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This was a very memorable and special Halloween for us, complete with gingerbread skeleton cookies, voodoo doll sugar cookies, monster haystack cookies, fudgy chocolate spiderweb brownies, caramel candy apples, chocolate Halloween cookies, and an abundance of candy! The pandemic has not put a damper on our Halloween spirit at all. In fact, I think we are having even more fun and making even stronger memories with all the creative solutions to staying in and just being our own little (growing) family! We sure had a great time doing our own thing this year.
Our neighbourhood goes all out for Halloween, we get trick-or-treat-tourists who come to see the extreme decorations on our street. Last year we counted 1600 at our house! So, opening our door this year was not going to happen, but we still decorated (you can see the pics here), and we still did some clever trick-or-treating…inside the house!
We strung up Christmas lights and put red lightbulbs in the rooms, and made a curtain of black garbage bags for the kids to walk through in the hallway. Then my husband and I each had a pile of costumes at our feet so that when the kids knocked on our door, someone new greeted them with candy and chocolate and chips. While the kids were at one door with one parent, the other would run to another room of the house in a new costume, and the kids wouldn’t know what they’d see when the door opened. It was pure magic!
We spent the whole day baking treats and putting together this special Halloween Snack Tray, it was such a hit. We seem to have some favourite recipes in our household which are non-negotiable for every holiday, just the cookie cutters change!
Here are links to all the recipes I used to make everything, I actually froze half of every recipe since I knew we’d have more than enough for just the five of us.
Halloween Snack Tray Recipes
Monster Haystack Cookies (I just did 150g butterscotch chips melted with 150g semi-sweet chocolate chips mixed with 3 cups of chow mein noodles and set in the fridge.)
It was a busy, and exhausting, day for Big J and me, but it was so worth it to have such a special holiday with our kids. Now to figure out how we’re going to tackle Christmas…
PS: Our Halloween family portrait is the exception to my rule of not posting pictures of my kids’ faces online, since they are in costumes. You can read about my reasons here, head to Instagram to see the picture!
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