We had a potluck lunch for Halloween at work, and since I volunteered to bring dessert, I wanted to make something tasty and Halloween-y. These cupcakes are just the trick you need to treat your coworkers to a delightful post-meal snack (see what I did there?)!


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For adults and kids alike, make your own Halloween candy. Peanut and sesame seed brittles are always a treat.

Clockwise, starting at the top, peanut brittle, a black and white sesame seed brittle and lastly, a second batch of peanut brittle in which the syrup has only been cooked to the hard crack stage. The resulting brittle was then drizzled with ( Read more... )

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My daughter and I made a cake for Halloween this year. We had a party of 10 girls coming over to spend the night, and decided to do a graveyard with a grave for each of them:


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Well, I'm headed to a party later tonight, and I haven't baked in a while, so I decided to take along a couple of baked goods :) BIG pictures under the cut

( You start to scream, but terror takes the sound before you make it... )

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My wife and I made some last-minute cupcakes for one of her coworkers the other night, and I thought I'd share. They're red velvet vegan cupcakes (the recipe is from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World), but they certainly didn't taste granola. They were topped with a chocolate "butter" cream frosting, and fondant decorations.

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They make a cool new black food coloring for chocolate frosting:


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