Happy Halloween Cupcakes

So Cute!

Candy, cookies and icing can make a wide variety of Halloween cupcake toppers. From back left, clockwise:
-- Owl Oval chocolate cookie, cashew nut, fruit-flavor candy circles, shaved coconut, pretzel rods
-- Witch Mini candy-coated chocolates, dyed coconut, chocolate cookie, sugar cone, green icing
-- Goblin Sour gummy candy rings and straws, white and green jelly beans, mini chocolate chips
-- Mummy Candy-coated chocolate pieces, green icing
-- Skeleton Large candy mint, licorice pastels, small mints, white sprinkles
-- Bat Halved chocolate wafer cookie, candy-coated chocolate piece, sprinkles, green icing

More fun cupcakes

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and

HERE!

Tuesday Tip

Make no-mess pancakes with the help of a ketchup bottle.

Pour in batter, then squeeze out precise portions.

photo via Mark Lund Real Simple

Pumpkin Possibilities Part 1

Sharing some of my favorite pumpkin pictures.

I found this fun collection from the following magazines:

(Country Living, Better Homes and Gardens, All You, Southern Living, Good Housekeeping and Country Home)

More to Come!

Tuesday Tip -Dear List Maker

You will love these

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Ever so Cute

HalLowEen ParTy PIcks

via The Martha Stewart Show

Tools and Materials

• 1-inch Styrofoam ball
• Craft glue
• Colored construction paper
• Scissors
• Toothpicks
• Liquitex matte medium (we found some at Michaels) 
• Extra fine point paint pen, such as those made by Sharpie
• White pipe cleaners (for skull)
• Green pipe cleaners (for pumpkin)

Halloween Party Picks How-To

1. Use a 1-inch Styrofoam ball. If you're making a witch or skull, mold ball into an upside-down pear shape; otherwise, leave as is.



2. Brush craft glue onto one side of a 3-by-1 1/2-inch strip of colored construction paper.



3. Wrap the paper around the ball, and crimp the edges so that the fold lays flat along the top and bottom. Trim away the excess paper.



4. Dip the tip of a double-pointed toothpick into glue and insert it into the bottom of the ball.



5. Brush a light coat of the matte medium around the ball to seal the paper layer.



6. Let dry for about 20 minutes before you begin to draw different faces on the ball.



Cat

Draw on cat face and whiskers with a white extra fine point paint pen. Cut out 2 small triangles of black construction paper, and glue them to the top of the ball for ears.



Skull

Draw on a skull face with a black extra fine point paint pen. Twist two 2-inch pieces of white pipe cleaner around the toothpick to make crossbones.



Jack-o'-Lantern

Draw on jack-o'-lantern face with a black extra fine point paint pen. Twist a tiny curlicue of green pipe cleaner, and glue it on top to make a stem.



Bat

Draw on bat fangs and eyes using red and white extra fine point paint pens. Cut out 2 small bat wings from black tissue paper, and glue them to the back of the ball.



Witch

Draw on witch face with a black extra fine point permanent marker. Insert the tip of a toothpick into the center of the face to make the nose; paint the nose black with a paint pen. To make the bottom of the witch's hat, cut out a small doughnut shape from construction paper. For the conical body of the hat, cut out a half circle, and overlap the two pointed ends; affix them with craft glue. Attach the two hat pieces with glue.

October means Halloween!

photo from Country Living Magazine

These brownies are easy your little goblins will love them.
Brownie Goblins

Prepare brownie mix as label directs but bake in 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" jelly-roll pan only 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool brownie in pan. When cool, cut out brownie using ghost-shaped cookie cutter.

To decorate, melt white candy coating as above; use to pipe outline on top of ghost cutout. When outline is set, fill in interior with additional melted candy. When set, pipe on brown eyes and mouth. Let set.

Download some fun Family Night goodies.

Family Fright Night Halloween Recipes

via  Halloween Tricks & Treats 2006

Pineapple Hill has  new Halloween goodies at Hearts and Hands