• a black cake with purple fondant tentacles and gold ornaments on black background
    baking,  cake,  food,  Halloween,  seasonal,  seasonal & holidays

    Tentacle Cake

    We’re halfway to Halloween! Can you believe it? Last week I showed you how to make silhouette cupcake toppers and promised that it would be the first of a small series of posts about throwing a “classic horror novels” Halloween party. So naturally, today we’ll move on to the second one! Thinking of classic horror novels, not only Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe – which were both featured in last week’s silhouette cupcake toppers – come to mind. We cannot talk about classic horror novels without including H.P. Lovecraft and, more specifically, the almighty Cthulhu. So today, I will give a small instruction on how to create a magnificent, creepy…

  • Halloween silhouette cupcake toppers on chocolate cupcakes on black background
    baking,  cupcakes,  food,  Halloween,  seasonal,  seasonal & holidays

    Halloween Silhouette Cupcake Toppers

    As I am writing this, autumn has announced itself with brute force. It’s a beautifully gloomy day, with dark rain clouds floating in the sky and a storm so strong that it knocked over some heave planters in our garden. Yes, this is autumn how I love it. Dramatic, wild and beautiful. Inside, glistening fairy lights spread a golden shimmer against the grey beyond the windows. We have started watching horror movies, the Halloween countdown has begun. I am sleepy, but happy. Halloween isn’t huge in Germany, where I live, but I wish it were. It’s still hard to find Halloween-themed candy or food in the stores during October. And…