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Halloween dessert contest
My work is having a Halloween dessert contest next week. Submissions will be judged on taste and appearance. I'm not a novice baker, but I'm also not an expert. Any great ideas? The prize is a comp day and I'd love to have the extra time with my DS!!
Re: Halloween dessert contest
I would suggest posting on Decorating & Renovating. One of the posters over there makes these awesome cupcakes and she had some for Halloween!
Yes, I believe it was SgntEricsWife who did those. I could be totally wrong, but I *think* that's who it was.
I've seen some posted on here before.
Vanilla cupcakes filled with red fruit filling. Decorated of course.
One I've seen alot is dirt with worms. It's chocolate moose and oreos.
I thought these little ghost petits fours were adorable and didn't seem that difficult. There are some other cute recipes from the same issue of Martha Stewart, too.
http://tinyurl.com/yjfm4pz
This website always has a TON of cute ideas:
http://www.bakerella.com/
http://bakingbites.com/2007/10/vampire-cupcakes/
http://annies-eats.com/2009/03/03/werewolf-cupcakes/
http://www.divinedinnerparty.com/halloween-party-snacks.html
I was perusing this site and ran across the cake balls which would make great eye balls for halloween with a few decorations. I wonder if you could even add some gooey type of filling to the middle. Now I think I want to try some!
Sooo easy, so yummy and so cute.
Make a pan or 2 of rice krispie treats
cut them out with a pumpkin shapped cookie cutter
decorate the body with orange frosting, the stem with green or brown frosting
and make a jack-o-lantern face with mini chocolate chips.
I saw this in a magazine.
Buy some oranges. Cut off the top of the orange and remove all the insides (just like the orange is a pumpkin). Cut out a jack o' lantern face in the orange peel.
Make pudding and fill the empty jack o' lantern orange shell with the pudding. It acts as a cup holder for the pudding, but also looks very cool with the pudding inside (any pudding will do, but dark chocolate pudding looks good because then the face is dark.
I'm going to try to make this pumpkin acorn thing with pecan pumpkin butter and cream cheese---it seems easy and tasty. It's an entry towards the bottom.
http://urbangraceinteriors.typepad.com/the_blog/food/