This is how we do it...

[Note: today's the last day to send in your entry in the Haunted Gingerbread contest! I'll be posting them and announcing a winner tonight!]

This will probably come as no surprise, but I like Halloween. It's a great excuse to dress up and make creepy treats. I don't cook, but I do bake. And carve. And toast. And frost.

Here's some of what we did for Halloween this year!


This is what my yard looks like this year. You can see that the skeleton kicked out part of the flower bed border when he clawed his way up from the earth. ;)
This year's pumpkins! It's always hard to get a good shot of them lit. Mine is on the left, and #1's is on the right. Mine is from a pattern, his is freehand. What do you think? And, of course, we cleaned and toasted the pumpkin seeds using this recipe.
I got the meringue bones recipe here, but I forgot to take a picture of them baked, and now they're all gone! They taste like a cross between cotton candy and toasted marshmallows--so good! And they melt in your mouth, after the initial crunch. I'm making some meringue ghosts this afternoon. ;)
And, of course, our gingerbread house. It's homemade and the design is original (courtesy of #1). People have been asking about the frosting I use. Confession: I make a very simple frosting of powdered sugar and milk, and I make it thick. It doesn't taste very good, but we're not going to eat it anyway, and it holds well. We apply it with a cookie press frosting tip attachment, then smooth the "mortar" with a finger.


These are our blood clot cupcakes. The frosting is supposed to be tinted to look like gray matter, but we forgot to do that. So #1 added the veins! The recipe is here. Gross, huh? ;)