Along with being able to snuggle under fleece blankets or listen to the sound of the leaves crunching when we're out for a walk, I love seeing the excitement in my kids' eyes as they realize that one of the most festive (and favorite) holidays of the year, Halloween, is right around the corner! How could they not be giddy over getting to wear fun costumes and go trick-or-treating for yummy goodies?
This year, however, we have had much more than candy to look forward to, as Kraft Foods has gotten us into the Halloween spirit with some classic favorites and a few brand new products to create some delicious spook-tacular treats!
That's right! Kraft Foods has brought together five of our favorite brands — each with an exciting Halloween twist — to help get the entire family into the kitchen and prepared for a spook-tacular Halloween. How could we not be inspired to get into the eerie, spine-chilling mood with these delicious ingredients?
Right away I loved the festive Rachael Ray orange mini casserole dish and the way that it provides a colorful, stylish way to add to your serving dishes, while the Halloween Serving Dish is sure to appeal to any child who loves the holiday.
As we looked over the tasty snacks and meal inspirations, I paused to look at the Velveeta Cheesy Potatoes (Au Gratin and Bacon Scalloped). With the smooth, creamy taste of Velveeta cheese sauce that my kids love, these 100% real potatoes are a great side dish to serve up so that little bellies aren't just getting filled with candy and treats.
But... even I have to admit that candy and treats are essential aspects of Halloween! Reaching into our box of goodies, we began our preparations for our pre-Halloween bash with everyone's favorite JELL-O.
JELL-O made it incredibly easy to create spooky, yet tasty, additions with their Halloween brain mold and JIGGLERS Halloween mold. Both can be purchased online from the Kraft store and comes with recipe ideas that help turn a regular treat into one that is frightfully fun!
Yes, Igor. I'll have one JELL-O brain and a side of JELL-O ghost, witch, black cat, pumpkin and bat, please {insert spooky evil laugh}.
We also came across Kraft's Halloween JIGGLERS Hands recipe and thought it was adorable! I love the idea of using these cute hands at a party, either as decoration, on plates, in a bowl of punch or more.
We simply made our JELL-O and let it set in a 13x9" pan. Then, after tracing each of the girls' hands on paper and cutting out the pattern...
...it only took a little cutting around the edges before we had a personal and very cute treat!
We couldn't just let the rest of the pan of JELL-O go to waste, so we had to try out these fun and tasty Halloween Dessert Cups as well.
We customized the recipe a bit by adding an extra festive touch on top with the new JET-PUFFED Jumbo PumpkinMALLOWS and GhostMALLOWS and assembling them in our glow-in-the-dark Halloween cups, but the result was just too cute!
We've been excited about all of the JET-PUFFED varieties and the way that they have made fall and Halloween so much tastier. As the weather continues to cool down, we can't wait to add these GhostMALLOWS to hot chocolate for the kids and the PumpkinSpiceMALLOWS to hot apple cider, pumpkin pie and more!
Plus, JET-PUFFED has to many recipes, coupons, new product news and tips right on their Facebook page, that I have no doubt that we'll be enjoying these puffed bites of yum in numerous other ways as well!
In fact, along with eating these JET-PUFFED marshmallows straight out of the bag (the girls love how big the Jumbo PumpkinMALLOWS are!), these helped inspire the Halloween Brownies that we made to deliver to friends.
While these might just look like a pile of chocolate (nothing wrong with that!), these brownies turned out festive and delicious — we were very happy with the results and they were so easy to make!
Ingredients
Brownie mix (or be adventurous and make them from scratch)
Oil (per the mix instructions)
Egg (per the mix instructions)
Water (per the mix instructions)
Chocolate chips (we used white chocolate chips and they ended up a toasted, light brown color)
Orange Mini M&Ms (or you could use candy corn)
JET-PUFFED GhostMALLOWS
Preparation
Prepare brownie mix as directed on the box and bake for 5 minutes less than the time indicated. At that point, pull the brownies from the oven and sprinkle the mini M&Ms and chocolate chips on top and return to the oven for the remaining 5 minutes.
When a toothpick inserted 2 inches from the edge of the pan comes out clean, remove brownies and place the pan on a rack to cool. Immediately place the GhostMALLOWS along the top so that they slightly expand and melt into the brownies. Let cool completely before cutting into squares. We added pumpkin party picks for a little extra fun, but YUM!
