Ok so a friend of mine loves Halloween. In fact, it's by far her favourite "feast" occasion, much more than Christmas etc :D Her and her partner hold a Halloween event every year (even before they met, they individually used to have a Halloween party.. awwwww)
Anyway this year I made cupcakes! of course, they had to have a Halloween theme, so I decided to make Red Velvet cupcakes (mm blood red!) and some kind of black cake, which this time was Guinness Chocolate cake with a small amount of black food colouring for extra um.. blackness.
For the recipes of the cakes, click here:
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Chocolate Guinness cupcakes
As we were planning on decorating them, I decided on making a regular buttercream frosting, and separating the mix and colouring each part.
I made the following colours - plain white, pinkish/grey, orange and green.
As for decorations, i bought sweets in the shape of vampire fangs, skulls, bones and Sarah provided some chocolate eyeballs and pumpkins :)
I adore cooking, and I love to use good and mostly fresh and seasonal ingredients. I hope you enjoy the things I've thrown together. My basic cooking style has grown from my love of food, using what I have in the fridge/pantry and whatever is in season. I love to make good use of the local produce (my time is spent between Australia and Malta, so this will vary according to where I am).