What is that you say? You have leftover Halloween candy? What an atrocity!

Twenty years ago the thought of leftover candy would have sent shivers down my spine. I would hoard my trick-or-treating valuables and hide them from my parents, who would only let us have 1-2 pieces a day {yes, I was clearly deprived}.

Today the thought of the leftover candy in my house is making me shudder and shake for other reasons. The sheer fact is that I cannot be trusted with that kind of caloric heaven in my house. I have zero willpower. Honestly.

And so, I searched and searched for what to do with my leftover candy.

I could bake it into a giant cookie. I could mix it into some vanilla ice cream {note: I am relatively certain my good friends Ben and Jerry did just that with their new flavor “Everything but the…” which I became well acquainted with on Saturday night circa midnight. Oops}.

Luckily, Real Simple came up with tons of idea of how to take high-calorie, high-fat, high-sugared candy, and somehow make it even higher-calorie, higher-fat and higher-sugared desserts. Genius, I tell you.

Hello, Twix Cheesecake Pie. Come to mama.

Or maybe I will have some mini peppermint patty brownies. Um, perhaps I feel more like a snickers dulce de leche terrine.

Oh, fine. I’ll be “healthy” and have some candy corn pretzel bark.

And I’ll be sure to wash it down with a sweet tart milk shake.

{Admission: I am likely taking my candy to work with me to appear as a “giving” person, while selfishly celebrating that someone else can fight with their own temptations.} But still. These recipes rock right?

xoxo,

Niki