Booo! (Happy Halloween!)
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OmegaDad has become quite proficient with building edifices out of gingerbread over the years. And his dexterity with piping royal icing has become quite deft. And, frankly, anyone who can figure out how to color icing dead black and bright orange deserves an A+ for ingenuity.
(Actually, it turns out that the way to do it is to buy the expensive food coloring at the local gourmet kitchen store. Alas for my shattered illusions!)
He found out how to make ghosts out of fondant on the internet. He came up with a way to make tombstones out of Pepperidge Farm Mint Milano cookies and white chocolate chips. He is a dab hand at outlining windows and creating spiderwebs out of icing.
The piece de resistance was the roof, a square slab of homemade sugar candy, colored orange.
Behold!
We have ghosts. We have tombstones. We have little pumpkins on the steps. We have spiderwebs. We have gables. Also, notice the way the side looks like a face…
I am most satisfied. This one came out way cool.
A close-up of the path (made of rock candy) and front door (made of chocolate wafers):
Tombstones and a ghost:
The “ground” is Cocoa Crispies.
The “tree” is some twigs blown down by the incredible winds we have been having yesterday and today, anchored in a squished up caramel. (We’re supposed to have gusts up to 75 mph tonight; when I took the dotter off to school this afternoon for “Trick or Treat Town” the mountains across the inlet, over by Big City, were obscured by what could have been fog, except that it was coming down through the passes, rather than up from the inlet. The pseudo-fog was, in fact, dust being scoured from the various glaciers by the winds. Big City was under an air quality advisory as a result.)
Some fun Halloween links: The very best Mrs. Incredible costume…jelly jar candle jack-o-lanterns…a real-life Transformer costume (watch the video!)…an incredibly punny Halloween tale from Miss Cellania.
Enjoy your spooky day!
