Hard to believe that it’s almost Halloween. The boys have already selected their perfect costume and a Halloween party is in the making. As everyone knows, you must have delicious candies in order to celebrate Halloween (or that’s what I tell myself)
Recently our family got to taste a few of the new sweet treats from Nestle Confections and they are AWESOME! The items for the 2013 Halloween collection includes:
- Nuts about Peanuts: All your fun size Nestle favorites packed with peanuts
- Spooky Nerds Rope: Featuring punch and orange flavored Nerds wrapped around a gummy rope
- SweeTARTS Gummies: A chewy twist on the original sweet-and tart assortment in new fruity flavors
My boys loving having a Halloween party every year and I will be the first to admit that it can easily get very expensive. One way to cut down on the cost is to do the Nestle assortment of chocolate and sugar candy bags. Not only can you put them in adorable little Halloween dishes in different locations for your guest but you can usually pull off a pretty awesome dessert recipe with them like the Spooky Graveyard Pie.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups (about 32) finely ground chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs, divided
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 can (12 fl. oz.) NESTLÉ® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 3/4 cups (11.5-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Milk Chocolate Morsels
- 8 chocolate filled vanilla wafer cookies
- Black and purple decorator writing gels
- WONKA® SweeTARTS® Skulls n’ Bones*, gummy bugs or other assorted spooky Halloween candies
Directions:
COMBINE 1 1/2 cups cookie crumbs and butter in 9-inch deep-dish pie plate. Press crumb mixture onto bottom and upsides of pie plate. Set aside remaining 1 1/2 cups crumbs for dirt topping.
WHISK together evaporated milk, egg yolks and cornstarch in medium saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is very hot and thickens slightly; do not boil. Remove from heat; stir in morsels until completely melted and mixture is smooth.
POUR into crust. Sprinkle with remaining 1 1/2 cups cookie crumbs. Press crumbs down gently. Refrigerate for 3 hours or until set.
DECORATE cookie tombstones as desired with writing gels. Insert tombstones around edge of pie. With spoon, mound cookie crumbs to form “fresh graves”. Decorate graves with candy to make the pie as spooky as you want it to be!
six year old loves the WONKA Spooky Nerds while my very soon to be three year old digs into the WONKA SweeTARTS Skulls and Bones. While he is eating his Skulls and Bones he continuously sings The Skeleton Dance. Last but not least the chocolate is never forgotten. My seventeen year old’s favorite candy is Butterfinger. She eats them just as they are but LOVES them in a Butterfinger pie!!
