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Halloween is near and the Halloween recipe are starting to flow again! I love it and I love this fun pizza dip that has the perfect Halloween theme!

This particular recipe is for a small serving but you could double or triple this recipe and put it in a pie dish for a party!

Perfect for dipping with pretzels, pretzel crisps, naan bread and cheese wisps.

Why You Should Make this Nightmare Before Christmas Pizza Dip…

• great dip for Halloween parties’
• perfect for any Nightmare Before Christmas lovers

QUICK GLANCE AT INGREDIENTS for Halloween Nightmare Before Christmas Pizza Dip :

• pizza sauce
• pepperonis
• ricotta cheese
• black olives

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How to make Nightmare Before Christmas Pizza Dip :

Frequently Asked Questions

More Nightmare Before Christmas Recipes:

• JACK SKELLINGTON CHOCOLATE APPLES – CHOCOLATE COVERED APPLES
• JACK SKELLINGTON OREO POPS
• JACK SKELLINGTON MACARONS

Nightmare Before Christmas Pizza Dip

Nightmare Before Christmas Pizza Dip

Yield: 4 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Pizza sauce, pepperoni, ricotta cheese and black olives make up this fun Nightmare Before Christmas Pizza Dip for Halloween or anytime of year!

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Ingredients

• 3 cups pizza sauce
• 10 pepperonis
• 2 cups ricotta cheese
• 3 black olives; for the face

Instructions

Warm spaghetti sauce for 2 minutes in the microwave. Place it at the bottom of a medium bowl.

Chop up pepperoni and add in diced pepperonis.

Warm ricotta cheese in the microwave for 2 1/2 minutes. Spoon ricotta into bowl and smooth out the top.

Cut one olive in half to make the eyes for Jack. Slice the rest of the second and third olive to make the mouth and nose.

Serve warm

Notes

Great served with pretzels, naan, bagels chips or breadsticks

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Nightmare before Christmas has always been one of my favorite movies and I’m in LOVE with this Halloween table set from Target this year!

This Nightmare Before Christmas Dinning Set has 16-pieces and it is enough for four complete place settings. The entire dish set comes with a total of 4 dinner plates, 4 salad plates, 4 soup bowls, and 4 mugs.

It is the perfect dishware for anyone that loves Nightmare Before Christmas or loves Halloween. How perfect would this be for a Halloween Dinner Party!

Nightmare Before Christmas dinning set

You can find this Nightmare Before Christmas Dinning Set on the Target site for only $99.99!

Target’s site says that this set is, “…. is perfect for Halloween dinner parties, Tim Burton movie marathons, romantic get-togethers, and everyday spookiness.”

Specifications

• Number of Pieces: 16
• Dimensions (Overall): 1.0 inches (H) x 10.5 inches (W)
• Piece 1: 10.5 inches (W) x 1.0 inches (H), Capacity 6 ounces
• Piece 2: 7.5 inches (W) x 1.0 inches (H), Capacity 2.25 ounces
• Material: Cerami

On the website it does say that these dishes are NOT microwave or dishwasher safe which kinda stinks BUT I might be willing to deal with that for these dishes!

Halloween Dinner Recipes to serve on these plates:

Dinner Ideas to Serve on Nightmare before Christmas Plates

Looking for some recipe ideas for a Halloween dinner ? These meals would looks great on these Nightmare Before Christmas plates

1

Monster Meatball Sliders

These savory little Monster Meatball Sliders are perfect for kids and customizable for everyone’s taste buds!

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2

Eyeball Pasta

This fun spooky Halloween Eyeball Pasta dinner is easy to make and kids love it! It’s the perfect way to fill up their bellies before heading out to events!!

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3

Meatball Mummies

Meatball Mummies are a fun twist on the hot dog mummies we’ve all seen so many times!

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4

Buffalo Meatball Pumpkins

Buffalo Meatball Pumpkins are the perfect little appetizers for your Halloween party or your next Halloween themed dinner! They’re easy to make and super tasty! 

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5

Crescent Roll Mummy Dogs

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This Crescent Roll Mummy Dogs treat is a super easy savory Halloween treat! You’ll need hot dogs and crescent rolls plus whatever you want to use as mummy hot dog eyes! 

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6

Halloween Feetloaf

Halloween Feetloaf – as in a delicious meatloaf crafted to look like a pair of feet. Perfect creepy dinner for Halloween!

