Last-minute tips for the best homemade Halloween treats

If you are looking for something to do with your kids or want to surprise your friends with a Halloween delight, you've come to the right place! Click on for some inspiring Halloween treat ideas!!

Bake up a batch of your favorite brownies, either from a box or from scratch. While they are in the oven, use a food marker with edible ink to add ghost faces to a dozen marshmallows. When the brownies are hot and fresh out of the oven, stick the marshmallows on top, and you are done!!

Pick up a few Halloween-themed cookie cutters at the dollar store, grab your favorite sugar cookie recipe and get cooking! If you have little ones get them involved in the fun, especially the decorating!

Buy or make two dozen chocolate cookies. Fill them with chocolate icing and poke some slivered almonds in for some creepy teeth. Next spread some icing on the top of the cookies, and add sprinkles for "hair." Stick on two M&Ms for eyes, and enjoy your monster cookies!

Even though it is Halloween we still need to eat our fruit and veggies! Peel some mandarins and cut up some celery sticks. Poke the celery sticks into the middle of the mandarins and then you will have the most adorable little pumpkins to snack on.

If you aren't a fan of baking, just pick up a box of your favorite donuts, some candy eyes, and some fondant! Stick the eyes on and make the mouth and some vampire wings out of fondant. You will impress your friends and you don't even have to turn on the oven!

Another recipe for those who don't bake! Buy a bag of marshmallows and pick up an edible ink cake decorating marker. Draw some spooky faces on the marshmallows. These are very simple but the kids will love them!

Make your favorite dip and add a little green food coloring to make it spookier. Peel some carrots and shape them to look like fingers. Make an indentation with your knife where the fingernails go. Press on some peeled almond halves to look like fingernails, and use a little dip as "glue" if need be. Then, make the canapes that look like eyeballs by spreading some cream cheese on round crackers and placing sliced olives in the middle. This dish is healthy and creepy!

Pick up a gingerbread house kit from the Christmas section (stores usually start stocking Christmas stuff right around Halloween). Prepare or buy some Halloween-colored frosting and buy some Halloween candy. Then build and decorate a spooky Haunted House!

This is a classic Halloween treat! If you love to cook, look up a recipe to make the candy or caramel to dip your apples in. Or you can go the easy route and buy a prepared mix. Either way, candy or caramel apples are fun to make and sooo delicious!

Whip up a few dozen of your favorite cupcakes and then make some orange and chocolate frosting. Once the cupcakes are frosted, top them with some paper Halloween decorations, which you can either buy or easily make yourself.

Pick up a bat-shaped cookie cutter and you can turn your favorite roll-out chocolate cookie dough into Halloween cookies! Prepare the dough, cut out the cookies, bake and decorate!

If you are hosting a Halloween party impress your kids with this Halloween punch! Pour some berry-flavored juice into a big bowl, add a bag of mixed frozen berries, some candy eyeballs, and a few pieces of licorice as snakes. And that's it a creepy witch's brew!

This is another Halloween classic! Prepare your favorite kind of shortbread cookie dough. Shape the dough into fingers. Chill for 1 hour in the fridge. Bake and allow to cool. Add red decorating gel for blood and peeled almonds for the nails, which you can attach with the "blood." Enjoy freaking out little kids by offering them witch fingers!!

Yes, this looks horribly, nasty! But your kids will probably love making and eating a Kitty Litter Cake! There are loads of recipes on the internet for this chocolate, pudding, and cookie-filled cake recipe, so why not try one out?

Finally, since we know that after trick or treating the kids will not be eating anything healthy at all, why not give them a nutritious supper? Whip up a pumpkin soup to get them into the Halloween spirit and keep them warm while they walk the neighborhood on Halloween eve!