Recycle Your Leftover Hallowe'en Candy

I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one who didn't eat all my Hallowe'en candy when I was a kid - or at least I didn't eat it all before the New Year came around. Growing up in a small community where everybody literally knows everybody (yeah, that actually happens) you tend to come home with more candy than one person needs in a 10 year period. I never trick-or-treated with those cute little plastic pumpkin buckets or printed bags - we trick-or-treated with pillow cases (emphasizing the plural). So, yes inevitably (even when your siblings, friends and parents help you, whether you know it or not) all the candy just doesn't get eaten. Now leaves the question, what do I do with it all? I know a few parents who would take it into work with them to pass out to colleges - but there are much more creative ways to make sure this candy get's used up!
I read a great article on a blog called Small Kitchen College and they have given us 7 yummy ways to make your candy even better before it goes stale (or you give it away).

1. Chocolate Bark

2. Monster Cookies

3. Blondies

4. Pancakes

5. Stuffed Cupcakes

6. Homemade Butterfingers

7. Incentives

 I will leave it to the expert to explain these delicious ideas, so click the link to the Small Kitchen College and start recycling that candy

Happy Hallowe'en

Thought this picture of a past cookie myself and my sisters made would be appropriate to start off this pumpkin, candy eating holiday post. I spent last night with a friend, we ate a load of candy and studied - yes, this is what my Hallowe'en has become, stuffing my face and trying to remember what the difference between qualitative and quantitative research is.
I didn't partake in ANY partying, or even bother buying a costume. I don't even have to decorate because we live in an apartment building and children aren't allowed to trick or treat in it - perhaps if children were allowed and I wasn't drowning in exams, I would put forth some effort. My lack of Hallowe'en enthusiasm is not because I hate it.
It's quite good fun actually, who doesn't thoroughly enjoy getting free candy for putting on a costume?
On my first Hallowe'en my parents let me pick my costume, I was three, and I was Batman - unfortunately I don't have any of these pictures on my computer - but just less than 20 years later I was Batman again!

 

My more recent Batman costume was made by yours truly, and completed with pleather tights and black boots - much better then the Batman dress that accentuated your boobs and exposed your ass (last time I checked Batman didn't wear a dress).

Have you ever made a costume, did you have a favourite?