DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

Now, on to this crazy delicious dessert.  Before December hits, I wanted to post one last pumpkin recipe.  I made this turtle pumpkin cheesecake for Thanksgiving and it terrible.  Just kidding.  How could a creamy pumpkin cheesecake combined with all of the deliciousness of turtle-ness be terrible?!  As you can imagine, it was rich, decadent, and over the top.  But it was Thanksgiving and calories didn’t count.  A fun thing about this cheesecake was how it looked pretty impressive and made it appear like I have some serious cheesecake skills.   Here’s a little secret: if you can drizzle chocolate and caramel, you too can make an impressive looking cheesecake.    Turtle Pumpkin Cheesecake makes 9″ cheesecake for the crust: 1 whole package of Oreos 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1/3 cup caramel sauce, homemade or store-bought for the cheesecake: 32 ounces (4 8 oz blo...

Austria-    In Austria, some people leave bread, water, and a lighted lamp on the table when they go to bed. The reason why it is done is that it was believed by doing so it would welcome the dead souls back to earth for this particular night was a night of strong cosmic energies. In Austria Catholics celebrate the entire period between October 30 and November 8 as  Seleenwoche  or Alls Souls' Week.     On All Saints' Day Catholics attend church services in honor of the saints, the martyrs and those who have died for the Catholic faith. People may also visit their family’s graves to beautify them with wreaths and small lanterns. Sometimes a mass is said at the gravesite and the grave sprinkled with holy water.    On November 2 or All Souls' Day, Catholics attend a special Requiem masses, where they remember those who may be close to them that have died. Prayers for the dead are said and votive candles are lit to honor their memory. ...

       I  thought these would be cool for an adult halloween party.  Who wouldn't want to attend it after getting these in the mail.  Brought to you by  www.trulysmitten.blogspot.com  .  May your party raise the DEAD!!   DIY Ghoulish Halloween Invitation    With my favorite ghoulish holiday fast approaching, I thought I'd share with you an antiquated and creepy DIY Halloween invitation I made over the weekend. Hope these come in handy for your halloween festivities! What you'll need: - kraft paper (5.5 x 8.5) - white envelopes - white card stock (4 x 6) - 2 black tea bags (I used Twinning's English Breakfast). **You can download my invitation template  here  and a portrait of the unfortunate uncle  here .    The longer you soak the paper, the darker and more antiquated the paper can look. I soaked for a good 10 minutes. ...

   This diy comes from  www.davelowe.blogspot.com  .  Just like the pics at Disneyland when you walk down the hall to get to your doom buggy.  Very cool effect. Morphing Ghost Picture with LCD Photo Frame Let the Halloween Projects begin! As a Christmas gift, I got a  PANDIGITAL 6" LCD digital photo frame . I just got around to using it. It has a slide show feature dissolving from photo to photo and is easy to upload pictures directly from the computer. I experimented with it and now has become a new, favorite Halloween prop creating HAUNTED MANSIONesque morphing portraits. I scanned a old family photo of my great, great Grandparents. Using the clone tool in Photoshop, I made a second version with their heads and hands gone. This size frame forgives some sloppy Photoshop being a small window (3"x 5 1/4"). That's it! I just uploaded them. There is a 5 second delay between PICS but the result is great ...

   This recipe come from  www.cakejournal.com .   My work is having a Halloween party and I'm going to make these for the scary dessert contest with something elese.  I always enter the pumpkin carving contest and I've been undefeated the past 3 years, winning $100 dollars every time.  The company wants me to do a special pumpkin for another contest.  If all goes well I'll be showing some pics.  Happy baking! How to make Halloween dead finger cookies One of my favourite Halloween treats are these dead finger sugar cookies. They are always a big hit! To keep the fingers as thin as possible during baking I roll out the dough thinly so it will keep the shape, as cookie dough tends to spread out. You can paint the almond nails with food colouring gels. I like to keep them natural with just a little dusting of cocoa powder, just like on the photo. This is what I use: Sugar cookie dough (please find recipe below) Pastry ...

   Halloween is just around the corner and with it comes loads of candy, movies, costumes, and fun! Because we already have a list of the  top 10 horror movies , we thought it might be a nice idea to do a list of halloween movies that are suitable for all ages – something the kids and adults will both love. I have tried to pick a good balanced selection of movies – not just horror movies, but movies that contain halloween themes: witches, ghosts, and all things spooky. I have intentionally excluded movie series (such as the Harry Potter series) and Halloween versions of popular shows (such as the Spongebob Halloween special). If you haven’t seen any of these movies, you definitely should. Be sure to tell us what movies you will be watching this halloween!  10. Hocus Pocus 1993    More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem, Massachusetts and a boy was turned into a cat (a black cat, naturally). Now it’s Ha...