HALLOWEEN CREDIT CRUNCH FREE TIPS #2 - MUSIC

Today's Halloween tip is absolutely free!  perfect for a party on a budget!

This is idea for both kids Halloween parties as well as adult Halloween themed parties.

Here is a huge selection of free Halloween themed music to download.  http://www.ilovewavs.com/Holidays/Halloween/Midis/HalloweenMidi.htm
http://www.ilovewavs.com/Holidays/Halloween/Music/HalloweenMusic.htm

Download your free halloween spooky sound effects here http://www.ilovewavs.com/Holidays/Halloween/SoundEffects/HalloweenSoundEffects.htm 

You can then either burn some a  CD or play through your mp3 player.

My recommendation is to compile music & sound effects together and mix them randomly so you get the sound effects in between tracks.  It really does make people jump.

If music maketh the party, then the Halloween sound effects really will be the icing on the cake!

Remember to bookmark this site for daily credit crunch free tips for Halloween themed parties.

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HALLOWEEN CREDIT CRUNCH TIP #1 - DECORATIONS

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These little faces, made from dried apples, can look really nasty and sinister -- the perfect thing to decorate a Halloween party. Tuck them in among the food at your Halloween Buffet. 

Once dried, they last and last for years.

apples
whole cloves
a few grains of rice
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 teaspoons salt

Instructions:

Peel a large apple and coat with mixture of lemon juice and 2 teaspoons of salt to prevent browning. With a potato peeler or small knife carve out eye sockets, a nose, mouth and ears. Don't worry about carving small details as they will be lost when the apple dries. Go for the big features and nature will take care of the rest.

Use whole cloves for eyes and raw rice grains for teeth (the faces also come out looking great without these extra props, just carve and let dry if you want to keep it simple). The photo below right shows the freshly carved apples used to make the apple heads in the photo above.

Sit apples on a wire rack in a warm, dry place for about 2 weeks. You can speed the drying process a little by drying in an oven set at the lowest temperature. However, the process will still take several days.

 

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HALLOWEEN EDIBLE PHOTO CAKE TOPPERS

See our website http://www.somethingcakey.com for more designs and easy online ordering process.

Happy Halloween! 

 

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Pumpkin Cake Recipe for Halloween

PUMPKIN CAKE FOR HALLOWEEN
(This is rather like a carrot cake)

CAKE INGREDIENTS

300 gm Self Raising Flour
300 gm light muscovado sugar
3 teaspoons mixed spice
2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
175 gm sultanas
half teaspoon salt
4 eggs
200 gm butter
zest and juice of one orange
500 gm grated flesh of pumpkin or butternut squash

METHOD

Preheat oven to 180 degrees for fan ovens; Gas Mark 4 or 160 degrees for ordinary ovens

Prepare a 20cm x 30cm cake tin OR 2 x 8 inch sandwich tins by greasing and lining with greaseproof paper

Place dry ingredients (flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate, sultanas and salt) in a mixing bowl.

Melt the butter, beat the eggs and then beat the eggs into the butter

Stir orange zest and one tablespoon of orange juice into the butter and egg mixture

Add pumpkin flesh to dry ingredients

Stir butter mixture into dry ingredients

Pour batter into tin(s)

Bake for APPROXIMATELY 30 minutes
****** Pumpkins can vary in water content which can affect the cooking time. So keep an eye on your cake towards the end of the cooking time and adjust timing as necessary. Test for readiness. If the cake is ready, a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake will come out clean.

When ready leave the cake in the tin for 5 minutes to cool slightly then turn out onto a wire tray. Skewer all over and drizzle with the rest of the orange juice (from the 2 oranges) while still warm. Leave cake to cool.

FROSTING

200 gm soft cheese
85 gm softened butter
100 gm sifted icing sugar
zest of one orange
1 tablespoon orange juice

Beat all ingredients together and leave in the fridge

LEAVE CAKE TO COOL COMPLETELY BEFORE APPLYING ICING

Give the frosting a quick beat before icing the cake

Now apply your edible cake topper according to the instructions. Don't forget to look at the video to see just how easily they are applied!

Your cake can be kept in the fridge for about three days

Grease and line a 30cm x 20 cm tin

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A mumpreneur business - edible photo cake toppers

About


Something Cakey started in 2008 by Nicky, a mother of twins.

Having young children always brings back memories of your own childhood.  One particular memory being birthdays.  Birthday cakes were always such a monumental deal, the focal point of any birthday party.  Nothing much has changed over the years and children, no matter how young, are always keen to have a totally themed birthday party with a wow birthday cake.

Unfortunately, Spanish birthdays don't seem to be the huge affair they are in the UK and therefore the choice of cakes in keeping with the latest crazes, simply isn't readily available in the supermarkets.  The options are pretty much limited to either a homemade cake or a chocolate gateau.  

Well, there are family traditions to be upheld - the birthday child's cake of choice  being one of them.  So as each birthday rolled around, we donned our aprons, dusted down the weighing scales and gave our amateur icing skills our best shot!

Baking a cake is easy enough. A plain sponge cake is pretty foolproof or it's easy to cheat and buy from a supermarket or bakery but it's trying to ice a novelty cake so that it even vaguely resemble that beloved children's character that sets the stress levels soaring.

Iggle Piggle, Nemo and Dory, now they were relatively easy all things considering.   But when the favourites requested started to be more challenging like Buzz Lightyear, Upsy Daisy or Power Rangers, it was time for a new tactic...

And so the idea of Something Cakey was born.   Personalised edible cake toppers.  Any picture, any design you want.  And with a personalised message too.  The perfect solution for that perfect birthday cake!

Our first cake topper, Toy Story, was met with absolute delight from the children. An instant hit...the adult guests were equally impressed.   And so the idea snowballed into a thriving, successful "mumpreneur" business.

We realised pretty quickly that our edible cake toppers weren't just for kids as the next order was for a Steven Gerrard cake topper, for a lady whose husband is a big Liverpool fan.   

So we hit the ground running and haven’t looked back.


 

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