My sincerest apologies for not posting recently. As usual, life has been crazy. However, I am back, and will begin posting more regularly again...
Well, the holiday season is coming quickly, which means a lot of eating, and a lot of cooking.
My first experience with holiday cooking came this past week when I helped my husband's family prepare for a Halloween/birthday party for his nine-year-old cousin. The party consisted of a bonfire, a haunted trail, games, and of course all sorts of treats. I wanted to contribute, so I volunteered to make the cake. I found a recipe for a "graveyard cake" on a website called "Keepkidshealthy.com". I had a lot of fun making his cake, and it was very easy. I was also proud of the end result, and the kids (as well as hungry hubby) loved it. Here is a link to the recipe if you want to try it yourself:
My husband's mother and aunt made some other treats that were also adorable. They made little "mummies" and little "Frankensteins" out of Twinkies. Here is the recipe that they gave me for them:
MUMMY TREATS
Ingredients:
Twinkies, 3/4 cup white frosting, 16 yellow M&M Minis, Red writing icing, 1 (6.4 oz) can white decorating icing w/ ribbon tip.
Directions:
Cover Twinkies with the frosting. Add M&M's for the Mummy Treats' eyes and make dots with the red writing icing for pupils on the eyes.With the rigid side of the ribbon tip facing downwards, pipe decorating icing on to the Twinkies to make "bandages" for the Mummy Treats. Cover until it's time to serve them.
I'm discovering that there are all sorts of other creative recipe websites out there for making holiday treats. I am excited about the upcoming holidays, and cannot wait to learn how to make treats for my husband, family, and friends.
4 comments:
Oooh I love the Frankensteins and Mummys--so cute!
I helped my son make a Campfire Safety scene for a Cub Scout bake sale last year--he won first place overall.
It was a scene of rice crispy snowmen toasting marshmallows. And one of them caught on fire. There are surpised looks on all the snowmen--especially the one on fire! Twisted yes, but he won first place. We use coconut--and toasted it for that burnt look! Heheh! We titled it "Safety First"!
Baking with/for kids is so much fun!
Cute! What a clever idea. My friend brought mummy dogs to our Halloween party this year--"Lil' Smokies" wrapped in strips of dough.
I loved this idea! It makes me wish my children were still small so I could make it for them. While they were in grade school, I was a room mother. This would have been so much fun to take to the children. I am definitely sending it to my daughter because her children are four and two years old, and I know she would love to make these with them.
I know. I cannot wait to have kids so that I can make all sorts of cute recipes for them. Hopefully by then I will be a much more experienced cook!
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