baby’s first year

A themed baby shower is a great way to celebrate the impending arrival of your baby and if it’s October, there’s no better idea than a Halloween themed baby shower!  We’ve compiled a few ideas of how you can either put a Halloween twist on your baby shower or a baby shower twist on Halloween, […]

Ingredients: A box of partially chocolate covered cookies (Chocolate HobbNobbs or Keebler Fudge Stripes Cookies) A bag of Hershey’s chocolate cookies Frosting Orange food colouring Method: 1. Prepare the frosting you will use to stick the chocolate kisses to the cookies. You can use our buttercream frosting recipe adding some orange food colouring to it. […]

Ingredients: A batch of chocolate sugar cookies Candy corn Hard red candies or red M&Ms Method:  1. Prepare a batch of chocolate sugar cookie dough and place disks of cookie dough onto lined cookie sheets. 2. Before baking, use your thumb and index finger to pinch two ears onto the upper portion of the cookie […]

Ingredients: Jell-O pudding mixtures (chocolate or vanilla, depending on how you want to decorate your pudding cups) Oreos or a similar chocolate biscuit Either green food colouring or sugar cookies and chocolate frosting Method: 1. Prepare the Jell-O pudding mixtures. Vanilla for the Frankenstein Pudding cups and chocolate for the Chocolate Graveyards. Add green food […]

Ingredients: Basic bundt cake (in a regular cake pan) Buttercream frosting Black plastic spider Method: 1. Prepare a basic bundt cake, but rather than baking it in a bundt pan, bake it in a regular round cake tin. We think a chocolate cake would make this a sinful delight. 2. Once the cake is fully […]

Ingredients: A batch of cupcakes Buttercream frosting Store-brought black icing in an easy-to-use tube Green food colouring A bag of large marshmallows Pretzel sticks Method: 1. Prepare a batch of cupcakes. 2. Using small tongs, lightly roll each marshmallow in a bowl of green food colouring and place on a lined plate or platter to […]

Ingredients: 2 batches of basic bundt cake Frosting Green and orange food colouring Fruit jam/jelly of your choice, nutella or peanut butter One whole ice-cream cone Candy corn for decoration Method: 1. Prepare 2 batches of basic bundt cake, adding spices, cocoa, fruits and/or nuts as you like. 2. Once both bundt cakes are fully […]

Halloween is all about dressing up and eating deleicious treats. However, not everyone is a Martha Stewart in the kitchen and preparing yummy Halloween treats can be a bit more challenging for them. That doesn’t mean you can’t try. We’ve compiled a few very easy recipes that were inspired by Pinterest images that made our […]

“Trick-or-treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat, if you don’t I don’t care, I’ll just pull down your underwear!” Trick-or-treating is a Halloween tradition that everyone enjoys. This year instead of scooping a handful of candy into each trick-or-treater’s bucket, why not go that extra mile and create you’re very own trick-or-treat […]