Post Halloween Candy Dilemma, and Pumpkin Ice Cream Cake!

I haven't written in a while.

Things have been pretty tight lately as far as house funds go, so there haven't been any home improvement projects.

However.. I did make a super cute Pumpkin Cake for Halloween. It was not just any pumpkin cake... It was pumpkin shaped!!!

 I had such a fun time with this one, and it took waaaay less time than I thought it would!

Thats right... Chocolate Fudge Cake, with a Cookie and Cream Ice Cream core...

But thats not the only thing I made!!! We had a bunch of friends over on Halloween night so that we could go trick or treating without looking too creepy! Haha(we dont have kids yet). We also bought just enough candy for the number of kids that usually come through our neighborhood... The problem is that our friends that came over thought we wouldn't have enough... so they each brought a bag or two... meaning we had eight or so bags of candy left over!! Then to top it off, they didnt take their candy home!!! So what does a person do with all of that extra candy?? That person makes dessert out of them!! After eating all that I could, I made a bunch of it into a magic cookie bar-type thing!

 I used too many graham crackers... The recipe called for 1.5 cups, which was way more than I needed for a pan this small... and yet I convinced myself you couldn't ever have too much crust...

 So I used like.. 2.5 cups of crust instead!

In the end it was amazing anyway. 

Here is the typical recipe:

Magic Cookie Bars

1.5 cups crushed graham crackers

4 tbsp melted butter

1 can sweetened condensed milk

coconut, nuts, and chocolate chips

Melt the butter and combine it with the graham crackers.

Press mixture into bottom of 9X13 pan(oops mine was a 9"round pan!)

layer coconut, chocolate chips, and nuts on top
 and bake at 350 degrees for 30 ish minutes or until lightly browned.

Well first off... I did the whole crust thing. I made a super thick crust which would have been better if I had done it with chocolate graham crackers. Then instead of nuts, coconut, and chocolate chips, I layered on chopped up twix, crunch bars, almond joys, milk duds, and snickers.

This seriously alleviated me of about a quarter of the candy. I also gave about half the candy to a single friend of mine who didnt have kids to steal candy from. So this left me with only a couple of bags worth of candy... 

I think my belly can handle that!!

Time to hit the gym... mmmm nevermind, this twix looks amazing!

~S