Homemade Halloween Candy is a fun Halloween craft your kids can help with that they can also eat or gift. This easy recipe for Chocolate and Peanut Butter Candy will become a fun tradition for all ages.
Trick or Treat!! Here is an old favorite updated a bit as a festive Halloween treat. All you need are 4 ingredients to make this fun Halloween treat for your kids (or you!).
This is an easy enough recipe for the kids to help make. I look at it like a Halloween craft for kids that they can eat!! Gotta love that! Memories in the making. They taste like a Reese's Cup.
This homemade Chocolate and Peanut Butter Candy would be a great treat for your kids to help to make for their grandparents, neighbors, crossing guard, teachers etc. this Halloween 🙂
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Ingredients
- Orange-colored white chocolate melting disks
- Peanut butter
- Chocolate chips
- Heavy cream
Variations
- Swap the color of the white chocolate and do purple or whichever color you enjoy. Pink for Valentines Day etc.
- "Bedazzle" the top with small candies, sprinkles etc.
- Swap peanut butter for your favorite nut butter.
- Make as circles vs squares using a silicone mini cupcake pan.
- Make plain as show below, fun fact. I originally posted that recipe below in 2011. Pinterest began in 2010, shortly after I shared it, Oprah Pinned my recipe and things went crazy! In a good way 🙂
Tips
- I find this super easy to make in a silicone brownie pan, a mini tart pan or sometimes I make them as hearts in a pan like this.
- You have to allow the first layer of chocolate to set before adding the second layer, pop it in your fridge and wait a minimum of 30 minutes.
- After candy has cooled completely and set, just pop them out.
- Cold falls, so that means typically the coldest place in your refrigerator is the bottom shelf.
This year...my son who just turned 11 a few days ago (sniff, sniff) is going to be "scary" - it's a reaper kind of thing. From Star wars characters to a reaper...where has the time gone?
My daughter is going to be...wait for it...a Disco Zombie...WHAT?? The girl truly is nuts-o! I will have to share a pic later if the costume comes out like she plans!
Whatever you and your kids are doing (or dressing as for Halloween) or however you celebrate it. These fun homemade Halloween Candy treats are sure to be a hit! XO Colleen
Recipe originally posted October 2012, updated October 2024. Post contains Amazon affiliate links which means that if you purchase something I recommend using my link, I may receive a small commission,.
Halloween Party Recipes
Chocolate & Peanut Butter Candy
Ingredients
- 1 pound Wilton orange-colored white chocolate melting disks
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips or 12 ounces of chocolate
- ½ cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Melt your orange-colored white chocolate melting discs in your microwave for about a minute, stir until the chocolate is melted and creamy. Add in the peanut butter and stir until blended and smooth. Spread mixture into your pan.
- If using a traditional 9x9 pan, line your pan with parchment or waxed paper, leaving an overhang. However I recommend a silicone pan.
- If using a silicone pan filled with squares, place your melted mixture in a pastry bag or plastic baggie and fill each square a little more than halfway. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or until mostly firm.
- In a saucepan, combine your milk chocolate and your cream and heat over medium high heat until melted and smooth, stirring constantly. Pour/smooth over peanut butter mixture.
- *If using the silicone pan repeat above process for filing squares.
- Chill for at least 3 hours or overnight. Later, pop out the candy from the molds or lift out the candy and cut into small squares.
- Feel free to "bedazzle" these for Halloween or any holiday or any holiday. I made some with candy corn, candy hearts hearts, sprinkles, glitter and pumpkin candies.
- Put some parchment paper in a pretty box, type up the recipe on a cute and there you have it...a wonderfully tasty homemade gift.
The Frugal Exerciser says
Your site is so pretty. I'm lactose intolerant. What can I use instead of the heavy cream? Can I use whole lactose free milk?