I was watching The Today Show last week, and saw these great fall ideas! From decor ideas to cocktail recipes – yum! The recipes for the Spiced Pumpkin Seeds and Apple Rum Spritzer can be found below. The flower pumpkin centerpieces can be made as simple as hot gluing real (or fake) flowers onto any sized pumpkin. And the candy corn tree just as easily is made from hot gluing candy corn to tree branches. Put foam into a vase and stick the branches in. Cover the foam with stacked candy corn. It’s that easy!

Spiced Pumpkin Seeds
(makes one cup)

 Ingredients:
1 cup raw green pumpkin seeds
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice

Preparation:
preheat oven to 350 degrees
combine pumpkin seeds, chili powder, cayenne pepper, coarse salt, fresh lime juice in a medium bowl
toss to coat
spread on a rimmed baking sheet
bake about 10 minutes until puffed and browned

Apple-Rum Spritzer
{recipe serves one}

Ingredients:
1 oz. dark rum
2 oz. apple cider
seltzer
apple slice

Preparation:
add 1 oz. dark rum and 2 oz. apple cider to a glass filled with ice
fill to the top of the glass with seltzer
garnish with a slice of apple

{recipes via Today Show}

 {images via ProFlowers.com, everydayfoodblog.marthastewart.com}