Scary Halloween Invite beckons my ghoulish presence

My BFF, Alice, who’s also an avid scrapper, sent me this gorgeous scary invitation to a halloween party. I was so pleased and amazed at the detail and work she put into it that I just had to showcase it here and show everyone else.

She picked up all the supplies from Michaels. Using a stamp with diamonds she made the background of the envelope and then embossed it. The invitation itself was stamped with different colours and then also embossed.

She even made a few red paint splatters on the front of the envelope to make it look like someone’s blood spilled on it while she was busy working away. Very creepy indeed…I love it!

Halloween Fun

 

After finishing up in the lab at midnight, I rushed home to bake a bunch of treats for halloween! I’ve actually never baked for halloween before and I must say it takes a lot of creativity, time and tutorial-watching to come up with something ghouly AND delicious.

The googly eye cake was a huge hit at the halloween party I attended over the weekend. I used the 1 bowl chocolate cake mix from allrecipes and a wilton american buttercream for the frosting.
For the cake balls, instead of buttercream, I read that using ganache would make a rich truffle-like texture and maintain the cakeball shape better. So ganache it was, also a huge hit!

And my cupcakes as usual, a crowd pleaser! Our new postdoc in the lab ate 3 and blames me for his belly flab (which is really non-existent btw).

Can’t wait to try something even more gruesome next year, maybe some strawberry jelly blood-filled treats?