Halloween cake walk

This year Lucy's class was in charge of the cake walk at the Halloween carnival so we made a cake to donate.

We made a chocolate cake (box with added egg and 1 cup sour cream, and milk instead of water) and frosted it with chocolate frosting.

Patti's Chocolate Frosting:

1/3 cup cocoa

1/4 cup milk

1/2 cup softened butter

1/4 tsp. salt

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla3 1/2 cup powdered sugar 

We used pretzels for the fence, Milano cookies for the tombstones, crushed Oreos for the "fresh gravesites", and fondant ghosts (rolled thin, cut out with a round cookie cutter or glass, and a face piped on with black frosting) draped over suckers.

We even dug out a grave and added bones inside. This was really fun to make!

Earlier today I helped Wyatt's class make sugar cookies. These are the "example" cookies of what they could do. 

They had so much fun!

 Wyatt's cookies

Happy Halloween!

Monster Snack #2

It was Wyatt's turn to bring the class snack today. We also got permission from Mr. Estrada to read "Paper Monsters," make them, and have a monster snack.

We made it a little different this time by adding eyeballs to the fruit "throw up." I hot glued googly eyes to toothpicks.

We also made a different kind of pretzel snack. We really liked these little guys. You know I'm a sucker for a treat with a face!

Mummy=dip pretzel rod in white chocolate add edible eyes and drizzle with white chocolate after the rod dries.

Frankenstein=dip pretzel rod in green chocolate candy melts and add edible eyes. Once it dries, add hair, mouth and scar using black chocolate melts in a piping bag with #1 or 2 tip.

Monster=dip pretzel rod in orange candy melts, add one big edible eyeball, and cover in sprinkles of your choice. I felt like these ones make them look a little hairy.

I don't think I could eat them. They should just stay in this jar as decoration.

We put them in pretzel bags and added a plastic spider to the ribbon for fun.

The kids loved their snack today and loved making their monsters. 

Soccer snack

We made these for Wyatt's soccer team today. It was his turn for snack. We wanted to make something fun so we dipped some pretzel rods in white almond bark and drizzled them with black chocolate. We added some chocolate soccer balls to the bag as well. 

Wyatt also wanted to give them Gatorade and crackers.

We put them in these white bags with this tag. I found the tags here.

Monster snack

It's Lucy's turn to bring in the class snack today. 

We got permission from Lucy's teacher beforehand to read the "Paper Monsters" book to the class, make paper monsters, and then eat a monster themed snack. 

 It is a super fun book about some kids who created paper monsters that come alive and they have to figure out how to get rid of them before their parents wake up. 

Lucy was super excited about this day but mostly because of the fruit tray. She loved that he was "throwing up" the fruit.

We also made some monster pretzels. We melted a candy melt on the pretzel in the oven on low heat (150) then added an edible eyeball

Lucy also wanted to give her friends a special monster treat to take home. We ordered these cute monster boxes and filled them with...

gum and chocolate eyeballs. gummy worms, and stickers. 

Here are the kids making their paper monsters. It was such a fun day!

Patti and I both ordered several of these books and thought they would make good birthday gifts. So we made these fun monster bags to put the book and a bag of supplies (to make their own paper monsters) in.

This is what the bag of paper monster supplies looks like.

Caramel Apples

I had the opportunity to go visit my friends in Alabama this week. Since it's fall we had to get together and make caramel apples, like the good ol' days. I loved being with some of my favorite people in the world!

We made 2 double batches, about 80 apples! 

Seriously I love these girls! Thanks for the memories!