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| MillcreekCountryStore.com |
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| Halloween Party Cakes – Holiday Fun For All by: Barb Ireland Halloween will be here soon. Goblins, ghosts and ghoulish fun too. Halloween also brings with it the start of the Holiday Season, pumpkin patches, and that warm fuzzy feeling that winter is on the way. Many families celebrate with a huge bash for friends and family and even the neighborhood kids. Bobbing for apples, yummy goodies, and dressing up in costumes are just some of the fun to be had. Here at Make A Diaper Cake, www.makeadiapercake.com we’d like to share a Halloween treat for all guaranteed to make any party a success. You can make your own Halloween Cake, not the sugary kind with those extra calories we don’ t want, but one with all your kids’ favorite goodies (and yours too). You can make a cake for any age, putting their favorite surprises in it. Plus, why limit it to only a party at home? Why not, make a cake and surprise your office or even send one to your nieces and nephews? This unique design can be customized for any size party and with your imagination you can design it for any holiday event. In fact, why not also bring a Halloween Cake to the office and spice up the day or surprise your favorite nieces and nephews. You’re be their favorite aunt for sure after this. Here are just some of the ideas for your cake: 1. Put your favorite games, stickers, Halloween-themed popcorn, and other party ideas for all to enjoy. Then they can take right from the cake and it makes a great centerpiece. 2. If you know of someone with a new baby or even a toddler, put a cute costume in your design and include a Halloween bib, and other special baby items. 3. For the office –Use the template available on our site and shred for a good base. Then add in Halloween themed coffees, candy, notepads, pens, popcorn and more for your next party cake at the office. 4. Safety cake – All kids need to be extra special careful at Halloween. You can design a cake with Halloween safety items, such as flashlights, light sticks, Halloween Trick-Or-Treat bags, etc. Tuck in little gifts, games, candy or toys for the kids too. It’s Halloween; you want it to be loads of fun. 5. You can welcome a new puppy or kitten by using kitten or puppy Halloween outfits and then include a disposable camera to take pictures of them in their cute little outfits. Halloween themed chew toys and other items new pet owners will need for their kitten or puppy. Whichever you choose, you’ll be delighted you made this cake and put a smile on their faces young and old. For more information on making our holiday cakes, a diaper cake, or any other specialty cake, stop by the website at www.makeadiapercake.biz. Not only do we have complete instructions for making cakes, but an e-book as well that walks you though each step. And if you’d prefer to have us make it for you, no problem. We specialize in making specialty cakes for all occasions. This year make it a Halloween to remember, and the start of a great Halloween Season. Also, don’t forget to stop back and see our other holiday creations. About The Author Barb Ireland is the founder of Make A Diaper Cake Biz, www.makeadiapercake.biz. You can purchase a Halloween cake or diaper cake, learn how to make a diaper cake, or start your own diaper cake business at her site. Contact Publicist, Diana Ennen at diana@virtualwordpublishing.com. |
| September 1, 2009 |
| Halloween Snacks by: Rachael Willerton Instead of the usual sandwiches, at Halloween why not surprise the kids with these spooky snacks! Pumpkin crackers A round cracker with a slice of red cheese cut into circle on top. Decorate to look like a pumpkin with either soft cheese piped or a white cheese cut into shapes. Skull sandwiches Cut two slices of bread into skull shapes. Cut eye and mouth shapes into the top slice. Spread with butter. Spread the bottom slice thickly with jam and place the top slice on letting the jam ooze through the gaps. Devil egg eyes Slice a hard boiled egg in two. Scoop out the yolk and in a separate bowl mix in some mayonnaise. Spoon egg mixture back into boiled egg. To make the eye look bloodshot use tomato ketchup. Ice scream eyes Scope of raspberry ripple ice cream with a cherry on top. Add strawberry sauce for more blood. Bat wings Arrange chicken wings on a plate to look like bats. Dried scabs Simply a bowl of dried fruit. Red berries and raisins look good. Blood and guts Make up a red jelly and allow to set. Chop up jelly and add red fruits for a gory look. Fangs Slices of peeled apple with a strawberry (blood) sauce. Witches fingers Simply cocktail sausages with red or green peppers. Cut a small (1cm) slice out of the top of the sausage to form a shelf for the finger nail to rest. Cut the pepper into finger nail shapes and add a bit of soft cheese on the back to stick it onto the sausage. Witch heads Cover a fairy cake with green butter icing (or add green food colouring to cake mixture – a lot less messy and time consuming). Cover an ice cream cone in melted chocolate and allow to set. Add a little spare butter icing to the base of the cone to stick it to a chocolate digestive to form a hat. Cut up some liquorice laces and add to the top of the fairy cake to form hair. Place the hat on top. Use dolly mixtures for eyes and pipe black icing to form the rest of the face. Blood Any red fruit juice or squash. Mud Chocolate milkshake, mixed with ice cream and crushed chocolate flakes. Lastly why not serve up crisps in a bowl with plastic skeleton or bats for decoration. For other recipes and activities for the kids go to www.b4school.co.uk About The Author Rachael Willerton publishes b4 school an online magazine for parents with fantastic competitions, features, reviews, activities, crafts, recipes and local information. For more information go to www.b4school.co.uk |
| September 4, 2009 |
| Tips and Ideas |