As our final Halloween treat, I was inspired by this PHILADELPHIA Indulgence Mousse recipe, so I had to give it a try.
Having never tried PHILADELPHIA Indulgence before, I was intrigued by the combination of the creamy smoothness of cream cheese mixed with one of their great flavors. What a delicious way to dip apples, pretzels and much more — they've even come out with two new flavors, Dulce de Leche and Cinnamon, which are perfect for fall!
But of course I can't pass up chocolate, so by mixing PHILADELPHIA Indulgence Milk Chocolate with COOL WHIP, I was met with an extremely delectable mousse. Top with a Halloween OREO cookie spider and these are an amazing dessert to celebrate the season!
I couldn't find black shoestring licorice for the legs so I cut a large Tootsie Roll into strips! |
How fun are these Halloween OREO cookies? They are not only dressed up with orange creme for the season, they feature "Boo-rific" shapes on the side of each cookie: a witch, pumpkin, ghost, black cat or bats. Even the package is festive with a group of witches brewing up the orange creme!
We can't wait to continue to celebrate this October with these Halloween-inspired Kraft Foods products. With so many tasty and fun ways to add a little spooky touch to our lives, I have no doubt that the whole family will be eager to get into the kitchen to create delicious recipes no one will forget!
I have already received rave reviews from my kids, whether they were "helping" in the cooking process...
Thank goodness for the kid's Halloween apron, because she was covered! |
...or the tasting process.
Are you feeling the Halloween spirit? Whether you are inspired to create your own new recipes or want to have fun browsing the large number of Kraft Halloween recipes, it is easy to find many Halloween snack or meal ideas that are creative, delicious and fun.
And, thanks to the generosity of Kraft Foods, one person will be prepared with a variety of goodies to help get their Halloween celebration underway, because...
One lucky person will win a Kraft Foods
Halloween Prize Pack* (ARV $100)!
Halloween Prize Pack* (ARV $100)!
*Prize Pack includes: (3) Halloween flavors/shapes of JET-PUFFED Marshmallows, (2) Halloween JELL-O Molds, (4) packages of JELL-O product, (1) package of Halloween OREO cookies, (2) VELVEETA Cheesy Potatoes, (1) free product coupon for PHILADELPHIA Indulgence, Rachael Ray mini orange casserole dish, kid's Halloween apron, Halloween serving dish, pumpkin party picks, and glow-in-the-dark Halloween cups.
(Enter with the Rafflecopter form below. If you have any questions or problems entering, there is a video tutorial found here that can help.)
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Kraft Foods is providing the prizes for this program at no cost to me and has provided me with a gift of equal value for review. This program is not administered or sponsored by Kraft Foods or its affiliates, but solely by Thanks, Mail Carrier.
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trick or treating and carving pumpkins
Just a quiet evening at home thinking of the the grand kids that are away
Our church has a hayride to a local corn maze planned.
russrpm@gmail.com
We carve pumpkins & go trick or treating!
Its my Grandsons first Halloween so, we are going Trick Or Treating and then maybe some hot cocoa
pattifritz2000 at yahoo dot com
thank you for the chance
We will be celebrating halloween by trick or treating, we will also be giving out candy this year :)
urbancwgrl84(at)yahoo(dot)com
We go and pick out a pumpkin together and then we bake cookie.
We go to a pumpkin farm that's over 100 years old every year and its about 2 hours away. We love to look at the changing scenery and fall sky.
we do some fall celebration canrivals and trick or treat!
entered as Davis
We'll be trick-or-treating!
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One of my daughters birthday is on Halloween so we get to have a party and lots of fun. We take the kids trick or treating as well. Fun day!
Trick or treating!
We will celebrate Halloween by being volunteers in a haunted forest. We'll be dressed up scary. Thanks.
partymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
I'll make LOTS of Squash Bread to put in the freezer.
My kids and I will be carving pumpkins within the next few days, and decorating the yard. Thanks for the chance.
we're going to a pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins and carving pumpkins together :)
we're going to a pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins and carving pumpkins together :)
We did visit our local fruit farm to pick pumpkins and enjoy hay rides. Always makes us feel that fall has arrived.
one2nvme at hotmail dot com
Drinking tons of pumpkin spice lattes ;) and going to haunted houses!
We'll be decorating the outside and inside of our home this weekend
agnesye@hotmail.com
having a fire and a ghoul ride
vmkids3 at msn dot com
My favorite holiday is Halloween.
