Kids Will Go Batty for this Bat Frosting Board for Halloween
Halloween is just around the corner, and it’s time to start planning your spooky treats for the season. If you’re looking for a fun and festive spin on a Halloween charcuterie for kids, look no further than a frosting board in the shape of a bat. The cute bat-shaped frosting design will impress your guests. And, when paired with a delicious assortment of cookies, you’ll have a Halloween treat that is both visually stunning and delicious. Use whatever color you wish for the frosting. You’ll see pink and purple here, and both are super fun and cute for a modern Halloween party!
In this post, we’ll dive into the details of using a frosting board to create the bat-shaped frosting design. Below, you can print off the handy-dandy bat printable which you will use to pipe the outline of frosting before filling in the rest of the bat.
What is a Frosting Board?
A frosting board is a spin off of the now well-known charcuterie board and the butter board. Whereas a traditional charcuterie board might be filled with cheese, fruits, meats, and crackers, a frosting board is full of sugar! Lots of sugar! Cookies, mini cupcakes, chocolate covered anything!
Ingredients for a Bat Frosting Board for Halloween
- WILTON CREAMY DECORATOR ICING, MEDIUM
- PINK OR PURPLE FOOD COLORING
- LARGE CANDY EYES
- BLACK WILTON SPARKLE GEL
- MINI MARSHMALLOWS
- HOSTESS BABY BUNDTS, CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE
- BROWNIE BITES
- MINI CUPCAKES
- MINI DONUTS
- CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
- LITTLE DEBBIE COSMIC BROWNIES
- OREO COOKIES
- MINI OREO COOKIES
- MINI GOLDEN OREO COOKIES
- MINI CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
- MINI CHOCOLATE PRETZELS
- GUMMY PUMPKINS
- PURPLE & ORANGE STRIPED MARSHMALLOWS
- SOUR WORMS
Harper Says
It’s adorable. So cute. I could literally eat it forever! It comes with MANY different snacks. WARNING: sugary. It’s really sugary so I recommend that you don’t eat too much at the same time.
Norah Says
Sugary, but delicious and so so so cute. It has yummy Cosmic Brownies, marshmallows and so much more. Don’t eat too much or you will get sick. This delicious treat is great for Halloween parties and birthday parties.
Steps for Setting the Design on Your Halloween Frosting Board
Step 1: Print the bat printable.
Before you start doing anything, print off the printable bat PDF which will give you something to trace along as you set your bat design.
Next, cut the bat out and then trace it against a piece of parchment paper and cut the parchment paper into the bat.
Step 2: Lay out the parchment paper bat on a large serving platter.
Make sure the serving platter is large enough that there is plenty of room around the bat so you can add the cookies and snacks around it later.
Also, prepare your frosting with whichever color you desire and fill your piping bag with the preferred tip.
Step 3: Pipe a frosting border around the parchment paper bat.
Step 4: Fill the bat with frosting.
As evenly as possible, continue the same process by “coloring in” the rest of the bat with the icing. Then, spread the frosting in a thick layer until the bat is completely filled using a narrow and flat spatula.
Step 5: Add candy eyes and a black frosting mouth.
Be sure to make your bat as cute as possible! An upturned mouth for a smile and big overlapping eyes give an extra nod to cuteness!
Step 6: Outline the frosting border with mini marshmallows and add fangs.
We don’t have picture of this step, but you can see what we are talking about in some of the final photos with the purple bat. You will simply place mini marshmallows along the outer edge of the bat – leaving no gaps.
Cut one mini marshmallow into two thin triangular pieces to add as fangs.
Step 7: Fill in the remainder of the serving platter with sweet treats.
We like to work corner to opposite corner when filling in charcuterie boards or dessert boards. We might start with the lower left corner and fill in the upper right corner with an assortment of treats. Do not place too many of the same treats in one area. Spread the sugary love all around the board! And whatever you do, do not leave any dead space on the board. Every space should be full. However, you want to be careful to not disturb the marshmallow border.
What Types of Treats to Add to a Frosting Board for Halloween?
Remember, we are thinking of the frosting board as a dessert board. The frosting is for people to dip their sweet treats in. Or not. It’s totally up to the snacker as to what goes into the frosting and what doesn’t. As you can see from our idea list, a variety of cookies, small snack cakes, mini cupcakes, sour candies, and chocolate-covered pretzels work well on this bat frosting board for Halloween!
Tips for Making a Frosting Board for Halloween
- Put thought into the color scheme in advance – before shopping for treats. You want the whole board to look somewhat cohesive color wise. Picture the big bat kind of like a comforter in a bedroom. You want the other items around the bedroom to complement or coordinate with the comforter. Here, the purple and pink gummy bears and sprinkles on the Cosmic brownies and cupcakes coordinate with the light purple and dark pink bats.
- Another thing to consider when shopping for treats is the use of big and small items. You don’t want all the treats to be the same size. Some cookies and candies should be small. Others should be larger.
- Place larger items on the board first, and let everything else tumble in around and on top. This is not the time for nice neat stacks of cookies. This type of dessert board is much more attractive with a “thrown together” look.
- Include a little unwrapped Halloween candy. It is candy season, after all!
- Dessert boards can get expensive because you have to have a lot of filler items for the board. The board featured here features many different products. If necessary, you could provide fewer types of items (meaning you purchase fewer products and use more of each of those products on the board). Just remember to keep to large and small items and a variety.
- Encourage guests to dip the cookies into the frosting as some may be hesitant to disturb the adorable bat! Also encourage them to eat the marshmallows before they dry out and get hard.
A Finished Bat Frosting Board with a Purple Bat
How cute is this purple bat frosting board for Halloween? The pink one turns out mighty cute, too! Both of these colors are perfect for a girly Halloween party! Of course, you can always go with black food coloring if you are hoping for a more traditional Halloween frosting board.
Halloween Bat Frosting Board
Ingredients
Frosting Bat
- 16 oz Wilton Icing Medium, #2 (2 cups)
- Food coloring Purple, pink, or other color of choice
- 2 Candy googley eyes large
- Black Wilton Sparkle Gel
- ¾ cup Mini marshmallows
Dessert Board Featured Ingredients
- Oreos
- Mini Oreos
- Mini Golden Oreos
- Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies
- Hostess Bundt Cakes
- Brownie bites
- Mini cupcakes
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Mini donuts
- Mini chocolate chip cookies
- Chocolate covered pretzels
- Halloween decorative marshmallows
- Candy pumpkins
- Sour gummy worms
Instructions
To Design the Frosting Bat
- Add purple food coloring to the decorating icing and mix until blended and desired color is achieved.
- Fit a pastry bag with round piping tip and fill with all of the icing.
- Print bat template, cut out the shape and trace onto parchment paper if desired. Place it onto the center of your serving board.
- Trace the outside of the template (or simply freehand) with icing as if you were drawing. Then fill the entire bat shape in using the same process.
- Smooth the frosting surface using an offset spatula. Touch up the shape of the bat if needed.
- Add candy eyes. Draw on a tiny mouth.
- Place mini marshmallows around the entire bat shape to define it. Cut two fangs out of a mini marshmallow and place them under the mouth.
To Fill in Desserts
- Add brownie bites to the top right and bottom left corners.
- Add mini bundt cakes to the top left and bottom right corners.
- Fill in with rest of open white space with a variety cookies, mini cupcakes and brownies.
- Fill in all extra empty spaces with mini cookies, gummy pumpkins, marshmallows, mini marshmallows and sour worms.
- Serve your bat frosting board with spoons and plates.
Notes
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