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The best things about Halloween are candy, dressing up in costume, and more candy, in that order. It’s the one holiday where you are truly allowed to go overboard on the sugar rush—it’ll only help you out later when you’re trick-or-treating on the last block in the neighborhood! Loving the sugar, but aren’t cool with all the extra stabilizers and emulsifiers added into packaged products? Whether you’re looking for a fun project or want to give out candy that doesn’t have the extra junk, try making your own Halloween candy at home! Read on for more recipes for candy like sour gummy bears, homemade Crunch bars, and DIY Reese’s peanut butter cups:
Butter with a Side of Bread
Crunchy nuts are folded into homemade nougat, topped with caramel and then covered with ganache for good measure. These DIY Snickers bars can be cut into bigger chunks for a more dessert-like portion, or into smaller pieces to hand out to treaters at the door. Get the recipe.
Homemade Almond Joys (Almond Jays)
Chowhound
Sometimes you feel like a nut…and sometimes you feel like making your own homemade version of Almond Joys, where you can pack in any many crunchy almonds as you like. If you prefer Mounds bars, though, just skip the nuts and enjoy the pure smooth sweetness of coconut and chocolate uninterrupted by any crunch. Get our Homemade Almond Joys (Almond Jays) recipe.
Homemade Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
The Recipe Critic
If there’s a Halloween candy favorite, it might have to be the lowly peanut butter cup. Super easy to assemble, these sweet cups only need a mini muffin tin and liners to make these treats at home. Get the recipe.
The Kitchen is My Playground
Nobody actually likes it, but candy corn just may be the quintessential candy of Halloween. Sugar sweet and dyed with food coloring, these treats are one you just have to have in your bag, but are the last ones to get eaten. Get the recipe.
Beaming Baker
Skip the junk. These homemade Crunch bars don’t have any of the extra ingredients that the packaged bars list on the back. Simply puffed brown rice cereal, chocolate, and coconut oil, these treats are dairy-free, gluten-free, and vegan depending on your chocolate preference! Get the recipe.
Deliciously Yum
Who doesn’t love the snap of a Butterfinger bar? Take this recipe for peanut butter treats to the kitchen ASAP for these ultimate sweet and crunchy candies. Get the recipe.
The Spruce
Chewy, tart, and oh-so-natural, these homemade Starbursts are made with simple ingredients and real flavors. Citric acid gives the candies tartness without any added artificial flavors. Get the recipe.
I Heart Nap Time
Who can deny a cookie and candy mashup? These Twix bars may not come in pairs, but they can definitely be eaten in twos for prime candy consumption. Get the recipe.
Cheap Recipe Blog
Tootsie Rolls—America’s favorite candy! Make these chewy chocolate candies at home with all-natural ingredients you can find at your local grocer. Get the recipe.
Instructables
One of the classics, Sweet Tarts, have found their way into Halloween treat bags for years. Small discs of sweet and tart, these candies rolled up into little sleeves are perfect to pass out to your neighbors. Get the recipe.
Mom.me
Pillows of rich chocolate are covered in another layer of rich melted chocolate in these momemade 3 Musketeers bars. These candies might be the first to melt in your bag, so that just means you’ll have to eat them faster! Get the recipe.
Bigger Bolder Baking
Go for gummy with these all-natural sour bears! Play with different fruit juices for a variety of flavors and portion out bears into small baggies for easy distribution. Get the recipe.
I Heart Nap Time
Whether you call them suckers or lollipops, we can all agree that candy is the sweetest deal about Halloween. Try sprinkling Halloween sprinkles or edible decorations into the lollipops before they set into hard suckers for an extra festive touch! Get the recipe.
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Snaky green loops, a knobby root ball, little round leaves with tendrils, and what appears to be a vegetable bouquet plucked straight out of a rustic wedding—what are all these strange-looking vegetables? What do they taste like? While their look might be unfamiliar, these vegetables actually have some very familiar flavors; each one is reminiscent of produce you purchase on the regular. So, don’t be spooked by the difference in appearance—embrace unusual forms that remind of you of old favorites!
Garlic Scapes
Relishments
This loopy, green vegetable might remind you of a curlier scallion, but it is actually the top part of hard-necked garlic. Oftentimes garlic scapes are plucked to prevent the plant from flowering, which might slow growth of the garlic bulb. Because of this, garlic scapes have their own little pre-flower bulb-like part, as well.
Since the scapes grow out of more traditionally-recognizable garlic bulbs, it might not surprise you that they, too, have tons of garlic flavor. A great way to use garlic scapes is as a base for pesto instead of basil—sub out the usual “green” and the garlic cloves for this vegetable that has both elements covered, and you’ve got a delicious pesto ready to pair with pasta. Get this Garlic Scape Pesto recipe.
Or, make butter even better (I know, hard to imagine)! Compound butter and fresh bread make for a quick, posh appetizer, and garlic scapes give butter an herby look and a wonderful, garlicky flavor. Get this Lemon Garlic Scape Compound Butter recipe.
Celeriac
My Fussy Eater
Seemingly a root only a mother could love, celeriac (or celery root) is surprisingly versatile! Knobby and brown with unimpressive mini celeries attached, the appearance of celeriac might be off-putting; however, once you remove the rough outside of the root, you’re left with a moderately soft vegetable ready for roasting and boiling. The flavor is a bit like celery, but sharper (mellowed by cooking).
Try using celeriac in place of potatoes to ease up on the carbs. One way is to purée the celery root instead of mashing potatoes. Get our Celery Root Purée recipe. Or, give this recipe for Garlic & Herb Celeriac Fries recipe a try.
Pea Shoots
Happy Healthy Life
If you’ve never had pea shoots (or pea greens, or pea tendrils), you might see the little round leaves and assume they’re just another generic-tasting salad green. Pea shoots are so much better than that, though! They’re fresh-tasting and a little sweet, and since they’re part of the garden pea plant, they deliver the crisp, bright flavor of peas, but in leaf form.
Pea shoots certainly hold their own in a salad, so you can keep it simple with a few choice ingredients, like in this Avocado Beet Pea Shoot Salad recipe. They cook up nicely, too. Get our Pea Tendrils with Coconut recipe, and showcase those shoots with a dish that requires only one pot and a few minutes of cooking.
Broccoli Rabe
Chowhound
Broccoli rabe (or rapini, or kale rapini) looks like a bouquet comprised of kale and what might be broccoli’s longer cousin. Sometimes confused with broccolini, broccoli rabe is related to both turnips and broccoli. With a taste akin to broccoli but a little more rustic and bitter, broccoli rabe can be prepared in many similar ways. To prep this vegetable simply, try sautéeing—get our Sautéed Broccoli Rabe recipe.
Steaming in the microwave works too! Incorporate Asian flavors with this Steamed Kale Rapini with Oyster Sauce and Sesame Oil recipe. Or, boil broccoli rabe and make it into a pesto (let’s just go ahead and make everything into pesto!) as part of this Orecchiette Broccoli Rabe and Chive Pesto recipe. So many possibilities!
All these vegetables are like when you meet your friend’s super cool sibling or cousin; you know how great that “friend” is, but now you can see it runs in the family. Expand your vegetal circle by inviting to dinner these new pals that might put a fresh twist on your favorite dishes!
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