Halloween Dessert Board
If you’re looking for an easy and festive Halloween treat, then this Halloween Dessert Board is all you need. You don’t need to bake a single thing, yet your guests will enjoy organic and delicious treats free of artificial colors!
If you’re looking for more organic Halloween treats, check out some of my other favorites like Spooky Rose Cake for Halloween, Brown Butter Pumpkin Cookies With Caramel, Organic Halloween Cookies With Sprinkles, or Vegan Dark Chocolate Mini Peanut Butter Cups.
A Quick Look At The Recipe
- Recipe Name: Halloween Dessert Board
- Ready In: 15 mintues
- Makes: 10 servings
- Main Ingredients: vegetable shortening, powdered sugar, vanilla extract
- Flavor Profile: a variety of flavors, chocolate, candy, vanilla frosting
- Dietary Info: vegan, gluten free, eggless
- Difficulty: Easy!
- Why You’ll Love It: No bake easy party dessert!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Quick and Easy: This Halloween dessert is quick and easy. Everything I’m using is store bought, and I just make the frosting. Plus this no bake dessert comes together in 15 minutes!
- No Artificial Colors: This Halloween dessert is festive without the use of any artificial colors!
- Great for a Party: Because this Halloween Dessert Board is festive and quick to make, it’s perfect for your Halloween party! Your guests will love this easy no bake dessert for noshing on.
Ingredients
- Shortening or Butter: I used organic vegetable shortening here so this recipe is vegan, but you can also use vegan butter or real butter too for the ghost frosting.
- Chocolate Chips: I use organic chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth of the ghost.
- Oreos: I use Newman’s Own Organic O’s which are basically organic Oreos! You can use vanilla filled or chocolate filled, both are great! You can also use any other kind of cookie you like. For another dark cookie option try Chocolate Sea Salt Mini Cookies.
- Gummy Worms: Our favorite organic gummy worms are made by Surf Sweet!
- Giggles: These are organic skittles! I picked out the green and purple ones for Halloween colors!
- Gummy Bears: I picked out all the orange gummy bears from Surf Sweet Organic Gummy Bears bag!
- Chocolate Pumpkins: I use Lake Champlain Organic Chocolate Pumpkins for decorations.
*For a full list of ingredients and measurements, visit the recipe card below.
Easy Substitutions
- Feel free to use regular butter or vegan butter in place of shortening. All three will work and make a delicious frosting.
- If you’re feeling pressed for time or just extra lazy, pick up a jar of Miss Jones Organic Vanilla Frosting instead of making it!
- You could also make the frosting orange and pipe a pumpkin for the center, using chocolate for the jack-o-lantern. Any Halloween inspired frosting design works!
- Feel free to use other cookies or candies, this part is totally flexible! I just kept within the Halloween theme which is why I chose the colors and things that I did.
How to Make a Halloween Dessert Board
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the shortening, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract.
- Mix on low until combined, then add in the stew and mix on high until you have a smooth and creamy frosting. Make sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl to ensure even mixing and add more water if needed for a smooth consistency.
- Have your serving board ready. Using a spatula, take all the frosting out of the mixing bowl and place it in the top middle of the board (wherever you want your ghost head to be). Then in a swoop motion, use the spatula to swoop the frosting down and to one side to create a ghost shape. Add chocolate chips upside down so the flat part is on top for the eyes and mouth. (Watch the video below!)
- I put the giggles in small bowls, this ensures they don’t fall off the board. The gummies are optional if you want to put in bowls or not as they will stay on the board in a pile.
- Decorate the dessert board with the remaining items, cookies, animal crackers, candy, and pumpkins. It’s ready to serve!
Halloween Dessert Board FAQ’s
Yes, of course. Feel free to use butter or even vegan butter in place of shortening.
Yes, this is a great dessert to prep. You could make this the day before if you need to, just store it at room temperature.
Organic Halloween Inspirtation
While Halloween is full of candy, you can make it better by choosing things without artificial colors and that are made with organic ingredients! You can make your own homemade Halloween candy like Homemade Crunch Bars, Healthy Almond Joy Bars, Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, or Homemade Twix Bars.
Also, if you're decorating check out Best Halloween Decorating Ingredients without Artificial Colors where I share my top choices for naturally colored sprinkles and Halloween ideas. Recipes like Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake, Spooky Rose Cake for Halloween, Pumpkin Spice S’More Bars, or Eggless Snickers Cheesecake are sure to impress party guests too!
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Halloween Dessert Board
Equipment
- Digital Food Scale
- Stand Mixer (or hand mixer)
- Serving Board
Ingredients
- 57 grams vegetable shortening (or butter)
- 142 grams powdered sugar (sifted)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 to 2 tablespoons water
- 3 semi sweet chocolate chips
- 15 Newman’s Own Organic O’s
- 20 animal crackers
- ½ cup gummy worms
- ¼ cup giggles (green and purple)
- ¼ cup gummy bears (orange)
- 10 Lake Champlain Chocolate Caramel Pumpkins
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the shortening, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract. Mix on low until combined, then add in the stew and mix on high until you have a smooth and creamy frosting. Make sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl to ensure even mixing and add more water if needed for a smooth consistency.
- Have your serving board ready. Using a spatula, take all the frosting out of the mixing bowl and place it in the top middle of the board (wherever you want your ghost head to be). Then in a swoop motion, use the spatula to swoop the frosting down and to one side to create a ghost shape. Add chocolate chips upside down so the flat part is on top for the eyes and mouth.
- I put the giggles in small bowls, this ensures they don’t fall off the board. The gummies are optional if you want to put in bowls or not as they will stay on the board in a pile.
- Decorate the dessert board with the remaining items, cookies, animal crackers, candy, and pumpkins.
- It’s ready to serve!
Video
Notes
- Feel free to use regular butter or vegan butter in place of shortening. All three will work and make a delicious frosting.
- If you’re feeling pressed for time or just extra lazy, pick up a jar of Miss Jones Organic Vanilla Frosting instead of making it!
- You could also make the frosting orange and pipe a pumpkin for the center, using chocolate for the jack-o-lantern. Any Halloween inspired frosting design works!
- Feel free to use other cookies or candies, this part is totally flexible! I just kept within the Halloween theme which is why I chose the colors and things that I did.
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This is so fun for a party!