My family celebrate the arrival of fall and Halloween by attending the a fall festival in our city.
a visit to the pumpkin patch
We are already planning trick or treating and just got invited to a party!
Thanks,
selinda_mccumbers at yahoo.com
going on s cider mill hay ride.
We like to rake leaves. We love the smell of the outdoors while we do that.
we're going to go pick out pumpkins!
We will be handing out candy to all the Trick-or-Treaters.
My birthday is the 27th -- so we celebrate both on Halloween eve.
Terri P
pr4gatheringroses AT gmail DOT com
It's the 2nd Halloween for my daughter & we'll be going trick or treating w/ her cousin
We like to go apple and pumpkin picking
marypopmom (at) yahoo (dot) com
go to haunted house
Having a halloween party!
We may do some baking and stay home to watch a movie on Halloween.Cheryl Abdelnour cjabdelnour@hotmail.com
I's my birthday on Halloween so we usually celebrate it.
We usually have a bonfire.
We always go to a thing the hospital has in their parking lot on Halloween
My daughter will be trick-or-treating with a friend while I give out candy.
The arrival of fall can only mean one thing:
Football mania :)
*Wendy T on RC.
By trick or treating :)
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!
we will give out candy
We love to go to a nearby farm to "pick pumpkins" and go on a fun hayride!
heathershaw06@gmail.com
Carving pumpkins and watching scary movies.
We'll have our annual visit to the pumpkin patch and fall festival the weekend before Halloween, and then we'll be trick-or-treating at the mall.
Oh, I saw those molds at the store today. They look like so much fun. We will be trick or treating this year and my kids are so excited. :)
we love carving pumpkins
Just trick or treating for the grandkids, and a few children's parties!
We are planning to go Trick or Treating.
Jamie Brigham
PrettyInPinkWife @ aol dot com
I plan on celebrating the arrival of fall with a party.
Watching my grandaughter trick or treat for the 1st time
We are planning to have a small party on Halloween for my 3 yr old and his friends.
My daghter and I are creating her Halloween Owl costume together for her to go trick-or-trick in.
Thank you for the giveaway.
carving pumpkins
fmstill@gmail (dot) com
www.homeecathome.com
Since my kids are getting too old to dress up (and breaking my heart) this year we're making a haunted house in our carport for Halloween Trick or Treat night!
My boys trick or treat and we hand out candy. Then when they go to bed the hubby and I watch horror flicks!
We are going to a Murder Mystery Dinner and dance.
dolniaks at consolidated dot net
I'm putting together a party ideal with pumpkin carving and cookie-decorating.
We definitely are celebrating Halloween...it's my daughters birthday!!
We will be celebrating Halloween by attending our towns Halloween Safe Night.
choateorama(at)gmail(dot)com
We are going to head out to the pumpkin patch for the little kids to pick pumpkins.
We're going to carve pumpkins!
We're having a big party- Jenna O
We plan on making pumpkin rolls to give to our friends. casidyanne at hot mail dot com
I am celebrating fall by raking leaves, though celebrating may be an overstatement.
My fiance are going to a party dressed as beetlejuice and lydia
cc_girly(at)yahoo(dot)com
We like to go Trick or Treating in the Mall so the Candy is safe !
californiapoppys@yahoo.com
We are going to a local farm to pick pumpkins and grab some homemade goodies. Thanks!
romapup at gmail dot com
We love Fall Festivals! We go to several of them every year. Absolute favorite time of the year!
Thanks!
h4schaffer at gmail dot com
We're going to carve a pumpkin and give out candy.
we are trick and treating
glori johnson
gloria4869@yahoo.com
We are getting together for a Halloween party with family.
rjwhiggins@aol.com
We are going trick or treating
shopgurl101@gmail.com
We have a Halloween decorating party
Pumpkin Festival & Corn maze.
Thanks for the contest.
slehan at juno dot com
passing out candy
Thanks for the giveaway! Janna Johnson jannajanna@hotmail.com GFC: janna@feedyourpig
I am watching scary movies and making fun drinks.
we plan on trick or treating
After trick or treating we go through the candy and have a piece of spooky cake I make and watch Charlie Brown
We are going to have a family get together.
We decorate pumpkins, fix fall treats, and trick or treat.
We like to go to haunted houses lsenko83 at yahoo dot com
this week we dyed eggs orange and put jack o lantern faces on the ;-)
with our annual fall harvest party!
