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Halloween Cakes

  • April 26, 2010 7:21 pm
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Delicious Halloween cakes are easy to make. In fact, you will find many different recipes for Halloween cake that taste great and look scary.

You can turn a simple cake into a Halloween cake by decorating it in a special way, usually with yellow and black frosting. You will find many great Halloween decorating ideas online and offline in recipe books and guidelines.

One of the most popular Halloween cakes is the “Spider Web cake.” You just bake and frost your favorite cupcakes and put them on a plate. Weave a spider web with frosting by using black licorice and your Halloween cupcakes are ready to be served.

Similarly, you can prepare “Vampire” or “Frankenstein” cakes. There are several web sites that provide information about preparing “creepy” cakes.

One should remember that Halloween cakes are relished not merely for their taste but for how they look. This look should be unique. There is no single rule that needs to be followed. One can be innovative and give a unique look to a Halloween cake, but the tradition is that the cake must look creepy. Some fun ideas for Halloween cake decorations are gumdrops lined up like worms, marshmallows with black licorice in the centers to look like spooky eyes and goofy eyes made with marshmallows with raisins for eyeballs.

There are several companies that offer readymade Halloween cakes. Some help you in choose the creepiest cake by providing you with certain images that can be “drawn” on the cake after you purchase it. These cakes can also be ordered online.

Halloween Cakes

Five Ultra Quick And Easy Halloween Food Ideas!

  • April 3, 2010 3:21 am

Kids love special Halloween food = but sometimes making a spooky meal from scratch isn’t possible or just feels too much like hard work. These ideas for the Halloween table can be thrown together in a flash, and are easy enough for older kids to make themselves.

These are crunchy, tasty and suitable disgusting-looking! Arrange some rice cakes on a plate and, preferably with a squeezy bottle of ketchup, draw red spidery lines randomly over the surface of each. Cut circles out of a cheese slice for a violent yellow “pupil”, and top with a slice of salami or pepperoni. Of course you can vary your eyeballs with all sorts of ingredients; just choose something that your kids will enjoy.

Cook your favorite burgers. While they are cooking, cut ghost shapes out of sliced cheese, either with a Halloween cookie cutter or perhaps with a template. Cut out two holes for eyes. When the burgers are cooked, drape the cheese ghosts over the top and flash under the grill/broiler until just melting.

Make up some strawberry and blackcurrant jelly in different containers. When set, chop up roughly and throw together in a glass bowl. Make sure you tell the kids what it is. Yuk!

Make up some green or yellow jelly and pour into suitable single containers. We used some clear plastic goblet-shaped containers which looked very grand and impressive, but ramekins or plastic drinks glasses would do. When set, drop a plastic spider onto the top of each container. Stand them on a plate with extra spiders scattered around for effect.

Marshmallow Ghosts and Ghouls

If you are having a Halloween party, this is a great queit activity for the kids to get involved in. Melt some white chocolate or white chocolate chips in a glass bowl in the microwave. This takes a minute or two. While you are waiting, thread a couple of white marshmallows onto a lollipop (popsicle) stick. Now dip the marshmallows into the melted chocolate and swirl it around to cover the top of the ghosts’ “heads”. Bring them out and lay them flat on a paper plate for the chocolate to harden, pushing a couple of silver balls on for eyes before it does. You can use a tube of writing icing to draw on a mouth and any other features you would like. Make the ghouls with colored marshmallows. Thread one on per stick and add some green coloring to the chocolate before swirling the marshmallows in it, covering as much of the surface as possible. Use silver balls for eyes as before, but this time add some other decoration too: we used strawberry candy strands for hair and would have added chocolate drops for ears if we hadn’t eaten them all already! Leave to harden as before.

Five Ultra Quick And Easy Halloween Food Ideas!