Kid-Friendly Halloween Fun

The calendar may say that it’s already fall but to me fall doesn’t really arrive until Halloween decorations start showing up along our street. I just love seeing all the pumpkins, the corn stalks and hay bales that come out at this time of year. And I always look forward to seeing our neighborhood trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.

We’ve always had a rule at our house that we won’t make Halloween scary for even the tiniest goblins that come to our door. No ghosts around here. No vampires that jump out from hiding places to make you run back down the driveway to your Mama. No, we make sure it’s just real simple Kid-Friendly Halloween Fun.

Three unique ideas for Kid-Friendly Halloween Fun including candy-corn colored chocolate bark, graveyard cupcakes and mummy cookies. Click To Tweet

I particularly enjoy making homemade treats for the Halloween season. The ones I’m sharing with you here are fun for ghouls and goblins of all ages. BeeBop taste tested each and every one of them to make double sure they were not only cute, but tasty as well. We have some Halloween Chocolate Bark, some Ghosts in the Graveyard and, my favorite, Mummy Cookies.

For the Chocolate Bark:

Place 16 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water. Turn the water off and let the bowl sit for ten minutes.

Stir the chips until they are completely melted. Then stir in one cup of toffee bits and one cup of pecans. Spread the bark mixture on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.

Now melt 8 ounces of white chocolate using the same method of a heatproof bowl over simmering water (or follow the directions on the chocolate you’re using – some give different guidelines). Drizzle about 1/3 of the white chocolate over the chocolate bark mixture. To the remaining white chocolate, add 12 drops of yellow food coloring. Drizzle about ½ of the yellow chocolate over the bark. Into the rest of the melted white chocolate, add 6 drops of red food coloring to make a bright orange color. Drizzle the orange chocolate over the chocolate bark.

Put the pan in the refrigerator for two hours to set up.

Remove the pan and break the bark into randomly sized pieces.

For the Ghosts in the Graveyard:

Using a packaged red velvet cake mix, bake 24 cupcakes. Let the cupcakes cool completely before decorating.

To make the black frosting – add 25 drops of black food coloring to ½ can of purchased chocolate frosting. Stir until completely mixed and no streaks of color remain.

Lightly frost each cupcake and set aside.

Cut the bottom off of 25 “tombstone” shaped cookies. Using a small round piping tip, pipe the letters “R. I. P.” onto each cookie top.

Push the cookie into the cupcake. Make ghosts using purchased vanilla or cream cheese frosting. Use a large round piping tip or make a piping bag with a large opening from a resealable plastic storage bag. Follow the illustration in the photo to create a ghost shape. Use a small round tip with more of the black frosting to create eyes and a mouth.

For the Mummy Cookies (my favorite!):

Bake or purchase a dozen sugar cookies or peanut butter cookies.

Spread each cookie with black frosting. Create the mummy’s eyes by making a circle of white frosting with a black dot in the center of each.

Create the mummy’s wrappings using either a piping bag or a resealable plastic storage bag with a small diagonal cut across the corner. Pipe the frosting back and forth to create the linen wrappings. Follow the illustration in the photo.

Aren’t these just the cutest! You could easily create the mummies on top of cupcakes as well.

More Halloween ideas you might enjoy:

• Halloween Marshmallow Pops from My Baking Addiction
• Halloween Pizza from Yummy Mummy Kitchen
• Spooky Worm Halloween Jello from A Spicy Perspective