Spooky Dessert Board
This Spooky Dessert Board is the kind of thing you put in the center of the table and let people graze on all night. Ghost strawberries. Mummy Nutter Butters wrapped in white chocolate drizzle with candy eyes. Milano cookies piped with "RIP" in black chocolate. Reese's Pumpkins, Snickers Pumpkins, Peeps, sour gummy worms, candy corn, Halloween Skittles, M&M's. It's a complete Halloween spread in board form, and it looks like you put in serious effort when the actual work is dipping, piping, and assembling.
Ingredients
- 20 oz white chocolate or candy melts
- Black candy melts
- Milano Milk Chocolate Cookies
- Nutter Butter cookies
- Fresh strawberries
- Gummy eyeball candies
- Sour gummy worms
- Reese's Pumpkins
- Snickers Pumpkins
- Peeps Marshmallow Pumpkins, Ghosts, and Frankenstein
- Candy corn
- Halloween Skittles
- Halloween M&M's
- Pumpkin-shaped candy
- Eyeball candy sprinkles
Instructions
- Line 2–3 baking sheets with parchment. Rinse and thoroughly dry strawberries.
- Melt white candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl in 30-second bursts, stirring between each, until smooth and thoroughly mixed.
- Melt black candy melts the same way. Transfer to a piping bag and set aside
- Dip each Nutter Butter in the white coating, tap off excess, and place on parchment to set.
- Hold each strawberry by the greens, dip in the white coating, let extra drip to form a ghost tail, and set on parchment. Refrigerate 5–10 minutes to firm up.
- Pipe "RIP" onto the flat side of each Milano cookie using the black piping bag. Let set.
- Add two candy eyes to each dipped Nutter Butter using a dot of white coating as glue. Drizzle thin strands of white coating back and forth over each cookie to create bandages. Let set completely.
- Pipe two eyes and a small oval mouth on each strawberry ghost using the black piping bag. Let set.
- For board assembly, start with the larger items first — mummy Nutter Butters, RIP Milanos, Peeps, and ghost strawberries in the corners.
- Use a small bowl to hold smaller items and add height.
- Tuck in Reese's Pumpkins and Snickers Pumpkins throughout.
- Fill remaining gaps with candy corn, M&M's, Skittles, gummy eyeballs, and sour gummy worms, keeping colors in tight blocks.
Notes
The assembled board should be served the same day for best results. Individual components can be stored separately — dipped cookies in an airtight container at room temperature, dipped strawberries in the fridge and consumed within 1 day. Dry strawberries completely before dipping. Start assembly with large anchor pieces and work inward — small candy scattered first makes it hard to place large decorated items.
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Nutrition information provided is just an estimate and may vary based on specific ingredients used.