Time to put the candy in the candy

SANDWICH RECIPE DEP’T.

Building Our Discount Halloween Candy Sandwich, 2023 Edition

LAST TIME, AS we explored the frontiers of the seasonal candy experience, we showed you how to craft a sandwich that is 100 percent pure candy. This year, we went a little more traditional and used graham crackers as the substrate or platform or whatever it’s called in the Sandwich Industry.

All candy ingredients were purchased at the grocery store on Nov. 1, at substantial savings. We used chocolate or chocolate-adjacent candy, no Skittles or Dum-Dums or Starbursts.

In a departure from our previous in-between-two-candy-bars method, we assembled graham cracker bases and then melted the mini chocolate candy bars a little in a 325-degree oven for about five minutes so we could implant other pieces of candy without having them fall off.

Ingedients:
Peanut Ghoul’s Mix M&M’s
Peanut Butter Ghoul’s Mix M&M’s
Campfire Smores M&M’s
Charleston Chew
Snack Size Payday
Chocolatey Payday
Hershey’s with Almonds
Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins
KitKat

Not used:
KitKat Birthday Cake, which we bought on accident. Ugh.

We found “chocolatey” PAYDAY, but it’s not as good as PAYDAY. You don’t get that top hit of salt on your way through the peanuts to the sugar-goop inside.

We used one of those chopper things to get the various candies into a form that would allow for smushing onto the graham crackers.

We think these came out pretty nicely, I mean, they’re made out of candy! The graham crackers make ‘em kinda dry, though, so we are going back to the grocery store for vanilla ice cream to slather inside.

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PREVIOUSLY in CANDY THAT’S TOO GOOD FOR TRICK-OR-TREATERS SANDWICH:

ALSO as a continuing Public Service we would like to remind you about SNACK SIZE PAYDAY.

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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP’T.

WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS for the assembly of select sandwiches from Tried and Tested Recipes; A Collection of the Favorite and Choicest Recipes Used and Contributed by Ida Mckinley Tent No. 21, National Alliance, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Dept. of Illinois, published in 1921. This book is in the Public Domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.

COMBINATION SANDWICH
Butter thinly two slices of white bread. Fill sandwich with the following in layers: Lettuce leaf, salad dressing, thin slices of tomato, chopped celery, a little minced green sweet pepper. Cover with bread and cut across. A tempting dish for luncheon, healthful and delicious.

SANDWICHES TO BE SERVED WITH SALAD
Peanut butter.
Sliced ham and mustard.
Sliced beef and dill pickle.
Cubed cucumbers and radishes moistened with salad dressing.
Chopped olives and celery and salad dressing.
—M. A. Deubler.

CREAM CHEESE AND NUT SANDWICH
Chop fine 1 cup English walnuts and mix with cottage cheese moistened with sweet cream. Salt to taste and spread generously between slices of whole wheat bread.
—Constance Totten.

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