Hi friends! Happy Friday and Happy Halloween! What are your plans tonight? Are you taking the kiddos trick-or-treating or going to any parties? We’re having tacos here at the house with my brother and some friends, trick-or-treating around the neighborhood, and I’m counting down until I can decorate for Christmas.

We carved pumpkins and watched Coco last night:

It’s time for the weekly Friday Faves party. This is where I share some of my favorite finds from the week and around the web. I always love to hear about your faves, too, so please shout out something you’re loving in the comments section below.

10.31 Friday Faves

Fashion + beauty + random:

P’s 10th birthday! This little lady turned 10 this weekend and I can’t even believe. 10 hits hard! It feels like just yesterday that we were taking a hamburger piñata to the Kleigers’ in the middle of the night. (Her birth story part 1 is here and part 2 is here!)

She’s athletic, brilliant, kind, inquisitive, and silly. She asks great (and sometimes challenging!) questions, genuinely wants to help everyone, and is always down for a game of h-o-r-s-e, a family adventure, or a hike. She fills my heart and cracks me up every single day. Happy happy birthday, P Rose.

We celebrated in the morning with a party for

Easy Halloween Snack Board

You know we love a good snack board around here — especially one that brings the fun! This Halloween Snack Board is everything I want in a festive treat: easy to assemble, a little spooky, and full of sweet and savory bites that everyone will love.

Whether you’re throwing a big party or just making a fun after-school snack for the kids, this board is guaranteed to bring smiles (and maybe a few giggles).

Why We Love a Halloween Snack Board

The best thing about a snack board is that everyone can find at least one thing that they like! There are sweet and salty snacks, chewy and crunchy snacks, light healthy options and super indulgent options…everyone is happy!

For this Halloween charcuterie board, we like to keep it fun with kid-friendly Halloween treats. We include fun shapes, colorful candies, and bite-sized foods like pretzels, grapes, and cheese puffs. The kids love it!

The Best Ingredients for a Spooky Snack Board

We have most of these on our snack board pictured here, but it’s really open for whatever your friends and family will love!

Cheese: Wensleydale pumpkin spice cheese, string cheese “ghosts”

Deli Meats: salami or pepperoni rolled up

Salty Snacks: pretzels, crackers (I found some that are pumpkin shaped at Trader Joe’s), cheese puff balls or popcorn

Halloween Candy: candy corn and candy corn pumpkins, M&M’s, Reese’s pumpkins

Fresh Fruit: mandarin “pumpkins,” apple slices, green grapes

Dips: hummus, caramel, ranch

Olives: black olives or green olives

Sweet Snacks: yogurt-covered pretzels or cookies

Decorative Touches: googly eyes, candy bones and skulls, plastic spiders, festive sprinkles

How to Arrange a Snack Board

I’m sure professional charcuterie board masters will scoff at this, but I let the kids help me fill up our Halloween snack board and there’s no real rhyme or reason to it. I like to distribute the colors and textures around the board, but it honestly doesn’t matter. Once people start digging in, it all gets mixed anyway.

One thing to keep in mind when arranging a snack board is that fresh ingredients like fruit will release moisture and make crispy ingredients soggy over time. Also, refrigerated ingredients shouldn’t sit out at room temperature for more than 2 hours.

Add pops of orange and black, fun Halloween props, and themed treats…the kids loved creating this spread! My favorite addition to this board of easy Halloween snacks was this Wensleydale pumpkin spice cheese. Holy moly, it was delicious!

How to Make It Ahead or Store Leftovers

Most of the snack ideas for this board don’t need any prep at all…just open a bag and scatter on the tray. The ingredients that do need some prep can be

Sharing some festive ways to enjoy rice crispies this Halloween season!

With the spookiest day of the year just around the corner, I can feel the excitement in the air. Halloween isn’t just about costumes and pumpkins; it’s a fun time to bake up some tasty treats!

Today, I’m sharing a delightful Halloween Rice Krispie Treats recipe—a perfect blend of gooey, crispy goodness that will surely add a touch of magic to your Halloween festivities. Rice crispies are one of my all-time favorite treats; they’re gluten-free, SO delicious, easy to customize, and the kids love them.

Halloween Rice Krispie Treats Ideas

Spooky Shapes and Silhouettes

Transform your ordinary Rice Krispie Treats into Halloween-themed shapes. Use cookie cutters to mold them into ghosts, bats, or pumpkins. The kids will love getting involved in this creative process. For an extra eerie touch, add black food coloring to the mix.

How-to: Shape the freshly made Rice Krispie mixture with cookie cutters. Enhance the details with a piping bag filled with different colored icing.

Monster Mashup Madness

Unleash your imagination by turning your Rice Krispie Treats into a parade of friendly monsters. Use candy eyes, colorful icing, and various candies to create a variety of goofy, spooky, or silly monsters. It’s a fun way to get creative and like a little art project for the kiddos.

How-to: Decorate each treat with candy eyes, colored icing for features, and candies for added texture. Make each monster unique for a vibrant and playful Halloween treat.

Haunted Graveyard Delight

Take your Halloween Rice Krispie Treats to the next level by turning them into a haunted graveyard scene. Use crushed chocolate cookies for “dirt,” gummy worms for added spookiness, and small tombstone-shaped cookies for decoration.

How-to: Assemble the graveyard by placing tombstone cookies and gummy worms on top of the Rice Krispie surface. Dust with crushed cookies for a graveyard-inspired look.

Halloween Rice Krispie Treats Recipe

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 package

Halloween Peanut Butter Blondies

Peanut butter blondies that are loaded with Reese’s pieces, peanut butter chips, chocolate chips and Oreos. Yes, you read that correctly! These are fully loaded!

I have refused to post Halloween desserts for years. I am not creative, and I don’t do cute. And I mostly am not at all artistic. Halloween kinda needs all of that. But lately I’ve been all about the mixups of ingredients and I couldn’t help but wonder, could a cute Halloween treat be made just by throwing a lot of goodies into blonde brownies?

Ahhh but there’s the issue, blonde brownies are kind of the worst lately. I think there are far too many recipes out there and the majority are dry. I hate that! Sink-your-teeth-into-them blonde brownies is how they should be. So, until I’m ready to post our favorite blonde brownies I thought I’d start with a peanut butter version. It took many attempts, but these are the best blonde brownies I’ve had and bonus that they not only are peanut butter blonde brownies but they are loaded with Reese’s Pieces, peanut butter chips (my personal favorite part), chocolate chips and Oreos!

On top look for Halloween sprinkles that will pop. I went for a version with purple and green in them so that it was extra colorful and fun. 

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