Halloween Party and Trick or Treating

      

      

It wasn't much of a stretch to transform my little one into The Devil. 

My friend Leesa hosts trick or treating at her house every year as her neighbourhood goes to the most spectacular effort to celebrate Halloween. 

It's such a great experience and my boys came home with {literally} a bucket load of treats.

Some of the guests brought some wonderful halloweenish food. 

The handmade toffee apples' tags read "eat at your own risk".

There were also beautifully decorated cupcakes adorned with black rats, picket fences and tombstones.

The savoury food included some severed sausage fingers, which tasted great but kept giving me the creeps because they were so realistic. And these mummy pizza muffins were a cute idea and were very yummy too. Aren't the chocolate vampire fangs and brains gorgeous! 

The brains oozed out with gooey strawberry fondant!

Spiders crawled up the walls and spectres spectated from outside, hanging about waiting for someone to throw them a bone.

Candy Corn

Candy Corn is not so readily available in Australia but I have it on good authority that the sweet shop near to me gets it in especially for Halloween. I will be hunting some down this week because I have taken a fancy to it after finding all of these pictures on Pinterest. 
We have a very special party to go to at a friend's whose whole neighbourhood does such a magnificent job of celebrating Halloween {also not so often found in Australia}.
It's is such a fun night, we will bring a plate and hopefully pull off some sort of costuming arrangement using cardboard, a hot glue gun and whatever else I can catch lying about the house before it scuttles behind a cupboard.

candy corn cupcakes - very cute

candy corn bark

a cute fluffy baby candy corn

how beautiful is this candy corn fudge!

candy corn garland

more candy corn fudge this time with pretzels, ahh sweet and salty!

I thought something like this candy corn costume would be great for my 7 year old as he already has beautiful orange hair, he would just need a yellow suit and a white pointy hat on top, maybe not.

and  finally, to wash down all of that sugar... a candy corn martini!

*** just another special thing I wanted to mention {again, not readily found in Australia} was the vist to Brisbane by Queen Elizabeth today. It was a little bit exciting. There were a crowd of about 45000 Brisbanians lining the cultural forewalk at Southbank hoping for a glimpse. 

"The man in charge of all the schools said we could have the day off to see Queen Elizabeth" 

was my son's opening argument towards getting a day off school but he was sincerely 

disappointed when I said no. He really did want to meet the Queen. he called me the meanest mother in the world, maybe I will make him wear that candy corn outfit to the halloween party.

I saw her arrival on tv whilst I was waiting at the doctor with the other doctors and staff collected in the waiting room to watch her too and I thought she looked lovely. 

She had on a beautiful shade of pale green coat and and matching hat with a speckled feather in it.