Cupcake frenzy! Halloween themed cupcakes Part 2

Hello again! I promised you more posts on cupcakes for Halloween. I believe the previous cupcakes are fairly easy to design, have you tried making them yet? Here are the second batches you can try for Halloween!

 Brainiac Cupcakes

• 1  batch One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes
• Swiss Meringue Buttercream for Cupcakes

1. Prepare chocolate cupcakes according to recipe. Cool completely.
2. While cupcakes are cooling, make buttercream.
3. To decorate, use a medium round tip (such as Ateco #12) to pipe a mound of buttercream in the center of cupcake, then outline and pipe a brain design over it. 

 Wicked Witch Cupcakes

• 24  brown mini M&Ms, plus more for filling (optional)
• Hershey's Chocolate Cupcakes
• Dirty Green Simple Buttercream
• 12  chocolate sugar cones
• 1 pound(s) black licorice laces, cut into 1/4-inch, 1/2-inch, and 2-inch lengths
• 12  candy corns

1. Using a melon baller, scoop out the center of each cupcake and fill with mini M&Ms, if desired.
2. Cover the tops of each cupcake with a generous mound (about 1/3 cup) of buttercream. Insert one candy corn into each cupcake to form a nose. Using brown mini M&Ms, insert two into each cupcake to form eyes. Place two short lengths of licorice above the eyes to form eyebrows for the witch. Place the shorter licorice lengths above the eyebrows to form bangs. Place an inverted cone on top of bangs, pressing gently into buttercream to adhere. Place the longer licorice lengths under the cone hat to form the hair.

 Tentacle Alien Monster Cupcake

Prepare the vanilla or chocolate cupcake recipe. Spread each cupcake with a thin layer of meringue buttercream tinted with a few drops of green food coloring. Cut strips of green taffy and attach around the top of each cupcake. For the eye, slice a yellow gumdrop in half and press into the top of the cupcake. A piece of black licorice attached in front of the gumdrop completes the creepy gaze.

via Marthastewart.com

Halloween party ideas!

Are you throwing a Halloween party? If you are, here are some great tips to make your party the most fang-tastic one in your neighborhood!

Monster Footprints
With a magic marker, draw a footprint in a big sponge. Cut out the footprint. Pour washable paint in an 1/8 inch aluminum pan. Press the sponge in the paint and sponge footsteps up your sidewalk to your front door for trick-or-treaters to follow, or around the side of your dark, spooky house. Flip the sponge upside down to stamp the other foot.

Green Pumpkins
Carve green peppers as jack-o-lanterns! You can have a whole row of them, and there are yellow and red peppers to try as well. Have a whole army of scary faces to greet goblins at your door.


Ghosties
Crumple up a piece of tissue paper into a ball. Place it into the center of a flat piece of tissue paper. Pick up the corners of the flat tissue and twist it around the ball. Tie a twist tie or a piece of string around the ghosts's neck. Draw a face with a felt pen. You can hang them up all over the house! You can also glue on yarn, and make a black hat and cape from colored paper to make a witch!

Bobbing Ghosts
Start with a piece of cheesecloth 2 yards long and 1 yard wide. Place a helium filled balloon in the middle of the fabric and gather loosely around the balloon. Draw a horrid mask on the cloth with a felt pen. You can put some ghosts in a box and when people open the box the ghosts will float up and scare everyone! Or, you can attach them onto a string in front of an open window or a fan and watch them gently move in the breeze.

Icky Cobwebs
Cut some string into 4 foot lengths and tape them to the ceiling. You should have a very dim room for this. Just before the victim arrives you can hold a bowl of water up to the string and get it wet. When people walk in the wet, slimy string will brush across their foreheads and scare them!

Food Body Parts
This is a good decoration for a dimly lit room at party time. Have several bowls of body parts displayed to horrify your friends. Cut up a bunch of hot dogs lenghwise for severed fingers.Cook some spaghetti noodles and add some red and blue food coloring for veins. A bunch of cocktail onions rolling around in a bowl looks like eyeballs. Fill a red balloon with warm water and spread it with strawberry jam. Invite your guests to touch your brain!

Fancy decorating for Halloween

If you want to go for the classy, fancy Halloween decorating, we have covered it. For your dining or living room tables, we have nice black wooden table decorations in the shapes of a bat, cat, haunted house, or witch on a broomstick. These table decor are very durable and light and is a great addition to an otherwise boring dining table.

Halloween Indoor Black Wood Table Decoration (Set of 4)

Next up in the fancy Halloween category we have a hanging glittery chandelier kit that you could easily hang off the ceiling, by the window, or on a door frame. They would also look great for a Halloween party and are plastic so they can resist some wear and tear.

Halloween Indoor Deluxe Black Chandelier Kit Hanging Decoration Set

Then we have another table top decoration of black glitter trees with moons on the tippy top, an eye catching addition to the item.These trees come in different heights in a set of 3, and will definitely dress up any room with the classy and elegance it provides as an excellent Halloween decorative piece.

Halloween Indoor Glitter Black Trees with Moon Table Decoration (Set of 3)

Last but not the least, one of our most popular items is our elegant wounded wire tree! The tree either comes with the LED lights decoration or you could get it without. The tree lights up itself as well. This is really one of my absolute favorites in this category.

Halloween Indoor Spooky Wounded Wire Tree with LED lights Decoration

  Hope you adored what I have picked out for you today! Enjoy!

Paper Skulls and Crossbones for the Home

We showed you what you could add to your front lawn, now we shall introduce you to items to add within your home to further add onto your festive Halloween spirit! To start off, we have paper cut out skeletons that you could put on your wall and display however you'd like (the 'joints' are movable!). You could even choose to decorate your wall with a glow in the dark, a non-glow in the dark paper skeleton, or even both! They look like this:

Halloween In/Outdoor Spooky Paper Skeleton Cut Out Decoration

Halloween In/Outdoor Spooky Glow-In-The-Dark Cutout Skeleton Decoration

I like to make the skeleton look like its dancing, what would you make them do?

New products added for Halloween!

Good news! We have just received our Halloween products! We are also offering Halloween holiday decorating packages for your convenience, so all you have to do is to pick out which one you like, Indoor or Outdoor Standard, Platinum, or Gold. As a treat, here are some pictures of some great products that we have picked out for you:

Halloween In/Outdoor Glow-In-The-Dark Glitter Skeleton "Welcome" Hang Decoration

Halloween Indoor Spooky Ghost and Witch Graveyard Scene LED Flicker Candles (Set of 2)

Halloween Indoor Orange and Black Pumpkins Tinsel Garland Decoration

Halloween Indoor Smiling Paper Pumpkins Hanging Lantern Decoration (Set of 3)

Halloween Indoor Glitter Black Trees with Moon Table Decoration (Set of 3)

Halloween In/Outdoor Glitter Purple and Orange Pumpkin Wreath Decoration

To see more of our Halloween products, come visit our site. Enjoy!