Halloween

Decadent Desserts with Leftover Candy

Instead of hauling all of your leftover Halloween candy to the office or hiding it in a drawer, transform it into amazing treats.

Heavenly Candy Bar Cupcakes

Melt your extra mini candy bars for the chocolate cupcake batter, and top the frosted cakes with candy corn or chopped candy bars.

Recipe: Heavenly Candy Bar Cupcakes

Two-Layer Caramel-Pecan Bars

Experience sheer delight when you bite into a chewy pecan bar with a decadent buttery crust and a gooey caramel topping.

Recipe: Two-Layer Caramel-Pecan Bars

Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies are twice as nice when you use both milk chocolate bars and semisweet chocolate chunks.

Recipe: Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Randy Mayor; Melanie J. Clarke

Chocolate-Toffee Puffs

Crushed chocolate-covered toffee bars add both rich flavor and a little crunch to chocolate meringue cookies.

Recipe: Chocolate-Toffee Puffs

James Carrier

Toffee Crunch Cake

Dazzle your guests with a double-layer chocolate cake covered in a creamy caramel-toffee frosting and topped with chopped almonds.

Recipe: Toffee Crunch Cake

Randy Mayor

Chocolate and Malt Pudding

A basic chocolate pudding becomes a bowl of fun when you stir in malted milk powder and chocolate chips, and top with chopped malted milk ball candies–better known as Whoppers.

Recipe: Chocolate and Malt Pudding

Christina Schmidhofer

Caramel Brownies

Top brownie batter with caramel squares and get rich, fudgy brownies with ooey-gooey caramel in the centers.

Recipe: Caramel Brownies

Trash Mix

Create the ultimate salty-sweet combo with little pretzel pieces, gummy worms, chocolate-covered candy pieces, and candy corn. Stir in a mixture of dried fruits and banana chips for snack that your kids will love.

Recipe: Trash Mix

Howard L. Puckett

Snickers Cheesecake

It's hard to believe that anyone would have leftover Snickers bars, but if you do, chop them up and use them as a topping for this sinfully creamy cheesecake.

Recipe: Snickers Cheesecake

Heavenly Candy Bar Cake

Steal a few mini Milky Way bars from your child's Halloween sack and use them in the batter of this chocolate-frosted three-layer cake.

Recipe: Heavenly Candy Bar Cake

Chocolate Candy Corn Truffles

Instead of shaping the chocolate mixture into balls for truffles, scrape it into a pan, let cool, and cut into squares. Then roll the squares in cocoa and top with candy corn. You could also top the truffles with any other small soft Halloween candies.

Recipe: Chocolate Candy Corn Truffles