Halloween Fun

I had to make more Halloween cookies this weekend. I just had the itch! And had so many cool things that I had recently seen! So, here are the LAST Halloween creations for this season.

I was more happy with these pumpkins than the ones I made earlier. I like the faces much better.



These Leggy Little Witches are from Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle. Another outside the box creation - using an upside down T-shirt cookie cutter.
I also saw this monster on Sugarbelle's website. This year it seems that lots of the blogs I follow have been using a round or square cookie cutter to make many designs. I really wanted to try a few of them.
I know I saw this idea/design on a website/blog....I can't give credit to them right now because it looks like I forgot to write down where I got it....but I copied it and someone out there has a great idea!
A use of the square cookie cutter I found on Karen's Cookie Blog. I think she used the circle but I did the same thing with the square.

Another idea from Karen's Cookie blog.
With the red this ghost just seems extra Spooky to me!
These fun Spiders came from Sweetopia.

Another idea I saw on Karen's Cookie Blog. What's better than giant pumpkin? I liked using the big circle cookie cutter to make these.


Cookie Crumbs on Facebook is my inspiration for this.
I think the Purple People Eater is a bit Halloweenish, don't you? Bake at 350 gave me this idea. And becuse it involved piecing some cutters together I had to try it. Using a circle cookie cutter for the body, wings from a bird cutter, and a tiny triangle. I think it came together very nicely!

Candy Corn anyone?

Here's the whole lot of them! As you can see I had fun with these. And had fun giving them to friends and family! Now it's time to do some Trick-or-Treating.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Happy Baking.

Jennifer

Halloween Spooky Eye Pretzel Bark

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

With so many fun things I came across this season I had a hard time deciding what to make! I sent cookies for the kids to eat in Trevor's class. But I wanted to send them all home with a little something.

When I found the Spooky Eyes Pretzel Bark on Cookies and Cups website I thought it would be perfect and very simple! I was right about perfect, but WRONG about simple. LOL.

Very few ingredients which seemed simple. You take pretzels and lay them out on a cookie sheet.

Then you combine butter and brown sugar and bring to boil for 2 minutes.

This is where I went wrong.

And the reason why I had to go for try #2 with this recipe. I didn't boil long enough....and the sugar didn't dissolve leaving it sticky when it was all said and done. I thought that might have been the problem, but wrote Shelly about her recipe. She said the 2 minutes should start AFTER the sugar was dissolved. OH....me not being the best baker didn't think about this when I was making it...that information would have been helpful. But I'm not quite sure how to tell when the sugar was dissolved in the first place.

If anyone wants to write me and let me know - I'd love that information! I didn't want to boil it too long for fear it might burn and get too sticky to pour out.

Once you have this step all perfected (on my 2nd try I did okay!), you pour this over the pretzels and bake for 10 min.
Then melt white chocolate and pour over that. And do the same with a layer of milk chocolate. I doubled the milk chocolate to have enough to spread over.

Then you can garnish with pretty much anything you want!!! For the Halloween effect I liked what Cookies and Cups did for the Spooky eyes - using oreos. Here is the "Bark" before it's all in pieces. I have to say breaking the bark was not easy....It would be ideal for every piece to have an oreo with eyes...but I didn't exactly know how to make that happen. Any ideas there?

Here's a side view of the bark.


Hope the kids like this creation...turned out to be more of something I wanted to tackle since I didn't get it right the first time. I was even prepared to have to try for attempt 3. Luckily I didn't have to!


HAPPY HALLOWEEN.
And HAPPY BAKING.

Halloween is HERE

Halloween Season is here....and I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do! It can not end. I simply LOVE this holiday. I think it might be my favorite :) I've been busy this week making cookies for Trevor's class party on Monday. Here is the selection I made!!!

My Frankenstein was inspired by Cookie Crumbs on Facebook. It seems a lot of the blogs and sites I look at decided to use the square and round cookie cutter for so many things. So I HAD to try it as well!