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You could also serve up this Halloween Monster Soup in those cute soup bowls and perhaps even a mug of this Melting Ghost Hot Chocolate in the mugs!

Or if you want to match the treats to the theme you can make these:

Nightmare Before Christmas Recipes

Nightmare Before Christmas Recipes for a Nightmare Before Christmas Recipes Party!

1

Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball

In love with The Nightmare Before Christmas and Dessert? Well this Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball is for you! The Pumpkin King is transformed into a frightfully tasty cheese ball for the perfect Halloween party treat!

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2

Jack Skellington Macarons

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3

Jack Skellington Rice Krispie Treats

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4

Jack Skellington Chocolate Apples - Chocolate Covered Apples

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5

Jack Skellington Oreo Pops

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6

Jack Skellington Cake Pop Tutorial

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“This post/recipe originally appeared on my main blog BigBearsWife.com for  #HalloweenTreatsWeek”

This post/recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are 100% mine.

There is no doubt that I love The Nightmare Before Christmas. I am a Halloween loving girl and Jack Skellington with his crew of spooky HalloweenTown friends make my spooky heart flutter! So, when it comes to making Halloween desserts and Halloween treats,  also make sure to include him!

On my blog other, BigBearsWife.com, you can find Jack Skellington Macarons, Jack Skellington Rice Krispie Treats, Jack Skellington Dipped Oreos,   Jack Skellington Chocolate Apples and now this amazing Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball!

What you need for a Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball:

• cream cheese, softened
• butter, softened
• powdered sugar
• mini chocolate chips
• vanilla extract
• sweetened shredded coconut
• Chocolate Candy Melts

How to keep the cheese ball shape:

While the cheese ball is in the fridge chilling it can loose its shape if you don’t wrap it, but I like to go a step further and make sure it really keeps the shape by sitting it down into a bowl.

So, once your cheese ball mixture is ready to go into the fridge, lay a piece of plastic wrap on a flat surface and spoon mixture into the center.

Roll and fold cheese ball into a  ball, wrapping it in the plastic wrap. Place into a bowl to help it hold its shape.

Place wrapped ball into the refrigerator for at least 2 hours (or overnight)

What to cover the cheese ball in:

I choose shredded coconut for this  Cheese Ball but you could also try covering it in white chocolate chips instead!

When you’re ready to serve, just remove cheese ball from fridge and remove plastic wrap.

Place on serving place and cover in shredded coconut.

Melt Chocolate Candy Melts according to package.

Let cool slightly and pour into a piping bag.

Snip a very small hole at the end of the piping bag and use the candy melts to draw Jack’s face onto the cheese ball.

What to serve with the Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball:

You can really serve anything you want with this dessert l but I picked out these bone shaped graham crackers and they were perfect! I mean they go perfect with the “Bone Daddy” dessert haha.

I just dipped them in the chocolate candy melts and then drizzled them with some white chocolate candy melts to make them match Jack!

I love how this dessert turned out and I know he will be making an appearance at out Halloween dinner party this year!

Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball

Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball

Yield: 24 servings

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Chill Time: 6 hours

Total Time: 6 hours 15 minutes

In love with The Nightmare Before Christmas and Dessert? Well this Jack Skellington Dessert Cheese Ball is for you! The Pumpkin King is transformed into a frightfully tasty cheese ball for the perfect Halloween party treat!

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Ingredients

• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut
• 6 ounces Chocolate Candy Melts

Instructions

In a large bowl, use an electric mixer and mix together cream cheese and butter until smooth

Mix in powdered sugar! Mix well.

Add in vanilla and add 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips. Mix Well

Lay a piece of plastic wrap on a flat surface and spoon mixture into the center.

Roll and fold into a ball, wrapping it in the plastic wrap. Place into a bowl to help it hold its shape.

Place wrapped ball into the refrigerator for at least 2 hours (or overnight)

When ready to serve remove cheese ball from fridge and remove plastic wrap.

Place on serving place and cover in shredded coconut.

Melt Chocolate Candy Melts according to package.

Let cool slightly and pour into a piping bag.

Snip a very small hole at the end of the piping bag and use the candy melts to draw Jack's face onto the cheese ball.

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If you’ve read my food blog, BigBearsWife.com you have probably noticed that when Halloween comes around, there is a bit of a Nightmare Before Christmas theme happening! I mean after all I did make Jack Skellington Apples, I’ve made Jack Skellington Oreos, I’ve decorated the house in a The Nightmare Before Christmas theme and our pumpkins have even been carved as Jack and Sally before!

