Halloween Candy Ideas
You’ve waited all year and Halloween is finally here! Now you are looking for the perfect candy for those adorable trick or treaters or for your special Halloween party. Do you make your own or buy the traditional Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, Butterfingers, or maybe you are a candy corn person. And did you know that candy corn is the top selling Halloween candy? Who knew? With so many candies to choose, where do you begin?
More About Halloween Candy
Did you know that the tradition of Halloween candy began hundreds of years ago? To keep ghosts away from their houses on Halloween, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.
What a change from today’s Halloween traditions! To put it in perspective, in 1999, Americans spent approximately $1.9 billion on Halloween candy–a far cry from a bowl of food put on your front porch!
From around the Blogosphere:
What to do with leftover Halloween Candy–Did you buy too much candy? Not enough trick or treaters? Find recipes to use up the leftovers
Make your own Halloween Candy–Not happy with the store-bought variety? Try these Halloween Candy recipes.