Halloween ghosts|Trick or treat ?

Dance to my tune  !!

"When I was a child I was afraid of ghosts. As I grew up I realized people are more scary."  ~ Unknown


Oh yeah ! Tell me about it.When I was small, ghosts sounded scary ,sounded real -the late night invisible visitors ,made me sweaty,even though I loved watching horror movies with one eyes shut and hands around my mom and lights on all over the house  and no one was suppose to leave the room at any case,that was my plight then.

But Thank You America,after coming here and the way Halloween is celebrated here,even all evil things like ghosts and other similar spooky things seems to be more fun now. I enjoy the way, people here dare to decorate their houses with different weird eerie Halloween props .I enjoy all the horror movies in TV and in theatres,which I am a big fan of ,even though still little frightening they are .The most important thing that I enjoy are the way kids doll up or dress up in interesting costumes ,even if they are in some evil costumes they make them look overly cute .Ohhh and the Halloween candies ....candies are always fascinating whatsoever !!

Anyway,I am starting to accept ghosts as not that fearsome,so I even gave them a sweet makeover -

Halloween Ghosts

Ingredients

White (cake)fondants ,small lime size  - 5 nos.

Dark /Black food color

Method:

• Make five small lime size fondant balls.
• Put a drop of shortening or oil and knead with fingers until soft.
• Take each balls and stretch with hand until it becomes  kind of (assymetrical) circle shaped.
• Using food color put two eyes and a mouth on them with a tooth pick and spread it with finger or toothpick itself and put each circly-ghosts on each fingers.
• And say,"EXPECTO PATRONNUM !" ..Here our spell worked and you can see those ghosts dancing on your finger. Boo yeah....
• Let them spin on the fingers and EAT THOSE SUCKERS .

Time to destroy the evil !

Happy Halloween !!

 

The new ghost hunter is in the town ,

 

 

Mummy returns|Halloween Trick or treat #2 |Quick Halloween snack

Remember ,"The mummy" and "Mummy Returns" movie series ??? ...I do  .. The scary saga of wrath of disturbed mummies !!...Phewws.. that scared the hell out of me....but was still fun. :)

 

I love playing with different picture backgrounds.

So,here is another quick Halloween snack or DIY ,that I made for an instructable contest long time back.Another one rotting in my "draft" and freaking the hell out of me.......

Isn't it strange that in India ,a few kids, call their mothers,"Mummy"? ....Actually I did :| until I read about this later at school .

Mummy is actually derived from the Persian word,"Mum" which means an embalmed body/corpse .An ancient tradition of covering a dead body with strips of clothes and chemicals before burial which was believed to be done for their eternal rest . Ancient traditions and rituals (as shown in History channels ) were quite weirdly interesting & at times spooky too .Isn't it??

However, my mummy treats are sweet souls though they do look spooky by outside .. (Well all credit for that goes to me : P) ...but they are very sweet by inside.....don't believe me ,then check out the recipe :

Mummy returns Trick or treat 

Ingredients

Chocolate finger sticks - 4 nos.

White cake fondant , Lemon size - 1-2 nos.

Black or dark food color

Paper cuts for decoration only

Method:

• Take the fondant , add a drop of shortening or oil and knead with fingers until they become soft and of workable consistency.
• Lightly dust the work surface for rolling the fondant .
• Using rolling pin, roll them into a circle or oval shape or any form where you can cut them into thin strips.
• Using a knife (cutlery) , cut them into many strips.
• Take a chocolate finger stick and roll them with one by one strip until you cover completely and it looks like a mummy .

• Put two dots as eyes on them using black food color.
• Place them on coffin shaped paper cut-outs .
• Make another rectangle shape cut out with word "RIP" and glue them to toothpicks and decorate it further as shown in the picture.

• That's it mummies with a sweet revenge returns to entertain your palate :).

Note:

It was kind of a spooky coincidence as I was trying to make coffin cuts outs of paper, I didn't find my scale to draw them but then I came across a flyer with four rectangles just the size of mummies I made and I cut them into coffin shapes later and then I came across another one which was a Citi card ad. but had the caption that somehow fit my theme which I used as the background for my mummies ,it said,"Because the journey is just as important as the destination"...for a minute it gave me goosebumps :) ...wondering if someone invisible helped me ...like a puzzle everything fell into the right place ...Believe it or not !!

So, what do you think is it a trick or a treat ? Hope you'll like it.