Halloween Party! (merged)

sooz

i had a halloween party the other day, and just wanted to add what i'd made..

we had eye ball cakes -plain fairy cakes decorated with white icing, a chocolate button on top, and red icing bloodshot veins

pumpkin jelly oranges - oranges scooped out and carved like pumpkins, filled with pre-set chopped red jelly

witches broomsticks - a breadstick with 4 twiglets tied to the end of them, using a single chive [warm the chive to make it easier to tie]

as it was a party for 3 year olds, we of course had hoola hoops - to be put on each finger before being eaten, and twiglets just because they are scary :eek:

Counting_Pennies_2

I am just doing a usual tea as mine is for 2 year olds.

However I have bought the smarties cakes and used coloured icing to paint spiders on the smarties.

I have also made the jelly hand, for the parents so waiting to see how it turns out.

I have also carved a pumpkin and coloured a load of satsumas with pumpkin faces.

For the most part I have just done party food and decorated the house with spiders dangling from doorways, ghost balloons and made paper chain pumpkins and spiders.

My husband won't let me change the light bulbs to red!

dumpling

We had a party yesterday and I bought a pack of meatballs (not the tinned ones in sauce but the 'dry' ones). I cut each one in half, and put some cream cheese in the top of each one so that it looked just like an oozing pimple! Extremely disgusting.....the kids loved them!

V.Lucky

I had a Halloween party yesterday too.

My Mom made fairy cakes. She did chocolate ones and put spiders begs on them with sweetie red laces as the legs overhanging the sides and eyes piped on with icing. Normal fairy cakes were iced in white and had the Haribo jelly worms on the top of them. She also did some with white icing then piped a spiders web in black. Did a blob in the middle for the spider and piped red icing eyes on them.

The kids were only 4/5 but they loved them.

Not very old style but Aldi have a pack of 20 bat shaped biscuits for 99p - figured they were cheaper than I could make them (as I haven't got a biscuit cutter this shape) so bought them. About 4ins by 2ins so not tiny ones either.

I also made jellies in small cups with Haribo worms (again) sticking out of the middle. Set them with a piece of paper on the rim and the worm poking through the middle of the paper to keep it upright whilst they set.

mookybargirl

Tried to make the frightening fingers recipe (posted by sarahs999) but had to guess the flour as had no idea what cups converted to and my internet is off at home at the moment so couldn't ask anyone

Anyway, they all spead out in the oven. Should I have used plain flour? Has anyone made these and could offer some advice. Panicking now!

I'm thinking I'll make the disaster ones into tomb stones or I could just eat em but I really want to make the fingers.

Help pleeeeeez!

mookybargirl

This was the recipe...

Frightening fingers

1/2 lb butter (no substitutes)
5oz icing sugar (confectioners' sugar)
1 egg
1tsp vanilla extract
1tsp almond extract
1tsp baking powder
2 and three quarters cups flour
1tsp salt
red decorating gel
roughly 2oz sliced almonds (they must be reasonably whole though a ragged edge is OK.)

Preheat the oven to 325F. In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Beat in the egg and extracts. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Divide dough into fourths. Cover and refrigerate for 5-30 minutes or until easy to handle.
Working with one piece of dough at a time, roll into 1inch balls. Shape the balls into 3inch by 1/2 inch fingers. Using the flat tip of a table knife, make an indentation on one end of each for the fingernail. With a knife, make three slashes in the middle of each finger for a knuckle.
Place 2 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool for 3 minutes. Squeeze a small amount of red gel on the nail bed; press a sliced almond over the gel for the nail, allowing the gel to ooze around the nail. Remove to wire racks to cool.
Yield: About 4 dozen cookies.
Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebration Cookbook, 2001
If you have a small cauldron, the fingers look really frightening arranged, nail up, in it

vivaladiva

Thanks for drawing my attention to this one. I think I might have a go too!

squeaky

Hi mookybargirl

I've added your thread onto the original one which has the recipe in it to help keep this all in one place.

Tombstones sounds good

Best of luck with your next try

mookybargirl

Thanks squeaky, I'm hoping someone will offer some advice before I start again as I have only enough time to try once more.....

purpleimp

I'm not sure if this is the thread I posted on or if it was another one so sorry if I'm repeating myself!

Tapioca................ frog spawn, and for an adult version stir in some alchymehol, baileys, voddy, midori, sourz.......... what ever tickles your fancy!HTH