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Halloween Candy and Halloween Gift Baskets: Ghoulishly Good!
Halloween Candy and Halloween Gift Baskets: Ghoulishly Good!
Halloween is just a month away! Are you ready?
At BisketBaskets.com, we just love celebrating holidays and Halloween is one of our favorites. The costumes, the scares, and of course, the candy, make it all worthwhile. If you love Halloween as much as we do, we bet you’ve already gone out and stocked up your pantry with treats for those little trick or treaters! If not, let BisketBaskets.com be your guide.
Here are our top ten Halloween candies (in no particular order):
1.) Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups: We LOVE the combo of chocolate and peanut butter and Reese’s gets it just right with their Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Catch them before the ghouls do by ordering our awesome Happy Halloween Gift Basket. 2.) Snickers Bars: Caramel, chocolate, and peanuts – what could be better? We love to snack on Snickers in between stops on Halloween night. 3.) Skittles: Fruity hard candies that taste as good as Skittles are hard to come by. We just love adding them to our Creepy Candy Bouquets! 4.) M&M’s: Chocolate and hard shelled, these candies are melt-in-your mouth good but don’t worry, they won’t melt in your hands! Make them a must by ordering our Halloween Candy Gift. 5.) Candy Corn: What’s Halloween without candy corn? Gotta have this awesome treat for the holiday! 6.) Mike & Ikes: Chewy and fruity, this Halloween candy makes a welcome addition to any Halloween gift basket or goodie bag. 7.) Nerds: Aren’t Nerds just so yummy? They’re fruity, tangy, and just the right amount of sweet. 8.) Hershey’s Kisses: There’s nothing more classic than a kiss and on Halloween night, we love getting these in our trick or treat bags! Get yours in one of our fun candy bouquets. 9.) Butterfingers: These buttery candy bars are the perfect combination of chocolate and crunch. Get your hands on some in our Boo-tastic Candy Bouquet for an extra special treat. 10.) Twix Bars: Cookie crunchiness with smooth chocolate. Ooo….you’re making us hungry already!
These are just a few of our favorites, but it’s hard to pick when there are just so many varieties! What are you favorite Halloween candies? Do you always give out your favorite treat to trick or treaters?
How to: make a spider web design!
After posting the Halloween Party Food, which included pictures of sugar cookie pops
with spider web designs on them, I had a lot of people ask how I made
the icing design. I had even more people comment that they could never
make them look so pretty. So I’m here to tell you- and more importantly
show you that you can! Here’s a simple tutorial- watch how easy!
I used Glacé Icing for these cookies, but the same technique will work on a variety of frostings and icings as well as with white and dark chocolate ganache. You can use this method to top cupcakes, cakes, cookies, just about anything that you could top with frosting!
Step 1: Top cookie with the base color. In this case I’m using a white base.
I used the Glace Icing in the flooding consistency and added just a tad more powdered sugar so it wasn’t too runny.
However you don’t want it as thick as you would use for piping. It
should easily run and Don’t bother trying to outline them first to fill,
just flood the cookie and either stop near the edges, or what’s even
easier is to do as I did and just let the icing drip right over the edge
of the cookie. Let the cookie dry for just a few minutes. If you’re
doing multiple cookies, go ahead and glaze another 5-6 cookies and then
your first one will be ready for step 2.
Step 2: Using black icing, again just a tad thicker than flooding consistency, but thinner than piping consistency, start from the center of the cookie and pipe a swirl until you get to the outside edge.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCXWmm-Tle3MS1hnEzNEF1KAigTlM1BHxcZIScSXDMtCVOW6h5xqnRnZ0huqmb-4SoGjIXUNa5i6JmsCXcH2okFImZpCHFfkBNlt84OZCtqznySWHtHHpdI1rdM0C_iVcSNhBLpqifAU/s400/spider+cookie+2.jpg)
If you don’t have a piping bag, just use a heavy duty zip-lock bag with a small hole cut out of one corner.
