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Creative uses for leftover Halloween treats

Our favorite tricks for using up all your leftover treats

With a few kitchen tricks, a bag of excess treats can be seen as a bag of ingredients to help put a variety of dishes on the table. Short on bread crumbs? Use up those bags of chips or pretzels for coating meat or fish. Too many candy bars? Use them in a cheesecake or bake them into cookies. Here are some of our favorite ideas

Photo credit: Newsday / Tony Jerome | Peanut butter cup brownies