Halloween Pumpkin Treats

Fall = pumpkins! For a Halloween party I wanted to try a new recipe for cupcakes to bring. I found this Pumpkin Cupcake recipe from Sweetopia! 

I skipped the maple and just went with plain cream cheese frosting. Delicious!

I went on a quest for green straws with the idea of using them for cake pops as pumpkin stems. The idea came to me last minute so I didn't have time to order them online. I finally found them at Sur La Table and put my plan in to action!

And for my costume: Russell from UP! 

Football Snacks

Football Sundays are really the best days of the week. Snacks make football Sundays even better. I saw this post on Mini Chicken & Waffles on Love From the Oven and had to try them. 

I used this Hungry Girl recipe for the chicken so I wouldn't feel as guilty eating them. Paired with hot sauce and syrup for dipping.

My other favorite football snack to make is mini pretzel bites. I use this Alton Brown recipe for soft pretzels but instead of making them in the pretzel shape I cut them in to bite size pieces for sharing.

Grandma's Birthday

My Grandma celebrated her 75th birthday this month. I was happy to help in the celebration of the life of such a wonderful, loving woman in my life. She gave me a box of old photos to make a collage to put on display at the dinner party. It was so much fun to go through them and see Grandma as a tiny tot on her 1st birthday!

 Royal icing transfers are my favorite way to dress up cupcakes. I used the flower from Saru's Flower Ding and traced.

 The finished display:

Happy Birthday Grandma! xoxo