Sunday, November 8, 2009

A little late, but here's my Hallowe'en cupcakes

Flu is done. 14 hour workdays, not so much. But after a week of dinners consisting of fuzzy mints found in the bowels of my purse and Halloween candy, I'm ready to start cooking again! I've got a busy week planned with the ballet, S's birthday dinner and a girls night, but there will be a few recipes popping up finally! And I'll finally have time to start commenting on everyone's blogs - man I miss reading what you guys are cooking!

So, in honor of Halloween I made devil's food cupcakes. I went with a mix, but doctored it up by adding more cocoa powder and subbing out most of the oil for buttermilk. Very tasty! I used my mom's infamous icing recipe and turned those little devils into mummies! (note the irony.....mommy's icing recipe for the mummy cupcakes).


They turned out pretty good for a quick decorating job.



And finally, here's is the winning pumpkin in our annual office pumpkin carving contest. Sue did a fabulous job with this...how could it not win??!!





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13 comments:

  2. Thx!! Love your site Obnoxious - it is my main source of giggling in the mornings at work!

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  3. I love these lil fellas ! : ) ... So cute and creative...the red eyes are so CREEPY though !

    Glad you are feeling better now Cathy...

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  4. Nat - it was the eyes I liked the best :)

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  5. Love the "mummies". That icing recipe is great for all kinds of decorating. I'm glad that you like using it. The pumpkin is awesome as well!
    We only had 2 trick or treaters this year. I miss seeing all the little ghosts and goblins.
    Really glad to hear your feeling much better.

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  6. Sorry to hear that you were sick & am happy that you're doing better. The cupcakes are great - is the icing a fondant or did you pipe it on?

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  7. Mom - the girls at work love this icing because it's not too sweet. I was at work, not sure if we had kids or not this year.

    Taste - it's a homemade icing made with regular sugar, butter and warm milk. I used white food colouring to take out the yellow tinge and then piped it on.

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  8. These are hysterical! Who could resist a mummy cupcake?

    Found your blog the Natashya's - so glad I stopped by!

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  9. Thanks for stopping by Toni!! There wasn't a single mummy cupcake left and I made 2 dozen!

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  10. What awesome cupcakes! They are almost too cute to eat. Glad that you are feeling better, though I can't imagine those fuzzy mints helped!

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  11. Palidor - almost too cute...don't forget they are chocolate.

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  12. OMG...these cupcakes are sooooooooooooo cuteeeee !! What a waste to have them all eaten up ! You're so creative.... I'm lost for words

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  13. Full-time - thx! I'm actually not all that creative so I love when someone thinks I am :)

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