Recipes with cinnamon candies

Flat cat cookies, the gleefully gruesome Halloween treat. Roll out refrigerated sugar cookie dough, cut roadkill cat shapes, add red candy eyes and a drizzle of jam blood. Easy enough for kids.

Adorable oatmeal roll-out cookies shaped and decorated like cherry trees with red cinnamon candies, green sugar crystals, and chocolate sprinkle trunks. Makes 36.

A rich chocolate coconut layer cake made from scratch with unsweetened baking chocolate, brown sugar, and light cream, topped with a pink cinnamon candy boiled frosting. Retro baking with serious wow factor.

Crustless apple crunch pie with a brown sugar crumble and homemade cinnamon ice cream. Juicy, sour apples baked until tender and served warm with a quick no-churn cinnamon ice cream.

Candy apple cheese pie with a no-bake cream cheese filling topped with sliced apples and a glossy red cinnamon candy glaze. A retro no-bake dessert that chills to a creamy set.

Cyberealm's cinnamon apple crisp dissolves Red Hot cinnamon candies into a pink syrup over sliced apples, then tops with a brown-sugar cake-mix crumble. Retro dessert with a spicy kick.

Ghosts on Broomsticks: white chocolate ghost lollipops with red cinnamon candy eyes on popsicle sticks. A fun, 3-ingredient Halloween treat kids can help make. No baking required.

No-bake marshmallow monsters coated in peanut butter and green-tinted coconut with cinnamon candy eyes. A 3-ingredient kids treat that takes 10 minutes and zero cooking for Halloween or classroom parties.

Spicy applesauce mold with cinnamon candies, nutmeg, and lemon juice sets into a shimmering gelatin dessert that's equal parts retro charm and warm autumn flavor.

Applesauce jello salad -- A delicious jello salad, taken from The Monterey Coast Guard Officers' Wives Club Cookbook. My sister-in-law was the president of the club which put that cookbook together.

Baked oranges boiled whole until tender, then baked in a red cinnamon candy syrup and chilled overnight. A sweet, spiced fruit side dish for roasted meats.

Chocolate spritz cookies made with melted semi-sweet chocolate chips in the dough, pressed through a cookie press and topped with red cinnamon candies. Makes about 7 1/2 dozen.

Painted peach cake: cake-mix shortcut tube cake with cream cheese, sliced peaches, and red cinnamon candies baked right in. Pretty pink-flecked pound cake in under an hour.

Apple pie with a twist: cinnamon Red Hots melt into the filling with walnuts and a crumbled pie crust topping. Bubbling, spicy-sweet, and utterly irresistible.

Homemade apple jelly made in the microwave with apple juice, pectin, and red hot cinnamon candies for a spicy-sweet twist. Yields 6 half pints in under an hour.

Nothing is more Halloween than some delicious and sweet candies apples.