Are you ready for Halloween? In our home the costumes are ready, the holiday plates and cups are in the cupboards, the pumpkins on the sideboard. I had some women from the PTO over last night to cut and count BoxTops and decided to go with the Halloween theme for the snacks. The most "Halloween-y" treat was the monster cupcakes!!! I even made edible eyes and the cupcakes turned out really cute (though perhaps resembling Muppets more than monsters!). You can buy edible eyes to use to decorate cakes, cookies and cupcakes but they are pretty pricey. I decided it couldn't be that hard, so I looked for some guidance on line and learned that they are just made from royal icing. Hmmm....should be easy enough to try! I gave it a shot and it really did work! I made a small batch of royal icing and oh my word...we have some eyeballs! I think we will be having turkeys, reindeer and snowmen cupcakes in the future.
As for actual keeper recipes this week we only have one; it was a soup that we all loved. The temperature has plummeted here and as a result soup sounded good to everyone early in the week. Owen picked out the new soup recipe and he was very happy when it earned keeper rating from all of us! It was called lasagna soup but we agreed this was a poor name. With the exception of a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese in the individual servings at the end, there was no cheese in the soup. When you think of traditional lasagna don't you picture cheese as part of the image? Well, we renamed it spaghetti soup (though it doesn't call for spaghetti), and I know we will be making it again!
Have a fun time trick-or-treating this week!!! Boo!
And, as always, happy cooking!
New Recipes
Spaghetti soup
Edible decorating eyeballs
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