Halloween day 28, soul cakes and Sleepy Hollow A lot of our own Halloween traditions might owe their roots to Scottish guising (treating neighbors to little performances (in costume so as to be safe from wandering spirits) on Halloween night, (in exchange for sweets) but it wasn’t always so. Holidays in early America were […]
halloween countdown day 27: bingo! This year is all about figuring out safe and fun ways to celebrate all these darn holidays during a pandemic! I feel like the biggest, most horrible thing about covid, besides, you know, the threat of death, is all the mixed messages. One minute, pushing lollipops into your front […]
Halloween countdown day 26, frothy magic brews and david “brewy” What kid and witch does not love bubbling, foaming, color changing delicious, magical drinks? These color changing floats are a blast- they are just at home in a dark sorcerer’s magic castle or a fun 4th of July bar-b-que. What other treat offers such versatility? […]
Halloween countdown day 25, oh mummy! If your little goblins are anything like mine, they are super picky about what they gobble. This is a very kid friendly, easy but with a lot of bang for your buck food hack that I love: just wrap hotdogs in crescent roll dough and bake in the oven […]
Halloween Countdown day 23: PCCCC’s and Heart of Darkness Here is a cookies done two ways that truly “embodies” what Halloween is all about- the tricks and the treats (and the gore!). These cookies have a rich cocoa base that holds onto either potato chips or frosted flakes- both versions are junk food heavens- the […]
Halloween countdown: peanut butter cauldron cake and the sanderson sisters. So you have your gelatin bubbles, your pate a choux toads and your cocoa buttercream frosting made ahead of time. Now you are ready to be a good witch and put it all together into a luscious, peanut buttery cauldron cake. Because chocolate and peanut […]
Halloween day 22 (barely, but PSD still day 22!) pate a choux toads and the witches Why have the French simply thought of everything? It’s like ever great idea from clothing, to food, to kissing can be traced back to them. Of course the frenchiest of easy baking ideas, the light as air decorating […]
Halloween countdown day 21, cauldron bubbles and I married a witch! When starting a baking adventure, I always think about breaking it up into small bits. We all have loads of stuff to do (somehow even during a pandemic!) and even if we didn’t breaking projects down into parts makes them much easier to […]
halloween countdown day 20- boo…bies cards and elvira sort of. There are like a billion reasons to love Halloween, but one of the biggest from when I was little was I was allowed to wear lipstick on Halloween in a pretty strict no make-up house hold for a very long time (now a days, like […]
halloween countdown day 19, white chocolate fudge and disney’s halloween treat One thing that always reminds me of vacations is fudge- I never really think about it at home except at Christmas, but any trip to the beach or some sleepy Irish town calls for fudge. Since this year any trips are on pause, I […]
