Vegan Halloween Ideas and Recipes

Now though, there is vegan everything, including tons of different types of vegan candy. Your kids can participate in the holiday and you can party with your adult friends.

One of my favorite stores for vegan goodies like candy is Vegan Essentials. They have everything under the sun, and for Halloween I love their lollipops, marshmallows, peanut brittle, hard candy, gelatin-free gummies, caramels, cotton candy, nougat bars, and toffee.

A mom gave me a good idea for trick-or-treating youngsters. What she does is buys a stockpile of vegan candy and then sifts through what her kids picked up that night and trades out vegan candy for non-vegan goods. Then she brings the non-vegan candy to work and lets the adults have at it. Love that idea!

Spooky Vegan Halloween Party Ideas:

• Chocolate cupcakes with orange icing
• Zombie Brain Jello Mold
• Sugar cookies in the shape of gravestones with each person's name on it
• Dried cranberries in a bowl labeled "dried scabs"
• Ghost sugar cookies, pumpkin sugar cookies, witch sugar cookies
• Red velvet cake with black witches' hat icing (red= blood!)
• Mini cupcakes with black cat frosting decoration
• Caramel apples
• Roasted pumpkin seeds

Vegan Halloween Recipe: Candy Corn

One of my favorite Halloween treats used to be candy corn, and now, thanks to (recipe from The Urban Housewife), I don't have to miss it anymore! This recipe takes a bit of time and arm muscle (for kneading), but comes out just like the real thing. You will end up with a LOT of candy corn, and they will usually be larger than store-bought ones.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup corn syrup (Wholesome Sweeteners)
• 5 tablespoons Earth Balance (or other vegan margarine)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/3 cup powdered soy milk (Better Than Milk available on Amazon)
• a pinch of sea salt
• Red & yellow food coloring (India Tree brand)

Directions:

In a large saucepan, bring the sugar, corn syrup, Earth Balance, and vanilla to a boil over high heat.

Reduce the heat to medium and boil the mixture for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. After 5 minutes, remove from heat.

In a separate bowl, sift together the powdered sugar, powdered soy milk, and salt.

Add the powdered sugar mixture to pan and stir to combine.

Let the mixture stand until slightly warm to touch, about 20 minutes.

Divide the dough into 3 equal pieces.

For this next step, you might want to put on rubber gloves or use plastic wrap in between your hand and the dough so you don't stain your hands. Add several drops of yellow food coloring to one piece of dough and knead food coloring into the dough until smooth and color is even. Repeat using red and yellow food coloring (for orange) with the second piece and leave the last piece white, but knead it until smooth, which might take up to 15 minutes.

Roll each piece into ropes of equal length (don't roll too thin or the dough will break) and push the three ropes together to form a long rectangle. You can use your rolling pin to slightly flatten out the ropes once they are together.

Using a sharp knife, cut the ropes into triangles. Some will be white tipped and some will be yellow tipped.

Shape the candy corn as desired. You can even make Mellowcreme Pumpkins by rolling into little balls or using a candy mold like a pumpkin ghost or witch ghost.

Have a spooky and fun vegan Halloween!

How Do You Celebrate Halloween as a Vegan?

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