So what else did I need to add the “Nightmare Before Christmas” touches to the house? Why I needed Sally’s Potion Bottles of course!

Sally uses these potions when she makes soup for Dr. Finkelstein in the movie! The Deadly Night Shade puts him to sleep so that she can sneak out

Now I’ve got my own Worms Wort, Frog’s Breath, and Deadly Night Shade! Oh did you want your own bottles too? Good! I’ll show you how I made mine!

Stick the label onto the first bottle!

Let dry!

Repeat these steps for the other two bottles!

Ahhh they’re just perfect for my coffee table, don’t you think?!!

Worms Wort!!!

and Frog’s Breath….. there’s nothing more suspicious than Frog’s Breath!

Oh and what completes the display of Sally’s Potion Bottles? Why it’s Sally’s spoon! In the movie, Sally used a spoon with holes in it to “taste” the soup to show Dr. Finkelstein that she didn’t poison it! Haha little does he know that she’s using the spoon with holes for the taste test!

How to Make Sally’s Potion Bottles from The Nightmare Before Christmas  – Worms Wort, Frog’s Breath and Deadly Night Shade

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Boys and Girls of every age

Won’t you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This our town of Halloween!

I love “The Nightmare Before Christmas” so I am so excited to share Karyn’s post and tutorial for these cake pops!! – Angie, Southern Halloween Queen

I can’t believe “The Nightmare Before Christmas” came out in 1993. 1993!! I was 17 and just graduating from High School in 1993. It took me until 2011, when I finally bought the movie for my daughter, for me to watch it. Now, it’s one of our favorite movies. We have the CD and sing along in the car. Sometimes my Little Cup is actually with me… Other times, well, I guess I just like to sing in the car.

Anyway, I know that Jack Skellington cake pops have been done over and over, but when I found some craft tape, I thought about dressing him up in his black pinstripe suit! Voila! Jack is complete!

JACK SKELLINGTON CAKE POP TUTORIAL

DRESS UP JACK

To make decorated sticks, find some fun black and white striped washi tape at the craft store. Roll out some tape and lay the stick on it leaving 3/4 to 1 inch empty at the top. This is where your cake pop will go.

hen cut the tape at the bottom and just roll the tape around the lollipop stick. EASY!

To give him a diagonal design, start the tape at a 45 degree angle and wrap it. The more severe the angle, the less overlap of the tape you will have.

Once your sticks are dressed up, make your cake pops.

DRAW ON JACK’S FACE

To draw on Jack’s face, I first used my Cookie Icing. This stuff is SOOOOO much better than food coloring pens. Yes, it’s a bit more difficult to work with, but the results are way better! Pour out a small amount onto some wax paper and use a toothpick to draw on the features.

Odd shaped eyes that are fuller on the bottom, two slits for a nose and a stitched up mouth.

The Cookie Icing is “liquid” and it does pool your design. I had to drag my toothpick across his stitch marks a few times because it would pull back to the mouth. In the end, I loved the high gloss and shine of his features.

Then I tried to make his face with black candy melts in a baggie.

I snipped off a small corner and then piped on his face.

It gave a more 3-D design, but I felt that the black dried a bit dull.

Finally, to finish him off, he needed his over-sized bow tie.

I folded over the tape, leaving a 1/2 inch overhang and cut the design out. I kind of pinched the end with the overhanging sticky part and used that to attach it to the stick. Then repeat for the other side of the bow tie.

If you want to get really fancy, add in the bat face to the center.

There you have it! Your Jack Skellington Cake Pops! Your little Ghouls and Goblins are going to fall in love with Jack all over again!

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Kayrn blogs at Pint Sized Baker where she loves making fun, quick, and semi-homemade treats and also likes pushing her baking skills and really enjoys the rewards of fresh bread, pastries, and pies.

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If you know me at all you KNOW that I LOVE the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas“. I mean I really, really love it. I actually watch it at least twice a week. I have my tablet set up in the kitchen with speakers and that movie is on while I’m baking and cooking (I switch between that and Alice in Wonderland). It’s my “cooking movie” haha.

I don’t know why I love it so much, but I just do. Side note — if you want to win my heart forever, get me or make me a The Nightmare Before Christmas birthday cake! Really, that’s how much I love it. haha. It probably goes hand in hand with my love of Halloween.

