Things to Do With Leftover Halloween Candy

Freeze it. Throughout the year, add it to milkshakes, sundaes, ice cream, and plain cookie dough. (For a quick milkshake, add mini Butterfinger or Snickers bars to ice cream or frozen yogurt and milk -- maybe even throw a banana in there, too!)

Bake it into cakes. Try peanut butter cup cookies or brownies with fun size candy bars inside. Or just put it on top of cakes and cupcakes, or stir it into icing.

Make it a (sort of) healthy snack. Fill celery stalks with cream cheese and top with Peanut M&Ms.

DIY trail mix. Open bags of little candies like M&Ms and make your own trail mix by adding pretzels, nuts, and dried fruit.

Bring it to the Thanksgiving table. Remember how your mom used to make yams with marshmallows? Try using leftover candy corn.

Pair it with wine. The chocolate, caramel, nuttiness of Snickers go great with tawny ports, and the cookie-like Twix goes well with a smooth Scotch, suggests StarChefs.com, among other ideas.

Make homemade flavored vodka. Just drop it in a bottle and let it soak for awhile to make your own homemade, creatively flavored alcohol.

Put chocolates into your coffee. This makes for a quick and easy mocha.

Keep some in your purse. Save it for when you need a sugar fix -- or your kid needs to be bribed (we won't tell!).

Use it to wrap gifts. Save pretty wrappers to decorate boxes, or garnish boxes with candies. Try stuffing it in gift bags in lieu of tissue paper, or put it inside coffee mugs or any other gifts that could use some filling.