Showing posts with label frankenstein cookies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frankenstein cookies. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Halloween 2015

Halloween was one of my favorite holidays growing up. It is so sad that many people don't go around the neighborhood trick or treating with their kids. I remember my mom and I doing the "mall thing" one year and afterwards she was like "never again..." it was PACKED with people and kids, impossible to get to the lady in the store passing out the candy and when you DID make it to the front all I got was a lousy Tootsie Roll or Dum Dum. 
My husband and I just bought our first house this summer. So when October rolled around I was excited beyond belief for Halloween however no one else in the neighborhood seemed to be. I guess it is just a Washington thing that we don't take part in all the decorating like some other states. 

Since we are in a new neighborhood I had no idea how many kids even lived in the neighborhood let alone how many would make it up to our street. But just in case I bought a costco sized bag of candy. Most of the trick or treaters came later in the even around 630 or 7. 

Unfortunately, we were only able to hand out candy to 2 groups of trick or treaters before we had to go to our own festivities. They were so cute though! The second group had some little guys, maybe 5 or 6 years old, they of course were superheroes. The WSU Cougars were playing #8 Stanford and it was a big deal. So I set a bowl of candy out for the kids so they would come back to us next year. 



Here are some new desserts I made for halloween. I really loved the way the cake pops turned out. Halloween colors are just so fun. I also made rice krispy treats and to spice up the design a little bit, I decided to try my luck at writing and it turned out pretty good in my opinion. Not quite as good as when I do buttercream frosting, but still legible right?


Hope all you ghosts and gobblins had a fun night! Until next year!

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Happy Halloween!

This blog post is dedicated to all things SPOOKY. I have to be honest...I miss trick or treating. I know I could just go to the store and buy some candy for myself (which I knew do) but something about dressing up and running around the neighbor is just more glamourous.
Fox Face Sugar Cookies
Cute Little Fox Cookies
The good news for the Trick or Treaters is it luckily stopped raining. This morning it was down pouring and didn't look like it was going to stop. I took my dog out for a walk before dinner and before it got dark. I was hoping to spot some kids and I did but they were more like big kids...like junior high and they were barely dressed up...maybe they were just "hipsters" hanging in the park...could be - it was getting dark after all...just kidding they were kids. 

Cat Faced Sugar Cookies
Cat Face Cookie

I remember I milked trick or treating until I was in high school and some people would come to the door and be surprised by the "big kids" standing there and not the little guys. One lady I remember even said "oh aren't you a little big to be trick or treating" ...yes but give me the candy anyways please! 

Frankenstein Sugar Cookies
OK OK Enough about me...more about the cookies you say? Well let's start with the above few. I found a clever idea to turn my cat face cookie cutter into a fox face. I know foxes aren't really Halloween themed necessarily but they are definitely fall-ish and so I decided to try it out and I loved them. If you don't know I have a little dog who looks like a fox... 

Halloween Sugar Cookie Platter
Halloween Friends
As for Mr. Frank, that cookie cutter is actually using the "skull" head shape. I thought it would be cutter to mix some green into the mix! Loved how these Frankenstein cookies turned out and they might be my favorite!

Halloween Sugar Cookie Platter
I actually didn't have a witches hat cookie cutter. So I ran out to the store the night before halloween to find some black sanding sugar which was a bit of a challenge but found it and got the last one! At the store they had a bunch of cute cutter and one being the witches hat! 

Witch's Hat Sugar Cookies
Witch's hat
I got the idea for the spider webs off of pinterest as well. I am always looking for fun ways to turn my cutters I already have into a different shape (like the cat-fox above) a circle could really be turned into anything and for Halloween it was perfect for some creepy spider cob webs!

Spider Web Cookies
Spooky Spider Web cookies

Pumpkin Cookies
Pumpkin Cookies
Of course it isn't halloween without pumpkins! 

Halloween Themed Sugar Cookies
BOOOOooooo
The other shape I had I had fun with was the bat. This was the purpose of the "mission: black sanding sugar." I liked how these little guys turned out and looked great with the spooky ghost and coffin. 

Bat shaped frosted sugar cookies

Bat Shaped Sugar Cookies
Getting Batty

RIP Coffin Cookies
RIP Coffin Cookies

The last little cutter I picked up at the store was the "scared-y cat" as I call him. Again, using that coveted black sanding sugar! muahaha! I mean...MEOW! 
I almost forgot to put this in my blog. I am really bad about transferring photos from my phone to my computer, but I posted this on my insta too. I loved the monotone contrast of this picture of the skull and cross bone cookies. VERY halloween. 

ok ok and it wouldn't be completely halloween if I didn't do a little flashback friday shout out to my friends for "that one time when we dressed up as 80s chicks after a run to the goodwill to make our costumes" and then we went trick or treating! I think we were actually sophomores in this picture...or were we juniors...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!