Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Frankenstein Cupcakes Recipe


  • Prep: 45 min.
  • Yield: 24 Servings
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Ingredients

  • 1 to 2 cans (16 ounces each) chocolate frosting
  • Cupcakes of your choice
  • Large marshmallows
  • Corn syrup
  • Green and black sprinkles
  • M&M's miniature baking bits
  • Candy coated licorice




Directions

  • Spread frosting over cupcakes. Lightly coat marshmallows with corn syrup. Roll sides of marshmallows in green sprinkles; dip tops in black. Carefully place a marshmallow in the center of each cupcake.
  • For eyes, attach baking bits to the face of each marshmallow with a small amount of frosting; pipe pupils using frosting. Attach licorice candies to sides of head for bolts. Pipe frosting onto faces for mouths and stitches as desired. Yield: Varied.



Source : tasteofhome
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Spiderweb Cupcakes Recipe


Based on Cake Mixes andIcing

Makes

Preparation

Cooking time







  • 1 pack Betty Crocker® Devil's Food Cake Mix
  • 300 ml / 10 fl oz water
  • 75 ml / 2½ fl oz vegetable oil
  • 3 eggs
  • Orange food colour
  • 1 tub Betty Crocker® Vanilla Premium Frosting
  • 1 tube cake icing
  • Blackcurrant fruit pastilles




  • METHOD

  • 1. Preheat oven to 180°C*/350°F/Gas Mark 4.

    2. Place paper cake cases in each of 24 regular muffin tins, or grease bottom only of cups.

    3. Beat cake mix, water, oil and eggs in large bowl on low speed for 1 minute, scraping bowl constantly (do not over beat); or stir 2 minutes by hand. Fill paper baking cases two thirds full of batter.

    4. Bake for 18 to 25 minutes or until a cocktail stick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in pan. Remove to wire rack and cool completely.

    5. Make orange frosting by stirring a few drops of food colouring into frosting; spread on cupcakes.

    6. Squeeze circles of decorating icing on to each cupcake; pull knife from centre outwards to make web. Use two pastilles for each cupcake to make spider - roll out 1 pastille and cut 8 strips for legs. Keep second to form body. Place spider on cupcakes. Store loosely covered.

    * For fan oven, refer to oven manufacturer`s instructions.




    SOURCE: Betty Crocker

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Monday, May 7, 2012

TOP TEN FAIRYTALES NO LONGER READ TO CHILDREN


TOP TEN FAIRYTALES NO LONGER READ TO CHILDREN

1. Hansel and Gretel - Details two kids abandoned in the forest and likely to scare young children.



2. Jack and the Beanstalk - Deemed too 'unrealistic'.





3. Gingerbread Man - Would be uncomfortable explaining gingerbread man gets eaten by a fox



4. Little Red Riding Hood - Deemed unsuitable by parents who have to explain a young girl's grandmother has been eaten by a wolf.


5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - the term dwarves was found to be inappropriate.


6. Cinderella - Story about a young girl doing all the housework was outdated.


7.Rapunzel - Parents were worried about the focus on a young girl being kidnapped.


8.Rumplestiltskin - Wouldn't be happy reading about executions and kidnapping.

9.Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Sends the wrong messages about stealing.


10.Queen Bee - Inappropriate as the story has a character called Simpleton ENDS






SOURCE: The Telegraph

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Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School






Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School is a 1988 TV-movie produced for syndication by Hanna-Barbera as part of the Superstars 10 film package.

Plot

Scooby Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for


Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ghouls. The pupils include Sibella, the daughter of Count Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankenteen Senior, Winnie, the daughter of The Wolfman; Phantasma (usually called Phanty for short), the daughter of The phantom; and Tanis (which is a parody of an Egyptian city), the daughter of The mummy. Other residents of the school are Miss Grimwood, the headmistress, a floating white hand; an octopus, who is the school's butler, Legs, a spider that helps with the upcoming volleyball match, and her pet dragon Matches (who dislikes Scooby at first, but later becomes friends, and has a strong liking for Scrappy). Gym class soon starts, with the intent to train the girls for their upcoming volleyball match against the boys of the neighboring Calloway Military Academy (who have always beaten them through cheating).




However, thanks to a device that the boys put in the volleyball allowing the boys to win, they lose the remote that Scooby accidentally swallows and it allows the girls to win. The girls' fathers come for Open House, but as they leave, they warn Shaggy and Scooby not to let any harm come to their daughters. As an additional plot twist, Revolta, the self-styled Witch of the Web, and her minion, the Grim Creeper, plan to kidnap the girls and make them her slaves,by hypnotizing Shaggy into taking the girls on a field trip to the bog. Also on the same day the Calloway Cadets are at the bog. With the help of Revolta's spider bats, Revolta and the Grim Creeper capture the girls and at midnight Revolta will make a potion that will make them evil forever. Scooby, Scrappy, Shaggy, and Matches, along with the Calloway cadets save the girls; and Revolta and the grim creeper seem to be destroyed. Despite being well liked by all their students, Shaggy and Scooby have enough of this and run away when monsters such as an alien, the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Godzilla enroll their daughters at the school for the following year screaming "Like, meet us in St. Louis". As they leave, they see the girls and Matches wave them goodbye. Shaggy, Scooby, & Scrappy then give them a last werewolf howl before driving off.





SOURCE: GOOGLE and WIKIPEDIA
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How to Make a Gothic Birthday Cake



If you want to know how to make a Gothic Birthday Cake, well just follow these simple steps and you'll be having a good gobble of your very own G-CAKE :D The info below is from: eHow/Food Enjoy !





Things You'll Need

  • 1/2 cup butter (softened) 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 2 eggs 1 oz. red food coloring 2 cups flour 1/4 cup cocoa 1 cup buttermilk 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 tbsp. white vinegar Nonstick cooking spray 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup butter 1 tsp. vanilla 4 cups confectioners' sugar 2 tbsp. milk Black food coloring Electric beaters




Instructions

  1. Making the Cake


    • 1

      Spray a 13x9 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

    • 2

      Cream 1/2 cup softened butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar together in a large mixing bowl. Beat in 1 tsp. vanilla, eggs, and red food coloring.

    • 3

      Mix flour, cocoa, and baking soda together in a separate bowl.

    • 4

      Add flour mixture and buttermilk to the creamed butter and sugar mixture. Beat well and then add white vinegar and mix the batter is uniform in color and consistency.

    • 5

      Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.



    Making the Frosting

    • 6

      Prepare the frosting while the cake cools by mixing the 1/2 cup shortening, 1/2 cup butter, 4 cups confectioners' sugar, and 2 tbsp. of milk together.

    • 7

      Whip the ingredients together using electric beaters and add black food coloring one tsp. at a time until the frosting is black.

    • 8

      Store the black gothic frosting in the refrigerator until ready to use.




    Assembling the Cake

    • 9

      Remove the cake from the pan when it is cool and place it on a clean counter.


    • 10

      Cut off the corners of the cake to form a coffin shape as shown in the picture.

    • 11

      Frost the coffin-shaped cake using the black frosting.

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