We're planning on having a scary movie marathon.
carving pumpkins
We are going to participate in the kiddie parade down mainstreet, then go trick ot treating.
Will be going Trick or Treat with my grandsons. Joye Rast
We just love passing out candy on Halloween. Before Halloween, we get in the mood by doing hayrides and lots of pumpkin carving. :)
KellysShining(at)gmail(dot)com
Trick or treating and pumpkin carving
I plan on taking my three kiddos out with my best friend and her three kiddos we go out together every year and it always makes for a fun night!
we will pass out candy to all the kids & wait for our 4 year old grandson to stop by so we can see him dressed up as a sherriff...he is so excited!
My daughter is planning on dressing up as Minnie!
contestkim25@gmail.com
I have about a million (only a slight exaggeration) ghosts I put out as decorations.
lorenalke@yahoo.com
We just got back from a visit at a farm where we did a corn maze, climbed hay bales, crawled thru corn, checked out farm animals and more. I love fall!
We'll be stocking up on candy
The kids love to decorate the house for Halloween and go trick-or-treating.
We're going to pass out candy and watch scary movies. =)
Miz Vickik
Aside from trick-or-treating we are going to the pumpkin patch and hosting a playgroup potluck halloween party.
We're having a Halloween party at my sister's house with a little haunted house.
My family likes to make Halloween themed treats.
Fall is our favorite season - we celebrate by LOVING life every day, taking our dogs for lots of walks, and making lots of yummy fall-type foods. Mmmmm potato soup!
We're going to watch Halloween movies and eat candy.
Pumpkin patch/hay ride/maze thing.
We go trick or treating on Halloween!
we plan on celebrating by going trick or treating
christinejessamine at hotmail dot com
Halloween Party!
I am excited to take our family to the pumpkin patch and then have our annual Halloween pumpkin carving party!
We've been making yummy pumpkin treats - pumpkin and chocolate chip muffins, pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin oatmeal.
Popcorn balls!
We are going to the pumpkin patch.
We're hosting a big party this weekend!
Handing out candy.
We make cookie and decorate them together.
My daughter is too young to celebrate this year so we will pass out candy,
We are actually doing some "Fall" cleaning in order to get ready for the Holidays!
Every year I bake up a bunch of Halloween theemd goodies, and appetizers. And we have a bunch of scary Halloween movies lined up to watch, as well as have the tv set to a Horror movie marathon. (Nikki Marie on rafflecopter)
just picking pumpkins out of the garden is so fun-
vickie
vmorgan456 (at) yahoo (dot) com
We're going to a horror movie festival.
afm626 at yahoo.com
My husband and I hand out candy on Halloween.
We always start a month ahead for halloween. We decorate early, go to various parties leading up to halloween itself and always do scary movie nights the entire week before!
We will be trick-or-treating!
justasmalltownmommy at gmail dot com
We have a halloween party every year- complete with costume contest, cake walk, bobbing for apples, pumpkin carving and more!
onecheaplady@yahoo.com
We go to the local apple farm and get homemade apple pies and apple crisp. Then we carve pumpkins and toast the seeds!
We will be handing out candy to the neighborhood trick or treaters
We're going to the fall festival in town.
We love to decorate the inside and outside of the house for Halloween.
Desiree Dunbar
desireedunbar@hotmail.com
I'll be taking my kids Trick-or-Treating (Corey Olomon)
We are attending a harvest festival this Saturday.
The Happy Wife/Danielle Garcia
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http://juanshappywife.blogspot.com
Twitter: The_Happy_Wife
We plan on attending a fall festival Halloween night which will make trick or treating easier.
Carvin Pumpkins and trick or treating! Lieutenantcrunch27 (at) gmail (dot) com
enjoying my new house and eating chocolate :)
Trick or treat!!!
By dressing up and going trick or treating
caryn9802 at yahoo dot com
we are having a Halloween party.
We will hand out candy to trick or treaters
We'll carve pumpkins and go trick-or-treating
we celebrate with a costume parade at school and trick or treating!
we go to our church fall party, then trick or treating, and then home to watch its the great pumpkin charlie brown,
ty
rochelle johnson
We have a family and friends Halloween party....IT IS GREAT FUN AND WE ALL LOOK FORWARD TO IT SO MUCH!
em darr
I don't have much money but I did what I could to decorate! I made gravestones out of styrofoam and went to the dollar store to make candy bags. Halloween is fun! This will be my first year giving out candy. I've always dreamed of throwing a halloween party. I like looking up festive recipes.
lecesweep@yahoo.com
Going to Mickey's Halloween Party at disneyland.
