Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Halloween 2010

So...I never posted about these cookies that I decorated for Halloween...My bad. I made eyeball cookies for a church gathering.

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I didn't have time to make sugar cookies, so I bought some fake oreos (foreos?).
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Then, I mixed up some cookie icing. I use this cookie icing from Allrecipes, but sub vanilla extract for almond.
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I like for the icing to be a bit thick, because it's easier to spread around on a cookie that way. (I spread it on using a fork.) Decorating with sugar icing will take patience and practice, so bear with it if you're just starting!
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P1140437After the cookies are iced with the white layer, let them dry.  I think these dried in 45 min or so.
P1140445Add some blue food coloring to some of the leftover white icing. Place in a piping bag with a tip, or just snip the corner of a bag and go at it.
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I would recommend icing a few at a time, and then immediately adding a chocolate chip in the middle of the blue layer, so that it doesn't dry before you can add the "pupil."
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Once these babies are dry, you can leave them as is, or for a creepier effect, use a toothpick and some red food coloring to add vein or pools of blood around the iris...
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I hope you'll consider doing this for your next Halloween party!

Friday, October 8, 2010

Halloween cupcakes

How cute are these cupcakes from Karen Tack and Alan Richardson?


I just finished reading the latest issue of "Taste of Home" magazine, and they have a really great article on how to make these yourself. (I've also included instructional links/videos from the magazine's website below, just in case your latest issue has not arrived yet.) I'm thinking about making these for the youth group at church. Anyone want to help me?

All photos: Taste of Home

Picture 1: "Orange You Spiky?"
Picture 2: "Purple People Eater"