Cheesecake, Bloody Cheesecake

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I love Halloween. I love vampires (though not so much Twilight-y vampires...) In honor of the holiday, and my beloved gothy bloodsuckers, I created a bloody cheesecake for our Halloween party this year.

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A Sweet Sunday Surprise!

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I'm a big fan of the blog Cake Wrecks. The blog focuses on hilariously hideous professional cakes gone wrong. Ugly decorations, weird airbrushing, strange spelling mistakes... it's all there, and it's all so, so funny. It is everything I (as a professional baker) aspire not to be!

Every Sunday, though, Jen (the bloggeress), runs a feature called "Sweet

Halloween Party Recap and Other Misadventures

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Halloween party on Saturday was a smashing success! Everyone had such creative costumes- one of Kyle's friends and her boyfriend came as Medusa and Zeus! Check out her makeup job- she said it took her two hours!

Costume Parade

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It's Halloween! It's Halloween! Gaaaaaaahhhhh!... Sorry. I had to get that out of my system. Now since one of my favorite things about Halloween is costumes (and pumpkins and candy and creepy gothy home decor and...) I thought I'd share a little glimpse of Halloween costumes of years past. I'm a big ol' dork and love couples costumes, so these are Kyle and I as famous duos... and actually is a record of our every Halloween together...

Okay, Halloween is tomorrow, and Iamsofreakingexcited! Gah! Kyle and I are having a Halloween party, but it's not until Saturday, which is okay, because November 1st is Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which is equally creepy, and also involves candy and costumes.

I went outside Monday and it was cold! Well, not cold- cold for Florida anyway. It's beautiful and sunny, and a brisk 60F. It was the first really cool day of the season, which makes it finally feel like autumn. The cool temperatures remind me of trick or treating as a wee one back in Kansas and are really putting me in a Halloween-y mood. In the spirit of the season, I thought I'd share a review of some festive seasonal beers. Over the past month and a half, I've tried se [...]

Itsy-Bitsy Spider Cupcakes

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

As I mentioned, last week was my last week of school. (Yay!) If I may brag a little (and it's my blog, so I will), I finished with a 4.0, to boot!

Anyway, what that means is that I have evenings free for the next c [...]

Is it Fall Yet?

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I love pumpkins. I mean really love pumpkins. I like the way they look, I like eating them (in pie, ravioli, soup, baked goods, ice cream... ) and I like everything about them (okay, except maybe the stringy stuff inside- that makes my skin crawl.) Of course, since they're a pretty seasonal food, I really only get to enjoy them in autumn. Autumn also happens to be my favorite season, and I honestly spend most of the summer wishing September would hurry up and get here alr [...]

A Wedding Cake for the Bride of Dracula

pumpkin@pumpkinandspice.net — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

For the past three weeks, I've been in an advanced cakes class at culinary school. It's been quite an enjoyable class, except for this week, when I was freaking out about [...]