Congratulations to our Halloween Celebration Ideas Contest Winner, Peggy! Peggy shared a scary and delicious-sounding recipe for Peanut Butter Eyeballs, and she'll be getting a $100 Ukrop's Gift Card. Here is Peggy's special recipe:

Halloween is one of my very favorite holidays!  I love decorating inside and outside our home and I really enjoy making special treats for our family and friends who visit us on Halloween evening.  One of our spooky, and easy, favorites are Peanut Butter Eyeballs. 

Peanut Butter Eyeballs

1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
3 Tbsps. softened butter
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
6 oz. white chocolate candy coating
1 small bag m&m's
Red decorator frosting.

In a bowl with a mixer, blend peanut butter and butter until creamy. Add powdered sugar and vanilla and continue beating until mixture forms a thick cookie dough. Using a spoon, scoop out balls of peanut butter candy and roll between your palms to make them as round as possible. Place them on the cookie sheet and put them in refrigerator or freezer for at least 30 minutes.

In a separate bowl, melt the white chocolate coating in the microwave by heating 1 minutea at a time. Stir after every minute until it is smooth throughout. Use two forks to dip the peanut butter balls into the chocolate coating.
While the chocolate is still wet, press an m&m into the center for the iris. Return the eyes to the refrigerator to harden. Use red decorator frosting to make squiggly blood vessels.

The eyeballs look really scary and taste delicious. Happy Halloween!!


Here are two more of our favorite entries. Thanks to everyone who participated. It was definitely hard to pick a winner, with all of the great ideas our readers shared. Keep your eyes out for more fun contests coming soon!

This recipe from Martha sounded delicious and totally unique.

"I made these for my 2 granddaughters and their 3 friends."

Tricky Turnover Treats
Serves: 5

1/2 lb. ground beef
1/4 cup minced onion
1/4 cup French's prepared yellow mustard
4 oz. mozzarella cheese, cut into cubes
2 8-oz. cans buttermilk biscuits
1 egg

Prehat oven to 350 degrees. Brown ground beef in skillet. Stir in onion,  yellow mustard and mozzarella cubes. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until cheese melts. 

Using a rolling pin, roll each biscuit into a 3-inch circle. Spoon ground-beef filling onto first 10 biscuits. Cut jack-o-lantern faces into remaining 10 biscuits and place over ground beef mixture, pressing edges of dough together to seal. To make stems for pumpkins, use the pieces of dough that were left from the face cut-outs.  Place on ungreased baking sheet; brush with slightly beaten egg.  Bake for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown.

Our other favorite came from Elizabeth, and it was a fun idea for pulling neighbors and friends into the Halloween spirit.

"One of our favorite family activities during the month of October has been to 'haunt' our friends and neighbors by leaving a plate or tin of homemade pumpkin-shaped cookies on their porch, ringing the doorbell and running.  We include a paper with a figure of a cute ghost, and an anonymous note that instructs them to leave the ghost in a window so that other neighbors know they've already been haunted.  We also leave an extra note and ghost for them to use if they want to haunt someone else in turn.  It was great fun seeing all the ghosts go up in the windows of the neighborhood and know the fun was being passed on."