What to Do with Leftover Halloween Candy That You Don't Want to Throw Away?

Come October, it's easy to find yourself with tons of extra candy between scary movie nights, trick-or-treating, and more. 

In fact, October is when we're all about that sugar high, but as the holiday approaches, our enthusiasm for our stash of candy reduces. And with that, what to do with leftover Halloween candy?

In light of this, we've compiled a list of alternatives for you to use your candies rather than throwing them away or giving them to friends and coworkers.

What should you do with leftover Halloween candy?

Halloween sweets are unavoidable this time of year. So let's check out some Halloween party food on a budget options on Amazon before moving on to some ideas for what to do with leftover Halloween candy.

Freeze Them For Later

Candy that is frozen and kept out of sight has a longer shelf life and lessens the temptation to eat it all the time. Thaw it out for snacks for a movie night or car journey, or for use as treats in goodie bags at birthday celebrations.

You may even "recycle" it by putting it in the deep freeze until the next Halloween or using it to build Easter baskets or piñatas for birthdays.

Donate Them

In recent years, Halloween candy donation alternatives have increased dramatically. But where should I give away my extra Halloween candy? The charities listed below are happy to receive contributions of sweets for charitable purposes!

Where to donate leftover Halloween candy?

• Treats for Troops: The program allows you to send sweets to someone serving in the military. Buyback allows kids to win rewards, and you receive a tax-deductible receipt for your contribution.

• Operation Shoebox: This organization will take candy donations; servicemen who are stationed away and unable to enjoy Halloween, Christmas, and Easter are given candy, regardless of their location. 

• Halloween Candy Buy Back: Through partnerships with businesses like dental clinics, this nonprofit exchanges healthy things like toothbrushes, hygiene kits, and vouchers for extra candy that your kids might be hoarding.

Halloween Candy Buy Back

• Ronald McDonald House Charities: Call your local chapter to find out whether you may donate your unopened Halloween candy for the enjoyment of chronically sick children and their families. As your children are out trick-or-treating, these families will appreciate receiving a taste of the holiday when it is brought to them when they are in need.

Bake Them Into Cookies

For the approaching holidays, there are a ton of inventive ways to incorporate Halloween candy into baked goods and other sweets.

For example, instead of using chips in your chocolate chip cookies, you may use your leftover chocolate candies. There will be much more taste in your cookies.

Use Halloween candy in your baking

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Stir Them Into Ice Cream

Whether it's vanilla, caramel, chocolate, or something else, take a pint of your favorite ice cream flavor and let it soften for 20 to 30 minutes, or until it's soft enough to mix.

Chop your chocolate bars, peanut butter candies, or Twix bars into pieces, then fold them in. Place your eerie surprise, wrapped in a plastic container or loaf pan, back in the freezer.

Fold Into Your Granola

Fold candy into your granola

When the granola is still warm from baking, stir in chopped peanut butter cups (or little ones), Hershey's kisses, or any other melty mini chocolate candy. After cooling, it will melt and then solidify as granola.

Stuff Your Christmas Stockings

Leftover candy is the perfect addition to stuff stockings for Christmas. Keep them safe and enclosed in an airtight container. 

After that, decide which sort of candy is everyone's favorite and cram it into their stockings for the holidays. You'll thank your December self for that.

Filled your Christmas stockings with candies

Invite the Switch Witch to Your House

Do you know the Switch Witch? It is like the Halloween version of Elf on the Shelf. 

Many young Switch Witches bid their parents farewell, board their flying cauldrons, and proceed to the kids for a playdate and extended stay at the beginning of October every year.

In the weeks leading up to Halloween, you get to act as your very own Switch Witch's kind host. Your Switch Witch will turn some of your leftover sweets into a surprise gift in exchange for an incredible visit.

Invite the Switch Witch to your house

Add Them to Gifts

Fun-sized chocolate bars are a great addition to any gift, particularly now that the holidays are quickly approaching. Therefore, you may embellish any scented candle or generic soap gift with a few bite-sized chocolates. The recipient will be overjoyed.

Use Them for a Fun Family Game Night

Use the candy as prizes or poker chips when you and your family play some fun games!  You can always get into the cabinet and steal their riches after they've gone to bed.

For a frightful Halloween night, do you need some game ideas? Check out the best board games for Halloween!

Use candies for a fun family game night