Halloween really is my favorite holiday of the year. Most people, Christian’s at least, tend to love Christmas, and of course I agree that is a beautiful holiday. But I love the draw of Halloween. You get to dress up like someone else and be completely different for one whole day. You can be silly or scary and you get CANDY! Wow, what an awesome holiday, huh? Plus the decorations are really fun.
So I was searching last night for Halloween costumes for my boys. Matthew wants to be a pirate and instead of buying a pirate costume I thought maybe I would “make” one for him. I don’t really want to sew much, but I think I could do this project almost completely without sewing. And I found a great pirate costume on DIY network. But as I was searching I also found a few other great Halloween GFCF treats that I wanted to share with you.
Martha Stewart and her employees are extremely creative and I marvel at all the cool things they come up with.
Here is my new favorite – Invisible Lollipops I plan to make them this year!
Martha also had a great idea to make Meringue bones. These look simple and really good. Naturally GFCF, so there are no substitutions to make. Take a look and see if you would want to make these for your family this year, I know I would.
And while you are at it take a look at her Spideweb Eggs. If you children like hardboilded eggs (Nico loves them) these would be wonderful for a spooky Halloween snack. I love the idea.
Another really great treat that you could send to school is Chex Mix. I made a batch of GFCF Chex mix for Matthew’s birthday party last year and it was a HUGE success. I found two great Chex Mix recipes that should be easy to convert to GFCF:
The Cookie Pizza just make sure you use GFCF “butter” – I like Earth Balance. Also, Rice Chex are GFCF but if you use another type or multiple types of Chex mix verify they are also GFCF. Use Tropical Source GFCF chocolate chips OR go bitter sweet instead of semisweet and you should be OK. I like bitter sweet Ghirardelli chocolate. And Lastly I’d suggest using Frutabu Fruit leathers because they are GFCF and organic.
They also have Caramelized Crispy Chex Mix which is easy to doctor up and make your own. Because I was unsure of the Corn Chex Mix called for I used Gorilla Munch cereal instead. And because I was doing it on the fly, I didn’t have enough of either cereal so I added Gluteno Pretzels and Perky O’s (GFCF Cheerio type cereal). This gave it a nice texture and made it even more interesting. I also skipped the candy pieces since I couldn’t find a good GFCF brand. And of course I used GFCF butter such as Earth Balance. It was so good I ended up needing to make 2 batches because we ate most of the first batch before the party.
Of Course you can not forget about Rice Krispie Treats. It is 3 Tbs of GFCF “butter” like Earth Balance, 1 bag package of GFCF marshmallows or your homemade fresh marshmallows, and 6 cups of GFCF crispy rice cereal (Rice Krispies are NOT GFCF). Melt the “butter” and marshmallows in a very large bowl in the microwave for 1 – 2 mins. Stir to combine mixture. Add rice cereal and mix to coat. Pour into a “buttered” dish or out onto parchment paper. Let it set up and cut. There are lots of variations of this that are easily adapted to the GFCF life. Just play around with your favorite recipe or hope over to the Rice Krispies website and see what you can come up with.
I hope some of these are recipes you can use this year. I know we are all so busy, but maybe these will make Halloween a little sweeter for your GFCF family this year. 
