Conjure Up These 15 Vegan Candies for All the Little Ghouls!

Halloween is super fun, especially as a kid when you get loads of candy while trick or treating! But a lot of that candy is full of animal products, artificial ingredients, and sugar. We’ve rounded up some vegan candy recipes that are much healthier than the traditional Halloween favorites. Check out these awesome candy recipes!

1. Triple Chocolate Pumpkin Swirl Vegan Brownies

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These Triple Chocolate Brownies by Amber St. Peter are epic when it comes to chocolate, so if you’re a chocoholic, definitely try this recipe. They include dark chocolate bars, cacao chunks, and cacao butter, yum!

2. Vegan Candy Corn

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Store-bought candy corn can contain gelatin and artificial flavors. Try Victoria Hoff‘s Vegan Candy Corn homemade version instead!

3. Raw Strawberry Creme Chocolate Truffles

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There are no artificial colors in Karielyn Tillman‘s Raw Strawberry Cream Chocolate Truffles, but there are cashews, strawberries, coconut oil, and raw cacao powder.

Fall Cookbook: Plant-Based Recipes to Celebrate Harvest Season

Drum roll, please…One Green Planet’s Fall Plant-Based Recipes to Celebrate Harvest Season is here! Featuring an exciting collection of festive recipes that capture the spirit of fall. If you love eating delicious vegan food and cooking up a storm in the kitchen, you will want this cookbook! From stunning root veggies to sweet pumpkin and everything spice, these dishes will be the life of any fall dinner table! Grab this cookbook here. Featuring indulgent recipes like Pumpkin Velvet Cake with Buttercream, and Spiced Apple Doughnuts With Apple Cider Glaze, to hearty entrees like creamy pumpkin risotto and Creamy One-Pot Pumpkin Curry, this book is bursting with fall flavors. Whether you’re craving sweet pumpkin classics or savory root veg, there’s a dish to make your mouth water…happy cooking!

4. The World’s Healthiest Mounds Bar Fudge

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The World’s Healthiest Mounds Fudge Bar by Kelly Morisson is full of coconut and chocolate goodness, just like the candy bar.

5. Oreo Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

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Instead of using red and green for the colors, try black and orange instead to make Marly McMillen Beelman‘s Oreo Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls perfectly Halloween-themed.

6. Pumpkin Nut Butter Cups

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These Pumpkin Nut Butter Cups by Karielyn Tillman are full of delicious pumpkin puree and almond butter. Yum!

7. Raw Snickers Candy Bars

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Snickers is a popular Halloween candy for Trick or Treating, but these Raw Snickers Candy Bars by Emily von Euw are amazingly good, made with dates, agave, and almonds.

8. Splendid Maple Candy Crackle

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Shernell Cooke‘s Splendid Maple Candy Crackle recipe is pretty easy to make! You make it by simply cooking maple syrup over a stovetop for ten minutes and freezing it. Easy peasy!

9. Almond Joy Cookies

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If you’re a fan of the popular candy bar, Almond Joy, try Marly McMillen Beelman’s Almond Joy Cookies. They contain everything you love about the packaged version!

10. Vegan Rice Krispie Treats

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Dreena Burton‘s  Vegan Rice Crispy Treats contain only seven ingredients, and none of them are gelatin marshmallows! Instead, use macadamia nut butter.

11. Clean Eating Pumpkin Truffles

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It’s hard to miss traditional Halloween candy when you’re chewing Karielyn Tillman‘s smooth, chocolate Clean Eating Pumpkin Truffles.

12. Halloween Bat Biscuits

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Super cute and just as tasty, all the kids will enjoy these Aine Carlin‘s Halloween Bat Biscuits cookies.

13. Frozen Banana Mummies

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Don’t these look adorable? Kids can bypass thinking that these are a “healthy” snack and instead will enjoy Lexie Croft‘s cool Frozen Banana Mummy design.

14. Peanut Butter Popcorn Fudge

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Since this recipe has minimal prep time and absolutely no cooking time, you’ll have Nikki Haney‘s Peanut Butter Popcorn Fudge cut and ready to pass out to neighbors in a flash!

15. Raw Dark Chocolate Cherry Cream Cups

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Bridget Besoner‘s Raw Dark Chocolate Cherry Cream Cups are delicious, but this homemade version beats out the packaged ones, hands down!

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