I’m back! I’ve been working on a movie that took me to Canada and New York and then back here to Utah. It was a long haul and I’m glad to be home with my family and my kitchen! I’m getting my Halloween on over here with this Halloween Treat Graveyard. Here’s a closer look.

I started off by making two pans of my favorite zucchini brownies, recipe here, with the last of the zucchini from my garden and a neighbor’s, thanks Torgersens! When the brownies cooled, I cut each pan into 16 brownies, making some of them long and skinny to be headstones and the other more square for the minty bats.

Minty Bats

For the minty bats, you just need some Peppermint Patties, small candy eyeballs, a little bit of frosting, and a red and a white tube of decorating gel. (You can find all these things at Walmart.)

1 Place a small dollop of frosting on the back of a peppermint patty and stick it on the brownies that are more square shaped than rectangle.

2 Using either the frosting or the decorating gel, apply a small amount on the back of each eye ball and then stick the eyeballs near the top of the peppermint patty.

3 Next use the red gel to make a straight line under the eyes for a mouth. Then use the white gel to make two fangs. Easy Peasy!

Now for the headstones

For the headstones, you need a bag of Milano cookies and a tube of black decorating gel. I also added some Halloween sprinkles to the headstones for a little color.

1 With your tube of black decorating gel, write RIP on each Milano cookie near the top. Leave space at the bottom to stick the cookie into the brownie.

2 Carefully push each cookie into the more rectangular shaped brownies near the top of the brownie. You can add a Halloween sprinkle by putting a dab of the decorating gel to the back of the sprinkle with the decorating gel if you like.

Minty Bat inspiration found here

Cookie Headstone inspiration found here