Pretzels and marshmallows are already a tasty combination of sweet and salty, but they're even better when paired with colorful candy and family time. Let your kids' imaginations run wild while customizing their own Halloween monster treats. Let them choose from a spread of different shapes and flavors of Halloween candy and cake frosting to bring their monster marshmallows to life.
Halloween Marsh-Monsters
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 25 min
- Ingredients 5
- Servings 8
Ingredients
- 8 thick pretzel rods
- 8 large marshmallows
- Candy corn, miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits, string licorice, Bugles® corn snacks, gummy peach rings, fruit snacks, candy sprinkles, as desired
- 1 container (1 lb) vanilla creamy ready-to-spread frosting
- Assorted food colors
Instructions
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Step1Gently push 1 pretzel into 1 flat side of each marshmallow; set aside. Plan and assemble decorations for each marshmallow.
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Step2In 1-cup microwavable measuring cup, microwave 1/2 cup frosting uncovered on High 10 to 20 seconds or until smooth and melted when stirred. Add 1 to 2 drops food color as desired--green for witches or Frankenstein, red for devils, yellow for pumpkins or cats.
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Step3Dip and decorate 1 marshmallow at a time. Hold pretzel, and dip marshmallow into frosting to coat all sides. Immediately add decorations to create features--candy corn for noses, baking bits for eyes, string licorice for whiskers. To make witch’s hat, push corn snack through center of peach ring. For devil’s or witch’s cape, use fruit snack cut in half crosswise at an angle; attach at base of marshmallow while frosting is soft. Set pretzels in drinking glass to dry before storing. Store in airtight container.
Nutrition
80
Calories
0g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
17g
Total Carbohydrate
4g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Snack (without frosting and decorations)
- Calories
- 80
- Calories from Fat
- 0
- Total Fat
- 0g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 0g
- 0%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 200mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 20mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 17g
- 6%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 4g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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