Halloween Shenanigans

This year, Sally was invited to a Halloween party and what better way to celebrate than bringing fun Halloween treats?  Of course, Sally and I ended up with more of a gory finger food than the cutesy cupcakes you'd expect.  The recipe was for eyeballs... and while Sally with her medical knowledge proclaimed these to be "eyeballs on crack... with glaucoma," I proclaim them delicious.  And a great way to decorate your kitchen with bloody dishes in the sink and red fingerprints on the drawers.

Red Velvet Cake Eyeballs
adapted from The Cake Mistress, here
Ingredients
1 box of red velvet cake mix (or make your own cake)
1 can of cream cheese frosting (or make your own frosting*)
white chocolate (~16 oz.)
some M&Ms (about 50)
red food coloring (preferably gel)

1. Make the red velvet cake.
2. Let cake cool.  Make frosting if necessary.
3. Mix together cake and frosting.  Mixture will be quite gooey.
4. Roll into balls and place in fridge or freezer. Cool for at least 4 hours. Re-roll balls halfway through to get a more spherical and less lumpy shape.
5. Melt white chocolate (either in microwave or in double boiler).
6. Dip red velvet cake balls in chocolate.  Place M&M on top before chocolate cools.
7. Decorate with red food coloring after chocolate has cooled.

 step 4: re-rolling cake balls

*Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
1 pkg. Cream Cheese (8 oz.)
1/2 c. butter (1 stick)
2 to 3 cups powdered sugar

Mix the cream cheese and butter together (helps if they are at room temperature).  Then add the powdered sugar and mix until combined.

We apologize for our extended absence...

So Sally and I have not posted in a very long time. In fact, it's been over a year. But never fear, our kitchen has not been idle for the long duration... In fact, just to prove that Sally and I are not the lazy bums you thought we were, here are some pictures of things that were made over the last year:

Mini Cinnamon Muffins!

Red Velvet Cake! with Cream Cheese Frosting!

...cookies!

Neither Sally nor I can remember exactly what kind of cookies... only that they must have been pretty amazing for us to consider whipping out the camera to take pictures of them.

And just to prove we do eat real food (every now and then) and don't survive on cookies and cake alone, here's some nice healthy pasta and veggies for ya.

Raspberry Ice Cream with Chocolate Sauce

Can't forget about the ice cream. Look at my attempts at an artsy photo - I should really leave that sort of thing up to Sally.

Well, there you have it. Sally and I are not lazy bums... just lazy bloggers. But hopefully we can fully redeem ourselves in the next year or so!