Homemade Trick or Treat Recipes

Homemade trick or treat recipes are for those trick or treat Halloween parties all cautious parents are throwing their kids. It is simply getting too dangerous to send them out trick or treating, so have a party and make these homemade trick or treat recipes for Halloween.

Crispy Rice Pumpkin Pops

What You Need:

• 1 (10 1/2 oz.) pkg. miniature marshmallows
• 3 T of butter
• 1/8 t of salt
• Red and yellow gel food coloring
• 6 C of crisp rice cereal
• 6 Popsicle sticks
• 3 miniature Tootsie rolls, cut in half
• 3 miniature green apple Air Head candies, cut into thin strips
• Black decorating gel

How to Make It:

1. Place the marshmallows, butter and salt into a large sauce pan over medium low heat.
2. Stirring constantly, cook 5 minutes or until completely melted and smooth. 
3. Remove the pan from the heat.
4. Stir in the red and yellow food coloring until you have reached a pumpkin orange color.
5. Fold in the cereal and coat well.
6. Lightly butter your hands and fingers and form the mixture into 6 equal size balls.
7. Insert 1 Popsicle stick 1/2 way up into each ball.
8. Place 1/2 of each Tootsie roll on the top of the ball to represent the pumpkin stem.
9. Roll the Air Head candy strips between your palms to form a vine.
10. Press the vine into the pumpkin ball as close to the stem as you can, allowing it vine over the edge of the pumpkin.
11. Make a face on the pumpkin using the black decorating gel.
12. Allow the pops to cool completely on a wire rack.

These make fun little treats to give out on Halloween.  Need more than 6 just double or triple the ingredients.  They also make great treats for that Halloween school party or as an after school Halloween snack.

Wrapped Up Mummy Dip

What You Need:

• 1 (1 lb.) loaf of frozen bread dough, thawed
• 3 pieces of string cheese
• 1 (16 oz.) container of sour cream
• 1 envelope of ranch dip mix
• 1 black olive

How to Make It:

1. Allow the dough to rise according the directions on the package. 
2. When the dough is ready, roll it out on a flat surface to form a 12 inch oval with the bottom narrower than the top.
3. Make an indention on both sides 1 inch from the top of the dough oval to form the mummies head.
4. Spray a baking sheet with a non stick cooking spray and lay the form dough onto the sheet.
5. Allow the dough to rise 20 minutes in a warm area.
6. Preset the oven temperature to 350 degrees.
7. When the dough is ready bake for 22 minutes or until it turns a golden brown.
8. Lay strips of the string cheese over the bread from the top to the bottom.
9. Return the bread to the oven for 2 minutes or until the cheese has melted.
10. Remove the dough to a wire rack to cool.
11. Place the sour cream into a mixing bowl.
12. Fold in the ranch dip mix until blended in well.
13. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
14. When the dough has cooled cut it in half horizontally.  Remove the bread in the middle leaving a 3/4 inch shell.
15. Place the bottom half of the bread onto a serving plate.
16. Fill the bottom half with the prepared dip.
17. Replace the top of the bread.
18. Cut two slices from the olive and place on the head of the mummy for eyes.
19. Cut the removed bread into cubes and serve with the dip along with fresh vegetables or crackers.

This fun loving mummy makes a great centerpiece for your Halloween table.  Any type of ranch dip mix can be used such as regular or fiesta. 

Makes 16 servings

Preparation Time:  approximately 25 minutes + rising

Baking Time:  approximately 22 minutes + cooling

Total Time:  approximately 47 minutes

Well, with these and the other homemade trick or treat recipes on this site, you will throw your kids the best trick or treat Halloween party ever!