halloween themed cake balls

Here's the low down on the cake balls I made for Halloween, first seen here.

First you make a cake (I just used a box mix)

Let the cake cool, and crumble into a bowl.

Add enough icing to form ball shapes

(I used 3/4 can prepared milk chocolate icing)

Roll into 48 1" balls

Refrigerate for an hour or freeze for about 10 minutes.

Prepare candy coating

Melt candy coating in microwave (do 30 seconds at a time).

Push popsicle sticks 1/2 way through cake balls working with a couple at a time

and leaving the rest in the refrigerator.

Dip cake balls into melted candy coating and let excess drip off

(I tapped the stick to the sides of the bowl).

For the "slime balls" I used the extra candy coating, a frosting bag and #2 tip to drizzle on the "slime"

For the Jack O' Lanterns I used white melted candy coating colored black to draw the faces

and colored green to add the stems (still using a frosting bag and #2 tip).

These keep in the refrigerator really well. I even made them a week ahead of time.

The basic cake ball was much easier to make that I first thought it would be. The time consuming part was adding the details, but I love how they turned out! Definately worth the effort!

spiderweb cookies

As I previously mentioned here, I made these spiderweb suger cookies for a Halloween party

I actually took a few pictures during the process so I'll give the recipe and then break it down

a little with the pictures I took.

Suger {Butter} Cookies

1 cup butter

1 1/4 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Cream Shortening. Add Sugar, eggs & vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients. Refrigerate for at least one hour.

Roll out dough to desired thickness, cut with cookie cutters. Bake at 375 for about 10 minutes. Let Cool

Frosting

2 Tablespoons butter

3 Tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Powdered sugar (about 3-4 cups)

Heat together butter, milk & vanilla. Add powdered sugar till thick enough to spread.

Chocolate Cookies

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup cocoa

1 teaspoon vanilla

Add in addition to rest of cookie ingredients.

And here's the process with pictures:

After dough has been mixed and refrigerated; roll out and cut

Bake at 375 for 10 minutes

Let cool before frosting

To ice the cookies I pretty much followed these instructions, but instead of doing

a spiderweb shape, i just did a circle and let the web "techniqe" speak for itself

(give me a break, it was easier and have you seen how good her stuff looks?!)

Here's the finished cookies!

halloween party from a food obsessed view

Our friends host an awesome halloween party annually and this year was no exception!

I mostly took "detail" pictures so you have to check out Annie's blog in the next couple of days for more people/active shots!

Katie cut out all these bats from an online template - they looked so cool flying in their living room!!!

There was lots of yummy food... I mostly took pictures of the desserts, but there was other food too!

I made the cake pops... details on that later this week

I also made the spiderweb cookies. Details later.

There was a carmel apple fondu station set up and it was soo yummy!

Hey look, a non-dessert food pic! Go me!

The spiked rasberry punch was danger x 2 because it had spiders in it and tasted super delish!

Kevin helped me make these jello worms. They were cool looking, but a little hard to make.

See here for the tutorial.

Yes, there were actually people at this party to eat all the yummy food :)

I was a mountain man/woman and Kevin was an old man

(his hat says "I'm retired, would someone please tell my wife" haha!)

While we were playing games, Brian's mask was reflected in the window and it was ubber creepy looking to see a bodyless face watching us!

I don't want to be all Debbie Downer, but come on. Is it seriously November already???

Thanksing, Christmas, New Years brainstorming-planning-pinteresting in progress.

Doesn't mean my plans with become anything substantial, but I'll try my hardest!

Happy Halloween!