This is my favoritest cookie Thursday of the year. This is the Thursday that I make homemade candies instead of cookies.

This is themed trick or treat because you never know if you are getting a trick or a treat.

In years past I made red hots, and sour patch kids, and itty brownie cauldrons with green frosting foam. I’ve made sea foam and, for the health conscious, I drew faces on clementines.

This month I only made 4 candies. I was going to candy Cheetos but I did not decide to make those in the last minute. It was a grave side decision. (joke)

I’ve made chocolate cracker toffee for Halloween and Christmas with various crackers and then I saw a recipe for cornflake chocolate toffee. After following the recipe I ended up with too much toffee and too little cornflakes. There is definitely something off about the proportions. Tasted good though. I wonder if I can make candy/cookies with grapenuts.

The next candy was just a tinted candy coating over a marshmallow. What made these fun is that the colors were that of candy corn. Cute but I’m not sure that large marshmallows are the way to go here.

A bit of a trick was the Monster muffins. These were green. Okay, these were spinach, banana, oat mini muffins. Of course I forgot to add the chocolate chip faces before I baked them. Cute, will do again, will add the chocolate chip faces next time.

The last candy I am the proudest of. Cookie Thursday is a Thing is about experimentation on my coworkers. This last one was definitely that. I was looking at buttermint candies, you know the ones, the ones that are served at weddings and baby showers. They can be molded or colored to match any theme. These are traditionally made with butter, powdered sugar, and peppermint oil/flavoring. Hence the buttermint. I wondered if another flavoring would work. And I just happened to have cinnamon oil. It totally works. These are sweet, but not too sweet, cinnamon bombs. I will definitely have to explore other extracts and have a little fun.

Cookie Thursday is a Thing Halloween Trick or Treat edition is over for the year.

What should I make next year?