Step 3: Use a toothpick and starting from the center of your swirl, lightly drag it in a straight line to the edge.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSg1ApSB-x3QcUKZnNwLVA0UEzQ-d9wpPMwJHmLoyOtlAdRBNcwbYIf1ym3LhcRcz_vWzZ43S2b9QnVu8x00J2MN295Mp1bsI9h815XHKfHDAZl1stLFF6ZFJQrzf7djXwj1FWYc3273o/s400/spider+cookie+3.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiql3c48OX4IXY_bMGxkm7S4ljpp-rR6iOcN6eEP0NkIuGAeeCjzcsiIWN3DDCApbSaHyHhUyuufn2muhupm1PLh_CcM6ocWLAciyEo-PdXsG6k7R45fXj27J16S4DFdFyMlpJpBqzAxPA/s400/spider+cookie+4.jpg)
Step 4: Continue around the cookie repeating that step. You can continue pulling only from the center, or so as I did and alternate pulling from the center out and then from the outside to the center. You’ll get different designs, try it out and see which one you like.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZuBRh9Xfziq6rfvpkQNI4Tvyllw-eKWsoyEU_MtrwzdgAw06U71oAWYUwmg8ZYnMR2Xz-oncT-oEEEUgjVAf0pXcFVN5E23a78pw6HRz0H9qAgqZyADHUE1-sLVKDNfDdqIIZmi0Y3Y/s400/spider+cookie+white.jpg)
Experiment with color combos. I love how the black turned out. If you’re using black make sure to use gel or paste food color. Purple, green, and orange webs look cool too!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuoJFDyzFqufb_vDpycwyDD3udD5GXbniDglLsKIyr1DkCWBqImjMmEcL8nDtYvUIZMtpIOLJk1W0QYqNcAXX7lAGkWlHCoPEHsJsa80Z7lZNkOeJwStBJFM_2xBcifI-F2NU_qrojDsE/s400/spider+cookie+black.jpg)
Let those cookies dry for a full 24 hours if you’re going to stack them, otherwise they can dry for only a few hours as long as you’re very careful not to bump them and dent the icing. It will be smooth and dry on top, but soft underneath. (Which is in my opinion, the yummiest way to eat them!)
I used Glacé Icing for these cookies, but the same technique will work on a variety of frostings and icings as well as with white and dark chocolate ganache. You can use this method to top cupcakes, cakes, cookies, just about anything that you could top with frosting!
Step 1: Top cookie with the base color. In this case I’m using a white base.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8vTA8f-zgWFS38dUh6T1bREJqO2NGc2ewdluSLKsP-yz-GBO3TkPh_aWKFPV2zRCj0U9y67caxHCkN0hBpVz8XHoiXwjsA7A_1dMMK2PhS-ZbQW87xuxf9LLkwndjKkDmS2haYm9-6c/s400/spider+cookie+1.jpg)
Step 2: Using black icing, again just a tad thicker than flooding consistency, but thinner than piping consistency, start from the center of the cookie and pipe a swirl until you get to the outside edge.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCXWmm-Tle3MS1hnEzNEF1KAigTlM1BHxcZIScSXDMtCVOW6h5xqnRnZ0huqmb-4SoGjIXUNa5i6JmsCXcH2okFImZpCHFfkBNlt84OZCtqznySWHtHHpdI1rdM0C_iVcSNhBLpqifAU/s400/spider+cookie+2.jpg)
If you don’t have a piping bag, just use a heavy duty zip-lock bag with a small hole cut out of one corner.
Step 3: Use a toothpick and starting from the center of your swirl, lightly drag it in a straight line to the edge.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSg1ApSB-x3QcUKZnNwLVA0UEzQ-d9wpPMwJHmLoyOtlAdRBNcwbYIf1ym3LhcRcz_vWzZ43S2b9QnVu8x00J2MN295Mp1bsI9h815XHKfHDAZl1stLFF6ZFJQrzf7djXwj1FWYc3273o/s400/spider+cookie+3.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiql3c48OX4IXY_bMGxkm7S4ljpp-rR6iOcN6eEP0NkIuGAeeCjzcsiIWN3DDCApbSaHyHhUyuufn2muhupm1PLh_CcM6ocWLAciyEo-PdXsG6k7R45fXj27J16S4DFdFyMlpJpBqzAxPA/s400/spider+cookie+4.jpg)
Step 4: Continue around the cookie repeating that step. You can continue pulling only from the center, or so as I did and alternate pulling from the center out and then from the outside to the center. You’ll get different designs, try it out and see which one you like.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZuBRh9Xfziq6rfvpkQNI4Tvyllw-eKWsoyEU_MtrwzdgAw06U71oAWYUwmg8ZYnMR2Xz-oncT-oEEEUgjVAf0pXcFVN5E23a78pw6HRz0H9qAgqZyADHUE1-sLVKDNfDdqIIZmi0Y3Y/s400/spider+cookie+white.jpg)
Experiment with color combos. I love how the black turned out. If you’re using black make sure to use gel or paste food color. Purple, green, and orange webs look cool too!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuoJFDyzFqufb_vDpycwyDD3udD5GXbniDglLsKIyr1DkCWBqImjMmEcL8nDtYvUIZMtpIOLJk1W0QYqNcAXX7lAGkWlHCoPEHsJsa80Z7lZNkOeJwStBJFM_2xBcifI-F2NU_qrojDsE/s400/spider+cookie+black.jpg)
Let those cookies dry for a full 24 hours if you’re going to stack them, otherwise they can dry for only a few hours as long as you’re very careful not to bump them and dent the icing. It will be smooth and dry on top, but soft underneath. (Which is in my opinion, the yummiest way to eat them!)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu_6ta0gX5XIy7-eRRD-qJvTgCotAW6yrzmFgh1t0v1LXX25u98Re8mhl-E42PQw_NkX7u98Y-7X_av6QizZy8zhoNdy0ed3WlkxANsv7C9X9Ex85V0nptDlpNzyWhUFEApKNRJ_FKHs/s400/spider+cookie+bouquet.jpg)
Happy Halloween Baking!
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