As I’m sure we’ve mentioned, Halloween is our favourite time of year. We’ve yet to get on to our holiday baking yet but plans are made and ingredients will be bought soon enough. It is our tradition to hold a Halloween party for all of our friends. We try (where possible) to go all out [...]

Jell-O shots — not just for Halloween, but typically part of our adult libations for the party every year — used to be a staple of college parties for decades, trays of little paper or plastic cups filled with candy-colored jewels of gelatin passed around the room.  To be honest, they still are a college [...]

With a title like that you’d think I was shouting at people in traffic, but no, I’m just continuing with showing off some of our Halloween creations… a little after the fact.  *grins* First up is a deliciously disturbing creation called a MeatHead, where sliced meats of your choice can be presented in a suitably [...]

Yes, we’re still with the Halloween goodies, get used to it, we’ve got at least another week of Halloween themed treats. I know, I know, any good blogger would have planned ahead and made them before the holidays so they could go up early and provide you lovely readers with inspiration.. Well, I never said [...]

Spooks arrive for the midnight spree, Shrouded in a daft disguise, they pretend to terrorise, Grim, grinning ghosts come out to socialise. Halloween is absolutely our favourite holiday of the year. We have way more Halloween decorations than any other holiday put together.. and that includes Christmas! Part of the huge amounts of decorations is [...]

It may be October, but it’s still a good time for ice cream. CNN has an article on this point along with two delicious recipes for a pumpkin ice cream and vanilla ice cream. Spam spam spam spam spammity spaaaaaam! Why is this food still so popular? It can’t all my Monty Python’s fault! Chiquita [...]

Of course we couldn’t let our favourite holiday go by without some sort of party! Wanting to build a bigger and much more impressive cake than the past we settled on the majority of it being made from styrofoam, with only the top four inches being edible. This meant we could get an impressive centrepiece, [...]

October found us with a commission from a friend back in New Orleans.  She requested a cake that was — and I quote — “icky, disgusting, gross and delicious… like the ones you used to have for your Halloween parties.“  How could we refuse flattery like that? Why come to us, 500 miles away?  Because [...]