Halloween in the Kitchen

These are the traditional ghost cookies at my house. My family waits eagerly each year for their arrival! There are also Muddie Buddies, which are fun to munch as well.

This year my daughter had been wanting to try using fondant.

So when I saw ghosts made with fondant we had our excuse/reason.

These are the bases, which have to be made ahead to dry.

Some have malted milk ball heads and some have jelly bean heads (since I could not find black gum drops anywhere) and some were left plain.

And here are the finished ghosts. Aren't they cute? The chocolate chip faces were really hard to do as they are so tiny and do not want to stick. I like the candy faces that you just 'carve' out as you can get more detail but maybe I should have made them larger. They are still drying. We had no idea this stuff gets quite hard and is made entirely out of unhealthy ingredients so we decided there is no way we will try eating one. But they are cute and now we have tried fondant.

Fall Fun at last

I finally finished the surprise for my friend, though it still needs to be blocked so I was able to whip up a cute little baby hat for my little brother's first granddaughter. And new tea cozies! I love this simple pattern. Front and center is an apple bookmark that I intended to do last month. Better late than never.

Actually I have been too busy to get much crocheting done until this week. I broke off a tooth and had to have a root canal done with a post and crown prep, then a temporary and impressions the next day. All of which left me in pain. Pain that is bearable as long as I sit still. Now there is an invitation to crochet if ever I heard one! I have moved on to an afghan for my granddaughter now.