Need advice about decorating a Hallow cake - I've attached a picture

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dawnnys

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of what I have in my head, and I'm planning on using oblong cookies for the tombstones... but, it's been so long since I've bought a packaged cookie (not that I'm a cookie snob, I just don't particularly like cookies).

Does anyone know what kind of cookie I can get that is oblong? Kind of on the order of Pepperidge Farms Milano cookies, but they are a little wierd-shaped for this project. Any other ideas?

Also, I want the cemetary part of the 9 x 13 single-layer cake (80% of the cake) grass green - any ideas on what to frost the rest of it with? It will have a pretzel-stick fence, so I am thinking a different shade of green for the "outside of the fence" part? Brown? Any other ideas such as gravel, dirt, or whatever?

I am digging out one of the graves to look like it has been freshly dug... and the chocolate cake will be piled up just next to the hole. I'll add some spiders and bats (although I realize they look more like holly leaves from my drawing!), maybe some fall leaves, something to represent cobwebs(?), mellowcream pumpkins, some white-wafer freedrawn ghosts, and some funny epitaphs.

Also, I want to dip the oblong cookie halves in melted white chocolate wafers - I am thinking gray - but don't have a clue on how to get a gray tint to the white. Maybe Wilton's black paste? Oooh, this is getting expensive, so I'll like to keep it as cheap as I can (it's for a bake sale). If it works out, I'll make one for a kid party if I still have any sanity left.

Any other ideas or suggestions? Thanks!!

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I remember Van de Kamp's almond Windmill cookies, do they still make them?

If you stuck them in upside down they just might work. Or maybe graham crackers trimmed with icing? Just thinking out loud.

I know you don't make cookies, but if you make some shortbread or gingerbread dough you could roll it out and cut it to any shape you'd like.

 
On second thought, Milanos probably would be perfect if I shaved off the little peak... any ideas on

my other dilemmas?!

 
Do you have Oreo "Dunkers" available? They may work. What about colored

coconut for the remainder of the grass/dirt?

Another consideration are those gummy worms for the outside of the fence in the cake?

What a great project!

I am very impressed! Please take a picture.

Regards,
Barb

 
One idea--you could dye some marzipan or fondant green and roll it out to cover the cake,

Then add crushed cookies for dirt. Crushed oreos in patches and crushed vanilla wafers in others might give some variety. Snipping the peaks off the Milanos sounds like a perfect solution.

 
and Nabisco makes a vanilla filled cookie, I think it's Vienna something that are narrow oval.

 
very cute... you could use cotton candy for the spider web effect... I've seen it in packages

at candy stores, or hanging in the candy aisle some places.

Died coconut makes great grass, and you could use finely chopped nuts for the rest - to simulate rocky gravel. Maybe cut thin lengthwise pieces of tape candy... I don't know what it's called, but is usually a sour candy formed in a long, rolled up tape - and use it for the ropes between the pretzel sticks. Attach with royal icing - you can then pipe the rest of the royal icing into ghost shapes, and use it to attach the 'keep out' sign to the pretzel stick.

 
Not sure the cotton candy will hold up. At least here, it would last for about 15 minutes...

then it would absorb moisture, get damp and clumpy.

On second thought, that might not be a bad effect either.

 
I seem to remember seeing a recipe somewhere for spun sugar.

I remember thinking it looked fairly easy to make. It might have more staying power than cotton candy. I'll try to remember where I saw the recipe...I'm thinking it was on a Good Eatz show, but I'm not sure.

 
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