Speaking of Halloween, it’s almost here!!! Only a few more days! So I’ve got something special for you! Amazingly super easy, Jack Skellington Oreo Pops!! Jack Skellington, please tell me that you know who Jack Skellington is! If you don’t I just don’t feel like we can be friends….

If you need a refresher, Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King! He’s the main character in “The Nightmare Before Christmas” aka the best movie ever. OK well maybe not the BEST movie ever but it’s on up there for me.

Last year Karyn from Pint Sized Baker made these Jack Skellington Cake Pops and I just loved them! I wanted to make them for our Halloween Party this year and wanted to make a batch for #SundaySupper but since I was being lazy  am being super awesome on my Clean Eating Challenge, I thought that having a bunch of cake pops around wasn’t such a good idea. Humm… what else is round? The dang Halloween Oreos that I’ve been eyeing on the top of my refrigerator haha.

Those will work! So with inspiration from my favorite movie and Karyn from Pint Sized Baker, I give you Jack Skellington Oreo Pops!!

Happy Haunting! Check out all of the spooky Halloween recipes and crafts on this website!!

Jack Skellington Oreo Pops

UPDATE! I know a lot of people are having trouble with the Wilton markers, they use to work wonders but the past few packs I’ve bought have been dried out. I recently switched to these AmeriColor Black Edible Markers and I love them!

You should be able to find the Americolor pens at Hobby Lobby, Michael’s and maybe even Walmart.

Another Tip! My Friend Kayrn made Jack Cake pops and she used Black Cookie Icing for her faces! That might work here too!

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It’s no secret that this time of year is my favorite! I know you’ve seen the Halloween posts around here lately and last year I even shared some of my “Witch Themed” decorations at the house!

This year I did things a little differently and decided that I wanted to do a “Nightmare Before Christmas” theme at the house for Halloween!

If you don’t know about the Nightmare Before Christmas you are totally missing out! It’s just awesome and it’s pretty much my favorite movie!

I just can’t get enough of Jack Skellington and his spooky friends from Halloween town!

Even my niece and god-daughters know that it’s my “cooking movie”! haha I have a little stand in my kitchen that holds my tablet and when I’m cooking or developing recipes I always have this movie on in the background. ALWAYS! lol

Oh and there on the left, that’s Oogie Boogie from the movie! He’s hanging out in the dining room/kitchen for now.. probably whipping up a batch of snake and spider stew.  

It’s just black card stock that I cut out into shapes but I love it!

I also made a Nightmare Before Christmas wreath for the front door.  I’m thinking about giving the wreath it’s own post and showing you all what I used to make it but I’m not sure yet. What do you think? Should I make another post dedicated to the Nightmare Before Christmas deco mesh wreath that I made?

Here is the whole wreath that’s on the front door.

I made Jack out of dura foam styrofoam type balls and just drew his face on with a black sharpie. I went with the black, green and purple color scheme for Halloween and threw in a few pumpkins for “The Pumpkin King”.

I also added a little Christmas tree to represent the “Christmas” part of the movie! haha

Oh and I did make some “potion” bottles from the movie as well to decorate the coffee table in the living room! I wrote a post on how I make Sally’s potion bottles here. 

Now onto these apples! haha!

These apples came about because,  #1 I love the movie and #2 because I love the Jack Skellington Chocolate Apples that Disney makes every year for Halloween! After all, not only am I obsessed with Jack, I’m also obsessed with Disney!

I sat my apples on opened cupcake wrappers but you don’t have to do that

 Jack Skellington Chocolate Apples – Chocolate Covered Apples

 

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“The Nightmare Before Christmas” is one of my favorite movies and I love this Jack inspired treat- Angie, Southern Halloween Queen

Do you know how many people sent me baby themed Nightmare Before Christmas ideas when I was pregnant with Jax and how many people still do? haha It’s a lot, and I love them all. Someone even sent me a few pictures for a Nightmare Before Christmas / Jack Skellington nursery that they had seen online!

No, even though I love Jack Skellington and The Nightmare Before Christmas we did not go with the Jack Skellington nursery for the baby. We went with a Dumbo theme but that doesn’t mean that I won’t be dressing our little one up like Jack Skellington one day! haha

One of my best friends had her little girl 3 days before I had Jax and she suggested that one Halloween we dress our kiddos up as Jack and Sally! haha I’m totally for that!

