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21 Recipes You Can Make With All Your Leftover Halloween Candy
As much as it pains me to admit this, there's only so much candy a human being can consume. While sugar lovers' favorite time of year is quickly approaching — Halloween, of course — the days that follow the holiday can be particularly difficult for folks who have a sweet tooth — like me, for instance. There is a fine line between savoring ever last morsel of your leftover Trick-or-Treat sweets and having a terrible stomach ache. One of two things will happen in the days after Halloween: You will either keep munching on the remaining candy until you hit the bottom of the barrel, which will inevitably contain only your least favorite candies, or they will get stale and you will be forced to admit defeat and toss them in the trash. To avoid this, you can look to your crafty side to find recipes that use leftover Halloween candy so you can repurpose those tasty treats. Those sad leftover candies don't have to go to waste. As it turns out, stale candy still tastes delicious when it's baked into cookies, cakes, and other tasty post-Halloween treats.
I can't even pretend that these recipes are somehow healthier than the candy that goes into them, but repurposing your leftover Halloween candy makes it so much easier to pawn off on others if you really need to just get it out of your house. Bringing, say, banana bread Kit Kat muffins into the office is bound to go over much better than offering up a sad bowl of old candy remnants. Who am I kidding? These 21 recipes to use up leftover Halloween candy are so irresistible, they may not end up leaving your house after all.
1Caramel Snickers Cheesecake Bars
Ugh, just look at that caramel drizzle on these Snickers cheesecake bars by Mel's Kitchen Cafe. I'm drooling.
2Banana Bread Kit Kat Muffins
OK, so if Damn Delicious calls these banana Kit Kat muffins, does that make it acceptable to eat them for breakfast? Probably.
3Gummy Bear Sangria
This recipe from My Name Is Yeh is a bit off the beaten path — in the best way possible, though, because it involves wine. Candy + Wine = You can't go wrong.
4Butterfinger Bars
This clever DIY Butterfingers recipe from Averie Cooks uses melted candy corn. It's a perfect way to use up what some of you call the worst Halloween candy!
5No-Bake Deep-Dish Snickers Pie
I would have been sold on this even if it was just called "Snickers Pie." But deep-dish?! Need I even say more? And no-bake means it's super easy. Well done, Averie Cooks, well done.
6Peanut Butter Kit-Kat Ice Cream Sandwiches
Apparently some people think that it's weird to eat ice cream when it's cold outside. Firstly, I find that disturbing and those people are wrong. Secondly, this Kit-Kat ice cream sandwich recipe from Inside Bru Crew Life will open their eyes to the error of their ways.
7Rolo Stuffed Monkey Bread
Just when you thought monkey bread couldn't be improved, Something Swanky went and put Rolos in it. Checkmate.
8Red Velvet Milky Way Brownies
Confessions of a Cookbook Queen's addition of Milky Ways to this already delicious red velvet bars recipe is straight genius.
9Pumpkin Butterfinger Cake
Looking for yet another way to incorporate pumpkin into your daily life? Inside Bru Crew Life's pumpkin Butterfinger cake might be the move.
10Rolo Seven Layer Bars
I don't think Averie Cooks' seven layer bars actually have seven layers in them, but either way, they still contain many layers of deliciousness.
11Chocolate Malt Sheet Cake
Is it overkill to pair this The Little Epicurean malted sheet cake recipe with a malted milkshake? I hope not.
12Butterfinger Caramel Bars
This Cookies & Cups Butterfinger caramel bars recipe doesn't even require an oven, so you barely even have to be baking proficient to pull off this gooey treat.
13Nerds Popcorn
The sweet/salty flavor combo of Food Fanatic's Nerds popcorn makes this like a souped up (and more colorful) version of kettle corn. Yum.
14Easy Peanut Butter Reese's Cup Fudge
Something Swanky's Reese's fudge only requires three ingredients. Three. And one of them is the Reese's peanut butter cups that you probably acquired a million of during Halloween. So easy.
15Confetti Ice Cream Fudge Pie
How Sweet Eats is giving us all another excuse to eat festive ice cream this fall. I'm sold.
16Monster Whoopie Pies
OK, these monster whoopie pies from Cup of Cakes are super cute and a great way of using up Junior Mints, M&Ms, marshmallows, and Starbursts. What a way to multitask.
17Reese's Granola Bars
Mom On Timeout's homemade Reese's granola bars are the perfect no-bake grab-and-go treats.
18Malted Milk Ball Cookies
This malted milk ball cookies recipe is such a fun and subtle twist on a typical chocolate chip cookie recipe. Deliciously Yum swears that it's a fan favorite, even for those that aren't typically on the malted milk ball bandwagon.
19M&M Nutella Popcorn
This Nutella popcorn recipe from Inside Brew Crew Life only has a handful of ingredients, and you'll want to be eating it by the handful too.
20Ultimate Reese's Cheesecake Brownies
Brownies, cheesecake, and Reese's all in one bar?! Bless you, Inside Bru Crew Life.
21Candy Corn & White Chocolate Blondies
These candy corn blondies from Averie Cooks just scream "fall." So fun. So festive. So yummy.
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