Frightfully delicious

Published 12:20 pm Monday, October 28, 2013

Ghosts, goblins and witches will soon be knocking on doors in search of special treats on Halloween night. Vampires will invade and werewolves will be on the prowl, but with plenty of frightfully delicious treats on hand, the evening can be turned into a spook-tacular celebration.

It can be easy and fun conjuring a chilling night for family and friends by letting children get involved in the preparation of treats for the spookiest night of the year.

Halloween is the perfect holiday for children and adults to have a little fun in the kitchen while preparing for the ghoulish night. Family members can take their decorating skills to the spooky side and prepare some scary treats for a fearsome celebration.

Skull cakes, cookie bones, jolly Jack-o-lantern cookies will have every little witch, goblin or ghost howling with delight. Brew up a frightfully delicious drink and the night will be one to remember.

Entertaining experts from the Wilton test Kitchen offer these ideas for tasty and terrifying treats:

Entertaining experts from the Wilton test Kitchen offer these ideas for tasty and terrifying treat.

•Creepy Cupcakes: Transform traditional cupcakes into other worldly creations by decorating with eyeballs, spider webs or candy corn. Set up a decorating table during your Halloween party and let kids make their own creepy creations.

• Trick the Treat: Swap out the standard packaged treats for homemade sweets. Wrap cookies, pumpkin cake pops and lollipops in decorative party bags for a fearfully fun take-home treat.

• Mummy Wrap: Dress up your Halloween treats with themed baking cups. Pumpkins, mummies and ghosts are an instant way to give your party extra personality.

• Stack the Skulls: Turn the crouque-en-bouche, a popular French dessert, on its head by replacing cream puffs with mini-skeleton skulls. To increase the scare factor, mix in bone-shaped cookies and antique the treats with Candy Melts candy and Color Mist food color spray.

Try these recipes for Pumpkin Cake Pops and Graveyard Crouque-en-Bouche for a spook-tacular Halloween party. For more unique decorating ideas and recipes visit www.wilton.com.