Apple monster|Quick Halloween snack|Trick or Treat?

They say ,"An apple a day,keeps doctor away!" .For sure ,as they are one super nutritious fruit with loads of antioxidants,multi-vitamins,dietary fibers which can aid in preventing heart disease,diabetes,hypertension,dementia,bad cholesterol,cancer especially breast cancer and what not.A miracle food it is known as!

Now you'll be like ...Here, she goes with another lecture :-\...I lovvvee to eat your brain :D.

Well,if I wouldn't have highlighted those apple's benefits and reminded you again ,I wonder if you will ever try my "Apple MONSTERS". You see...I mean look at those cute innocent pearly Apples..How irresistible!!  ...

I don't know if you ever noticed it but during Halloween nights they do turn into monsters  ...and this is exactly how they look like ...:P. Alright before you start saying #$$%^&*@#...this is one of my old post rotting in my "draft" section since years of Halloween,totally forgotten and scaring me every now and then to post it.

So,here you go, my quick Halloween snack for the upcoming "Halloween",introducing -"The Apple monsters".....Kids are gonna love it I guess..they can easily and quickly make and this time ..they may in fact,find it quite brave enough to eat those monsters , destroy the devil and become superheros thereby ..well that's my plan for sure...one day I'll be making them exclusively for my kiddos on a Halloween eve..So, before I forget ,it's also good to jot it down here beforehand ..

Apple monsters

Ingredients

Organic Apple - 3 nos.

Candy corns - As needed

Mint candy - 2-6 nos.
Chocolate covered raisins - 2-6 nos
Pumpkin shaped chocolates

Pom Juice for decoration

Method:

• Clean the Apple properly .
• Once dry, cut a wide slice from the middle to make it look like Apple M's mouth.
• Put two candy corns as two vampire teeth at both the end and broken ones in the middle.Use gum paste to glue them properly or just insert it into the apple flesh hardly but gently .
• Put the mint candies as two horns and chocolate covered raisins as eyes .Glue them with edible gum paste.
• Splash some juice and decorate further with pumpkin shaped chocolates.
• There you go,you just made those poor cute apples into monsters.:P

When I asked my hubby how does this Apple look like ,he was .That meant "Mission accomplished" :D meaning indeed an Halloween snack I believe.Well,what do you think ?? Trick or treat ???

It's certainly not  apple of  anyone's eye I believe.Is it ? :D

Trick or treat - My Pecan buggy freaks| Quick Halloween snack

Today is one of the spookiest day of the year here in the US, for today is Halloweeeeeeeeen . The day of spirits , ghosts, evils,devilssssss...... It's believed that during the Halloween night ,the boundary between the living and the dead becomes translucent and the spirits of the dead returns to the Earth .............and to ward off the evil spirits, people decorate their homes with scary stuffs like scarecrows,cobwebs,bats,witches,brooms,skulls,skeletons etc, carve pumpkins,wear costumes ,light bonfires and kids go from house to house asking for "Trick or treat". A celebration or a superstition ???

Isn't it strange , though parents make sure that kids don't accept anything from strangers, this day even that rule is broken happily :) .It's like a candy day for kids :) . I love watching my neighborhood kids in different costumes and I wait for them eagerly with a big bag of candies to distribute in the evening :). Wish I had such a celebration during my childhood days especially :P. Candies and chocolates for free !!! Ohh heavenly hell-oweeeen...

Back in India we just celebrated the festivals marking the destruction of evils and in western countries it's a day dedicated exclusively to evils.. Spooky yet funny !! Still I weirdly like this festival as I can see the festival spirits in everyone's face especially kids planning on which costume to wear this time, carving pumpkins and parents thinking all the ways and means to reuse or recycle the costumes of previous years and save some bucks thereby :D .Even the supermarkets are filled with spooky decorations for sale, cute -themed costumes of Spiderman, witch, vampires,bumble bee, rabbit and what not :)..it's a creepy yet cute visual treat!!....by the way I wonder if Lady Gaga ,Nicky Minaj celebrates Halloween every other day :P (no offense to them though :P I am infact their big fan too and love their "Be yourself" attitude )  but on a funny note, I think one day they will be selling all their costumes themed ,"Halloween special" for wholesale I believe :P.

I celebrate this festival by becoming a slave to my idiot box as at this time loads of horror movies are being aired and I love horror movies .The only thing I look like this then->. Yeah I watch it with a brave but pounding heart, one eye closed and hugging tight honey P and making sure he doesn't leave his seat at any cost and all lights on and screaming , shouting in between.... Not to mention I enjoy it thoroughly  .......I don't understand why my hubby says that , it's not the movie, it's me who scares the hell out of him :O ..don't know why ..hmmmm...

This Halloween I made an easy Trick or treat using just 2 ingredients - Pecans and colored cake fondant and some ready made gummy worms .I call them ,"My Pecan freaks". Here's how I made my easy breezy, not that spooky Halloween snack.(but if you ask me, for me any bugs on this Earth are spooky )

Pecan freaks-Halloween snack

Ingredients

Pecans - 10 nos.

Fondant (Beige/white color) - lime size

Food color

Long Plastic strings -20 (for decoration)

Ready made gummy worms - 10

Method:

• Make pea size mini balls and roll it to make it look like thick thread shape and make a bend in between to use as legs for the bugs .Keep it aside but use it ASAP otherwise they'll dry.
• Take a pecan , use any dark food color and put two dots as eyes and attach the above made legs to them.
• Put two 6" long plastic strings as their antennas.
• My Pecan freako edible bug is ready .
• I gave them a company - ready-made gummy worms.

The demon in me broke their legs ..enough is enough !

So, what do you think.. Was it a Trick OR a Treat??


Here's wishing all my readers ,"Happy .. Wait a minute or a spooky Halloween day ?".. Have a Helluva-een day !!

See you later..if I am aliveeeee :O..

Sending this freaks as a trick & a treat to Shey Divine's "Let's Celebrate Halloween" event