Gingerbread!

Just because Christmas is over doesn't mean the time for gingerbread has passed! Break out the sweetness and get creative!

Post-It Party

Post-it Party! Celebrating the weekend! Or...the kickoff to the busiest weekend of the year at Candy Crate! :)

Stay Put!

Dum Dum decided that the gift making department had to stay put until Christmas. ;)

Candy Cane Pretzel Kisses

One of our sweet fans made these gorgeous treats this weekend!

You need-
M&M's (preferably a holiday mix with red and green)
Candy Cane Kisses
Square Pretzels
Wax Paper/Cookie Sheet

To make-
Line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Lay out pretzels in a single layer, place one kiss on each pretzel. Bake at 170 for 6 minutes, press an M&M into the top and allow to cool.

North Pole or Bust!

Hitching a ride to the North Pole!

Dum Dum's working out after hours!

Dum Dum went for a run on our packing table last night!

Dum Dum strikes again!

Dum Dum was playing in our gift making department! 

Office Party!

Dum Dum had some fun in the offices last night! 

Merry Christmas Coal Candy Craft!

This mason jar filled with chocolate coal is the perfect Secret Santa Gift! Hide cash, gift cards, notes, or small gifts inside for a sweet surprise. 

Introducing- Dum Dum the Elf!

Dum Dum the Elf zip lined into our offices on a candy cane in a jazzy holiday sweater! He's ready to make sure we're all being extra nice this year.

It's CYBER MONDAY!

Visit CandyCrate.com to take advantage of these deals and MORE!

All I Want For Christmas: Secret Santa List

A very retro Christmas!

Chalkboard Holiday Nostalgic Candy Gift Tower

 Chevron Print Christmas Candy Gift Basket

Christmas Marshmallow Peeps Gift Assortment

Gimme Some Sugar Cocoa Gift Basket

Hammond's Nostalgic Candy Peppermint Swirl Candy Dish

Day 31: Treat OR Trick depending on your costume!

Wishing you a spooktacular Halloween from our sweet crew!

Day 30: Treat Vegan Dracula Cupcakes

For cupcakes:

2 c all purpose flour

1 c sugar

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp ground nutmeg

½ tsp ground cloves

½ tsp ground cinnamon

1 c canned pumpkin

1 c canned coconut milk

½ c coconut oil

2 tsp apple-cider vinegar

1 tbsp pure vanilla extract

To make:

 Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two cupcake pans with cupcake liners. Combine all dry ingredients and set aside. Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl. Slowly blend into dry ingredients. Stir until blended. Pour batter into cupcake liners, about 3/4 full. 

Bake 18-20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool.

Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting:

1 container Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese

1/2 c soy margarine

2 c powdered sugar

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 1/2 tsp lemon juice

To make:

Combine margarine and cream cheese until smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar, then vanilla, and lemon juice. Mix until fluffy, frosting texture is achieved. 

Once cooled, frost and garnish with candy corn, gingersnap cookie, and all natural beet food coloring. 

Day 29: It's no TRICK 50% OFF Zombie Food!

Don't forget to feed your Zombie or they may be tempted to snack....

Day 28: Treat: Candy Crate Pumpkin

Print out our super cute logo and carve it into your pumpkin. Shoot us an email with the photo to CustomerService@candycrate.com for a special promo code!

Day 27: Donuts with a bite!

Yummy donuts + Fangs!

We don't know whether this is a trick or a treat but it is sure to please! :)

Day 26: Spooktacular cupcakes!

For these spooky cupcakes you can use any flavor cake with any white or light colored frosting! Simply follow the recipe on the box, get some fun sprinkles, candies, and frosting and get creative. Post yours in the comments below! 

Day 25: Trick MEOW

Came across this awesome trick online! Wonder which of my friends would fall for it?

Day 24: Creepy Crawly Treats

Spider treats

You need:

Reeses Pumpkins (large an small)

Reeses Pieces 

Milk Chocolate Chips

Pretzels

To make:

Melt about one cup of chocolate chips in a small sauce pan. Break pretzels into 'legs.' Dip in melted chocolate and attach to Reeses bodies. With a small dab of chocolate attach Reeses Pieces eyes. Add another dab to create pupils. Refrigerate 5-10 minutes until solidified. 

Day 23: Treat: Visit your local harvest festival!

Check out these cuties trick or treating and having a blast at our local harvest festival! 

Day 22: Trick Tampon Ghost

SPOTTED! The raunchiest ghost this side of laffy taffy. The ladies thought to truly frighten the boys with this scary "ghost."

Day 21: Treat Halloween Candy Buffet

What a fun Halloween Candy buffet! How could this be considered anything but a treat!

Day 20: Pumpkin Seeds

For Salty Seeds: rinse seeds and place in plastic bowl with lid. 

Cover seeds with water and add 1-2 tablespoons of salt. 

Let sit for 24 hours.

Preheat oven to 250 degrees.

Drain seeds and pat dry with a paper towel. 

