If nothing else, Halloween can be a really good reason to have a get-together with friends. We had a great time celebrating with some of our good friends.
Category Archives: Cookies & Biscuits
Halloween Cookie Short
We thought we’d have a bit of fun with our Halloween Cookies – here are the results! https://youtu.be/SpdKfYFS0Hk
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
Ignoring the historical significance, it’s not hard to see the appeal of Halloween for kids. Dressing up in a crazy costume, calling on your neighbours so that they can give you sweet treats, and eating so many sweets that you’re bouncing off the walls – what’s not to love! Last year Lulu declared Halloween as the ‘Best Day Ever’ – for me that title will always be held by Christmas, but Halloween does provide the best opportunity to practice some kitchen alchemy and explore the darker side of your creativity to create some gruesome party food.
Here are some of the Mook and Lulu Halloween offerings for this year.
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- Creepy Cookies
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- Witches Hats
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- Spider Cakes
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- Finger Rolls!
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- Halloween Backdrop
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- Mummy Pizza
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- Orange Pumpkin Jellies
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- Halloween Party Food
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- Ghost Pizza
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- Pumpkin Burgers
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- Pumpkin Burgers
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- Ghoulish Green Milk
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- Orange Pumpkin Jelly
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- Cookies!
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- Scrambled Witch Bagels
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- Party Time!
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- Eating Gravestones
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- Yum!
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- Nom nom..
Mook’s Bicycle & Scooter Party
Mook’s Bicycle & Scooter Party
Birthday Parties can be an expensive business. So this year, when Mook wanted (needed) a new bike, we talked about ways that we could scale back on a birthday party as she was having such an expensive present.
She was very gracious, possibly helped by the fact that we bought the new bike two weeks early, and we all sat down and talked about possible party ideas. Lulu hit on the great idea of having a ‘Bicycle and Scooter Party’ – which went down well with everyone, and so, this year Mook’s Party was a fantastic reminder that simple pleasures can be an absolute delight – and don’t need to cost the earth (literally!).
The Battle of the Peter Rabbit with Floppy Ears and Other Tales from a 6th Birthday Party…
Lulu’s Peter Rabbit Party
There is something quite refreshing about a child who lives in the moment, a child for whom time, as a concept, is rarely used. Refreshing that is until you try to usher said child out of the door to avoid the mad dash up to the school gates, or when a major event appears on the horizon..
Lulu was telling everyone she met that her birthday was in January, even before Christmas. Since she went back to school she has asked with increasing frequency “when is my birthday?”, or “is it my party tomorrow?”.
Over the past week, she has witnessed the planning for her party and the creation and steady progress on her birthday cake, and the questions have been coming thick and fast. This year Lulu asked for a Peter Rabbit birthday. She came home last Saturday in the midst of my struggles with Peter Rabbit’s ears, which (as previously mentioned) refused to stand upright – a bit of creativity with a couple of cocktail sticks and a safe place to dry and….bingo! Peter Rabbit with appropriately pointy ears.
Lulu didn’t see the finished cake until the morning of her party and, despite previously telling me that Peter Rabbit looked only ‘pretty good for a rabbit made of icing’, she was one happy bunny (sorry, couldn’t resist).
Peter Rabbit Birthday Cake
Here is how we did Lulu’s Peter Rabbit Birthday Party.
Birthday Treat – Biscuiteers Icing Class!
Advent Biscuits – the results of an icing masterclass at Biscuiteers
What a difference a week makes! I am once again mobile (for the most part) and so I took the chance to spoil myself for my birthday and booked onto an masterclass at the phenomenal Biscuiteers Icing Cafe.
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