The Grave Yard Shift Bakery is open – Halloween treat comment contest!
Our community center had a Haunted House and my daughter and I provided a bake sale for the event. Culinary geeks that we are, we overworked ourselves and could hardly keep our eyes open while selling them! Good thing Grandma Dixie was there to help us with our customers!
Adorable, creative, tired witch.
A cookie tombstone cemetery on crushed Oreo dirt. Want to make your own? Here is a list of some of those we laid to rest:
Bitby A Snake
C. U. Later
I. Slipt
I. Will Return
B. R. B.
K. A. Put
Ima Goner
Red E. Ornot
I. M. Dead
Ghoulia Child
Berry M. Deep
Izzy Gone
U. R. Next
Barry A. Live
I. B. Gone
Miss Fortune
Silly monsters for the kids. Okay, every baker has their regrets; hindsight tells me that his hair looks like a unibrow – Now that’s scary!
Big googly-eyed spiders! They’re web designers.
Jack Skellington was the hit of the night! My daughter made these. She gets really crazy about Jack!
Little carrot raisin muffins feel prettier with a ribbon.
Adorable, creative, tired witches feel prettier with black lipstick.
Speaking of witches, how about witch finger cookies, complete with wart! How? We used icing to stick a green M&M on them and then covered them in a simple powdered sugar icing which was a creepy green. The fingernail was a sliced almond.
And finally, six feet under bars! We used jewelry boxes lined with cardstock. We then placed 7 layers bars inside each box and laid the toy skeleton to rest on top of the bars and wrapped them. We covered the top with theme fitting scrapbook paper and added a little RIP label and of course a ribbon makes everything better.
I hope you have a wonderfully spooky Halloween and use this weekend to connect with people in your community. What a fun time to meet the families in your neighborhood!
Now for our little Halloween contest! We’re sorry, this contest has ended but…
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR THREE WINNERS! Just for fun, be sure to check out the fun that our winners are having with their toy skeletons we affectionately have named Dead Stanley! You can follow their travels from Texas, New York and Washington here.
PLEASE NOTE: This item does contain nuts.
I’m giving away three sets of “Six Feet Under Bars”! Here’s the spooky scoop:
- Just leave a comment and include your favorite Halloween treat idea link on this post Here’s an example of a cute treat link! http://blog.thecelebrationshoppe.com/tag/fun-halloween-treat-ideas/
- If you win, I will be sending you two Six Feet Under Bars!
- Leave your comment with a way for me to contact you if you win (either a blog link or email)
- Deadline to enter is October 27, 2009 at noon (recorded by the time stamp of your comment).
- The winners will be announced & bars will be mailed out tomorrow afternoon so you can receive them quickly. Be sure to check your email or back here to see if you won so that you can email me your mailing address on time.
* One winner will be chosen using the Random.org integer generator.
Happy Halloween!
Deanna,
It looks like you all had a “spook”tacular time! Those treats look delicious!
I am a field editor for Taste of Home magazine, and I always see fun holiday ideas every year. Here’s a cute Halloween treat idea for eyeball cookies:
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Eyeball-Cookies
Thanks for the yummy and fun contest!
Sarah
I left you a comment on FB and then realized, “DUH! I need to comment here too!” All of those baked yummies are amazing! I hope you will start giving lessons at the B&B soon.
Deanna – all I can say is WOW!!! You are one AMAZING friend!!
I am in love with your witch finger cookies… the wart totally makes them!!! The googly eyed spiders are also irresistable and so very cute.
I’ve had a thing for ghosts this Halloween season and adore these;
http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/halloween-recipes/halloween-snacks-treats/ghost-toasts-689005/
Thanks for sharing your imagination and tasty treats!
-Laura
They are adorable. We almost made ghosts this year too. Maybe next year!
I love the jack cupcakes!
Amazing creativity! Fun for boys and ghouls alike. I hope my mummy makes all these for me.
Shucks, missed the deadline… but love what you’ve done with all those treats. The witch fingers are especially clever. How lucky you are to have a daughter who shares your creativity and passion!
The deadline is noon in Seattle so you have a chance of winning!
Thank you for commenting!
Super treats. These have given me some ideas for the twins 14th Halloween Birthday Spectacular!!!
Here’s another one I found that I thought was really cute:
http://www.celebrations.com/content/Yummy-Mummies
Tina
Those are so cute!
Just fabulous!! best from Jefferson’s Table.
Those are really neat!
Taylor always likes the holidays. Halloween is the fun one. Being a single dad i have no clue about crafts and the such. So my son being an awesome kid found the better homes website that always gives great ideas. http://www.bhg.com/
They have a ton of ideas for holloween.
I love this link guys! I’m going to look at it again some more later. Can never have too many ideas!
We have our three “Six Feet Under Bar” winners!
Congratulations to:
Sarah
Cindy Holman
stephchows
Please email me at deanna@theoldhen.org with your mailing address so that I can mail your trick or treats out to you today. Thank you everybody for playing and for sharing your spooky idea links with the other readers. They were really fun!
I loved the costume! -I want tights like those! and of course, the desserts! Starting my Halloween baking tomorrow! Thanks for the ideas!
Yea!!! The e-mail has been sent! Thanks again for the yummy contest! I can’t wait to eat the delicious treats!
Happy (early) Halloween!
Hugs,
Sarah
What a spook-tacular party and treats!
My favorite Halloween treat is one I make and have posted on my site…Cheddar Halloween pumpkins! http://imaweekendcook.blogspot.com
Hello. Not sure if it’s too late to comment for a prize, but here’s a good Halloween treat link. http://www.examiner.com/x-17290-Orange-County-Food-Examiner~y2009m10d9-Pictoral-guide-and-ideas-for-decorating-Halloween-cookies-and-cupcakes
Thank you!
Shelly Borrell, Nibbles of Tidbits
errr….lovely cupcakes and biscuits? very nicely done! I am impressed. We don’t celebrate Halloween in a big scale here.
cute Halloween treats, everything looks so spooktastic
Oooh! That party looks so fun!
Treat: I love the cat crap cake idea (tootsie rolls rolled in crushed nuts or broken cookies) to look like cat poop that top a cake with crushed cookies on the frosted top.
Drink down the cake with blood-red punch with frozen hands in it (using latex gloves sans the powder!).
Halloween is so much fun! I wish I lived by the bakery – I miss real bakeries. They are sssssooooooo much better than the ‘walbarf’ we have here!
what an awesome bake sale. Those cupcakes look so good. I have a hard time frosting cupcakes and always want to do it for my 3 year old. Any suggestions on how to make designs on cup cakes with a toddler?
My kids are teens now so it’s been awhile since I’ve had to adjust to toddlers and frosting coming together in the same kitchen!
Knowing me, I probably gave them a few to decorate and then I did the rest. lol
Great, fun cookies and what a fun Halloween!
Ronelle
Thank you so much for your fun comments and spooklicious ideas on this post! I hope your 2009 was full of happy and silly memories for you! I consider myself so blessed to have made so many new friends through blogging. You are all so much fun!