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 This week's Recipe of the Week features a
delicious and beautiful Jack O' Lantern cake. This cake is perfect for any Halloween
party or just a nice ending to a festive Halloween supper.
You may want to include candy corn to decorate the cake. Sprinkles make a nice
addition to the top of the cake.
What You Need:
- 18 1/4 ozs white cake mix
- 2 lbs store bought vanilla frosting or homemade ( enough to
frost a 2 layer 9 inch cake)
- 2 drops green food coloring
- 1 whole ice cream cone -- with flat bottom
- 2 drops yellow food coloring
- 2 drops red food coloring
What You Do:
 Prepare, bake, and cool cake
according to package directions. Except make the cake in a 10-cup fluted tube pan with
ridges (to resemble a pumpkin).- Measure 1/4 cup vanilla frosting into small bowl. Tint with
green food coloring. Place ice cream cone upside down on waxed paper. Frost with green
frosting. Refrigerate. Tint remaining frosting with yellow and red food coloring until
frosting is desired shade of orange frosting in small bowl.
- Frost cake with orange frosting. Add green food coloring to
make brown > frosting. Make eyes, mouth, and nose with brown frosting as desired on
pumpkin. Place green frosted ice cream cone in center hole of cake for stem.
Dirt 'n Worms
 This is a dessert the
kids will love.
Kids just love pretending that this yummy blend of crushed Oreos and whipped topping is
really dirt and worms!
Not a recipe, but a great craft & gift idea
Pumpkin Soup
 This easy
and charming craft is really a wonderful gift for any and all of the goblins in your life.
We have created a wonderful gift tag that you can easily download and attach to your mug
to make this a special gift. The tag has an adorable picture and inside we have
written a poem especially dedicated to the treats of Halloween. This can be given as an
inexpensive and fun favor for a Halloween party, a gift for a favorite relative and friend
and a wonderful Halloween centerpiece. You'll want to make them for your kids.
Doggie Dress Up
  Are you crazy about dogs.
Do you dress them up for Halloween, special events, and just because it's Tuesday? It's
time you got out of the closet and declare to the world that you're crazy.
It's OK. We'll understand.
Don't believe us? Take a look!!
(and then send us a picture!) |
Halloween Books
 Secret World of Basset Hounds
See my Basset friends
see my favorite biscotti
The Chocolate
Bible
more Chocolate
Books
more
Dessert
Books
FREE Chocolate Recipes
FREE Candymaking Ideas
FREE Thanksiving craft ideas,
coloring pages recipes and more....
Meet the Author
Anne Byrn
author of: "The
Cake Mix Doctor
 interview
& FREE recipe:
Strawberry Cake
with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
 Lemon bundt cake, chocolate cake, Mississippi Mud cake, Caramel cake
can all be yours in just minutes!! You can bake these delicious cakes from boxed
cake mixes and enjoy that wonderful home-made taste, slice after slice. See our interview
with the "Cake Mix Doctor" where she tells us how she received her
"medical" degree as well as a FREE recipe from her book. |
