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   >>> this morning on "today's" kitchen hot chef, great ideas for your halloween candy. so your kids scared up way too much candy or you didn't get enough kids coming by and you need to get rid of your leftover stuff, here's some sweet treats. pretty good idea, you got all this candy left over, what are you going to do with it?

   >> who's kidding who? who actually has that much left over.

   >> all my daughters is hiding in my room. this one is for candy corn .

   >> why candy corn ?

   >> it's one of those things that comes around every year.

   >> whether we want it or not.

   >> chalky, delicious, colorful smell to it. this is white chocolate , you spread it in the bottom of a square baking pan .

   >> parchment paper?

   >> par pmechment paper. candy corn is your favorite, with such enthusiasm.

   >> put it in the refrigerator, break it up. as if it wasn't sweet enough.

   >> my favorite, york peppermint pattys.

   >> inns a half a browny mix. put them all in. that goes right on top.

   >> you put more brownies on top.

   >> this is like a york pepperment patty lasagna.

   >> and it spreads and the york pepperment pattys stay intact?

   >> this is a great dessert. snickers, cut them up, put them in the bottom.

   >> these look like the fun size .

   >> they are the fun size .

   >> real fun size would be a five-pound snickers bar .

   >> that's a lot of fun.

   >> and then you put this ice cream right on top. soften it up a little bit. spread it in. pack it in nice and tight, freeze it up.

   >> so you refreeze it?

   >> you freeze it a little bit longer than this. it's melty, but it's really beautiful.

   >> and here's the one, kind of a healthy dessert.

   >> everything's relative, right?

   >> starting with a banana.

   >> starting with october 31st , healthy takes on a new meaning. these are some frozen bananas, stick a popsicle stick in them. coat in chocolate. this is the healthy one.

   >> right.

   >> and put it right on the baking sheet . oh, my gosh. and some chopped up reeces peanut butter cups . back into the freezer. a healthy treat.

   >> and then you've got candy with fruit. so you can say there's something healthy in there. at what point does the candy no longer fresh, or does it stay indefinitely?

   >> i think most of these candies are pretty much for a long time. my husband and i put our face in my daughter's halloween candy and just the mix of all the flavors.

   >> and just stayed there.

   >> just stayed there, you got to love halloween .

   >> our director said that the pumpkin had jack daniels in

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