If you’ve left your Halloween prep to the last minute and you’re scrambling for ideas, turn to this quick and healthy Kit Kat cheat. The treat is vegan, gluten-free, and requires no baking whatsoever. Better yet, the recipe only utilises five ingredients: Chex cereal, chocolate chips, peanut butter, maple syrup, and coconut oil, with substitutes available for each one too.

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Tatler Tip: Arman Liew also has a keto-friendly Kit Kat bar recipe filled with nuts, seeds, and almond butter, a nostalgic bar packed with good fats.

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Did you know that making your own gummy worms needs all but three ingredients? Once you’re able to source your mould of choice, all you need is unflavoured gelatin, flavoured and coloured Jell-o, and some water.

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The secret to this peanut butter centre? Crushed graham crackers, for added texture. Recreating Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups is an absolute breeze, as this recipe so temptingly demonstrates. Don’t worry too much about mimicking the confection’s smooth top—the imperfect swirls give them quite a unique, artful look.

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Tatler Tip: for a lighter alternative that really lets the peanut butter flavour shine, you can also substitute the graham crackers with oats, as one reviewer suggested.

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Of all the sweets on the list, candy corn is arguably the most Halloween-appropriate. Chewy to start, followed by a sugary, melt-in-your-mouth sensation, the orange and yellow-hued candy is well-loved across autumnal months in the United States. Bring home a taste of fall and make the treat yourself!

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Tatler Tip: read the recipe in full, and be sure to skim through the post-recipe notes and pre-recipe write-up as well, especially if this is your first time making candy.

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In case you opted to buy your candy corn this year and are now left with a heap of the treats, repurpose them into homemade Butterfingers with this recipe from Jennifer Field. After nine exhaustive R&D sessions, Field proudly presents her near-perfect copycat for the chocolate-covered crunchy peanut confection—reap the rewards of her efforts and follow her descriptive guide.

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Tatler Tip: this recipe is more suited to more advanced cooks in the kitchen 

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Whether your memories of chocolate-coated marshmallows veer towards the American Mallomars or the Filipino Choco Mallows we can agree that chocolate, a marshmallow filling, and a biscuit base is a good idea indeed. This recipe guides you through homemade marshmallows and homemade biscuits, so you can proudly present this from-scratch snack to your loved ones.

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If you are a fellow fan of the Turtles chocolates, you know they can be a headache to source locally. Save yourself the trouble and create your own dark chocolate and salted caramel pecan Turtles with this recipe. Plus—they look incredibly gorgeous, much more reminiscent of the beloved sea creature than the original!

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Ferrero Rochers are one of the most indulgent chocolate treats you could pick up at your local grocer. Wrapped in gold foil and elegantly perched within a pleated paper cup, the multilayered chocolate and hazelnut creation is unmistakably delicious. This Halloween, take it up a notch and follow Claire Saffitz as she transforms Ferrero Rocher - the most challenging, if not impossible recipe to follow on this list.

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Tatler Tip: skip to 25:58 to see the final product and a run-down of how to make the “rochelles”. That said, the creative (and often, tumultuous) process behind each Gourmet Makes episode is quite entertaining, so watch from the beginning to watch the journey from the planning stage.

Ah, the Twix bar—a decadent marriage of three of life’s best Cs: chocolate, caramel, and cookie. As one of my personal favourite chocolate bars, I was especially adamant about finding a recipe that does it justice. This tricky, yet certainly rewarding recipe from Broma Bakery definitely passes the test, elevating the storebought bar to a new level of indulgence.

Tatler Tip: a candy concoction perfect for more seasoned cooks

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Chewy, sticky, yet mind-blowingly soft, caramels are a reliable sweet treat you can leave in a bowl for snack-loving visitors or give out in bulk at treat-or-treat sessions. Straightforward yet infallibly delicious, having just one is inconceivable- it’s a good thing this recipe makes a whopping 65 of these vanilla and sea-salt-laden goodies.

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