Something must be brewing for my witches hats!
More from one of my favorites - Sugarbelle. The more traditional Frankenstein.
Not Halloween I know...but I had some extra dough and had seen this a few weeks ago. I had to make some. I loved how Cookies with Character brought a little sunshine in with a daisy cookie cutter. I will be making more of these in the future!
Using a new cookie cutter I purchased recently I made a witches boot!
I have to thank Munchkin Munchies for inspiring these Spider Cookies.
They are made with a candy shaped cookie cutter with a triangle attached as a hat. Simply adorable!

Trevor didn't want me to make scary cookies so when I saw these ghosts from Catch My Party's blog I thought they were perfect!
An assortment of pumpkins. I haven't quite found the pumpkin face I really like though. I wasn't too happy with any of these.
Ohh....a spooky cat face. But not too spooky! Meow!
Everyone loves candy corn, right?
My new tombstone cookie cutter.
I hope the kids enjoy the Halloween cookies! They are going to have a fun day on Monday at their party. And I really liked making them!
I have a few more tricks up my sleeve for Halloween yet that I have to finish! I've been up a few hours already working on them!

HAPPY BAKING
Jen

Creepy Cookie Cauldrons

HAPPY HALLOWEEN BAKING!

I had this for a dinner party last weekend and these are just about the best darn tasting things ever in my opinion!! Several others have said that too so I'm not the only one! They are creepy cookie cauldrons - because they are in the cauldron shape.

This is one of those recipes that are much harder to do than the pictures and directions make it look! I think cookbooks must make about 1000 of these to get a good picture of one or two!

Below is a picture from the cookbook of the Cookie Cauldrons.
I got my recipe from a Halloween cookbook that I bought at the grocery store but also found the same recipe online here to share with you. The difficult part is actually molding the sugar cookie into little cauldrons. Using miniature muffin pans you shape them ever so carefully. Place them in the oven and then have to keep taking them out to poke the centers in so there is still a place for the filing.

The filing for these was wonderful. Caramel and Then mix rice cereal in with that. Place in the center of your sugar cookies and top with toffee bits. I made a few deviations from the actual recipe - instead of melted caramels I took the easy way out by using caramel topping. I also used toffee bits instead of chocolate chips. Then place licorice pieces in the topping and shape like the handle of the cauldron. That last part was not easy either!! Finding long licorice pieces in itself was a chore!! Here is my finished product!
Not too bad looking!!!

I do believe I'm going to try to make this into a regular cookie and see what I come up with.

I have a few ideas in store of what to do so stay tuned!!

HAPPY BAKING

Jen

More Owls and BIG Cookies and 3D Witch Hats

Here are some more Halloween and Fall things to share with you today!
I had lots of inspiration with what I created!

When I saw the 3-D Witch Hat Cookies that one of my favorite blogs did, The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle, I couldn't resist immediately trying there. She is so wonderful about thinking outside the box and using different cutters to come up with more ideas. And she really gives great tutorials on how website. These hats were made with 2 cookie cutters. First the top part was made with a candy corn cutter and I cut off the very bottom of it.....


For the bottom you have a circle cookie cutter. You put them together with a bit of icing and let them dry.
And check out what you get in the end? A very cool 3-D Hat. Very clever I thought. I wish I had the ideas that Sugarbelle's does. She puts something on her blog just about every week that I want to try!


I ordered some new Halloween cookie cutters this year. When they came in the mail a few of them were much bigger than I thought! Wow - a 6 inch bat cookie!
My gigantic black cat!

And a huge spider web!Big cookies are a good treat to give away!

I had some extra dough and had seen some more owls on Sugarbelle's website here. Some more thinking outside the box using heart and tulip cookie cutters to make these cute little creatures. There was a lot of detail and these were fun for me to make.

This week I'll be working on some more Halloween cookies for Trevor to take to his class on Monday! Happy Baking!

Fall Assortment

HAPPY FALL!

I got in my fall cookies this weekend! Nothing too fancy but fun for me to make!

I always have fun with the leaves I make using all the colors and swirling them together.




Here are my acorns.

And a ghost for extra measure!

HAPPY BAKING!
I'm moving on to Halloween and can't wait to work on those!!!

Jen