Decorated Candy Apple Skulls

Name: Decorated Candy Apple Skulls
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 8 green apples (Granny Smith); 1 jar (16 oz.) Betty Crocker™ ready-to-spread cream cheese frosting; 1 cup chocolate chips; 1 plastic bag (for sandwiches)

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Prep 15 min
Total 30 min
Ingredients 4
Servings 8

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Celebrate Halloween with these fun candy apple skulls! Everyone will love this sweet snack. These apple skulls are covered in a cream cheese frosting and are so easy to make that even children can help prepare them! You’ll only need chocolate chips and a plastic bag, and your children will have so much fun decorating their apple skulls. Prepare and serve these apple skulls as a snack after school or use them as part of your Día de Muertos altar.

Ingredients

8 green apples (Granny Smith)
1 jar (16 oz.) Betty Crocker™ ready-to-spread cream cheese frosting
1 cup chocolate chips
1 plastic bag (for sandwiches)

Directions

1

Remove the aluminum lid in the frosting jar. Melt the frosting in the microwave for 30 seconds. Pour the frosting into a small bowl.
2

Soak the apples, one at a time, in the melted frosting until they’re completely covered. Put the apples on a baking tray covered in wax paper. Let them stand for at least 15 minutes.
3

Melt the chocolate chips in a small bowl for about 30 seconds. Pour the chocolate into a small plastic bag. Make a small cut into the bag’s corner. Decorate the apples as skulls.
4

Enjoy!