It’s a bake-off: 15+ (mostly) kid-tested Halloween cupcakes & cookies

You’re about to see a lot of cake.

Impressive, abundant creations filled the treat tables at my daughter’s school Halloween carnival this past weekend. Kids and their parents donated homemade cookies, brownies, and mostly cupcakes to help raise money for the school. It was a spectacular display of competitive baking. Just see for yourself.

Somebody snagged one of these before I took the picture:

And here’s something I’d never seen before: Trix bars, just like Rice Krispie bars, but with Trix:

Cute idea: Add Witch’s Brew bubbles to the tops of cupcakes:

A FIRST GRADER made this:

And I made these sugar cookies with buttercream frosting, along with a couple dozen brownies. The competition for “most creative” cupcake was too intense, so I decided not to compete. At all.