(another great book on the subject is Life of the Party by Kirk Demarais and both are dang handsome volumes).Because things are funny in threes (it's a comedy rule) we limited ourselves to the three items seen below (sorry about the crummy pictures, our first digital camera was pretty stinky). The three edible novelties were presented in a paper sack festooned with question marks in "mystery gift" fashion (a cloth sack would have been more authentic but we ran out of time) and I used vintage novelty art for the header cards.
I think that the Doggie Doo Cookies were the first thing we came up with. It was a natural and easy to do. As I recall, our kids helped and much enjoyed making edible "poo." Sadly, we overcooked the cookies a bit but they looked great.
We almost didn't do the Barf Candy because we were worried that the idea would seem too gross. Sanity prevailed. I spent a lot of time trying to get the right mix of smooth and chunky textures. You can't really see it here but the "barf" had a lovely green color and the minty white chocolate mixed with Heath bar bits was very tasty.
The X-Ray Spex cookies were my favorite because I thought my wife and I were pretty clever in coming up with an easy way to make dozens of them (we basically created a big, chilled x-ray spex loaf and cut thin slices off of it). The cookies weren't as fragile as I thought they would be and they turned out pretty yummy.