We will go pumpkin picking this weekend then carve and/or paint our pumpkins together. We also decorate halloween goodies like brownies and cupcakes
carving our pumpkins this weekend!
Im going to have a get to gether with friends
We are dressing up and going trick-or-treating
Yummy!
There's not much celebrating around here. The kids are grown and we rarely get trick or treaters. I have put up decorations though.
we plan on watching a marathon of scary movies my kids are teens and 20s
We decorate the house to make it look haunted
By having a Halloween party!
ijessica_r at yahoo dot com
We've been making crafts for weeks and we're having a party on Saturday!
The kids will be trick or treating
We celebrate halloween by carving pumpkins and decorating
trick or treating with the kids and fall harvest at church
I will be taking them Trick or Treating!
ptavernie at yahoo dot com
this year the family and i decided to have a neighberhood haunted house!!!!
My grandson and I made mummy cupcakes for him to take to daycare.
Lots of candles and scary movies!
Besides handing out candy we will watch scary movies.
My kids still go trick or treating so that's always fun, however, the funnest part is planning and throwing my kids school halloween party for their classes! I tend to make them bigger and better than the year before and the kids really look forward to it. This year its a zombie lab party!
pauline15_01(at)hotmail(dot)com
we are going to go trick or treating
Our church is having a Halloween festival and we will be going to that.
magic5905 at embarqmail dot com
I am staying home,passing out candy and watching all of the wonerfull Halloween specials.
Happy Halloween,
June
We love apple and pumpkin picking, roasting pumpkin seeds, pumpkin carving, decorating, and trick or treating!
Marysa {at} marysa {dot} com
This is greast!!!!!
We don't have little ones in the house so we're handing out candy and I'm taking my niece and nephew to the downtown trick or treating event in the afternoon!
I'll be working Halloween night, but we will be painting/carving pumpkins before hand!
i like fall because it brings on the holidays
I'm carving pumpkins with my 86 year old mother! She loves Halloween.
teresacarey@mindspring.com
This is actually my son's first halloween, so we are extremely excited! he is only 4 months old, but my husband and I are really excited about him being a dragon and taking him out trick-or-treating, and decorating the house for him.
A nice bonfire is how we will celebrate.
hd6719@gmail.com
We're going to go to trunk or treat at our church
annabella @ centurytel dot net
I don't have any kids of my own yet, but, I am going trick or treating with my nieces!! =]
We carve pumpkins and go to a lot of Halloween parties! tylerpants(at)gmail.com
Trick or Treating :)
ktgonyea at gmail.com
My boys will go trick or treating and carve pumpkins.
bergiejrfhe at yahoo dot com
We love doing leaf rubbings from our leaves in the grass!
We always go pumpkin picking! trixpixel[at]gmail.com
we are dressing up!
We decorate a lot and usually have a Halloween party.
We're saving up to move to a better apartment so we're making sacrifices including having a quiet, frugal Halloween at home.
We are going to the church my husband works for.My oldest 2 will help run the games and give out goodies during their fall festival.My boys will get to play games for the treats.
we like to go get our pumkins and decorate them and our house
lmurley2000@yahoo.com
We are going to the corn maze and then a party. Thanks so much for the fantastic giveaway!
Reneewalters3@yahoo.com
We go apple picking.
winit6@hotmail.com
we are having a kid friendly Halloween Party
We like to pass out candy on Halloween
s2s2 at comcast dot net
corn mazes and carving pumpkins
amy16323(at)gmail(dot)com
We're going to be watching scary movies!
This year we are getting in our costumes and going to a Halloween party at church. We will have a blast!
susansmoaks at gmail dot com
We're carving pumpkins this weekend.
msurosey@yahoo.com
We love Halloween in our family, I even have some Halloween decor up all year long. Me and the kids plan on making some creepy food this weekend.
Amber Porter
My family and I love decorating the house (inside and outside) for Halloween. We also carve pumpkins & of course go trick or treating :)
We will carve pumpkins and roast pumpkin seeds (Debra L. Guillen)
we have annual halloween party for the kids in the family
jagar0047 at yahoo dot com
We will be watching scary movies
I will go to the annual Halloween parade here in town.
fotw_1999 at yahoo dot com
We celebrate by drinking warm apple cider with cinnamon sticks.
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