Sweet and Salty Halloween Treats

I love sweet... and I love salty... Put them together and I'm a happy girl!!

A picture says a thousand words and I don't think you need that many to see that this is an easy snack to put together!  There are many different variations all over pinterest, but I found my inspiration here.

Ingredients:

Mini Pretzels (I used the snaps, shaped like squares)

Hershey Kisses Hugs (I used kisses and hugs)

Candy Corn

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or foil. Place pretzels on cookie sheet, not touching. Unwrap Hershey's Kisses (the most time consuming step of the whole process) and place on top of pretzels. Place filled cookie sheet in oven. Bake for 3-5 minutes but no longer. You will know they are ready when the Hershey Kisses start to get shiny. Take out of oven and gently place candy corn on top of Hershey Kisses, pushing down gently. Cool and then transfer to serving platter or wrap up as gifts. Your fridge will come in handy to speed the cooling process.

Enjoy!!

Scarecrow Treats

The first Autumn Goodies of the year!  

Pinterest if full of wonderful looking recipes for Autumn, my favorite time of year!  It's time to start trying a few of them.  I found this recipe here and knew that this was one that I was going to have to make!  This is what you'll need to do:

Ingredients:

Crust

1/2 C butter softened

1 pkg yellow cake mix (pudding in the mix)

1 egg

3 C mini marshmallows

Topping

1/2 C light corn syrup

1/4 C sugar

1/4 C firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 C creamy peanut butter

2 tsp vanilla

2 C crisp rice cereal

2 C salted peanuts

1 C candy corn

Directions:

Heat oven to 350°F. Combine butter and cake mix in large bowl. Beat on low speed until well mixed. Add egg; continue beating until well mixed.

Press onto bottom of ungreased 15x10x1-inch jelly-roll pan. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until set and edges are lightly browned. Remove from oven. 

Immediately sprinkle marshmallows over hot, partially baked crust. Return to oven; continue baking for 1 to 2 minutes or until marshmallows puff.

Meanwhile, combine corn syrup, sugar and brown sugar in large saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring until mixture comes to a boil (2 to 4 minutes). Remove from heat; stir in peanut butter and vanilla until smooth. Stir in cereal, peanuts and candy corn. Immediately spoon over marshmallows; spread to cover. Cool completely. Cut into bars.

Enjoy!!

Mmmm... what's next!!