Pages 325 - 334 -Halloween 2010

The making of ghosts :)

Nutter butter cookies, candy melts, sticks and mini chocolate chips make for some great halloween treats of course we made them rather early :)

decorated cookies

Ingredients

1 tube (18 ounces) refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough

54 pieces candy corn

1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting

Red shoestring licorice, cut into 1-3/8-inch pieces

9 thin chocolate wafer (2-1/4 inch diameter), quartered

Directions

Bake cookies according to package directions. Cool on a wire racks.

Cut off yellow tips from 18 pieces of candy corn (discard orange and white portion or save for another use). Frost cookies with chocolate frosting.

Immediately decorate with two whole candy corns for eyes, a yellow candy corn tip for nose, six licorice pieces for whiskers and two wafer quarters for ears.

Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.

Nutrition Facts: 1 serving (1 each) equals 257 calories, 11 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 7 mg cholesterol, 136 mg sodium, 39 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 1 g protein.

Day 300 -- More cupcakes

More pictures in magazines means more cupcakes for me to bake. This time my cupcakes were spiders (do you see the tootsie roll legs) the head is too big you were suppose to use mallomar cookies but i could not located any so i went with a fudge pinwheel style cookie. My helper tonight was derrick :) thank goodness because there is no way that i could roll 36 plus tootsie rolls for the legs. The receipents of these cupcakes is Gidget's kindergarten class

Day 299 - CUPCAKES

Made these cupcakes because i saw a picture and thought oh i can do that ... LOL so off to the craft store to buy spray paint for the marshmellows and then a night of laughter and assembly with hayley ... we then had 2 doz cupcakes

Pages 199 - 202 Disneyland Halloween

WOW i made it to the 200's by the middle of JULY. THese are the last of the pictures from our halloween trip to disneyland :)

Outdoor Wednesday

I know that Halloween has passed but so many of you shared the pumpkins patches and the colors of the changing of the earth where you live. In sunny southern California we don't necessarily see the changing of the leaves. But i did want to share with you all the visit to our favorite pumpkin patch green spot farms in mentone, ca. I always take a picture near the large tree that they have set up very festive. One of these4 days I will have to pull a couple years worth of pictures and see how much they kids have all changed. It has a bee house, a train, a jumper, a haymaze, a corn maze, a hayride, arts crafts, petting zoo pony rides, pick your pumpkins off the vines and so much more. We usually spend a few hours each visit, this year we spent a lot of time on the teeter totters, i think that kelsie is old enough to get how to use one and is not afraid of the return UP! Last year the majority of our time was spent in the corn maze. I love to hear the girls giggle. And as i sit here posting the pictures from our incredible day, i can hear them laugh and giggle and discuss the size of the pumpkins and how heavy they would be to carry.
But not to worry the youngest one has learned how to use a wheelbarrow and therefore has announced that her pumpkins are not heavy at all. I thought that it was pretty creative for a four year old.

I hope you enjoyed our trip around the pumpkin patch.

Don't forget to visit other outdoor wednesday participants.

Mummies Day 304

I made MUMMIES ... they are hot dogs rolled in breadsticks. I added mustard and ketchup for eyes and nose ... they turned out super cute and the girls thought that auntie was cool!

Day 303 - Halloween goodies

Okay so i bought those cool candy trays that you use the melted to create cool designs, well i decided to buy the pretzel ones and derrick and i spent tonight creating these cool pretzels