So you have way too much candy leftover from tonight's Halloween extravaganza. Well, I don't really consider candy "leftover" since you can just keep it around the house for months and munch on it, but stay with me here.

Squidboo has several recipes for stuff you can make with the stuff you got tonight, including Apple Candy Bar Salad, which sounds like...well, everything you have in your bag thrown together into a dessert (with apples!). You can also make Butterfinger Layer Cake, Candy Bar Cookies, and Fudge. CD Kitchen has a bunch of recipes too, including Baby Ruth Cookies and Cannonball Cake.

I wouldn't advise making these before you go to bed tonight though. Wait for the weekend.

Halloween is a time for candy. No matter what you do the rest of the year, how healthy you eat and what diet you follow, Halloween is the day you eat peanut butter cups, jawbreakers, and candy corn. But kids often get treats in their bag that just make them scratch their heads. Here are the ones I remember from my childhood.

1. Apples and bananas. Seriously, I don't want fruit in my bag. What is this, Halloween or a dental convention? Giving fruit to kids on Halloween just screams "I forgot to buy candy and I had this lying around."

I guess I don't know that much.

I took this Halloween candy quiz over at AOL Food, and I got only three right out of ten, and two of those were complete guesses. But some of the questions are quite hard. I mean, how the heck am I supposed to know when Lemonheads were first developed or how many million pounds of candy corn Americans eat every year? I'm amazed it's even in the millions.

How did you do?

Tonight the kids (and more than a few adults) will be trick or treating, and our friends over at Mahalo have a guide on how to trick or treat safely. It covers everything from what you should do before you even head out the door (make sure you have a flashlight and a cell phone!), where to go (don't go to homes that don't have any lights on), and what do to with the candy when you get home (make sure candy is wrapped, and cut into all apples - I'll go one step further and say don't eat apples at all).

I don't have kids so I don't know how kids trick or treat nowadays. Do they still go all over the place to all houses or just stick to their neighborhood? Or do you take them to a party instead?

I was thinking about holiday-related candy lately. Which do you prefer, Halloween candy or Christmas candy? I guess it depends on whether you're the type of person who would want to eat a chocolate Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer or something called Nurse Hatchet's Body Parts Gummy Candy.

The latter is available at Candy Crate, an online store where you can get a ton of Halloween candy, including Pumpkin Whirly Pops, Boneheads Fruit-Flavored Skulls, Halloween Bubble Gum Coins, and Oozing Eyeballs. Sure, it's too late for tonight's Halloween activities, but that doesn't mean you can't have them delivered next week and gross out your friends and family then.

Does anyone give candy apples to kids on Halloween anymore? I remember getting one once when I was trick or treating. I think they gave it to me either wrapped in a napkin or maybe just by itself, just thrown in the bag. Not sure what I was supposed to do with it after the other candy got on it. I'm talking about the sugar glazed coating, not the caramel variety.

Today is National Candy Apple Day, which fits nicely on the schedule since we're doing Candy Day all day at Slashfood and it also happens to be Halloween.

I like caramel apples more. They're one of those foods you eat a lot less of when you become an adult, but I think this fall I'll make them again.

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If you're trick or treating with the kids tonight, chances are you're going to have either a.) your kids eating a ton of candy and getting sick or hyper, or b.) enough candy to last the next 38 days. Besides eating the candy bar by bar, piece by piece, what else can you do with it?

How about a Leftover Candy Cake? This recipe from CDKitchen takes all of your leftover candy, whether it's chocolate or hard candies and makes it into a bundt cake. Check out the ingredients and the instructions after the jump.

When it comes to candy corn, there are definitely two camps: the lovers and the haters. I find myself on the love side, which means that I get a lot of them all to myself around Halloween, since almost no one else I know enjoys them as much. The basic recipe is for a slightly honey-flavored candy made with sugar, corn syrup (not high fructose corn syrup, incidentally), honey and some gelatin. The ingredients list artificial flavors, but it is clear that the main added flavor is vanilla and, if you take the time to appreciate it for a moment, the overall flavor is a good one. The problem with candy corn is that you can tire of them quickly because of the amount of sugar and the lack of variety as you eat piece after piece. Fortunately for candy corn fans, there are some gourmet alternatives to the classic. Mentioned on both Candy Addict and Candy Blog this week were Galerie Gourmet Goodies Candy Corn. The slightly upscale corn comes in three new flavors: cherry, green apple and tangerine. Judging from the reviews, the flavors sound good, if not earth shattering. The colors, on the other hand, might just make you look twice, especially if you're expecting the classic orange, yellow and white combination.