This year at a grocery store near us they were selling these awesome apothecary-style candy jars, decorated with bats and dancing skeletons. Mum bought two of them, one for me and one for Matt.
Matt filled his with these wrapped chocolates called ‘Creepy Peepers’, the foil wrappings are printed to look like human eyeballs. They are [...]
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COOKIES..THESE ARE COOKIES!
REALLY… THEY’RE JUST…….
COOKIES
Makes about 60 cookies
1 cup (250 mL) butter, softened
1 cup (250 mL) icing sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon (5 mL) almond extract
1 teaspoon (5 mL) vanilla
2 3/4 cups (675 mL) all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon (5 mL) baking powder
1 teaspoon (5 mL) salt
3/4 cup (175 mL) whole blanched almonds
1 tube (19 g) red piping gel
In [...]
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As you may know Halloween Is Coming
Here’s a song about a Mummy-
Okay, you know this isn’t what you think it’s going to be about, right?
So enjoy.
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SAMHAIN
“Summer’s end” tis called by the Celts and rightly so,
For the days shorten and the nights lengthen,
A harbinger for the coming Winter’s cold. It is a
Celebration for their New Year, which begins the next
Day… We know its descendant today as O’Hallow’s Eve.
Masks and costumes made from animal heads and skins
Were donned by the Ancients on [...]
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