Halloween Food Art: Wacky Witches Batter and Boo Brownies!
At Halloween, I cannot resist dipping into the candy and creating some food art! This Halloween, to the delight of your children, we baked up some creepy treats in our edible art class using lots of sweet treats!
Boo Brownies
Our first group made Boo Brownies. We began by using a good size square brownie as our base. Our next step was taking two jumbo marshmallows (one to eat and one to stick a toothpick in halfway and place it on the brownie base. Then, we took a leap of faith! We put vanilla icing in individual zip-loc bags and heated it in the microwave for about 8 seconds to make the icing more fluid. Each boys was given their own icing bag…I held my breath, an then we snipped a corner of the bag and let them squeeze the icing out holding it above the marshmallow allowing the icing to ooze over the marshmallow and make our ghost. We added some icing eyes and mouth to complete this deliciously scary Boo Brownie!
Wacky Witches Cakes and Cupcakes
For our Wacky Witches cakes, we made a yellow cake batter and the divided into four different zip-loc bags. Once the batter was separated and bagged, we added purple, orange, yellow and black food coloring. Each student was given a mini Bundt pan and filled it with a little bit of each color batter. We popped it in the oven and had our snack while it baked. Once they were baked and set to cool on a rack, we went on to coloring the icing, again separating the icing and adding food coloring to each bag. We microwaved the icing to make it drippy and the kids kept passing the colors between them to cover the cake with drippy, witchy icing!
The cupcakes were made in the same way, but instead of drippy icing, once the cupcakes cooled, the cupcakes were topped in a few different ways.
One group used a star shaped icing tip to make the icing look like grass. Then covered a jumbo marshmallow, again anchored by a toothpick, with orange icing. Using the icing as glue, they added orange M&Ms to make it look like a pumpkin siting in a pumpkin patch.
A second group topped the cupcake again to look like grass, and set it aside. Next they used melted chocolate in an icing bag to trace bare trees or witches hats on wax paper. We popped them into the freezer for a few minutes to let the chocolate harden and went back to add to the grass icing, brightly colored toppings to mimic leaves. Once the trees and hats were hardened, we used a knife to make an incision in the cupcake and pushed the chocolate topping into the center of the cupcake and added candy pumpkins to finish it off.
Our oldest boys’ group made the cupcakes the same way, but iced the top of their cupcakes with a circular icing tip to make a spiral top. Their topping was an assortment of creepy, scared or sinister eyes they traced with melted chocolate on the wax paper and froze to harden and then finally placing them on top of the orange icing.