Thread: Vampire Dessert Bar

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Hey everyone!

I am planning a vampire themed party this year. Think dark and gothic, but classy. Everything will be black, white and blood red. I plan on having lots of candles lit and dark red roses everywhere.

Anyway, I'm planning an elaborate dessert/candy buffet, but I want everything to fit in the black, white, red color scheme and the vampire theme.

So far I'm planning on making "Vampire bite" cupcakes:



"Vampire bite" cookies:



Chocolate whoopie pies:



Red Velvet whoopie pies:



Decorated sugar cookies: (see bottom of picture)



Chocolate covered Oreos topped with chocolate transfers: (similar to the picture below (on right), but topped with damask and spiderweb images)









I was also thinking of including some candy in glass apothecary jars. Does anyone have any other ideas for things that I could include?

Chocolate dipped strawberries and vanilla dipped strawberries match your color scheme, and the sort of sexy decadence synonomous with vampires.

I love the vampire bite cupcakes! Great idea!

Seems like you have the best of the best covered!!

Chocolate fondue - I love dark chocolate and amaretto for mine. Serve with strawberries, cherries, rasberries, marshmallows, spongecake - whatever you like and fits with your color scheme. If you don't have a fondue pot, you can use a small crockpot to keep the fondue warm.

Other options for filling your cupcakes could be a rasberry filling or there's a recipe for bleeding cupcakes that uses a cream cheese/white chocolate filling that is dyed:

http://www.perfectentertaining.com/halloween/hr15.htm

Black and red licorice - I can't stand the stuff, but other people aren't me

If you're serving alcohol and want a punch idea, below is a "Vampire Punch" that we've served several years - always gone over very well:

2 bottles of Rioja or Merlot
15 oz. Cranberry Juice
4 oz. Rum

HeatherEve1234 - Chocolate dipped strawberries are a great idea! Thanks!

I've been tossing around the idea of doing 1 or 2 chocolate fountains. (Depends on whether I can find a deal on them on Craigs List.) Maybe 1 milk chocolate and 1 white chocolate dyed red to look like blood!

llondra - Thanks so much for the great ideas and the punch recipe. I'm thinking of serving 2 different punches: 1 alcoholic and 1 non-alcoholic. I have 2 big glass punch jars to put them in. I was thinking I could make them both red and have one labeled as A positive blood (alcoholic) and one labeled as A negative blood (non-alcoholic). If you have any good non-alcoholic red punch recipes, I would love them!

Here's a couple more ideas for your party.

I like these Milky Way bites but you could use a better chocolate if you find the right shaped chocolate:

Milky Way Vampire Bites


The Hostess (with the Mostess) did a great Twilight party idea on her blog a while back. Here's the labels she created for drinks (you can download and use):

Blood Type Labels

I also think I've seen red glass lips that people use to sprinkle around their pillar candles. Not sure where though but maybe someone else does if you end up liking the idea. That or red lips table confetti might be nice if used sparingly.

As far as the "candy" portion you can always check out the bulk candy (cherry sours, hot tamales, black gummy spiders, etc.) and licorice straws (red and black) for your drinks. Dipped pretzels - you can purchase the white chocolate or regular chocolate pretzels already dipped, or do your own. You can order M&M's in whichever color you choose and even have them imprinted if you'd like.

Where did you find the red velvet whoopie pies?

Originally Posted by printersdevil

Where did you find the red velvet whoopie pies?

I'm planning on making them myself. The picture was just one that I googled, but there are several recipes out there. Here are a few:

From Scratch:
http://www.bhg.com/recipe/cookies/re...t-whoopie-pie/

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/f...ipe/index.html

Using a Cake Mix:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4680541_corn...opie-pies.html

Williams Sonoma actually carries a mix for Red Velvet whoopie pies found here: http://www.williams-sonoma.com/produ...oopie-pie-mix/ Although it doesn't look as red as homemade ones.