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Who says ice cream is only for the summertime?! Certainly not us! We think ice cream can, and should, be indulged throughout every season simply vary up the flavor! This fall, think pumpkin and cinnamon flavored ice cream to celebrate all the scrumptious flavors of Autumn. Nothing goes quite so well with ice cream as bits of candy bars particularly Fun Size Candy Bars! Stock up on fun-size candy bars this Halloween, and use your extras for your post-Halloween ice cream bar toppings!

Fun Size Candy Bar Ice Cream Supplies:

• Pumpkin, cinnamon, or butter pecan ice cream
• Sprinkles
• Chocolate and caramel syrup
• Walnuts, peanuts, and pecans
• Your favorite fun-size candy bars
• Cherries
• Whipped Cream

To start, simply get your family or friends together, and set out the ice cream, whipped cream, cherries, and bowls filled with all the toppings. Break up the fun-size candy bars into smaller pieces Kit Kat Fun Size Candy Bars, Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups, and Snickers Fun Size Candy Bars are some of our favorites!

You’ll want to control the mess that ice cream bars tend to create, so consider having a “scooper” responsible for scooping the ice cream, and others on hand to scoop out all the toppings, including the so scrumptious fun-size candy bars. More than anything, have fun! Ice cream brings out the smile in all of us, so get creative with your topping combinations some of our ice cream combos include:

• Pumpkin ice cream, pecans, caramel syrup, and Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups
• Butter pecan ice cream, peanuts, whipped cream, cherries, and Heath Snack Size Candy Bars
• Rocky Road ice cream, peanut butter chips, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and Hershey’s Fun Size Candy Bars
• Cherry ice cream, walnuts, sprinkles, cherries, whipped cream, and Mallo Cup Fun Size Candy Bars

Fun Size Candy Bars and ice cream bars are the perfect pair, and perfect for all those fun-size candy bars you have left over after Halloween. We know they’ll be quite the popular ice cream bar topping, so you might want to stock up with a few extra bags, too!

Candy corn is an orange, white, and yellow Halloween candy staple that many have a love-hate relationship with. Here at Blair Candy, we love grabbing a handful of Brach’s Candy Corn from our office candy bowl and snacking throughout the day.  It’s a simple candy, but so delish! Even better: candy corn is the foundation for a beautiful Fall wreath that only takes a few dollars and quality time to create.

Photo credit: womansday.com

Brach’s Candy Corn Wreath, inspired by WomansDay.com

• • A few bags of Brach’s Candy Corn
  • A Styrofoam wreath, about 16 inches around
  • Black duct tape
  • Hot glue gun
  • Large ribbon to hang the wreath, in a Halloween-themed color

Directions:

1. 1. Wrap the wreath completely with black duct tape. This will serve as your base for gluing the candy corn onto the wreath.
   2. Hot glue Brach’s candy corn onto the black duct tape in neat rows you’ll want to cover the entire front side of the wreath with the candy corn. It does take some time, but that’s why having another bowl of candy corn on hand to snack from while you’re gluing makes the time pass so quickly!
   3. Leave a space at the top of the wreath for you to secure the ribbon. We suggest an orange, yellow, or black satin ribbon. Simply tie it around the wreath and hang it on your door!

Photo credit: womansday.com

Although you can’t exactly snack on your wreath, be sure to pick up a few extra bags of Brach’s candy corn so you and your family can enjoy one of our Autumn candy favorites!

While yellow, white, and orange candy corn is what everyone is most familiar with, there are some other varieties you can use as well:

Brach’s Harvest Candy Corn
The rich brown, orange, and white colors of this candy corn will give your wreath an even more “fall” feeling.

Brach’s Bello Minions Candy Corn
Add a little mischief for your wreath by choosing a wild and wacky color with blue, yellow, and white candy corn, which just happens to be a favorite of those little Minions!

If you happen to get a lot of comments on your completed craft and friends and neighbors start asking you to make one for them, don’t worry!  We’ve got you covered with BIG bulk packages of candy corn!  In fact, big 30 pound boxes of candy corn in multiple colors (and flavors for snacking).

Halloween is a marvelous time of year. The color, the costumes, and of course the candy! But if you’re like most people, you’re probably left with quite a bit of Halloween candy after all the trick or treaters have gone home. Not to worry! There are plenty of ways for you to repurpose and still enjoy Halloween candy after spooky season has ended.

Halloween candy pairs perfectly with other sweet ingredients to make decadent desserts and after-school treats that are great for enjoying any time. Here are a few of our favorite ways to make the most of Halloween candy. All it takes is a short trip to your pantry or fridge:

Frozen Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Banana Pops
To make this post-Halloween candy treat, halve two bananas crosswise and insert a wooden stick into each piece. Put the bananas and 4 or 5 snack size Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the freezer for a couple of hours. Coat the frozen bananas in 6 ounces of melted chocolate and sprinkle with the frozen peanut butter cups (chopped). Freeze on a parchment-lined plate until the chocolate sets. Serve and enjoy!

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BONUS TIP: This recipe is also great with crushed-up Kit Kats, crushed Whoppers, chopped nuts, M&Ms, Butterfingers, or Heath bars!

