Tuesday's Vampire Suicide

Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes

The recipe of choice this week comes from Clara...here...which I was glad about because you know all the room mama's are makin cupcakes and cookies this week. I am also working on the vampire cookies and cupcakes found at the coolest blog...here...I love this site. But as far as this batch of cupcakes they were decent. I substituted the "Swirled" milk chocolate and peanut butter morsels for the bittersweet chocolate. I thought this would make it more kid friendly for the parties. I also turned them into mini cuppies for bite size eating. With the thought of tons of kids devouring cupcakes well one bite seemed easier.

The unfortunate suicide was due to one vampire 'jumping' off the top of the muffin stand and taking another down with him. It was horrible. On the upside I got to eat two additional cupcakes and you can now see the underside of the poor cupcake.

I made mummies and spiderwebs also. I hope the kids enjoy them. I loved making these. The recipe yields 36 minis by the way.

Haunted Sugar Cookie House...1st Try

The Sugar Cookie House

This was our first attempt at a Halloween House. It turned out pretty good. Bailey was the "Decorator Extraordinaire" and it was fun to watch him work because he is such a perfectionist. When he was a baby he always had to have his cars or dinosaurs or whatever he was playing with in size and color order. It was hysterical...and things don't change too much. He had to make sure the M&M's ended up just right and the fire on chimney was "right". He did a great job. We haven't finished it all the way yet but I thought a quick post on it would be cool.

Halloween Bark

Halloween is Coming!

I am such a Halloween dork....I love it so much. I have found the colors and smells and everything involved makes me happy. I have passed this gene to my babies and we are getting ready for the big day. I wished I lived somewhere bigger where we could do more 'activities' but being in a small town prevents most of that. On the opposite side of that coin is the fact that we will make our own fun. We have already got our costumes going and Lexi and I have decided to be 'hippies' and B is going to be a gangster.

I made this bark yesterday mostly because I wanted to play with my camera and thought the colors would be cool. The smell of the warm chocolate and pretzels was strong to me. Deliciously strong. I put the bark in the freezer and I think the 'sweat' kinda distracts from the pics but I still thought they were neat.

Halloween Bark

1 pkg white chocolate chips

16-20 Halloween Oreos.... chopped (I had to drive 2 hrs to get these babies!)

1 - 1.5 cups Peanut M&M's

1 cup chopped pretzels

1 cup candy corn

optional.... 1/2 cup raisins

Melt chocolate over double boiler. Pour onto wax lined sheet. Include goodies, press down with another piece of wax paper. Freeze or refrigerate. Break into pieces once set.