Twinkie Ghosts
These Twinkie Ghosts are the cutest Halloween treat to make with your kids! Simple to make with twinkies, powdered sugar, black gel, and candy eyeballs. These festive little treats look great on a Halloween platter at a party or gathering and no one can ever resist them.
Servings 20 ghosts
Ingredients
- 10 Twinkies
- black writing gel
- powdered sugar
- 20 small candy eyeballs
Instructions
- Unwrap each Twinkie and cut each one in half, widthwise. * You will end up with 20 Twinkie ghosts
- With the black writing gel, draw a circle where you'd like the mouth to be on each ghost.
- Working one Twinkie at a time insert a fork, or a wooden skewer stick, into the cream part of the Twinkie. While holding the fork/skewer with one hand, use your other hand to shake powdered sugar over the Twinkie until it's completely covered and no yellow remains. * It's easiest to use a powdered sugar shaker or a dusting sifter wand. You can use a spoon to spoon it over the Twinkie, but the layer won't be as even looking. * It's ok if the mouth gets covered in powdered sugar, we'll fix that later.
- Use a toothpick to trace along where the black gel is for the mouth. Keep swirling in a gentle circular motion until all the powdered sugar us removed from the mouth, while still leaving the hole in the middle of powdered sugar. * It's important to draw the mouth before powdered sugar, because the gel won't stick directly to the powdered sugar.
- Use the black gel to put a little dot on the back of each eyeball and then gently press them onto the Twinkie ghost.Repeat the process with the remaining ghosts.
Notes
Serving Size : A standard box at the grocery store contains 10 Twinkies, which is why the recipe calls for 10 of them. You can use as little or as many Twinkies as you need.
Eyes : If you can't find the candy eyeballs try using black gel to draw a dot for the eyes, you can also use black cookie icing which you can find at the store, or use mini chocolate chips.
Tips : If you can't find the black gel try another color like orange or green. It can really be any color!
Draw the circle for the mouth wide enough so it won't close in.
When tracing the black gel (mouth) with the toothpick, keep the same shape as it was in before. If you keep tracing in the circular shape of it, the powdered sugar will work it's way off.