Peanut Butter Fudge Starfish on a Rice Krispies Treat Sandy Beach

Source: hungryhappenings.com via Kathryn on Pinterest

While this looks like a work of art, it actually is an edible treat made out of peanut butter, white chocolate & peanut butter chips, Hershey's Kisses, butter,  Rice Crispies and a child's sand toy in the shape of a start and shell candy molds.

For the instructions on how to make this, visit Hungry Happenings.

FREE JELLO BRAIN MOLD (JUST PAY $2.95 SHIPPING & HANDLING)

Kraft Food is offering up until 10/31/11, or while supplies last a free Brain mold for Jello here with shipping and handling being $2.95.   Below are some recipes/ideas.

Happy Haunting!

For a realistic "gray matter" looking brain, Hi Cookery has a recipe using peach or watermelon, jello, fat free evaporated milk and red, green and blue food coloring and red icing piped into the crevices

Photo:  Hi Cookery

About.Com: Cooking For Kids has a recipe here using strawberry jello and Cool Whip

 Photo:  Stephanie Gallagher @About.Com: Cooking For Kids 

If you prefer to make an alien brain, Hurleygurly on Flickr has a recipe with lime jello, cream cheese, lemon lime soda and walnuts here

Photo:  Hurleygirly 

If you would prefer a more gorier effect, Fab Food has a recipe for "Melba's bleeding brain made out of unflavored gelatin, peaches, cream and peach flavored syrup and raspberry pie filling for the blood. 

Photo:  Fab Food

Another bleeding brain recipe at Kitchen Daily is made with peach jello, sweetened condensed milk, strawberry preserves and black food dye 

Photo: Victoria Belanger @  Kitchen Daily

 You can also use the mold for ice to put in a punch, like this decayed looking brain made of ice and grape Kool-ade
at Hub Pages 

Another use would be to make a brain dip using mushroom soup, shrimp, cream cheese and unflavored gelatin - recipe at Gapers Block 

Photo:   Gapers Block

Tropical Island Trifles

Although we are slipping into Fall, if you want to bring back a bit of summer you could make this dessert by Jelly Fish Jelly.

Her description of the dessert is: 

"The island is a small jam fancy cupcake, surrounded by a sea of blue jelly, sitting on an ocean floor of custard. I made the palm tree by piping melted chocolate into a tree shape and then scattered green sprinkles on the fronds. Lastly I dusted the island with a teaspoon of crushed sweet biscuits to look like beach sand."

 For the recipe, click here.

Photo:  Jelly Fish Jelly.  

BACKYARD BUGS CAKE MOLD

This would be a fun prank to take to a picnic and tell everyone that you brought "backyard bugs" for dessert.

They are made by pouring cake batter into a cast iron mold by Nordic Ware and are available at Target,
Amazon, and the Nordic Ware website for between $22.50 - $32.00; a steeper price than aluminum shaped pans for a novelty item, but they are quality and do last as they are made out of cast iron and bake more evenly than aluminum pans.  Nordic Ware is a family owned household and industrial kitchenware manufacturer out of Minnesota and they have been in business since 1946. 

 

Photos above : Target


If you aren't into decorating cakes, you could even just use a red velvet cake batter like Amazon user HB 
and give them a "bloody" bug look that you could use around Halloween.

Photo: Amazon user HB 



Disclaimer:  I have no affiliation with this company and received any type of consideration for this post - just think it is cool and is on my wish list:)