SweeTarts Strawberry Shake
In a blender, blend together one pint of strawberry ice cream and a handful (15-16) SweeTarts candies. Add ¾ cup milk and blend until smooth. To thicken the mix, add in fresh strawberries. To thin it out, add more milk. Pour into chilled glasses and serve!

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BONUS TIP: This recipe can be used with other candy flavors. For a chocolaty shake, use chocolate ice cream and crushed candy bars or peanut butter cups instead of SweeTarts. For a smooth nutty crunch, use peanut butter cups and vanilla ice cream. It’s as easy as ice cream, candy, milk, and blend!

Halloween Candy Popcorn Snack Mix
Combine popped popcorn, butter, marshmallows, sprinkles, and  M&M candies to create this fun and savory snack!  Add spooky eyes to the mix to make it even more ghoulish!  When it’s all done, just serve and enjoy!

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BONUS TIP: This recipe can be customized with a variety of ingredients it’s all up to your unique tastes! Try adding cut-up Twizzlers or Junior Mints instead of M&Ms, using caramel corn instead of regular popcorn, or adding almonds instead of pecans!

Planning creative Halloween costumes, decking out your home in spooky décor, and going trick-or-treating on the big night make Halloween one fun holiday, and just imagine if you could dial up the fun one more notch! It’s possible with the bulk Halloween candy toss game the directions are simple, but you and your kids will be giggling all the while. All you need is a delicious variety of Bulk Halloween Candy and a few round plastic Halloween candy buckets!

Bulk Halloween Candy Toss Game

Supplies:

• Bulk Halloween Candy
• Round plastic Halloween candy buckets – one for each child
• Enthusiasm!

Directions:

1. You’ll want to line up the round plastic Halloween candy buckets in a horizontal line, with about a ten-foot space for your kids to toss the bulk Halloween candy pieces in. Look for an open area in your home that will best accommodate this!
2. Set a “line” for your kids to toss the candy from.
3. Have each of your kids toss a piece of candy, one at a time, into the buckets. No need to label the buckets you want your kids to toss them fairly into all of the buckets.
4. Once all the candy has been tossed, give each of your kids their own bucket and treat yourself to a candy bucket after all that hard work crafting those costumes!

Enjoy your bulk Halloween candy – it tastes even better after the fun game you’ve played with your kids!

Ah, the sweet marriage of chocolate and peanut butter – the perfect pairing, and simply heavenly. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups have been one of the world’s favorite chocolate treats for over twenty-five years now, and during Halloween, Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins are perfect for Halloween treat bags.

But why enjoy them only on Halloween?

With all of Autumn to look forward to, here are some delicious ways to enjoy Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins throughout all of Fall!

Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins Cookies
We all have our favorite peanut butter cookies recipes, usually the ones Mom made during the holidays on those chilly winter nights to keep belly’s full and happy!

Prepare your most-loved peanut butter cookies recipe, but create slightly larger cookies, and press a spoon in the center of each cookie to create a recessed area large enough to fit a Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin in the center.

Bake the cookies. Pull them out of the oven, let them cool for about three minutes, and add a Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin in the center of each cookie. Enjoy once completely cool!  Feel free to add in some candy eyeballs and a mouth to make them even more fun!

Image and idea courtesy of designeatrepeat.com

Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins Halloween Parfait
It’s always fun to get family and friends together, carve pumpkins, and enjoy apple cider. Ice cream always creates happiness, so why not add it to the mix?

Choose orange ice cream, and set up an ice cream bar filled with Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins, Snack Club Mixed Nuts, Butterfinger Snack Size Candy Bars, and M&M’s Creepy Cocoa Crisp Dark Chocolate’s for the toppings. J

ust crush up the Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins and Butterfinger Candy Bars, grab a few cans of whipped cream and a jar of cherries, and you have one delicious evening on your hands!

Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins Brownies
You can’t go wrong with brownies. From bake sales to welcome-to-the-neighborhood’s, they’re so scrumptious to eat and super easy to make. Visit Hershey’s website for a delicious chocolate brownie recipe that’s topped off with Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins. One bite and you’ll be craving more. So delicious!

Blair Candy is the only place to shop online for all your Halloween candy.  From spooky lollipops to classic Halloween candy bars, we’ve got everything you need to fill trick-or-treat bags to the brim!

We love candy, and we love desserts, which is why we just love to combine the two! Halloween pumpkin cupcakes are the perfect treat to ring in a spooktacular Halloween season, and we can’t think of a better presentation than topping them off with a bit of delicious frosting and Halloween Peeps!

Cupcakes with Halloween Peeps Courtesy of Betty Crocker

Makes 24 cupcakes

Ingredients:

• 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ chocolate fudge cake mix
• Water, vegetable oil, and eggs called for on the cake mix box
• 1 container Betty Crocker frosting (any flavor or color, but we suggest mixing it up a bit!)
• Halloween candy sprinkles, colored sugar or finely crushed creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookies
• 24 Assorted Halloween PEEPS

Steps:

1. Heat oven to 375°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make cake batter as directed on box. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups. Bake as directed on box for cupcakes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
2. Frost cupcakes with frosting. Sprinkle with candy sprinkles, colored sugar or cookie crumbs. Place a PEEPS® marshmallow on top of each cupcake.
3. Enjoy!