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Fun and Easy Halloween Treats: Mummy Hot Dogs and Candy Corn Fruit Cups

Fun and Easy Halloween Treats: Mummy Hot Dogs and Candy Corn Fruit Cups

September 2025 · Back to stories
Looking for tasty, yummy, and easy Halloween snacks that are perfect for a virtual school day or when friends come over for a visit? Hot Dog Mummies and a Candy Corn Fruit Cup are tasty snacks or paired together to make a great snack. You might even want to have them for lunch! They only take a few ingredients and a few minutes of time.

Hot Dog Mummies

Ingredients: ketchup, a package of hot dogs, and a package of refrigerated crescent rolls.

Ingredients 

  • Hot dogs
  • Crescent roll dough
  • Ketchup and mustard

Procedure

Wrapping hot dogs with strips of dough.

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
  2. Open the crescent roll dough
  3. Roll out the dough. Push the pre-cut seams together
  4. Using a pizza cutter, divide the dough into 4 equal parts. Cut each rectangle into thin strips
  5. Wrap 2-3 dough strips around the hot dog so it looks like a mummy!
  6. Once the hot dog has been wrapped in the dough strips, place it on a baking sheet.
  7. Into the oven the Mummies go!
  8. Bake for 14 minutes.
  9. With a touch of ketchup and mustard add some eyes to the mummies.
Child wearing wtch hat holding finished mummy hot dogs.

They look delicious!

Candy Corn Fruit Cup

This an easy snack with just a touch of sweetness to celebrate the Halloween season! You can have it as a snack or as a side with some Mummy Hot Dogs or other favorite sandwich to make it a meal.

Ingredients


Fruit cup ingredients, including canned pineapple chunks, a bag of candy corn, three oranges, and a can of whipped cream.
  • Canned Pineapple Chunks
  • Orange—any kind of orange is fine. Clementines are great because they are easy to peel.
  • Whipped Cream
  • Candy Corn

Procedure

Peeling oranges

  1. Peel the oranges.
  2. Open the canned pineapple.
  3. Fill the bottom of your cup with pineapple.
  4. On top of the pineapple, add the peeled orange slices.
  5. Squirt a small amount of whipped cream on top of the fruit.
  6. Top off with one piece of candy corn!
  7. Candy Corn Fruit Cup from The Children's Museum Guild's witches
Adding candy corn to fruit cup.

Your Candy Corn Fruit Cup is complete!

Great as a Snack—or a Meal

Mummy Hot Dogs and Candy Corn Fruit Cups can be enjoyed together as a delicious Halloween meal or separate for just a snack. Either way, it’s a fun, easy Halloween treat for all. Happy Halloween! We'll see you at The Children's Museum Guild's Annual Haunted House for some hauntingly good fun this Halloween!

Mummy hot dogs and candy corn fruit cup from The Children's Museum Guild witches
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