It’s Alive! Spooky Snacks with Frankenstein OREOs and Fanta Floats

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Every year, my fam­i­ly and I get super excit­ed for Hal­loween, but end up get­ting super busy and not enjoy­ing the lead up to it as much as we would like. I made the con­scious deci­sion to make sure that did­n’t hap­pen this time around! My daugh­ter is in third grade and I feel like this is the time when long-life mem­o­ries are being formed, so we’re mak­ing the most of the hol­i­days, start­ing off with these Franken­stein ORE­Os and Fan­ta Beaker Floats we made for a deli­cious spooky snacks dessert for friends and family!

I went shop­ping at Wal­mart to find my ingre­di­ents from the Spooky Snack Lab to cre­ate these sweet good­ies! I was going to pick up a reg­u­lar OREO pack­age, but then spot­ted this fun 30-pack with indi­vid­ual pack­ages that actu­al­ly glow in the dark in the Hal­loween aisle. Not only could I use them for this fun project, but also uti­lize them for school snacks, par­ty favors and espe­cial­ly to hand out at our upcom­ing trunk-or-treat event at school! For the drink, I knew I want­ed some­thing that screamed HALLOWEEN and what bet­ter refresh­ment than orange Fan­ta?! Besides being the per­fect col­or, I real­ly want­ed the car­bon­a­tion to make foamy floats.

When com­ing up with an idea, I want­ed to play upon the lab­o­ra­to­ry theme, espe­cial­ly since I had found some cute beaker cups that would work per­fect­ly with the motif! So, I set­tled on serv­ing bub­bly Fan­ta floats, along with choco­late-cov­ered Franken­stein ORE­Os! Fol­low the step-by-step instruc­tions below to bring these good­ies to life in your own sweet lab!

Frankenstein OREOs

Mate­ri­als Needed:

♥ OREO Glow-in-the-Dark 30-pack

♥ Green, black, and white melt­ing candy/chocoate

♥ Small can­dy eyeballs

♥ Choco­late cook­ie mold (you can dip OREO direct­ly into melt­ed choco­late, too!)

♥ Pip­ing bags or plas­tic bot­tles (bot­tles will allow you to re-heat the choco­late, but not dec­o­rat­ing tips)

♥ Round dec­o­rat­ing tips (I used #1 and #5) and cou­plers for pip­ing bags

♥ Minia­ture marsh­mal­low bits (like the ones used for hot chocolate!)

♥ Tooth­picks

Step 1:

Melt green candy/chocolate melts in the microwave until it is nice and smooth. I start by microwav­ing it for 30 sec­onds, then fol­lowed by 15 sec­ond incre­ments, mak­ing sure to stir well in between each time. Be care­ful not to over-heat, as the choco­late will basi­cal­ly cook and get hard! If using a mold, fill each cav­i­ty 1/2 full of melt­ed choco­late, place an OREO in the cen­ter, then fill it up the rest of the way. Place the mold in the freez­er for approx­i­mate­ly 15 min­utes or until com­plete­ly hard­ened before remov­ing it.

Note: If you are dip­ping your ORE­Os direct­ly into the choco­late, uti­lize a spoon to dip it, and make sure to take as much excess off. Place them on a parch­ment sheet to dry and hard­en. You can also uti­lize cook­ie sticks by tak­ing apart an OREO cook­ie, sand­wich­ing the stick between the two sides with the assis­tance of a bit of melt­ed choco­late, then dip­ping the OREO pop in the choco­late and tap­ping off the excess.

Step 2:

Melt black choco­late melts (same man­ner as above) and pipe Franken­stein’s hair with round dec­o­rat­ing tip #5.

Step 3:

Pipe the scar stitch­es with round dec­o­rat­ing tip #1.

Note: I uti­lized a pip­ing bag with the dec­o­rat­ing tips and cou­plers so that I could vary the sizes, but if fol­low­ing this same method, you need to work quick­ly as the choco­late will hard­en with­in the bag and tip. You can also uti­lize a pip­ing bag or plas­tic sand­wich bag on their own and cut the tips based on the sizes you need.

If you use a squeeze bot­tle, it’s eas­i­er to re-heat the choco­late if it begins to hard­en, but unless you have var­i­ous tips, it can be more dif­fi­cult to do small­er and pre­cise piping.

Step 4:

Melt addi­tion­al green choco­late melts (same man­ner as above) and pipe Franken­stein’s brow, nose, mouth and dim­ple with round dec­o­rat­ing tip #1, mak­ing sure you leave enough room for the can­dy eyes.

Step 5:

Add a bit of choco­late to the back of each can­dy eye and glue them to Franken­stein’s face.

Step 6:

Melt white choco­late melts (same man­ner as above) and pipe a lit­tle tooth with round dec­o­rat­ing tip #1.

Step 7:

Add a bit of choco­late to mini marsh­mal­low bits and attach them to the sides of each Franken­stein OREO to resem­ble bolts.

Fanta Beaker Floats

Mate­ri­als Needed:

♥ Fan­ta 2‑liter bottle

♥ Vanil­la ice cream

♥ Test tubes

♥ Option­al: dry ice

Step 1:

First, fill test tubes with Fan­ta. When the floats are ready to be con­sumed, fill the beakers with vanil­la ice cream and allow each guest to cre­ate their own exper­i­ments by adding Fan­ta with a test tube!

Add dry ice to a beaker and fill it with Fan­ta for some addi­tion­al spooky fun! Make sure nev­er to touch dry ice with your bare hands and allow it to dis­solve com­plete­ly pri­or to drink­ing. I would advise wear­ing gloves and uti­liz­ing tongs when han­dling it.

So fun, right?! I love that the com­bi­na­tion of the Franken­stein ORE­Os and Fan­ta Beaker Floats pro­vides an extra activ­i­ty for your guests! And for addi­tion­al Spooky Snacks inspi­ra­tion, check out addi­tion­al Wal­mart-exclu­sive recipes from CBS’ Recipe Rehab host, Evette Rios, for your Hal­loween treats!

What’s your favorite Spooky Snack com­bo that you would like to try? Have any oth­er ideas?!

Merci Beaucoup!

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