3. Design Your Board
When you’re satisfied with a nice collection of snacks to share, it’s time to put it all together on your board. Arrange your snacks in mishappen clusters—each oriented in a similar direction. Use the items in abundance, filling any open spaces. If the placement seems a bit hectic, the addition of a one or two larger items—such as a cheese ball or a bowl for a dip or nuts— can serve as a steadfast anchor around which to cluster smaller, loose snacks.
The Recipes
Perfect Pumpkin Pizza Pockets
There are myriad uses for Nordic Ware cakelet molds that go well beyond just cake. These muffin-size pizza pockets are a case in point. Start with the skull- or pumpkin-shaped cakelet mold, line it with readymade pizza or crescent roll dough, fill and bake. Pizza ingredients are the featured filling here, but you could just as easily swap in ham and cheese or a spoonful of chili if you like.
Mummy Dogs
Once you prepare mummy dogs, you’ll wonder why you ever stooped to serving hotdogs in ordinary buns. Wrapped in strips of refrigerator dough, the dogs bake to easy perfection. Edible googly eyes are a nice touch, though well-placed dots of ketchup work nearly as well for sinister eyeball stand-ins. For the ultimate in mummy dog presentation, serve a bowl of mustard spider web-topped ketchup alongside. (Try the same technique we used here.)
Halloween Snacks
The most central ingredient in your snack board is a healthy amount of creativity. No real recipes required. Make pb&j or ham and cheese sandwiches and use a halloween cookie cutter to cut them into spooky shapes. Fill celery sticks with peanut butter, then top them with raisins for ants on a log. Banana become ghosts with just the right application of chocolate drips. Tangerines transform to halloween pumpkins when peeled and embellished with celery stick “stems.” All you really need for the best-ever board is just some good ideas and whole lot of fun.