Halloween is sweeter the second time around! Whether your kids got too much candy from trick or treating or you simply don’t want them to have too much sugar, here are some ideas on what to do with all of that leftover Halloween candy.
- Freeze it. Throughout the year, add it to milkshakes, sundaes, ice cream and plain cookie dough.
- Decorate a gingerbread house. Set the candy aside for decorating your Christmas gingerbread house.
- Make trail mix. Open up all of those bags of little candies and make your own trail mix by adding pretzels, nuts, and dried fruit.
- Jazz up a boxed cake mix. Chop up the candy bars into small pieces and toss them into a boxed cake mix to make delicious cupcakes with an extra surprise inside.
- Make candy bark. Chop up all of those miscellaneous pieces and add to melted chocolate. Once it’s hardened you can break it into chunks for a colorful candy bark.
- Birthday coming up? Save the wrapped candy and use it to stuff a birthday pinata.
- Have the kids make kindness jars. Fill mason jars with candy, wrap with pretty ribbon, and drop them at your local fire house, police station, or senior center.
- Finally, don’t forget about donating wrapped, unopened candy. A soup kitchen, homeless shelter, or nursing home will probably be happy to take it off your hands.
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