Halloween Chocolate

96% of us are going to buy candy for Halloween.

The other 4% are going to make their own -- that's the only possible explanation. Here, then, are some recipes for making your own Halloween-type chocolates:

• Recreate favorite childhood candy bars with better quality ingredients.
• Scroll down on the page for creepy Eyeball Truffles.
• Chocolate Spiders
• Chocolate-Covered Toffee with Pumpkin Seeds
• Chocolate Slime is a Halloween take on Chocolate Fondue. If you want the childish, over-the-top feel of Trick or Treat, make Rice Krispy Treats to add to the fondue dipping items.
  

Now, the idea of Halloween-type chocolate here is that we're not going with elegant, healthy stuff (though the pumpkin seed toffee is good enough for grown ups), but seeking to recreate the childhood feel of running up to the door of the next house in the moonlight and discovering that they were giving out chocolate rather than the more common confections.

This might not be your idea of Halloween. Maybe you want something more elegant -- like the Halloween-themed Sweetique egg up there, with its filling of milk and dark chocolates with hazelnut.

Come back tomorrow for more serious party chocolate.