halloween decorating tips
Halloween is fast becoming one of the most creative holidays on your calendar. Join the fun by baking up a variety of Halloween treats to share with family, friends, and office mates. Purchased fondant is as easy to use as modeling clay; leave it white, or tint with vivid gel paste colors. Follow the tips below to make this your very best Halloween ever!
popcorn balls
What fun! Popcorn balls on a stick are tasty Halloween handouts. Make caramel corn. Scoop fresh, warm caramel corn into balls, as you would a snowball. Press firmly, but not hard enough to crush the popcorn. Insert a stick about halfway through each ball; press firmly again, to anchor. Decorate with pretty ribbons. Treat on a stick kit »
pumpkin cookies
Bake, ice, and decorate a golden harvest of pumpkin cookies. Make the dough for Holiday Butter Cookies. Bake pumpkin cutouts, and spread with royal icing, tinted orange. Allow to dry completely. Thin gel paste colors with lemon juice or vodka, and paint on shadows, lines, and highlights. Let each color dry completely before applying the next. Find cookie cutters »
fondant ghosts
BOO! These delightful Halloween ghosts are more sweet than scary. Top your layer cake or create a Halloween centerpiece: these ghosts are easy as 1-2-3. First, roll cones of pliable fondant, and let them firm up. Next, roll thin (1/8") sheets of fondant, and cut large circles to drape in ghost-like folds over the cones. Finally, add features with bits of chocolate.
fondant eyeballs
Here’s looking at YOU. These are real eye-catchers on your cookies and cupcakes. Roll balls of soft white fondant in several sizes and shapes: rounds, and ovals. Roll slightly smaller beads of black fondant. Press black balls to flatten, and attach to white balls with a touch of water. Try different placements for a variety of expressions.
boo-tiful cupcakes
Line a muffin tin with festive papers, and fill with your favorite cupcake batter – or take a sweet shortcut with our Golden Vanilla Cake Mix. Frost, and top with easy sugar decorations.
haunted house rollout cookies
Who says a haunted house can't be yummy as well as scary? Use your favorite cutter to make these delicious Chocolate Cutout Cookies »
fondant mummy cupcakes
Unwrap a sweet secret: mummy cupcakes are an easy treat. Frost cupcakes with a smooth layer of white icing. Roll fondant thin (1/8"), and cut long strips, 1/3" wide. Lay strips in several directions atop cupcakes to create a mummy wrap; be sure to leave space for sugar or fondant eyes, and other decorations.
spider cookies
Chocolate spiders: perfect for the school Halloween party. Spread half of a thin chocolate cookie with white filling. Cut a licorice rope into eight 4" pieces. Anchor pieces in the icing, four on each side of the round. Top with a second cookie. Attach eyes with a dab of icing or filling. Chocolate Cutout Cookies »
spiderweb brownies
We've taken our favorite Fudge Brownie recipe and given it a mint-flavored cream cheese spiderweb for Halloween. Your little ghosts, pirates, Jedi knights and superheroes will be thrilled!
go buggy
Bake our Thousand Dollar Bars, a delicious cookie/caramel combo crowned with chocolate. For an eerie Halloween feel, pipe icing bugs onto the bars – spiders and ants are suitably scary!
