Has anyone out there on the interweb heard of this thing called leftover Halloween candy?
It is a new phenomenon. A no-good something akin to global warming or decorative hair feathers, I suspect.
When I was but a wee tatertot, no adult ever had to worry about leftover candy because there never was such a thing. You’d just have candy and pass it out until it was gone. Then, all you could do was turn off your porch light and pray nobody egged your house. The festivities ran from dark-o’clock to 9pm, maybe 10pm if it was a weekend, and neither rain, nor sleet, or nor tornado siren could keep a child indoors. Why, one time I told my dad I didn’t feel like trick-or-treating because my stomach hurt real bad and he told me that was why I needed to carry a bucket. “I don’t care how you do it, but don’t come back here until it’s full.”
Apparently, now, it is different. Apparently, now, kids are encouraged to stop knocking on doors after dusk and bad weather is a signal to stay home. This was the case last Thursday, a rainy night when not more than 15 kids came by for candy. That would be fine except I was hoping for a couple hundred and now I need to find new ways to use up all this damn candy.
Here, I know, let’s work on depleting this mountain of sugary sweets by chopping them up and adding to a vat of chocolaty brownie batter.
Is that a photo of leopard and chocolate together? Yes. Yes, it is.
Also, speaking of leftover Halloween stuff, here is a pedestal vase I made out of a cheapo pumpkin bucket a while back. It makes for a nice goody bucket for passing out candy, or for holding some greenery from the garden, or for storing the shame that comes from eating mini Snickers for breakfast.
Yay, November.
I like your dad’s approach! lol.
So you just add chunks of the candy bar to the batter before baking or is there a specific recipe?
Steph B. beat me to answer your Q about the recipe (see below). My fav mix is Gheredili (sp?). Better than any homemade brownie I ever had. For real!
I had a whopping 6, but perhaps it’s a testament to my age that I was relieved more than upset. That wind was nasty and was blowing the rain into the house. I don’t want to wear galoshes and a Mackintosh to answer the door. (I made a costume and got soaked with the first 3 kids.) I did have a bag of candy purchased that I can’t stand specifically so there would be some for the treaters, but it happens to be a kind a co-worker likes. Her birthday was the weekend before Halloween so I left it on her desk with a belated birthday card. She repaid my kindness with one of the bags of M&M’s with peanuts she got on sale 70% off the day after Halloween. It all works out.
As far as I’m concerned, the only breakfast better than mini Snickers is leftover pizza.
Agreed.
….unless it’s mini Snickers AND leftover pizza.
Incidentally, we had ZERO trick-or-treaters. I spent the evening unwrapping and eating individual Twizzlers and watching Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal while wearing a stunning witch’s hat.
Lynne
Next time that happens, invite me. I’ll bring Red Vines.
We get dressed up, and go out to our downtown block party. Candy and dancing…it doesn’t get no betta than that. No trick or treaters– they go to the mall, churches, or the block party, too.
Eugenie: Use any brownie mix (a super-moist or “chewy fudge” variety is great!), prepare the batter as stated on the box. Place half of the batter into the pan. Place six chopped up candy bars or a whole bunch of mini candy bars (I use Symphony bars, which are awesome and give it a toffee flavor – but any candy bars will work, as pictured here!), then pour on the rest of the batter and cook as directed, watching it closely. So yummy!! Thank you for the inspiration, AP – gonna make these this week! Steph B.
Every year on November 1 right when Wally Fart opens I go in with a big ass shopping cart and buy as much chocolate as I can cram into my cart at 75% off. It lasts my family 6 months. 6 months of lunch treats and snacks and chocolate binges. I do this every year cuz I love my family and I am cheap. And I don’t eat chocolate so I am not tempted when I have 50 pounds of it in my house.
Q1: What is Wally Fart? I’m intrigued.
Q2: How do you not eat it all in one day? Six months….I can’t even imagine.
Every year on November 1 right when Wally Fart opens I go in with a big ass shopping cart and buy as much chocolate as I can cram into my cart at 75% off. It lasts my family 6 months. 6 months of lunch treats and snacks and chocolate binges. I do this every year cuz I love my family and I am cheap. And I don’t eat chocolate so I am not tempted when I have 50 pounds of it in my house.