So you know I couldn’t let Halloween get close without making some kind if Jack Skellington dessert right?!? I mean, I already have quite a few Jack Skellington desserts on the blog for Halloween but I needed another.

I’m thinking that maybe I’ll make it a tradition to share 1 new Jack Skellington recipe with y’all ever Halloween!

So far I have these Jack Skellington desserts on the blog:

• Jack Skellington Macarons
• Jack Skellington Chocolate Apples
• Jack Skellington Oreo Pops

I also have a tutorial on how to make Sally’s Potion Bottles !

So let me tell you something about these Jack Skellington faces on these Jack Skellington Rice Krispie Treats.  Look at this photo above, that face was drawn on with a black edible marker.

The other faces that you see on the other Jack Skellington Rice Krispie Treats were drawn on with chocolate candy melts.

I tried the black edible marker first. It looked pretty good but it wasn’t as dark as I wanted. It also had trouble writing after I was painting the 3rd one. So If you want to use the edible marker you may want to get a few of them.

So I went with the second option for the rest of them. I used Chocolate candy melts to pipe Jack Skellington faces onto the Jack Skellington Rice Krispie Treats and I loved how they turned out.

I used regular chocolate because that’s just what I had but you could also use the black candy melts that you can get from the hobby stores. Either one will work perfectly!

Also, I first made these with just the tops covered in white chocolate and I just didn’t like the way they looked.  That’s why I just went ahead and dipped the entire circle into the white chocolate. Plus, I think I’ve told y’all this before, but if not, I LOVE chocolate covered rice krispie treats haha.

Chocolate covered rice krispie treats are like heaven to me. haha

Here are a few other Chocolate Dipped rice krispie treats on the blog:

• Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse Rice Krispie Treats 
• Frankenstein Rice Krispie Treats
• Mickey Pumpkin Marshmallow Cereal Treats

Jack Skellington Rice Krispie Treats

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Angie runs this blog, “Southern Halloween Queen” where she shares her love of Halloween with her own recipes and fun recipes/projects from other Halloween loving bloggers! She also runs her first blog, BigBearsWife.com that’s packed full of Southern recipes, her love of Disney and fun vacation ideas! 

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Well this week has been all about Disney Halloween treats and crafts on BigBearsWife.com this week! Well, that’s mainly because Thomas and I are celebrating Halloween a little early this year down here at Disney World!!

Well we were.

We are back home now.

We spent 3 wonderful days down in Disney World but Hurricane Matthew drove us back up north.  We were supposed to go to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween party last night but when were were supposed to be at the party we were half way home to Virginia trying to beat the storm. They cancelled the Halloween party at Disney and closed the parks today. We were supposed to be there until Saturday but with the Hurricane on it’s way, with sad hearts, we packed our bags and cut our trip short.

So no Halloween Party this year, which broke my heart, but Thankfully we made it out of Orlando safe and sound!

Today I was supposed to tell you how amazing our night was at the Halloween Party. I was supposed to be able to tell you how I met Jack and Sally in the Magic Kingdom and how we had the best time. I was suppose to be able to tell you about how amazing the parade was and how the Hocus Pocus show blew me away. But those things just didn’t get to happen.  I am so grateful that we were able to make it make home safe with everyone that was evacuating  but I still have to say that I’m pretty sad about it.

You know how much it meant to me to be at Disney for our first Halloween celebration.

However, I’m trying to keep my head up. I’m trying to just remind myself that we are safe and that’s what’s important. We can always try again next year.

So, to mend my broken heart, I’m going to share something super special because I couldn’t have a Disney Halloween themed week on the blog without Jack Skellington!!

Monday we started the week off with Mickey Pumpkin Marshmallow Cereal Treats.

Wednesday I taught y’all how to make Halloween Mouse Ears with my DIY Ursula Mouse Ears Tutorial.

Today I’ve got Jack Skellington Macarons for you!!

Thomas and I were sitting around the other night trying to think of something for me to make for the last “Disney Themed” treat for this week and I was scrolling through my Jack Skellington Oreos Pops when the idea hit me.

I knew I had to make something with Jack but needed to make some type of round treat in order for that to work. After looking at my Oreo pops I thought of macarons!

I love macarons and I knew that they would be perfect little Jack Skellington desserts! There was only one problem. I had never made macrons and I was scared.

