Fun Halloween Recipes

I saw this today on Facebook.  It's so seriously disgusting, but also awesome.  How often do you say that?  Only around Halloween, my friends.
 

BRAINS IN A JAR

 

 

 
I also found some Candy Corn Cupcake Trifles on Tablespoon, which are somewhat similarly made, but I must say, a lot more appetizing.  So for those of you not wishing to gross out your guests, here is the recipe:
 

Candy Corn Cupcake Trifles

 

 

 

Finally, I saw these seriously cute cupcakes the other day on Skinnytaste, another favorite food blog.  So if you're looking for a cute Halloween treat that isn't so bad on the waistline, check out these:

 

Spooky Spider Cupcakes

 

 

Enjoy!

 



Halloween Party Ideas

Halloween is almost upon us! I've been seeing a lot of cool ideas for Halloween party recipes on the internet lately, and I'd like to share a few of them with you. The first one has a certain WOW factor going for it. Your guests will most certainly be impressed by these Glowing Eyeball Jelly Shots!! (I would be anyway)

 

Recipe and directions are here on "Rock UR Party", a division of Tablespoon, which is one of my favorite food/recipe sites: Glowing Eyeball Jelly Shot Recipe
 
Apparently, they glow under blacklight due to the use of tonic water. Who knew?
 
Here is another take on glow in the dark party food: Glow In The Dark Cupcakes.  These look like they are a little more difficult to make, but what fun!
 

 

 

And here is one more recipe, which is slightly less difficult: Halloween Chex® Mix.  Forgive me, dear reader, but I have always loved Chex® Mix. I don't care how pedestrian that makes me sound, I LOVE IT.  I also love candy corn, so create a sweet Chex® Mix, then throw in some candy corn?  You can count me in!  I also like how it uses those little Halloween candy decors.  I have a jar of little pumpkin and bat decors that I haven't figured out what to do with yet (but they were too cute not to buy), so I think I'll be using them for this!

 

 

Anyway, here is the recipe: http://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/halloween-chex-mix/1/

 

And finally, this is not a recipe, but on King Arthur Flour, I found these awesome beaker cookie cutters. 

 

 

 

You could get really creative with these, I'm sure!

 

And just to keep you updated, there are several Halloween invitations and cupcake toppers in my Pixels and Posies Etsy shop right now.  Please feel free to take a look around!

More Delays

Unfortunately, I still have my Etsy site on hold because my computer is still not working.  Well, it's working, but I can't get on the internet.  I was on the phone with tech support for two hours and I still can't get on the internet.  I kind of felt like I knew more about computers than the tech support guy, and that is not a good feeling.  They are supposed to be sending me the updated drivers for my network adapter and that's supposed to fix it, but I have my doubts.  I just hope that they send me the right drivers.  I told the guy several times that I already loaded the drivers and I will need updated drivers if it's a driver issue.  So, we'll see.  In any case, until I get on the internet, I can't download a service pack that I need for my OS, and until I download the service pack, I can't load my Adobe programs.  I don't want to open the shop back up until I can edit my work, just in case there is a problem.  I want to be able to guarantee my work.  So, I wait.

In the meantime, my daughter went to town this weekend and baked cupcakes, made some other stuff (including green eggs and ham!), set up some of the parties I have already designed and I took some pictures.  The pictures could be better (I have only just now discovered that I am not a very good photographer - who knew?), but now that I have done a couple of "photo shoots", I can probably get some better shots for the next ones we do.  My daughter has been so much help with this you would not believe!  Anyway, here are some of the pictures that we took of the Paris party and the Seuss party: 

  

The green eggs and ham that my daughter made was delicious BTW.  Maybe I will include the recipe with the party pack!  We discovered after we took the pictures that the ham and eggs are best eaten together.  So if we take pics again, we'll put the ham with the toothpicks on top of the eggs.  It looks really cute that way too!

And here is a picture of my cat, Kibbles, who decided that it would be a good idea to crawl into one of the craft boxes to sleep.  My daughter took one of the crowns we used in the Paris party and put it on Kibble's head.  Isn't she cute! (she is also sporting a collar that my daughter knitted for her):

In other news, it's still very hot here in AZ, with the added humidity from the monsoon season.  The saying "Yeah, but it's a dry heat" does not apply during the monsoon season.  I was at the light rail station this morning at 7 am and I don't know what the temperature was, but it was warm enough that I was sweating.  It's a little after 9 am now and almost 100 degrees, so it was probably close to 90.  It keeps threatening to rain, but then it just doesn't.

I am so over summer.

On Having a Sick Computer, Being Sick and Chicken Posole

Well, my computer has been diagnosed.  It's a very sick computer and needs a new hard drive.  No wonder I couldn't fix it!  On the bright side, I have a warranty, so it won't cost me anything.  But, it's going to take a while so I'm not sure when I will have it up and running again and be able to work on my printable parties.  And that's a bummer.  Well, it could be worse I suppose!

I was also sick yesterday, but I feel much better today.  While I was sick and lying on the couch, my daughter was watching some PBS cooking shows.  One of them was Savor the Southwest.  Towards the end of the show, they plugged their book (also called Savor the Southwest) and I said, "Hey, we have that book!".  To explain, let me just say that I have literally hundreds of cookbooks.  My mother was an awesome cook who loved cooking (and collecting cookbooks).  After she passed away, I inherited all of her cookbooks.

Anyway, my mom used to make a chicken posole during the holidays.  The Christmas after she died, I went through her cookbooks to find that recipe and found it bookmarked in Savor the Southwest.  So I have been using that recipe every year during the holidays in honor of my mom.  I never made any of the other recipes in it, but remembered the cover when I saw it on the TV show.

My daughter got the cooking bug from my mom I think.  She's also a great cook and really enjoys it.  Among the many, many great things about her living with me while she goes to school is that she cooks dinner for me almost every single night.  Yesterday, she made me chicken noodle soup from scratch!

So anyway, we pulled out the cookbook and looked at it, and it had all the recipes in it that were featured on the show.  If any of you are interested, here is the website: http://www.savorthesouthwest.com/

I highly recommend the Chicken Posole, although after looking through the recipes in that cookbook, it looks like there are a ton of great recipes in there.  I can't believe I never really looked at the other recipes before.  My daughter is going to be busy with that cookbook in the next few weeks I think (and hope)!