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scarey cake for halloween

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cathy_3
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I used to make this for my kids at  halloween and they loved it

make a square sponge cake

slice the top off fairly thinly

cut a coffin shape  (I know!!) out of the bottom deep part

hollow it out

make bones out of icing paste

scatter them inside

put the lid on  you make out of the top you cut off

ice  RIP   on the top you can cover it in chocolate if you want but I never did

put on cake board or plate

collect some dead leaves from garden  rinse them off

place round the cake

the kids love it

they eat the bones and scare the life out of each other doing it

lol
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  • Galtizz
    Galtizz Posts: 1,016 Forumite
    Not a cake, but a food related game for kids halloween parties. I remember this from when I was a kid.

    Kids sat in a circle, lights off (needs to be really dark).

    Tell a spooky story worked around a person walking in a wood, found haunted house, went in (creak), went upstairs, found trunk in a room, in trunk (pass objects around or walk around and let them feel them):

    A finger (shapped carrot)
    An eye ball (Boiled egg without the shell)
    A Brain (Cauliflower with all the leaves stripped off)
    Finally he pulled out:

    A still beating heart!!!!!! :o (Jelly, in a freezer bag pulled into heart shape with your hand underneath, pulse hand like a heart beating)

    Don't forget to clear the food away before turning the lights back on. - it scares them even more if they don't know how you did it ;)

    It's great fun - keeps the kids entertained for ages if you can weave a good long ghost story.
    When life hands you a lemon, make sure you ask for tequilla and salt ;)
  • Chris25
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    Galtizz, I love it ;D what a great idea.

    We play a game called 'Pick The Bogie'
    Sit 2 teams of equal number of players in a line opposite each other.
    Give the first in line on each team a bowl of green jelly with green grapes in the bottom.
    Each child has a plastic 'witches finger' and they then have to fish out a grape ( or a specified number) before handing the bowl along to the next person.
    The first team either to get out all the grapes or first to get to the end of the line is the winner.
    Beware though, green jelly stains!
  • 16011996
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    we don't normally do anything for halloween, but i like the tought of scarin the kids. thanks for the ideas.
  • Galtizz
    Galtizz Posts: 1,016 Forumite
    'Pick The Bogie'  

    That's gross. I know someone who will think it's hilarious though - I'll pass on the idea, thanks
    When life hands you a lemon, make sure you ask for tequilla and salt ;)
  • Chris25
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    ;D ;)
  • Galtizz
    Galtizz Posts: 1,016 Forumite
    Just found THIS receipe for 'Hot blood soup'. Another one to scare the kids with ;D
    When life hands you a lemon, make sure you ask for tequilla and salt ;)
  • 16011996
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    we have made fairy cakes with green (lime) and red (strawberry) jam blobs in the middle, and coloured the sponge with green food colouring. the look disgusting but are quite yum.
  • jaybee
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    The kids used to tell me that any cake I made was scarey!!! ::)
  • 16011996
    16011996 Posts: 8,313 Forumite
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    The kids used to tell me that any cake I made was scarey!!! ::)

    awww. ;D bet they were lovely cakes reeally.
  • Sarahsaver
    Sarahsaver Posts: 8,390 Forumite
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    ypu could make a jelly using the inside of a pumpkin as the mould, and it would still be ok to use for a pumpkin pie or soup afterwards
    Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
    I have done reading too!
    To avoid all evil, to do good,
    to purify the mind- that is the
    teaching of the Buddhas.
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