Our orthodontist is offering to pay the kids around here $1 for each pound of Halloween candy they’ll fork over. My kiddo is currently frantically digging out the candy that he’s willing to part with so he can make a little cash. My advice for him is to look for the heavy stuff (but keep the candy bars, of course).
If you’re looking for ways to use up your abundance of Halloween candy, I’ve got a couple of delicious ideas for you. The first involves Kit Kats. You’ll need about 14 mini Kit Kats (or 5 regular-sized) for Cream Cheese Lemon Bars with Kit Kat Crust.
The Kit Kats make the crust, of course. Simply done, they’re demolished in the food processor and pressed into the bottom of a square pan- no additions needed.
The lemon filling is made creamy with the addition of cream cheese, and it’s topped off with a lemony crumble.
It bakes up nice and bubbly and lightly browned. You need to let it cool completely. Chilling overnight in the refrigerator is best for easier and cleaner cutting.
I put parchment in my pan and then lifted the whole thing out to cut. I find that’s a better way to do it then trying to dig out individual pieces from a tight fit in the pan. And yes, these bars are as moist and caramelized looking as those edges indicate.
When I asked my husband what he thought of the bars he said: “They’re really, really good, but I wish more of the chocolate flavor came through.” That would be nice but they’re lemon bars, dear.
I give you permission to raid your children’s giant bags full of Halloween candy- there are bound to be 14 Kit Kats in there! And maybe if you show your children what you can do with their Kit Kats, they might just render them willingly.
(Look for another recipe utilizing leftover Halloween candy in my next post…)
This recipe can be found here: Cream Cheese Lemon Bars with Kit Kat Crust
kit bar crust? What a creative way to use them! Love this idea… now, to go raid the candy jar!
what a creative use of kit kat bars. definitely something to think about with those halloween leftovers.
Sounds like an interesting but delicious flavor combo. I wonder what the orthodontist is doing with all that candy?!
This is such a great idea. I love it. Beautiful!
these look absolutely delicious! I love the mini kit-kat bars handed out during halloween and this sounds like the perfect treat to use them in-thanks!
What a delicious idea!!
Sounds like you’re going to give the Girl Scouts a run for their money. You know how they’ve been coming up with recipes in which to use their cookies, and know you’ve come up with this magnificent idea. Great job. I love lemon bars.
I was just passing our bowl of leftovers and thinking of ways to use up skittles…..
I definitely have 14 mini kit kats from my kids’ Halloween bags that would love to be involved in this recipe! Thanks for sharing.
so cool! i would never have thought of this! i’ll bet they taste delicious! and i love your last post, on the soup. so neat!
REDICULOUS!!!
I mean that in the nicest way…I CANT WAIT to make it.
Lovely idea for a kit kat fan like my self, that crust is awesome!
I am always impressed with your creativity Lori.
Happy Day of the Dead!
I love this idea. I’m a fan of cream cheese bars of all kinds…
These look great, we have plenty of kit kats left over!
My family would love this but the Kit Kats were the first to go last night. That and Junior Mints. Guess I’ll have to go buy a few more.
Awesome! I already told the kiddos I am stealing their candy for baking. They have WAY too much.
Holey Yumoley!!!
now that is my kinda treat! that would satisfy any kind of sweets craving i have. i have a huge bag of kitkat bars downstairs and this would be perfect.
Nice recipe to use all those candy bars of kit kat. I bet it tastes great
Great idea for the crust! Looks yummy!
Oh my gosh! This looks and sounds great!… Great use for Halloween candies.
That’s a great use for Halloween candy! At our house the candy ( only the ones they don’t like of course) sits here till Thanksgiving!!
I love lemon bars – great twist!
Okay, this is brilliant!
Just found you last night and I’m a little in love with your recipes.
This one will have me tearing through the kids’ treat bags as soon as I hit send.
Thanks!
Kim