Caramel Toffee Fruit Dip: Halloween Edition

Can you guys believe our Halloween party is almost over?? We've had so much fun this week and hope you have, too--we've really loved hearing all of your feedback and fun ideas! The good thing is that both Sara and I feel like Halloween kind of kicks off the holiday season, so we have lots more fun like this coming your way in the next few months!

This is a re-post (plus a fall-ish twist) of one of our earliest recipes, from our very first theme week. Back when our blog was, like, 6 weeks old, Sara went and had a baby, so I threw her a baby shower, complete with all sorts of goodies you could serve at a girly kind of party. All of the recipes are pretty fabulous, if I do say so myself, but every single time I serve the Caramel Toffee Fruit Dip at a party, I catch someone forgoing the fruit altogether and doing a little lot of finger dipping and even the occasional bowl-licking. It's so good and so super easy that we thought we'd give it another go-around, this time with a few Halloween-ie twists.

Caramel Toffee Fruit Dip

1 8-oz. package cream cheese (you can use light cream cheese)
3/4 c. brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla (you can add more to taste)
Toffee bits (look by the chocolate chips and try and find the chocolate covered ones if you can! Your dip won't be pretty, but it will sure taste good!)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. (about a pinch) nutmeg

Optional:
Cinnamon chips, cut out in spooky shapes
Hollowed-out pumpkin

You'll also need:

Assorted fruit (I just buy a fruit tray at some place like Costco or Sam's Club and a carton of strawberries if they're on sale. This dip is the best, however, on tart Granny Smith apples).

Bamboo skewers (if you want to kebab your fruit)

Prepare cinnamon chips according to these directions, only cut with Halloween-shaped cookie cutters






Meanwhile, combine cream cheese, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla with an electric mixer. When ready to serve, stir in about 1/2 a bag of toffee bits with more sprinkled on top. Serve in a hollow pumpkin with the spooky cinnamon chips and fresh fruit.



Again, we hope you've had as much fun as we have this week! If you're just stopping by now, don't forget to check our Sara's shrunken heads here, and scope out all the fun party food here!