Halloween Cupcakes

Tonight we are heading to my mum's house for dinner and I decided to make cupcakes for dessert.  Given that I will take any excuse to decorate cupcakes I decided to make them Halloween themed.  These mummy cupcakes were super easy to make and all they took was some simple icing and fondant.

I made a batch of chocolate cupcakes and iced them with a simple white icing.  I then cut strips of fondant and draped them over the cupcakes to look like mummy wrappings.  The eyes are then small bits of fondant rolled into balls.  You can draw on the black dots with either a food grade pen or black icing or food colouring.

I love decorating cupcakes but more than anything I love ideas that are easy to execute and give you great looking results.  I will definitely be saving these into my Halloween ideas for future parties.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!!  I love Halloween but it's still not very big here in Australia.  It is getting bigger which I am pretty happy about.  I wanted to have a Halloween party for my birthday this year but with the birth of little Imogen it just wasn't possible.  Oh well, maybe next time.  It's amazing that having a birthday 1 week before Halloween I have managed to make it to 25 without ever having a Halloween party.  My main reason for embracing Halloween is the chance to dress up.  I love a good costume and it is the perfect excuse to be someone else for the night.  Here are just a few costumes I have donned in the past.....

Clearly the love started young.  My mum still has this little clown costume packed away at her house.  I can't wait to put it on Imogen one day.

For my 21st I used the occasion to have a dress up party in a Grease theme.  I made my own skirt for this one and it has been passed around a few people I know for various parties.  Then for my friend Mahnee's 21st she had a cartoon character theme and I went as Minnie Mouse.  All I made for this one was the ears from some cardboard and a headband.  The dress was a cheap one my mum found and I wore black mary janes as well.  The last photo is from my sister in laws 18th.  Corey obviously was a cowboy and I was a pirate.  These costumes were great because they were completely made from things in our own wardrobes.  I think all we bought was Corey's hat and my eye patch which both came from a $2 shop.  There is nothing better than homemade costumes or costumes that don't cost you much and cause you to become creative with your own wardrobe.

So are you celebrating Halloween tonight?  What are you dressing up as?  Since I won't be dressing up this year I would love to live vicariously through all of you!

Brain Suckers

For Halloween at work we were allowed to dress up but since we had meetings throughout the day the girls and I needed something small we could wear in the office and take off for our meetings.  When I saw this pattern over at Louie's Loops I knew they would be perfect.

These were so quick and easy to make as well. I made 3 and I think I will be making a few more because everyone in the office loved them!

I put little hair clips on the bottom of them so we could clip them into our hair and take them out when needed.  The girls loved them and now they live on our desks as our little office pets.

Happy Halloween

I can't believe October is over already!!! Where has this month gone to? That means that from tomorrow we are in wedding month. How exciting!!!  My sister comes home Wednesday and I have my hen's weekend this weekend.  Then next week will be countdown week.  Anyway, today being Halloween we are having a Halloween morning tea at work and everyone is baking something.  I made brownies!

These are a hybrid of a couple of ideas I saw around the internet.  I made brownies and iced them green.  I then used white icing and chocolate icing to do the details. Super duper easy and super duper cute!

I am so happy with how they turned out! I wanted to make some skeleton gingerbread men too but I ran out of butter and couldn't be bothered going to the shops.  Maybe next year!  So this is also the last post of Blogtoberfest. I am pretty happy with how I did. I only missed 1 day.  I am really happy to have taken part in this again and I think I will definitely be back next year.  Thanks to tinniegirl for organising an awesome month of Blogtoberfest and thanks to everyone who participated and visited my blog this last month.  It has been great fun!

Halloween Baking Inspiration

At work for halloween we are having a little party.  Everyone gets to bring a plate and it has to be halloween inspired food.  I have been searching the web looking for inspiration and here is what I have found...

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I think I am leaning towards doing something Frankenstein themed.  I know one of the girls in my office is doing oreo ball eyeballs and another girl is going to make something mummy themed so I thought I would pick Frankenstein as my inspiration.  I have a little while to think about it still so we'll see.