I had eaten quite a few macarons haha but I had never attempted them. I had heard horror stories about people making them at home. I had heard bakers say that it took years to master the art of macarons making and that one would need to practice over and over and over before they even got the first decent batch.

I have literally been watching macaron making videos over and over for like the past year.

I told Thomas that I was nervous. He told me that I might as well get it over with and give it a try. haha

I did. Oh I did and guess what! Macarons, while a tad bit picky, aren’t actually that hard to make.

Let me tell you something, if you can make meringue cookies, you can make macarons!

No, I didn’t get them perfect on the first try. I even failed on the second try. (aka I burnt them haha)

But oh my, the third time was a charm, so I’m going to tell you what I learned during the process.

Let me start off with the recipe I used – well the recipe I used and changed up just a tad since I was making Jack macarons.

I used the recipe that Carrie from Bakeaholic Mama used for her Pumpkin Pie Macarons… but you know… minus the orange and pumpkin haha.

Here are some the things I learned while making these:

Almond meal and Almond flour are kind of different, well around here they are anyways.

–When I first went to make these, I bought almond meal because almost all of the recipes I found called for it. I went home, ran it through the sifter/sieve like I was supposed to. It had little brown pieces in it from the almond skins (I guess you call it skin). Maybe that doesn’t normally matter but I wanted these Jack Macarons to be perfectly white, so those pieces of brown almond has to go. So my first batch of Jack Macarons were tasty but they had freckles haha.

I have freckles, Jack does not.

I found this almond flour at Walmart and it did much, much better!

Also, my first batch of macarons was not as smooth as I wanted them to be. I wanted the smooth top for the macarons and my first batch, while tasty, was a little bumpy and grainy looking.

That was not what I was going for.

Also, even though I had used white food coloring, they weren’t super white but more like a dull whiteish color. womp womp.

The second attempt was going well at first. I colored them just right, once I pipped them they had that super smooth top and I let them rest for an hour instead of 30 minutes before baking.

I just knew that these were going to be winners.

I popped them into the oven, put a wooden spoon into the door (Carrie’s suggestion), set my timer and waited.

When the timer went off I jumped up to retrieve my precious while macrons only to be greeted with burnt rust colored, hard as a rock macarons. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I was so sad. Those were supposed to be perfect.

With a second macaron failure under my belt I set out for the third batch.

Which turned out to be perfect.

I used a lot more white food coloring and I folded the batter a bit more than before.

My tip for the batter – fold the almond flour sugar mixture into the whipped egg whites, slowly. But keep folding. Keep folding until you can drizzle some of the batter with a spatula back into the bowl and it starts to “melt into” the batter in the bowl. You don’t want to over mix but you don’t want to under mix either.

Make sure you let them rest for at least an hour before you bake them. Don’t rush them.

Then for the faces! You can’t make Jack Skellington Macarons without Jack’s face!

For Jack’s face I used one of these black, AmeriColor Gourmet Writer edible food coloring pens. I’ve used other edible pen markers before but these always seem to do the best.

Make sure you let those macarons dry completely before you attempt to make these faces.  I let mine sit overnight before I filled them or drew on the faces.

BE GENTLE! You’ve GOT to use a light hand to draw these faces or you’re going to crack your Jacks! You barely need any pressure to write with these edible pens so be careful.

Also, one last tip. I filled these with a homemade chocolate ganache but you can use any type of filling you want.  However, I do say this….make sure the filling is soft! You don’t want to have to really push down really hard with these when you’re making them into a sandwich because they will crack.

These macarons are wonderful but they’re delicate.

Now go forth! Make Jack Skellington Macarons and let’s celebrate Halloween!!!!

Happy Haunting! Check out all of the spooky Halloween recipes and crafts on BigBearsWife.com!!

Jack Skellington Macarons

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Angie runs this blog, “Southern Halloween Queen” where she shares her love of Halloween with her own recipes and fun recipes/projects from other Halloween loving bloggers! She also runs her first blog, BigBearsWife.com that’s packed full of Southern recipes, her love of Disney and fun vacation ideas! 

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• Werewolf Cupcakes
• Melting Witch Hot Chocolate
• Jack Skellington Macarons
• Spooky Chocolate Caramel Apple EyeBalls
• Pumpkin Macaroni and Cheese
• Rattlesnake Bite Hot Dog Appetizers

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