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Recipes: 11 easy Halloween treats

Are you the president of Pinterest fails? Try these super easy recipes for Halloween treats that your kids will love.

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Ice cream eyes
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Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Editor's note: This is an updated version of an always popular post on Go Ask Mom.

Tis the season for countless pictures of absolutely adorable edibles. Just check Pinterest for ornate spider web cakes and stuffed peppers that look like little jack-o-lanterns. And that's just Halloween. Just wait until Thanksgiving and Christmas come around.

I'm fully aware of my abilities to craft and cook - and they do not include the ability to succeed at anything that has more than a handful of steps attached to it. I don't have the patience or the desire to spend hours making s'mores pops. (But a huge hats off to those who can ... and I am more than ready to eat!).

But I do like to surprise my kids with fun little treats this time of year. And, thankfully, there are plenty of crafty snacks that really require no ability at all.

Here are 11 of them:

Ice Cream Eyes

All you need is two scoops of ice cream, some maraschino cherry juice and two M&Ms. Put two scoops of ice cream in a bowl. Drizzle a little cherry juice over them. I used an oral syringe used to give kids medicine. Then put an M&M in the middle of each scoop. Eat!

Ice cream eyes
Banana Ghosts

Cut a banana in half or thirds, depending on the size. Get some mini and regular sized chocolate chips. Gently push the mini chocolate chips in for eyes. Use the regular sized chip for the mouth. Done!

Banana ghosts
Tomato Eyes

Cut a cherry or grape tomato in half, lengthwise. Take slices of Spanish olives and place on top. Done!

Tomato eyes
Popcorn Hands

Get some plastic food service gloves. Put candy corn at the tips of each finger. Fill the rest of the glove with popped popcorn. Tie off at the wrist with ribbon. Embellish with spider ring. Done!

Halloween popcorn hands

Make your favorite deviled egg recipe. Take a whole black olive and slice in half, lengthwise. Place half of the olive on top of your egg. Cut the other olive half into strips to use as the spider's legs.

A spooky Halloween treat
Flour Tortilla Cinnamon Crisps
Get some flour tortillas, butter, cinnamon, sugar and Halloween-themed cookie cutters. Follow this recipe. Done!
Flour tortilla cinnamon sugar crisps
Cheese and Pretzel Broomsticks, Orange and Celery Pumpkins and Spooky Vegetable Eyes
These healthy Halloween treats really take no skill - or time - at all. Cheese, pretzels, oranges, celery, veggies and hummus. That's all you need. I shared the directions for each of these in an earlier post.
Cheese and pretzel broomsticks, orange pumpkins and crazy veggie eyes.
Ghost Meringues
Chef Hannah whipped up these spooky treats in the Flour Power Kids Cooking Studio kitchen for us.
Ghost meringues
Halloween Monster Pudding Cups
And here's another treat from Chef Hannah of Flour Power Kids Cooking Studio, who shares how to make it in this post.
Chef Hannah from Flour Power Kids Cooking Studio makes monster pudding cups for Halloween.

Happy Halloween!

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