Since we'll be traveling over the holiday, I wont have the chance to make some of the recipes I had been looking forward to. But my loss could be your gain! I thought I would list some fun ideas for Halloween parties, or just fun weekend family treats, you could try. If you make any of them, be sure to let me know! I was going to make the spiders and witch cupcakes for Tim's work group, maybe next year.
On a side note, although the pictures look incredibly impressive, I chose and liked all of these recipes because they also seemed fairly easy and VERY do-able. No crazy ingredients, or cooking methods/terms I hadn't heard of. If anything, some required multi-steps, but that's just an issue of time commitment. Hey, if you're going to make something fun for halloween, no one has to know it was actually pretty easy! Get the biggest bang for your effort, right?!
Enjoy my fellow ghosts and goblins! And be safe.
Here is my personal favorite: Ladies Fingers
All I can say is, 'wow, martha!'. Click on the link to see recipe details (they're cookies with almond fingernails).
Great Spider Cupcakes
How cool are these?! And sooo easy.
Spider Cupcakes
from Family Fun Recipes
Chocolate cupcake (body)
Canned chocolate icing
Chocolate sprinkles (hair)
2 pieces of eye-type candy (we used Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts) *
Clean scissors
Ruler
1 package of black string lace licorice (legs)
Frost the cupcake with chocolate icing and cover with sprinkles.
Press the eyes into place.
Use scissors to cut eight 4-inch pieces of licorice for the legs. Holding all of the legs together in a bunch, bend them in half and crease. Push the end of each leg into the cupcake as shown.
* I bet you could find a thick tube-like (rope?) licorice that has a black center/filling. Then you'd just need to cut horizontal slices for the eyes. Cut carefully, as the licorice is likely to 'squish' as you cut it. Use a serrated knife.
Wicked Witch Cupcakes
A very fun cupcake accompaniment to the spiders, or if you happen to have a couple little girls in the house wanting to be witches this Halloween.
Rachel Ray's Gigi Apple Cake
This one is thrown in as a delicious looking cake, more for the low-key adult party you might be throwing. Apples always feel like autumn to me.
And for drinks, the Melted Witch, from All Recipes:
1 (32 fluid ounce) bottle lemon-lime sports drink
1 (32 fluid ounce) bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
Combine in a punch bowl and serve over ice.
Happy Halloween to you all.
Guten appetit!
2 comments:
I love those!! Wow you are going to be a great mom.
By the way, I made those morning glory muffins (I made mine with blueberries) and they were gone within 2 days. All 3 boys love them!
@ two brothers: Thanks! Happy to hear the muffins were a hit. Tim likes them best with blueberries too, I should add that as a note to the recipe. Mmmm, delicious.
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