I just love halloween!!! Do you have any plans for your Halloween Cakes??

I am sooooooo making the cake that was on charm city cakes last week. It was a guys head with the brains exposed (brains in a guys head? go fiqure) with two little monsters eating the brains!

Val

I saw that one. That was something else. In their words, 'it was disturbing'. I would like to see your finished cake! good luck

I'm hoping to do an anniversary cake for Halloween this year. Any ideas?

I bought the standup House pan by Wilton - I'm planning to bake a number of them and have my nieces and nephews and some fo their friends over to decorate them. I bought little ghost cookie cutter too. Hopefully I'll still have a kitchen at the end of the day!

Cookies of course, I haven't decided what shapes. My oldest wants the broom cake from the current wilton yearbook with the cupcakes. I don't know what my youngest wants for home (he gets to pick that since he isn't in school or anything).

vrmcc1-I just bought a brain mold at Walmart (Great minds think alike ) They also had other shapes like a heart and eye. I'm also thinking of doing the 5 little pumpkins on a gate for my son's preschool.

Forgot that I'm making mummy pretzels too, I bought the candy kit and my kids LOVE molded pretzel sticks.

I'm making cookies for all of the Grandkids. I found some real good stencils and impressions, all halloween, so I think I will try out my new airbrush on them.

Uh...Christmas cookies, hot cocoa, and homemade ornaments.

We don't celebrate Halloween (I mean, at all), so instead my kids and I have an annual Early Christmas Craft day, complete with holiday music. We love it!

We also lock the door, turn out the porch light, and hide and laugh when the trick or treaters drive down our street. It's mean, but ya gotta have some fun out here in the sticks, lol.

I want to try the bust mummy, someone from CC did it and it's SO COOL. But does anyone have a picture of the Charm City cake with the brains getting eaten that VRMCC1 is doing?? Sounds so nasty but fun!!!

last year i made the creepy cauldron that is in my pics, this year i want to try to carve a skull or something ... my DH loves Jack Skellington. for the office i am taking spooky cookies.. and sending some cupcakes for my daughters class.

I'm making the meringue bone cookies that I made last year. I already have orders for them.

Oh - I think I might try my hand at some meringue bones - those are so cute cncgirl00 And I read some great caramel apple tips on another forum so I might make some of them too....too many options!!

Great Muertos Lynda-Bob they look pretty cool that would make a good costume too.

My aunt always cuts out things she sees in her local paper (Largo, Florida) or a magazine and mails them to me. Today I got a cutout from a Harry and David catalog. These are cute Halloween/Fall cookies:

http://www.harryanddavid.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BECProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10002&categoryId=78&category=TC15&productId=62529&topCat=Desserts+%26+Bakery&subCat=Cookies

I haven't looked close at the Christmas cookies, but they look cute just from the little picture.

If you guys want to see some cool but gory cakes you've got to go to theyrecoming.com (sorry don't know how to link) It's a site by two sisters who review horror movies but one of them must do cakes. They are gory and they give instructions.

Thanks, vonnie99. Everyone seems to love those little bones. They are pretty easy to make and DH says that they taste just like the marshmallows that are in the Lucky Charms cereal.

CNCGirl00........would you share your meringue recipe? How did you shape them?

TIA

Here is the recipe that I use:
3 large egg whites
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar
1/8 tsp. salt
2/3 cup white granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 200 deg. F. Line cookie sheet with brown paper bag or parchment. In a medium sized bowl at high speed, beat egg whites, cream of tartar and salt until fluffy. Gradually beat in sugar. Add vanilla. Place in pastry bag fitted with a medium plain piping tip. Pipe 3" bone shapes onto the parchment or brown paper bag. Bake 1 hour until set. Turn oven off, dry in oven 1 hour. Makes 4-5 dozen bones.

The merinque swirls in my photos were made with this recipe. Just a different tip and I added food coloring when I added the vanilla.

HTH,
Valerie

My sister LOVES Halloween, and I got inspired from some cakes I saw here at CC. I have a doll form that I covered in black fondant and made a witches hat for already. I will make some black BC for her dress (I don't do fondant very well ) and maybe make a witches cauldron as well. I was also thinking about having a kids Halloween party for my daughter and a few of her friends. I was thinking of maybe cupcakes (but not scary ones though)...

This year I'm making tracks for Halloween. There is a big Halloween parade in Greenwich Village, NYC, which some friends are in, and I am going there to throw candy at them as they ride by.

Theresa

I just love the holidays, all of them! Was planning on making cupcakes to send to school but now I might have to rethink that.