Halloween Party

We held our Halloween Party last night and it was awesome! Everyone had fun! I was very tired—spent almost two days straight in the kitchen, but it's all worth it.

I was looking for the Halloween loot bags we have had a long time ago, but I couldn't seem to find it. Unfortunately, Halloween goodies and other stuff are really hard to find here, so I wasn't able to buy a replacement. Good thing, I remembered this Halloween loot bag idea I saw somewhere before, if I'm not mistaken, one of Martha Stewart's—so I decided to do it (saving grace).

Halloween sugar cookies - I cut them using a pizza slicer and a small knife because I don't have cookie cutters in those shapes. I used powdered sugar and milk for the frosting—it dried up in less than two hours. I used fondant for the eyes, nose, and mouth.

 The graveyard cake I made. Chocolate cake filled with caramel and frosted with buttercream, then covered with fondant.

Scraps from leveling cakes—made them into pudding, then add choco buttercream and caramel for some mud thingy. I used popsicle sticks for the fence, but didn't glue all of them, so kids can use it to spoon out the cake.

 

Finger spring rolls - hotdogs as nails—I used ketchup to attach it to the spring roll. I wanted to pour ketchup all over them, but my eldest daughter doesn't like ketchup.

 

Jack-o-lantern pizza - used Shitake mushrooms for making the eyes, nose, and mouth.

 Amputated hand pizzas

Ghost pizza

Jello eyeballs - made these the night before. I should have taken a pic when they were still freshly done—they looked a lot better. Irises became somewhat blurry overtime. I used egg trays as molding tray because I couldn't find sphere-shaped ice trays. I placed them in a yakiniku grill—made it look like we're grilling eyeballs. Finished it by pouring Wilton red decorating icing.

Slimy lemonade - I actually dropped some jello eyeballs here, but they all went down even before the shutter was pressed.

I used my DIY cauldron as candy container.

Used my cardboard casket as wafer serving dish for the white chocolate fountain.

My white chocolate fountain was a failure. It didn't really flow well because its consistency thickened and I ran out of milk—I didn't really want to add oil. Kids just dipped their treats the old way—fondue style. haha

 

DIY Halloween cut-outs on the wall and the spooky tree I made on the table.

My daughters, Pristine and Julianna...

My nephew, Adrian.

My cousin, Trixcel..
You see, even a college freshman begged for some treats. hehe

My sister, Abie...

Julianna again...

My niece, Aubrey...

My niece, Astrid..

 
Another baby of mine, Roca..

And yours truly, the dead tired vampire planner, baker, and everything. I swear, I looked five years younger two days ago. hehe

Happy Halloween from our gang to you guys!