29th: Food: Spider & Bat Cupcakes

As I mentioned in a previous post, they have chocolate bats at Sainsbury's this year. So when I also got this bat cupcake decorating set (above) from Asda, I decided to combine the two and make some spooky cupcakes (below)!

They're really simple, so I didn't do a proper tutorial about them. Just use whichever cupcake recipe you prefer and, once cooked, then leave them to cool.

Following that, ice them all, put a bat-topped cocktail stick in and spider chocolate on each one and you're done! :)

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17th: Halloween Food - Chocolate Spiders

This year spiders seem to be everywhere for Halloween - even the food is full of them! Sainsbury's have some milk & white chocolate spiders (okay for vegetarians too, but sadly, no dark chocolate for vegans).

They come in packs of 12 and are each about 2cm long. I think they'd be great at parties or as a spooky surprise for someone!

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7th: Halloween Decor: Light-Up Ghost Globe

Not lit up, with the lights on in the room

More Halloween decor, this time in the shape of this wonderful light-up ghost globe! The "snow" inside it consists of black bats and orange glitter, which compliments the colours in the spiderweb pattern on the base. Madame Luciel bought it for me last year and the light still works. Hurray!

Lit up, with the lights off in the room

The ghost, which acts as the light, illuminates the globe and approximately 1cm around it but not much more. The base isn't lit, but I think it would be distracting from the main focal point (aka the ghost) if it was.

This ghost globe really is more of a decoration than a light, but it's better that way, as you can look directly at it without being blinded!

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Friday 13th: Jason & His Gingerbread Victims

As you all know by now, today is Friday 13th, and in addition to being a notoriously unlucky day for the superstitious, it is also Fright-day Foods time here on HSL! Today's Creepy "cooking" is:

Jason Voorhees & His Gingerbread Victims

Ridiculously easy how-to guide after the bloody machete cut below↓