Candies, Snacks, Recipes and More Halloween Ideas

Treats that aren't tricky to find




Candy

Top 10:

1. Surf Sweet sour worms
2. Skittles
3. Airheads
4. Goldenberg’s Original Peanut Chews
5. Hot Tamales
6. Swedish Fish
7. Laffy Taffy
8. Nerds
9. Mike and Ike's
10. Sour Patch Kids

More:

American Licorice Candy Company
Red Vines, Super Ropes, Snaps

Andre Prost, Inc.
Zotz

Atkinson Candy Company
Chick-o-Sticks, Peanut Butter Bars

August Storck
Mambas

Bernod's Spun City
Certified Organic Cotton Candy pouches

Cadbury Adams
Sour Patch Kids, Swedish Fish

Clif Bar
Organic Fruit Twists, Z Bar (Apple Cinnamon, Blueberry, Chocolate Brownie, Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter flavors)

College Farm Organics
Naturepops

Endangered Species
Dark Chocolate Bug Bites

Equal Exchange
Mini Dark Chocolates

Farley’s and Sathers Candy Company, Inc.
Brach's Dem Bones, Jujubees, Jujyfruits, Orange Slices, Fruit Slices, Gum Drops, Super Bubble, Rain Blo

Ferrara Pan Candy Company
Anise Bears, Applehead, Fruit Headline Sm., Sours (Xl Headline), Atomic Fireball, Boston Baked Beans, Bug City, Cherry Slices, Cherry Sours, Cherryhead, Chewy Atomic Fireballs, Chewy Lemonhead And Friends (Regular and Tropical), Cinnamon Hearts, Cinnamon Imperials, French Burnt Peanuts, Fruit Cocktail, Fruit Slices, Gourmet Jelly Beans, Grapehead, Gum Drops (Regular and Halloween), Jawbusters (Jawbreakers, Mini Peppermint and Spearmint), Jelly Beans Halloween, Jelly Beans Jumbo (Black, Cinnamon, Fruit, and Spice), Jelly Beans Pee-Wee/Mini, Jelly Beans Xl Cinnamon, Jelly Slices Mini, Juju (Fish Assorted, Mini Red Fish, Halloween), Juju Red (Coins, Hot Coins, Raspberry), Orange Slices, Orangehead, Red Hots, Cinnamon Large, Sour Bug City, Sour Cherries, Sour Jacks, Spearmint Leaves, Spice Drops (Regular and Halloween), Starlight Mints (chocolate, peppermint, spearmint), Sugar Pellets

Foreign Candy Company
Skull Pop Suckers

Frito Lay
Cracker Jacks

FruitaBu
Stretch Island, FruitaBu

Ginger People
Ginger Chews

Hershey’s
Twizzlers, Jolly Ranchers

Just Born, Inc.
Mike and Ike, Hot Tamales, Goldenberg’s Original Peanut Chews, Teenee Beenee

Necco
Mary Jane’s (Peanut Butter and Regular), Taffy, Squirrel Nut Zippers

Perfetti Van Melle, Inc.
Airheads

Pez Candy, Inc.
Pez

Pure Fun Confections
Chocolate Meltdowns, Citrus Slices, Pure Pops, Mint Pinwheels, Fruit Pinwheels, Fruit Rocks, Barrels of Fun, Jaw Boulders

Sjaak’s
Dark chocolate (plain, almonds, extra dark, espresso) Almond Butter Bites, Peanut Butter Bites, Nuts and Chew Assortment, Vegan Truffles, Small Bites (Orange, Mint, Acai, Ginger, Caramel)

Sorbee
Crystal Light Candy, Fruit Flavors Candy, Starlight Mints, Butterscotch Lites, Chocolate Lites, Coffee Lites

Spangler Candy Company
Dum Dums, Saf-T-Pops

Sunkist
Fruit Gems

Surf Sweets
Fruity Bears, Gummy Swirls, Sour Worms

Topps Company, Inc.
Ring Pops, Bazooka Bubble Gum (not gum balls), Push Pops, Juicy Pops

Tootsie Roll
Dots, Charms (without gum), Cry Babies, Dubble Bubble, Fluffy Stuff Cotton Candy

Trader Joe’s
Organic Pops

Wonka
Sweet Tarts (non-gummy versions), Nerds, Runts, Bottle Caps, Gobstoppers, Laffy Taffy

The Wrigley Company
Hubba Bubba, Life Savers (non- gummy versions), Skittles (all, except “Crazy-Cores”), Big League Chew

Yummy Earth
Lollipops

No need to fret before Halloween! You now bear witness to the many, many vegan-ingredient sweets, and you too can supply the neighborhood children with handfuls of processed, sugary pancreatic work-outs if you so choose!

