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 ,

 

 

Halloween Bats|Trick or treat ?

Halloween is all about anything dark or creepy reminding that it's all about evil .Bats are one among them.It started during ancient times when people would gather around bonfires on Halloween , when nights would be chilly and darkest to keep themselves warm and mostly to ward of evil spirits.The bright lights of bonfire would attract insects and its predators ,"The bats" around.Bats being dark,making shrieking sounds flying in a group appeared scary almost like the presence of spirits and thus became a part and parcel of Halloween since then.Discovery of Vampire bats in the 17th century claiming to be blood suckers were later re-emphasized as the flying spirits or demons.

There is a superstition that , a bat flying around a house thrice , means a bad omen indicating death to the inhabitants. Oooooooooooooooo that's scary ...but the bats I made for the Halloween are sweet and snacky and I'll give you the power to eat and destroy the evil,if any.Sounds good?? Alright let's check the recipe then:

Halloween Bats

Ingredients

Fondant ,lemon size - 1 no.
Oil as needed

Tooth picks

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 big circle (asymmetrical) .
• Using a toothpick outline the bat's picture on the fondant.Then cut them accordingly using the toothpick itself.

• Make five of them - 1 big,4 small sizes.
• That's it my Halloween bats are ready.
• Use it on cakes,cup cakes or wherever your creative mind wish to use them Or use it as it is as a Halloween prop and as you know fondant are sweet and edible so can be used as a sweet snack as well.

Happy Halloween,

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.

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