Halloween Haystacks

These Halloween haystacks are so cute and an easy no bake dessert to make! The perfect peanut butter Halloween treat that your kids can help you make. Just like our butterscotch haystacks we make during other holidays but shaped like mummies this time.

Halloween Haystacks

Ok so when it is the holidays it is fun to bake things that look spooky. Halloween is so fun. This is one of those we came up with in the kitchen with my girls way back when. Since then as they have gotten older we have created other mummy appetizers like our Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers wrapped with crescent rolls / gauze.

Let your imagination go wild and see if you can come up with a few others that look like this! You can make is peanut butter dessert into any shape you like. It’s a great “baking” activity you can do with your kids for the fall…..just like our Halloween Rice Krispie Treats we love.

No Bake Halloween Dessert

Mummy Haystacks

No bake desserts are the best because they’re quick to throw together and the kids can help out too. This is a pretty inexpensive snack to make too since you only need a few ingredients and most you probably already have at home. Mine enjoy them while enjoying our Halloween Color by Number.

It’s quite an inexpensive Halloween treat to make too which is always a plus. Peanut butter is big in our house, but if you cannot have that I imagine you may be able to substitute for sunflower butter or possibly cookie butter.

Ingredients

1. Creamy peanut butter
2. Butterscotch chips
3. Crunchy noodles also called Chow Mein noodles
4. Vanilla frosting or candy melts
5. Candy eyes

The parchment or wax paper is just so that it doesn’t stick. If it does then when you pick them up they’ll kinda’ fall apart, destroying the overall look of them. Shape them into pumpkins if you like and mix them up! I found these small candy eyeballs on Amazon but in the years since I have found them at Walmart too. Wilton makes small and large sizes. You can find them in the cake mix aisle year round.

How to Make No Bake Mummy Dessert

You need to melt the chips and peanut butter together but there isn’t any bakign required. Once smooth you add the chow mein crunchy noodles and stir until all pieces are coated, then spoon some on to some parchment paper, add the eyes, and pipe some vanilla frosting in a zigzag across your mummy haystacks to create this cute treat.

• I just fill a pint sized freezer bag with frosting, snip the end off, and squeeze on top. Here’s a printable recipe for you.

Below is a quick video showing how easy these Halloween haystacks are to make. Give them a whirl, and while you’re at it have some more holiday fun with this Halloween word search printable, makes for a great afternoon.

Remember I said we made these for Easter too. You have to take a peek at how adorable those are as nests. If you love these easy mummy haystacks you should try our Halloween parfait recipe too!

Monster Halloween Haystacks

1. Melt butterscotch or chocolate chips (chocolate will change color to brown, white chocolate will make white) and peanut butter together in microwave for 30 seconds at a time. Stir after each time elapses until smooth.
2. Pour butterscotch mixture on top of crunchy noodles, stir to coat well in a large bowl.  Scoop haystack mixture and place on parchment paper. 
3. Add two edible eyes to each one.  Melt chocolate or add frosting to a ziploc bag or pastry bag. Pipe zigzag across haystacks. Let set until hard and easy to pick up.

Putting into the fridge will harden faster, keep in fridge so they remain in the shape you want until you’re ready to enjoy them. Enjoy as a fun Halloween snack and/or party food with friends.