Thread: Playing with your food

merryb wrote:

> I was asked to help with my son's Halloween party at school next week,
> and decided not to make cupcakes again. I thought I'd better try a
> test run so I'm not pulling my hair out Thursday night! Any of you
> ever seen pate a choux swans? I thought spiders would be fun, so I
> made my usual paste, substituting 1/4 cup of cocoa for the same amount
> of flour. I piped a bunch of wide "V"s for legs, and then heads &
> bodies for the spider- one blob connected to a bigger one. Made 8 or 9
> & then I had an idea- poop! No ****! They look EXACTLY like little
> turd piles!!! Anyway, I'll cut off the backs of the spiders and fill
> them with orange or green pastry cream, and then poke the legs in the
> cream and put the backs on, and decorate. Not sure what I'll do with
> the **** piles, but it was a fun discovery!!

Use them to garnish a "kitty litter cake" (although I understand that
rolled and shaped tootsie rolls are traditional).