine shards and then melt in a heatproof bowl. You can also do this step via the double boiler method. Add the chocolate to a heatproof bowl and place it over a pot of simmering water.
• Once the chocolate melts, mix in the orange food coloring and set aside.
• Repeat this step with dark chocolate and add black food coloring to it.
• To make the chocolate bark, pour the white chocolate over the tray first and spread it.
• Drizzle the black colored chocolate over the orange layer, and use a skewer to spread this color around.
• Decorate with the orange, brown, and yellow candies.
• Place the chocolate bark in the fridge to set. Once done, break into shards.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Cookies

Ingredients:

• 180 gm flour
• 1 ½ tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 1 ½ tsp cream of tartar
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp flaky salt
• 113 gm softened, unsalted butter
• 52 gm packed light brown sugar
• 137 gm granulated sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 60 gm pumpkin purée
• 170 gm cream cheese
• 67 gm cinnamon sugar

Instructions:

• Whisk flour, pumpkin pie spice, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• Beat butter, brown sugar, and 100 gm granulated sugar until pale and fluffy.
• Then add the egg yolk, vanilla extract, and pumpkin puree into this.
• Finally, add the dry ingredients into the wet ones and mix until well combined.
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and then let the cookie dough in the fridge for about an hour. You can also keep the cookie dough in the fridge overnight.
• In a bowl, add the softened cream cheese, and three tablespoons of granulated sugar. Mix until smooth. Cover this bowl with plastic wrap too and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
• Preheat the oven to 177°C and line two baking trays with parchment paper.
• Roll the dough into tablespoon-sized balls and flatten two into disks.
• Spoon about 2 teaspoons of the cheesecake filling onto one disk, then cover with the other.
• Pinch the edges, seal, and roll into a bowl. Remember to do this gently so the filling does not ooze out.
• Place the cinnamon sugar on a shallow plate then roll every cookie in it.
• Put every cookie on the baking sheet and then flatten the cookies.
• Bake the cookies for about 12 to 14 minutes. You will have to rotate the baking trays so that all pieces are evenly cooked.
• Once done, the tops of the cookies will crack. Place them on a wire rack and let them cool.

Halloween Dirt Cups

Ingredients:

• 540 ml whole milk
• 100 gm granulated sugar
• 2 tbsp cornstarch
• 3 tbsp Cadbury Cocoa Powder
• 143 gm semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
• 2 tbsp salted butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

For garnish:

• Gummy worms
• Crushed Oreos
• Gems
• Chocolate chips

Instructions:

• Add 480 ml of milk in a saucepan along with 50 grams of sugar. Bring this to a boil on medium-low heat and then take it off the stove.
• Whisk cornstarch, cocoa powder, 50 grams of sugar, along with 60 ml of milk.
• Add this mixture to the sweetened hot milk and whisk.
• Place the pan back on the stove and continue to stir on low heat. The milk should thicken in about two minutes.
• Strain the pudding through a fine mesh sieve and then mix in the salted butter and the vanilla extract.
• Transfer into serving cups and refrigerate.
• Decorate with gummy worms, crushed Oreos, Gems, and chocolate chips, and serve.