| Best of Halloween Party Ideas by: Sean Carter Halloween is a time to have a frightfully fun celebration with spooky Halloween decorations and fabulous Halloween parties ! Now if you’re a party animal, Halloween’s your day to have a total fling. And to pep up your party spirits, here are some Halloween party ideas for you. What’s a Halloween party without some freaky ideas to scare your guests frozen or give them the goose bumps ? Don’t you think the Halloween fun will fizzle out if it’s a run-of-the-mill party décor and party planning with the regular party stuffs used ? Of course yes. When the festival is as big and fun as Halloween, the party sure got to be jam-packed with all that’s macabre, mysterious and mind- boggling. From hanging bats to grinning Jack O’ Lanterns welcoming your guests, from a table laid out with yummy eyeballs, brains, fingers and lollipop heads to outlandish invitations for the party, a Halloween party should be meticulously designed and well thought-out to give you and your guests a frightfully good time ! Now here are some Halloween party ideas to help you get started with your spooky party this Halloween: Halloween Party Invitations The first step of all party planning begins with the right invitations. Creative and apt invitation cards will help set the right mood for your Halloween party. A bat- shaped invitation, a bare-jawed wolf, a haunted house or may be some cute Jack O’ Lanterns glowing in the warmth of your cordiality will tune your folks into the Halloween fever. Alternatively you can send hand-made invitation cards with personalized freaky messages. Design the party invitations totally on your own in any Halloween shape possible keeping in mind the theme for your Halloween party. Halloween Costume Party A very common but greatly loved Halloween party kind is the Halloween costume party where everyone comes dropping in in spectral masks and spectacular Halloween costumes to keep all the rest guessing who’s who ! Halloween costume parties are always a visual delight with creatively outstanding costumes all around. Some will don the demon, some the canny wolf, some the plump pumpkins, some the Frankenstein, while some others will spruce up in the guise of their favorite celebrities or comic characters in the Halloween party night. If it’s a kids’ Halloween costume party, you’re sure to spot a chic range of Harry Potters of various sizes or Spider-men crawling all over or even the Flintstones having a gala time at the Halloween bash. If it’s an adults’ Halloween party, the element of scare can be threaded in to the Halloween party planning. There you can have horrific monstrous faces and Dracula and ghouls doing the rounds in the party area. Ideas are galore for Halloween costume parties. So you can prescribe a theme for your Halloween party too. If it’s a horror-themed Halloween party, the costume ideas will fringe the scary aspects of thrill and terror. But if the ruling theme for your Halloween party is fun-n-freak it’s better to cut down on the fright bit and invest more on costumes that will amuse your friends, folks or beloved. About The Author Sean Carter writes on Holidays and Celebrations across the world . You can get more information about halloween including Free Halloween Greetings at www.123greetings.com/events/halloween. |
| September 7, 2009 |
| Baking Tips by: Ann Krause Most people have a real basic idea about what they need when they set out to do baking at home, but most people don’t have the background to know what works well and what does not, in the baking tips and tricks that I am going to show you will make your baking experience much more interesting and your work easier. Baking Tip #1. Using tin baking pans is what they used in the 40’s and 50’s and they worked well but they didn’t distribute the heat through the pan very well, by using a heavy gage aluminum baking pan the heat will be distributed through the pan a lot better giving you a much more evenly baked cake without any burn spot. Baking Tip#2. Everyone tries to get a really smooth icing on their cake before decorating it but it just doesn’t want to smooth out, well here is the way you do it. After you get the icing on the cake as smooth as you can dip the icing spatula in hot water and wipe in a towel to take off the water and lightly smooth out the icing, the heat from the spatula will melt the shortening in the icing causing it to become smooth. You will need to repeat this as many times as necessary. Baking Tip#3. Cake ruffle around the base of your cake will make it much more appealing and only takes a moment to apply it. Baking Tip#4 To make a better box cake mix use 4 medium eggs, 1/3 cup of vegetable oil, 1 –1/4 cup cold water, 2 ounces pudding mix, this will give you a moister cake with a fluffier texture. Baking Tip#5. When making cookies that you are going to roll out with your hands use an ice-cream scoop to dip them out and save yourself a great amount of time and they will also be the same size. Baking Tip#6. Having cookies all the same size on a baking pan causes them all to bake more evenly and they will all come out of the oven looking great. Baking Tip#7. When baking sugar cookies bake them on the two upper racks of your oven, this will cause them to bake more evenly because they won’t get a lot of bottom heat on some and not on others. You want even browning on all. Baking Tip#8. When baking cookies rotate the pans at the half point of the baking time. Baking Tip#9. Always use parchment on your baking pans when baking cookies, it makes a lot easier. Baking Tip#10. When baking a cake don’t grease or flour your pan, just use parchment paper on the bottom of your pan and when the cake has been cooled cut around the sides of the pan with a sharp straight blade knife then dump the cake out onto the table and remove the parchment before assembling. About The Author Ann Marie Krause has been making cookies for over 30 years, at persent I am retired, for over 23 years I owned a Gourmet Bakery called The Cheese Confectioner.You can visit my site at www.annsgoodies.com. |
| September 10, 2009 |
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