Pinewood Derby Q&A

What treats should I serve at the Pinewood Derby?

I'm trying to come up with something cute with a racing theme. All you Martha Stewarts out there, do you have any great ideas?

Public Comments

1. I'm hardly a Martha Stewart but I remember we did rice crispy treats with those mini-oreos held onto the side with icing and made to look like a race car. Also serve "motor oil" (a dark cola or chocolate milk) Also you can make cookies and add icing to make them look like checkered flags. Hope this helps!
2. This doesn't go with your theme, but if you're like me, I bought a ton of that microwavable popcorn from my son in the fall. Unload some of it.
3. I have four brothers so I attended my fair share of Pinewood Derby races. The most creative thing I ever saw as a cake made to look like a checkered flag. But it wasn't a professionally decorated cake that was purchased. One mother had baked two regular cakes - one chocolate with chocolate frosting and one white with white frosting. After both were frosted, they were cut into pieces of equal size. She then placed the pieces on a cake board in a checkerboard pattern. Everybody knew exactly what it was meant to be and it was a hit. Good luck and happy racing!
4. OH cool ideas so far, I have some more. I would buy a variety of premade cookies that are oblong or rectangular or square. Fudge Graham sticks, Nutter Butter, those waffley cookies with creme filling (choc, van, strawberry), Milano, whatever you can find. Then buy a bag of mini and a bag of big marshmellows for wheels and some milk chocolate chips, maybe 2-3 bags, and some white frosting for glue, can you get a pretzel or cracker shaped like a steering wheel? Mini-ritz? If you can imitate other details of a car with candies, etc, go ahead, if it was me I would keep them abstract. Melt the chips. Form cars by cutting or stacking or just use a single cookie, and then glue wheels and steering wheels on with frosting, (big marsh on the back will make it a hot rod!) and then dip the whole thing in chocolate. Decorate if you like with sprinkles, sugars, icings. I am thinking that Nutter Butters would be a great sporty looking car. You could also cheat and have a cake made, checkered inside (choc and white cake) , with or without ice cream inside or outside. Decorate it with a sports car topper. You could also go the fuddy duddy route and do a veggie platter with ranch, or a meat/cheese/cracker tray, or a multi pack of lunch box sized chips. You can make puppy chow, or popcorn, or chex mix...just make sure you have a sanitary way of serving it...a scoop of some sort, so people aren't dipping their hands in it.