Oh, and Jelly Belly's are vegetarian, they're coated in a beeswax giving them their glossiness. They exclude other animal products including gelatin.
Unfortunately a commercial candy corn that is vegan does not exist...yet. Jelly Belly is the closest brand to being vegan, but still contains beeswax. So encourage Jelly Belly to Make Their Candy Corn Vegan! Go to http://mycusthelp.com/JELLYBELLY/supportcontact.asp?sSessionID= to send them a message via their online form encouraging Jelly Belly to drop the beeswax from their candy, so that everyone can enjoy!




Snacks

Bean dip (make sure it’s lard-free)
Cracker Jack
Fritos
Lance’s Toasty Crackers
Lay's Stax
Lay's WOW! potato chips
Microwave popcorn (minus the real butter flavor)
Munchos
Toasted Pumpkin Seeds, Peanuts, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews, Pistachios and other nuts
Pretzels
Salsa
Skittles’ Mints
Tostitos
Trail mix
Triscuits
Wheat Thins
etc.

Recipes & Ideas

Along with real pumpkin lanterns,
Bloodless Orange Fruit-Lanterns are a playfully unique addition to the edible decor.

After the junk food fun, here are the refreshing fruit salad lanterns with fun spoon stems for scooping up filling.

Ingredients

• Navel orange

• Canned or fresh fruit salad

Instructions

1. To make one lantern, use a small knife or pumpkin carving tool to slice the top off a navel orange and cut around its interior to hollow it out. Scoop out the orange segments, chop them, and mix them with fresh or canned fruit salad.

2. Carve small facial features in one side of the orange, then cut a slit in the lid to accommodate the handle of a green plastic spoon. Fill the lantern with fruit salad. Insert the spoon and set the lid in place.

Vegan Caramel Apples
-Vegan Caramel-
Ingredient proportions from The Glad Cow Cookbook
Makes ~100 pieces of caramel candy, will coat ~8-10 apples



1 cup margarine*
2 cups sugar
2 cups soy milk
1 cup light corn syrup
1 t vanilla
*Optional: Add 1 tsp salt if using unsalted margarine

-Line an 8 inch x 8 inch pan with parchment or cover a baking sheet with parchment and ready your apples and sticks. You can cover a few apples and then place the remaining caramel in any parchment lined container to set up and make candies. I use a loaf pan for the extra caramel when covering apples.

-Place the margarine, sugar, soy milk and corn syrup in a large saucepan (4qt capacity minimum)

-Bring ingredients to a boil stirring continually.

-Cook over medium-high heat while continuing to stir until candy reaches 248 degrees F. (243-5 for softer caramels)

-Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour into lined baking pan. If coating apples then let allow the caramel to cool for a minute while still stirring and then start coating. After you coat the apples place them in the fridge or eat them as soon as they cool.

-Allow the caramel in the pan to cool completely. Snip into pieces using clean kitchen shears that you wipe or spray with oil (or slice with a knife). Wrap individually with waxed or parchment paper. Makes ~100 pieces
Variation: Cook to 230 degrees F for caramel sauce for ice cream/cake. Store in a covered container.

Quick and Easy Pumpkin Scones Recipe

Originally posted by Jolinda Hackett on About.com

These moist gingered pumpkin scones will fill the kitchen with a wonderful aroma. If you like vegan scones, you might also want to try these vegan chocolate chip scones or this recipe for vegan cranberry lemon scones

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 3 tsp ginger powder
• 1/2 cup vegan margarine
• 2 cups pureed pumpkin

Preparation:

In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and ginger). Cut in vegan margarine, adding a bit at a time until mixed. Add pumpkin and combine well.

On a lightly floured surface, knead dough a few times, pushing it into a large circle, a few inches thick.

Cut into 12 or so triangular pieces. Imagine you are cutting a pizza so that you get even, triangular slices.

Bake at 425 degrees for 12-15 minutes, or until done.

enjoy!





To make cute Halloween "bento" buy "The Vegan Lunch Box" Here and another one here



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