Itsy Bitsy Spider...

Cupcakes are coming along really well... For these ones, I am using a Wilton Halloween cupcake wrap... I am loving it!

Halloween cookies...

If you are looking for some fun ideas for Halloween cookies, this is it... The recipe is from Pillsbury. Really easy to make. But you can use any other sugar cookie recipe, too. Well, I am back to my cauldron... to get ready for tomorrow...

Bewitched...

From the Halloween collection, made out of gum paste. Her hair? Royal icing...

Gerbera Daisy...

This sugar daisy has been made with the biggest cutter of the daisy cutter set from the Fondant and Gum Paste Student Kit. It is made out of fondant and it is almost as big as the cupcake itself...

Boo!

Don't you love this cute treat bag idea? If you want to learn how to do it, visit Lynda's website Stampin'Up! for this and many other ideas...

Penuche Icing...

I used to get frustrated when preparing my husband's birthday cake. Whenever I asked him: "What kind of cake would you like for your birthday?", and I was thinking of all those nice themes to create a master piece... But, he would invariably answer: "Angel food cake with penuche icing..."
So, no room for cake decorating with this kind of cake, and it was also hard to come up with a cake like those his mom used to make for him for his birthday...not to mention to find a recipe for this penuche icing that I had never heard of before...
But with the years, I have been feeling more and more at home with this cake, and I came to love this penuche icing, sweet and rich, kind of fudge...

Penuche Icing

1/2 cup of butter

1 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup milk

1 cup icing sugar

Melt butter in saucepan: stir in brown sugar. Cook and stir till bubbly. Remove from heat. Add milk, and beat until smooth. Add icing sugar, beat by hand until spreading consistency. Immediately cover Angel Food cake with it... Enjoy!

Haunted...

Sometimes, on these rainy mornings, I have some ghosts from the past that come to haunt me... And then... I eat them! Yummy ghosts!

On a Halloween note...

On this rainy morning, with my two kids with the flu, this picture brought me back to life... a still life, but a beautiful and amazing life... The creator of this picture? Matt . Thank you, Matt, for such a beautiful shot...

Restoring dried Wilton icing colours...

If your Wilton icing colours seem a little bit dry, you can restore their normal consistency by adding a small amount of Wilton glycerine...

Happy Thanksgiving to you all...!

Gracias a la vida... que me ha dado tanto...

Violeta Parra

Lovestruck is coming...!