These sweet treats are perfect for a kids Halloween party or other spooky celebration, and they’re also fun to make with your kids! My kitchen for the last couple of weeks has been covered in candy eyeballs, fondant ghosts, spatters of orange, green, and purple, candy corn, licorice legs, apples in various coatings… I could […]
Halloween Spider Sandwich Cookies
If it’s Halloween time, then you have to expect the spiders… tasty and spooky Halloween Spider Sandwich Cookies, that is! *This post may contain affiliate links. Sorry spider haters, but it’s true. In our neck of the woods as the October nighttime temperatures dip further and further towards freezing, real-life spiders are sneaking into the […]
Dingle, Ireland and a Recipe for Irresistible Apple Blackberry Crumble
Our next stop in Ireland? County Kerry for a B&B in Castlemaine (Caisleán na Mainge) and sights in Dingle (Daingean Uí Chúis). (Including holding a baby lamb!) And my recipe for you here is an Irresistible Apple Blackberry Crumble. This post may contain affiliate links. After driving all evening from Dublin we arrived pretty late […]
Pumpkin Spice Syrup Recipe: for Coffee, Lattes, and Tea
Add a splash of Fall to your coffee or tea with this DIY Pumpkin Spice Syrup! This post may contain affiliate links. My friend Natalie asked me one recent autumn day if I had a good recipe for a pumpkin spice syrup to mix into coffee. (“Pumpkin’s back!” The seasonal commercials hound us at every […]
Pumpkin Spice Cheerios & Apple Bars
Take advantage of limited edition Pumpkin Spice Cheerios that are in stores now, and whip up these sweet perfect-for-fall bars! This post may contain affiliate links. There are a lot of funny memes and videos out right now mocking the annual pumpkin spice craze. But hey, we’ve all just spend the summer roasting in the […]
Evil Eyes Candy-Coated Apples
*This post may contain affiliate links. It’s an eye for an eye. For an eye. And another and another eye! When you have a bowl full of little candy eyes, it is inevitable that food in your house will soon be dotted with eyes! I picked up several packages of these Wilton Candy Eyes and I’ve […]
Ghostly Good Chocolate Brownies
Spooky, scary ghosts gliding over the ground while fog swirls about. This Halloween image was the inspiration for these rich, chocolaty brownies with a cream cheese layer on top. And a little ghost on top of that! I toyed endlessly with this recipe, and fortunately had plenty of people to feed the experimental brownies to […]
Chocolate Halloween Witch Hats
*This post may contain affiliate links. The following passage is from the poem hist wist by e.e. cummings: whisk look out for the old woman with the wart on her nose what she’ll do to yer nobody knows I love this spooky poem, and I love seeing “little twitchy witches” come to our door on […]
Hearty Spiced Applesauce
A perfect fall afternoon feels cool and crisp, and has sun occasionally breaking through billows of charcoal clouds. The smell of a perfect fall afternoon is of chilly, damp earth and leaves, and the scent of a wood stove fired up nearby. And in the kitchen the spicy fragrance of applesauce. Apples right out of […]
Striped Chocolate Pumpkin Bread
Trying to think up a new twist on the favorite, standard pumpkin bread, began with going over what I already tend to throw into a loaf of pumpkin bread. And as is so often the case I tend to throw in chocolate. I wanted to imagine how else chocolate could pair with pumpkin and spice […]
Chipotle Pumpkin Soup
Garrison Keillor had it exactly right with this quote. He has some other quotes about pumpkin, specifically pie which seem to suggest that he looked very much down upon the lowly pumpkin. Actually though, there are many tasty pumpkin treats out there. And that includes nutmeggy pie, in my opinion! Nutmeg is not the only thing […]
Frosted Pumpkin Cookies
Recently while discussing all things pumpkin with my friend Shawn, he shared with me that one of his favorite pumpkin treats are soft, frosted pumpkin cookies that he had all the time as a kid. I didn’t really get more details than that (we ran into each other at the vet’s office, and pumpkin conversation […]