Dirt and Worms Halloween Frosting Board

As someone who hosts parties regularly, let me tell you this graveyard frosting board is one of the best desserts you can make for a Halloween party. Just like with any Halloween dessert board, it has a variety of sweet treats like cake, cookies, and donuts – but in this case, it also comes with frosting to dip those treats in!

Frosting boards are the newest trend that I hope never go out of style because they’re easily themed, look great, and taste even better. Plus, this one is a dirt and worms frosting board so if you’re an Oreo or dirt cake fan, you’re going to love this one!

Choosing what party food to make can be tricky, especially when we’re talking about Halloween parties where you can go either spooky or yummy! I’ve shared plenty of Halloween party ideas in the past, but this dirt and worms frosting board may be my new favorite because it’s both spooktacular to look at while still tasting good!

For those of you who are new to the idea of a frosting board, think of a traditional charcuterie board, okay really dessert board, with all of your favorite treats instead of meats and cheeses. But the cool part about frosting boards is that in the center there’s a layer of frosting for you to dip all of the festive treats into instead of bowls with dips and spreads.

Fill your own frosting board with homemade goodies such as these spell book brownies, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, or pumpkin cupcakes.

Or buy your favorite holiday treats instead so you can focus on other things, like Halloween party games or printing out these printable Halloween decorations.

Want something less sweet? Try this Halloween snack board instead!

Why You’ll Love This fun treat

1. Eye-catching – since we eat with our eyes first, it’s important that the food looks as good as it tastes. This dirt and worms frosting board looks like a fun graveyard that is ready to be the center piece to any Halloween food table.
2. Something for everyone – with a variety of cookies, cake pieces, and other delicious sweets anyone will find something they enjoy eating.
3. Easy recipe – as a regular party host, I know that easy recipes are essential. No one has time to spend hours in the kitchen when there are activities to plan, classrooms to decorate, and favors to assemble. This recipe makes it easy to provide great food without spending your whole day working on it.

Ingredients

Ingredient Notes

The most important to thing to note about the ingredients is that there are really only three ingredients that are a must do this recipe:

1. Oreos – this is my go-to choice when making edible dirt, but chocolate graham crackers or another hard chocolate cookie would work as well.
2. Chocolate frosting – I use store-bought chocolate frosting but any of your favorite frosting recipes will work. You can also change the flavor as long as you are okay with the dirt not being brown under the Oreo crumble.
3. Gummy worms – mini, sour, or regular gummy worms work for this. Or any type of gummy crawler.

Outside of that, I’ve included a list in the recipe card of all of the ingredients that I used for my frosting board, but you can use your favorite cookies, pound cake, pretzel sticks, or anything else your sweet tooth might want!

So for example, switch out the cosmic brownies with these homemade brownies or the Little Debbie cookies with these chocolate chip pudding cookies. As long as it’s dirt colored or is something that might be found in the dirt (like the gummy worms), it’s fair game!

To decorate my board, I used:

• Candy eyes – again these candy eyes can be omitted but I prefer it since it makes it more fun and colorful!
• Tombstone Icing Decorations – find edible ones here or use a printable cupcake topped like this instead.
• Ghost Icing Decorations – easily use ones like this or use ghost peeps instead!
• Treats like Little Debbie chocolate cookies, chocolate bundt cakes, brownie bites, actual brownies, and more.
• Chocolate candies like Hershey’s chocolate bars, Kit-Kats, and chocolate covered pretzels.

how to Make this fun frosting board

The hardest part about making a frosting board is choosing the right board. I opted for a square shape like this, but you can choose whatever pretty serving tray or board you want.

Once you have picked the board and prepped all of the snacks, you are ready to assemble.

I wrote detailed instructions on how I did my board for those of you who want to replicate it exactly. Don’t be afraid to change things up from how I do it.

No two boards ever look the same, so this is a great time to be creative and arrange the board with what works best for you.

With that in mind, let’s get started making this chocolate buttercream board.

1 – Frost the Board

1. Spread the whole container of chocolate frosting onto the center of the tray. Use a rubber spatula to evenly smooth it out or pipe it on using a piping bag.
2. Crush 10 Oreo cookies. To do this place them in a Ziploc bag and use a rolling pin to crush them. You can also do this in a food processor if you prefer. They don’t need to be fine crumbs just crushed chunks. Set the crumbs aside to use later.
3. Sprinkle the crushed Oreos over the frosting on the tray.

2 – Fill The Board

1. Start to fill the outside of the board with sweet treats to dip into the frosting board. Start by adding fudge rounds to the top left corner as well as the bottom right corner.
2. Add the little Debbie Frosted Fudge Cakes in the top right corner and the bottom left corner opposite the fudge rounds.
3. Use different treats to fill in the outside edges of the board. I used brownie bites, mini bundt cakes, and cosmic brownies. Homemade brownies or mini brownies could also be good here. Again, this is a great way to get creative with your board.
4. Add mini Oreos into any gaps that might still be on the board.

4 – Finish the Frosting Board

1. Sprinkle colorful sprinkles over the Oreo dirt if desired.
2. Add the gummy worms all over the board and place ghosts and tombstones on the frosting where you want them.
3. Add a serving spoon or frosting knife to finish it off.

Expert Tips and Storage Info

To store this holiday frosting board, remove the dry foods and place them in an airtight container. Plastic wrap the remaining frosting on the tray or move it to a container to use again later. Place perishable items in the fridge. 

To use a different flavor frosting but still get the same look, add brown or black food coloring to the frosting in a mixing bowl before spreading it on the board. 

To avoid excess mess, you can also line your wooden board or serving tray with parchment paper before adding frosting. This will make it much easier to clean. 

An easy way to balance out the sweet twist of a frosting board is to add a few salty items such as pretzels. The salt flavor will help keep the board from being too sweet. 

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More Easy Halloween Treats

Serve up this Halloween frosting board alongside these other popular Halloween recipes!

• Halloween pretzels – these cute Halloween pretzels are simple to make and fun to eat!
• Graveyard cake – keep up the theme of dirt and worms with this Halloween dirt poke cake!
• Halloween bark – use over any of those leftover gummy worms of Halloween sprinkles to make this sweet and salty Halloween bark!
• Dirt cups – the perfect way to serve your favorite dirt cake, in these graveyard dirt cups!
• Witch cookies – these cute cookies only take 3-ingredients and look just like witch hats!