HALLOWEEN MONSTER CUPCAKES

Sooooo CUTE!!!

How adorable are these Fur Ball and String Monster cupcakes?

These wide-eyed little creatures are from the book What’s New, Cupcake.

FUR BALL MONSTERS:

Ingredients:

12 vanilla cupcakes baked in orange, green, and purple paper cases
12 mini vanilla cupcakes, paper liners removed
1 can (16 oz) vanilla frosting

Neon green, orange, and purple food coloring
24 mini lollipops  unwrapped
24 peach or green apple gummy rings
24 brown mini candy coated chocolates (M&M’s Minis)
12 assorted color candy-coated chocolates (M&M’s Minis)


Directions:

1. Spoon 2 tablespoons vanilla frosting into a small ziplock bag. Divide the remaining vanilla frosting among three bowls and tint each a different color with the food coloring. Spoon each color of frosting into a separate ziplock bag, press out the excess air, and seal the bags.

2. Insert a lollipop stick through a gummy ring, pushing it through the candy from the center to outer edge. Bring the gummy ring up around the lollipop, like a bonnet, to make the eyes. Continue with the remaining gummy rings and lollipops.

3. Snip a small (1/8-inch) corner from the bags with the frostings. Pipe a dot of tinted frosting on top of the standard cupcakes. Place a mini cupcake on top, flat side down. Starting at the edge of the standard cupcake and using the tinted frosting, pipe furn with a squeeze-release-pull action. Continue until the entire exposed cupcake assembly is covered. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes and colored frosting.

4. Insert 2 like-colored lollipop eyes into the top of each cupcake assembly. Pipe a dot of vanilla frosting in the center of each lollipop and add a brown candy for the pupil. Add a colored candy to the top of the frosting for the nose. Repeat with the remaining lollipop eyes and cupcakes.



STRING MONSTER VARIATION:

Follow steps 1 and 2 above. Snip a small (1/8-inch) corner from the bags with the frosting. Pipe a dot of tinted frosting on top of the standard cupcakes. Place a mini cupcake on top, flat side down. Pipe the tinted frosting all over the cupcakes to make the string, making sure to cover cupcakes completely. Continue with step 4 above.



  Too cute to eat!!!

BOOING PART 2

  Here's some pics of this years Boo's


Great way to get the pre Halloween party excitement going.

See here for free printable boo posters.

 The chocolates wer 89p for 18 from Aldi.

And the stickers from Poundland.

Double layered bags.

I tucked and taped the corners of the bag to make it wider for a larger bags of treats.

The skull and cross bones sticker was a sheet for 29p from Home bargains.


My 9 year old son still has great fun delivering these.

I think it is the knocking on the door and running away, he thinks it's naughty. LOL

So I thought I would Boo him and here's his Boo Bag....

I found out that sticking the chocolates to a card worked better as they dont move around.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Have fun with your family!!!

HARRY POTTER PARTY

Well with Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (part one)

only a month away, it got me thinking about Potter Parties.....

INVITATIONS

A howler

There are some really complicated instructions here but I sat up last night making a basic pattern.
Will try and pull it together this week.

or

by owl post

COSTUMES
Free printable Harry glass from here

DECORATIONS

Make a 9 3/4 sign and put over the front doorway

paint a brick wall on an old sheet thread a bamboo cane throw the top

cut a slit up the middle and hang over front door

so they can walk through the 9 3/4 platform

BANNER / BUNTING

A banner / bunting made from pennants for each house team

(Right click on image and save image and use as required)

Gryffindor - on burgundy pennat

Huffle Puff - on a yellow

Slytherin - on an emerald green pennant

Ravenclaw - on blue pennant

Badges for each child : reduce the size of each tean badge

and put double sided sticky tape and place on each child

Individual Hogwarts pennants - on black

Broomsticks, wands, hats, spell books, owls

Flying key mobile.

GAMES & ACTIVITES

THE SORTING HAT

Sort the group of children into teams have them come to the front

put the sorting hat (a battered witches hat) onto their head

And have them pull a slip of paper from a poitions jar.

HUT THE SNITCH

Glue wings on ping pong balls, spray them gold and hide them around the garden

QUIDITCH

Martha Smartha

Hoola hoops sprayed and attached to stakes at different hieghts.

take turns in throwing the quaffle (ball) threw them.

Give points for each hoop.

Marauders Map Treasure Trail

This is a fantastic invite by britta you can adapt for your treasure trail.

You will have to go to the site as they are copy protected, but you can download them for personal use.

They are well worth the effort, I promise.

GIANT CHESS

Something for them to do whilst you are busy elsewhere.

FOOD & DRINK

Accent the party

butter beer and broomsticks

Butterbeer Recipe


12 ounces (one bottle) of ginger beer
36 ounces (three bottles) of cream soda
3 T of butterscotch ice cream topping



Thoroughly chill the unopened ginger beer and cream soda in the refrigerator until they are icy cold. Refrigerate the empty glass jug as also.
Once the beverages are chilled, in a small mixing bowl or tall glass, stir 1-2 ounces of cream soda into the butterscotch topping until it's thoroughly combined.
Pour all the remaining soda into the chilled pitcher.
Quickly add the butterscotch mixture to the jug.
Stir until it is just combined - do not over stir.
Pour it over the ice and serve them immediately.
This recipe serves 6.

To add a frothy sparkle to the drinks, dip the rim of each glass in corn syrup, pulling drips of syrup downward with a toothpick.
Then dip each glass rim in a mixture of colored sugar.
Before dipping, spread the corn syrup & sugar mixture each onto a separate, flat-bottomed plate.

or

pumpkin juice (really fresh orange juice)

or
you could print these and stick them to your soda bottles.

CUPCAKES

or you could reduce the size of the house badges above and use them as cake picks like this.

PHOTO BOOTH
Now this is a fantastic photo op, alot of work for some artistic person but well worth it.

FAVOURS

broomstick favours

Make these chocolate frog boxes

template from here
from your choice of card.

This is a printable box ready to glue together.

You can put in a freddo the frog chocolate (yes they are still around)
or
you could also buy a chocolate making mould in the shape of a frog.

Bertie Bott's's jelly beans sweetie bags

Have fun!!!

HALLOWEEN MR POTATO HEAD PUMPKIN

How cute is this..........



pieces for pirate, vampire, princess, witch

.......great for younger members of the family, who can't carve their pumpkin.

Of course you could use your Mr Potato head pieces you already have.

Just poke holes in appropriate places for eyes, nose, mouth etc.

Have fun with your family!!!

HALLOWEEN POSTERS / SIGNS

The "Keep Calm and Carry On" type Halloween posters everywhere.

So here's some free printables.

You can also use them for gift tags, table signs and next to trick or treat bowls.

mam's 2 cents worth

and here's one for the Twilight fans.....

tater tots and jello

Right click and "save as..." and print away

Ta Ta for Now!!!