Pilgrim Hat Cookies

{Recipe & pic from} taste of home

Pilgrim Hat Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup vanilla frosting
7 drops yellow food coloring
32 miniature peanut butter cups
1 package (11-1/2 ounces) fudge-striped cookies
32 pieces orange mini Chiclets gum
Directions: In a small shallow bowl, combine frosting and food coloring. Remove paper liners from peanut butter cups. Holding the bottom of a peanut butter cup, dip top of cup in yellow frosting. Position over center hole of a cookie, forming the hatband and crown. Add a buckle of Chiclets gum. Repeat with remaining cups and cookies. Yield: 32 cookies.

Crunchy Caramel Reeses Cookie Bars

OH MY.....DON'T THESE LOOK AMAZING!

{Recipe & pic from} Picky Palate

Crunchy Caramel Reeses Cookie Bars
1 Roll Sugar Cookie Dough, Pillsbury (or use your favorite sugar cookie recipe)
1 Cup crushed pretzels
3 Cups mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, unwrapped
10 Kraft caramels, unwrapped
1 Tablespoon milk
1/2 Cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven 350 degrees F. Line a 8×8 baking dish with foil and spray with cooking spray. Cut cookie dough roll in half and press half into bottom of baking dish. Layer with pretzels. Cut PB cups in half and layer over pretzels. Melt caramels and milk in a microwave safe bowl until melted, about 1-2 minutes in microwave. Pour caramel over PB cups. With remaining cookie dough, crumble evenly over top PB cups. Bake for 22-25 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through. Let cool completely. Melt chocolate chips in microwave until smooth, drizzle over top of bars.
9 bars

Banana Crumb muffins

My friend posted this recipe on facebook and I think it sounds SO delicious!

Can't wait to try them on a cold morning!

Banana Crumb Muffins

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3 bananas, mashed
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup butter, melted
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 12 muffin cups, or line with muffin papers.
2. In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg, vanilla, and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
3. In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and cinnamon. Cut in 1 tablespoon butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle topping over muffins.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.
* Tip: Double batch to make 4 mini loaves, bake at 350 for 30 minutes. :)

Candy Corn Cupcakes

{recipe & pic from} your home based mom

Does it get any cuter!!!
Candy Corn cupcakes are sure to be the hit

of any Halloween Party you have to attend this next week!

Make your favorite white cake recipe or use a cake mix. You divide your cake batter in half, adding yellow to one and orange to the other. Add the yellow batter first into the cupcake liners and then freeze the batter for about 10 minutes and then add the layer of orange and bake! Bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
The white frosting on the top makes it look just like a piece of candy corn!

Halloween Oreo Cheesecakes

{recipe & pic from} Baking Bites


Halloween Oreo Cheesecakes

1/2 cup sugar
2 8-oz packages plain cream cheese, room temperature
3 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 cup milk2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups chopped Oreo cookies (Halloween colors)
16 whole Oreo cookies (Halloween colors)
Preheat oven to 350F. Line 16 muffin cups with paper liners.In a large bowl, beat together sugar, cream cheese, eggs, milk and vanilla extract until very smooth. Blend in flour. Stir in chopped Oreo cookies.Place 1 Oreo in the bottom of each muffin cup. Top with approx. 1/4 cup cheesecake batter.Bake for 16-19 minutes, until cheesecakes are set. Cool in pan.Chill cheesecakes before serving for at least 2 hours.
Makes 18.

Peanut butter pie

{recipe & pic from} your home based mom
Peanut Butter Pie
Crust:
1 2/3 C graham cracker crumbs or Oreo cookie crumbs
1/4 C sugar
3/4 stick/cube butter
Combine crumbs, sugar and butter and press into a 9 inch pie plate. Bake a 425 degrees for 9 – 10 minutes. Let cool.
Filling:
3 oz. cream cheese
1 C powdered sugar
1/4 C milk, I used half and half
1 C smooth peanut butter
1 tsp vanlla
1 1/2 C heavy cream
Chopped up Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups I used one King size bar) and extra whipped cream for topping
Beat cream cheese with powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Add in milk, peanut butter and vanilla. In a chilled bowl beat whip cream until it holds a stiff peak. Stir one third of it into the peanut butter mixture. Fold in the remaining whipped cream until thoroughly combined. Pour filling into cooled pie crust. Decorate top of pie with additional whipped cream and chopped candy.
Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight is better.

Pumpkin Gooey Butter cakes

{Recipe & pic from} Paula Deen on Food Network

Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cakes

Ingredients
Cake:
1 (18 1/4-ounce) package yellow cake mix
1 egg
8 tablespoons butter, melted
Filling:
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 tablespoons butter, melted
1 (16-ounce) box powdered sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine the cake mix, egg, and butter and mix well with an electric mixer. Pat the mixture into the bottom of a lightly greased 13 by 9-inch baking pan.
To make the filling: In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese and pumpkin until smooth. Add the eggs, vanilla, and butter, and beat together. Next, add the powdered sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and mix well. Spread pumpkin mixture over cake batter and bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Make sure not to overbake as the center should be a little gooey.
Serve with fresh whipped cream.

Variations: For a Pineapple Gooey Cake: Instead of the pumpkin, add a drained 20-ounce can of crushed pineapple to the cream cheese filling. Proceed as directed above.

For a Banana Gooey Cake: Prepare cream cheese filling as directed, beating in 2 ripe bananas instead of the pumpkin. Proceed as directed above.

For a Peanut Butter Gooey Cake: Use a chocolate cake mix. Add 1 cup creamy peanut butter to the cream cheese filling instead of the pumpkin. Proceed as directed above.