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This Halloween Dessert Board is just as easy as it sounds! Buttercream boards are the best centerpiece – especially a Halloween Party! This will be a hit with the kids, I guarantee it!
Easy Halloween Dessert Board
I love to make these easy frosting boards because they can be made into any shape and decorated for any holiday and event. This one is made into the cutest pumpkin; you need to simply use frosting, food coloring, and icing to present this awesome recipe!
One of the best parts of frosting boards is the dippers. What good is the frosting if you don’t have anything to dip into it? For this recipe I used these super cute and iconic cookies, but you can add so much more as well. Different cookies, crackers, fruit, and really anything else would taste great! If you need a recipe and you need it quick–this ones for you!
Ingredients Needed
- Vanilla Frosting: Use store-bought, or make my vanilla buttercream recipe.
- Orange Gel Food Coloring: You can also use a combination of red and yellow food coloring to make orange.
- Black and Green Decorator Icing
- Cookies, etc, for dipping: So many things would taste so good dipped in this frosting pumpkin
How to make Halloween Buttercream Board
- Stir a few drops of food coloring into your can of icing and stir.
- Cover your serving plate or board with parchment or wax paper.
- Spread a circle of frosting all over your board.
- Use the black decorator icing to pipe eyes, nose, and mouth.
- Use the green decorator icing to pipe the stem.
- Serve with assorted dippers (cookies, fruit, pretzels, etc).
Expert Tips
- Feeling creative? Make a ghost or a bat as well as a pumpkin.
- When mixing the food coloring, make sure you mix it evenly so the color is distributed well!
- If you don’t want to use icing for the decorating–get more frosting and dye it whatever color you’d like!
FAQs
I don’t recommend making it too far in advance because the frosting will harden. One hour in advance is the most I would do.
Halloween Frosting Board
Ingredients
- 1 can vanilla frosting
- Orange Gel Food Coloring
- Black decorator icing
- Green decorator icing
- Cookies etc, for dipping
Instructions
- Stir a few drops of food coloring into your can of icing and stir.
- Cover your serving plate or board with parchment or wax paper.
- Spread a circle of frosting all over your board.
- Use the black decorator icing to pipe eyes, nose, and mouth.
- Use the green decorator icing to pipe the stem.
- Serve with assorted dippers (cookies, fruit, pretzels, etc).
Recipe Notes
can to dye black and green.
• Instead of frosting, you can also use sprinkles to decorate the jack-o-lantern.