Coat with two tablespoons olive oil and salt to taste.

Spread on cookie sheet in a single layer and bake one hour or until seeds are completely dry. 

For Sweet Seeds: 

Raw pumpkin seeds cleaned and dried.

2 tablespoons butter, melted

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Preheat over to 350 degrees. Toss seeds in a large bowl with melted butter. Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon. Stir to mix throughly. Spread in an even layer on a cookie sheet and bake for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle with another layer of brown sugar and cinnamon. Bake 5 more minutes and repeat, then an additional 5 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle remaining sugar and cinnamon and bake 10-15 minutes. Allow to cool and serve. 

Day 19: Treat: Harry Potter Box

Whether you're on a quest to overcome He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named or preparing for your seat under the sorting hat, this Harry Potter Candy Gift Box is sure to sweeten your day. Travel with Harry, Ron, & Hermione to your very own 'Honeydukes Sweetshoppe,' the best sweet shoppe in the wizard world located in Hogsmeade.Our Harry Potter Candy Gift Box includes your very own Wizard Glasses, Honeydukes classics like Harry Potter Bertie Botts Every Flavour Jelly Beans - 1.2oz., Harry Potter Jelly Slugs, Harry Potter Chocolate Frog, "Fizzing Wizzbees" Pop Rocks Candy, "Butter Beer" Root Beer Barrels and Butterscotch Discs and "Honeydukes" Assorted Salt Water Taffy.

Day 18: Trick: I always feel like, somebody's watching meeeee

Meet our newest water cooler gossip ;)

Day 17: Trick: That's a wrap!

The neat thing about this is that you can go as big or as small as you please. We didn't want our buyer to spend the whole day unwrapping her items, so we picked a few key items to wrap. :)

Day 16: Trick: Bozo and Happy ;)

These two jokers hid under Kassie's desk today and gave her quite the fright when she sat down to begin work!

Day 15: Treat: Candy Corn Poke Cake

You need:

Candy Corn

White Cake Mix & whatever your chosen mix calls for on the box

1- 14 ounce can of Sweetened Condensed Milk

Yellow & Orange Food Coloring

1 Pint Heavy Whipping Cream

1 Cup Sugar

To make:

Following the directions on the box, prepare white cake mix batter and divide equally into three different bowls. Using food coloring, color one bowl yellow, one orange, and leave the third white. 

Grease a 9 x 13 cake pan and spread the yellow cake batter evenly across the bottom. Put the pan in the freezer on a straight rack for 25 minutes.

Remove the pan from the freezer and carefully pour the orange layer of cake batter into the pan, gently spreading the batter creating and even layer that completely covers the yellow batter. Put pan back into the freezer for 25 more minutes.

Preheat oven to the temperature indicated on the cake mix box.

Remove the pan from the freezer once more and carefully spread the white cake mix batter over the orange batter, evenly.  Place the pan on top of the preheating oven for 1/2 hour to warm up the frozen batter. This will allow the batter to cook and rise evenly in the oven.

After 30 minutes bake according to the directions on the cake mix box.

Remove the cake from the oven once cooked and immediately poke holes throughout the cake with toothpicks or skewers.  Pour the sweetened condensed milk evenly over the cake.

Place the cake in the fridge for at least 6 hours.

Once the cake has chilled whip beat the heavy whipping cream with sugar (according to desired sweetness) and spread evenly over the top of the cake. Decorate with candy corn and serve!

Day 14: Treat! Gold Canyon Candles

One extra sweet coworker, Jessica, brought us FALL! It's still super warm here in Southern California, so we're extra thankful for Jessica's thoughtful treat of fall scented Gold Canyon Candles. 

Day 13: Trick, Minty Fresh Oreo Spiders

To do: open Oreos and scrape out the filling (eat it if you want, we won't tell), and fill with white toothpaste. To mask the fact that the cookies have obviously been tampered with, add spider legs with black licorice laces. Serve!

Day 12: Treat in a trick!

Have a friend that's afraid of spiders? Send them this creepy, crawly, gift box! Scary on the outside, sweet and delicious on the inside.

This Spooky Spider's web is full of Halloween Candy goodies like Mike & Ike Mummy Mix, Mike & Ike Vampire Variety, Tombstone Rest in Pieces Candies, Scary Gummies, Mini Marshmallow Peep Chicks, Candy Corn, Zombie Chocolate Food, Oozing Eyes, Eyeball Suckers, Pumpkin Suckers, Creepy Peepers, Chocolate Body Parts, Candy Corn Salt Water Taffy and Huckleberry Salt Water Taffy.

Day 11: Treat Fall Snack Mix

What you need:

Pretzels 

Chex

Cheez- Its

Mellocreme pumpkins

Candy Corn

Reese's Pieces

Anything else that sounds yummy to you. Mix in a large bowl and serve!

To gift, pour into cute jars and top with a bow.

Day 10: Treat zombie lottery tickets!

We're lucky to work for a sweet boss that treats us to lottery tickets because it's Friday!