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Halloween ~ Trick or Treat Fun

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I love halloween and decorating our house had always been a ton of fun, we always went a little crazy in our decorations as we would create a graveyard theme and we really got into it.  We would have the skeletons, lights and even the fog, the poor little children that came to our house, some of them wouldn’t even ring the door bell.

We did do carved pumpkins every year as well

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Sometimes we did have some fun with the skeletons and just placed the skeletons on the hammock…during the day

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but at night…it was a whole other story

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but I was not a big fan of halloween decorated food and drinks as I was always in a rush to get decorations displayed.  I had done some very basic things like dry ice in a drink of punch

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but honestly that’s as creative as I ever got for food decorations and being Italian, I’d always have enough homemade pizza (but it’s not very halloween’ish)

halloween pizza

That being said, there are so many amazing things you can do and here are some of the fun filled things I found and thought I’d share with you.

This is one of my favorite sites ~ Candiquik.com

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Hot Dog Mummy ~ Momsshoppingengine.com

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Oreo Witch Hats ~ bakedperfection.com

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Owl S’mores ~ Livinglocurto.com

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Apple Bites ~ Momsshoppingengine.com

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This site has a few great ideas so check it out ~ Healthiana.com

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how cute are these?  Tasteofhome.com

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So I just wanted to showcase a few of my favorites if you have any favorite sites or would like to share what you create, please send me an email at Patty@MmGood.com and I’d be happy to post them.

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PS – we also dressed up, here is Jacob (he’s scary)…

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and here I am

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Lemon Poppyseed Cookies

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OK, so I will share that this recipe is not a “Patty” original but the recipe itself was interesting to me as to make the lemon syrup you have to cook it down by half and that intrigued me enough to deviate from my original recipe.  I enjoyed this version of the recipe…I will do my recipe next week and let you know which one I liked more.

In the meantime, I put a nice yellow ribbon around them to show you how lovely they can look as the perfect hostess gift.

Let me know what your thoughts are…

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Lemon Poppyseed Cookies

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 ¼ cups sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 4 teaspoons lemon zest
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon poppy seeds + extra for topping

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350ºF, line 2 large baking sheets with baking paper.
  2. In a small saucepan, bring lemon juice to a simmer and let reduce by half. Once it has reduced add 1 stick of butter and let melt, remove from heat and set aside.
  3. In a mixing bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.
  4. In another bowl, add the additional stick of butter and 1 cup of sugar together and mix until smooth and creamy. Beat in egg and melted lemon-butter mixture, beat on medium-high with an electric mixer for 3 minutes, or until very light and pale in color. Mix in vanilla, poppy seeds and 3 teaspoons of lemon zest; once combined, add dry ingredients and mix on low until smooth, you may need to stir in the last 1/3 to 2/3 of a cup by hand. Blend until smooth.
  5. In a plate, combine the remaining ¼ cup of sugar with 1 teaspoon of lemon zest – rub the sugar and zest between your fingertips to obtain a lemony sugar. Roll leveled ½ tablespoons of dough into small balls and place on a prepared cookie sheet, 2" apart. Using a very slight moist glass, dip the bottom into sugar mixture and flatten cookies, follow by sprinkling a few poppy seeds and a pinch of the sugar+zest mix over the top of each cookie.
  6. Bake for 11-12 minutes or until perfectly golden around the edges. Let cool for a few minutes before transferring the cookies to a wire rack.
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