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Halloween 2018

There will be no trick or treating for me and there won´t be anyone coming to my door for candy either.  There are very few kids in this building.  But that doesn´t mean Halloween was ignored.

One of my sons and his wife are throwing a party tonight and they wanted some cupcakes for it appropriately themed for Halloween.  I was given free range with what to produce.  The canvass was a Bon Appetit recipe for a spiced pumpkin cake.  I made the full recipe and it yielded 60 mini cupcakes with enough leftover to make a small six-inch cake.  My other son took that to work and shared it with his students.

Doing an image search provided ideas for decorating.  Before the end results are shown, I have to say my decorating skills are rusty.  There was a struggle to keep the frosting cool enough to give definition to the lines.  Having said that the only way to improve is to keep practicing.

Part of the 60 cupcakes

A monster that looks a lot like Cookie Monster

Pumpkins, a top down look

Brains with strawberry blood

Day of the Dead faces

The mummies turned out best
A few cupcakes were left unfrosted; I suspect there may be some guests at this party who would like to avoid the added sugar of the frosting.  So Halloween was celebrated today by me; and as with most today, it involved lots of sugar.

I am on the road for the next week so odds are slim there will be anything posted until I return.

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