Make and Take celebrates Halloween at Pam's house!
With Witches Brooms Candied Apples and Birthday Peanut butter Cup Cupcakes! That's right, a trick is in our treat making!
The kitchen was brewing with our many hands creating these darling brooms and cupcakes. We stuffed our chocolate cups with peanut butter or marshmallow and created these cheerful looking cupcake creations that are really a chocolate surprise!
Then it was time to gather around Pam's festive table and enjoy her always indulging menu for lunch. We delighted in Butternut Squash soup and Cheese Fondue! It was so delicious!
Dessert was a treat for the eyes with this darling witch's hat and broom, and a delicious pumpkin bar drizzled in chocolate!
This month's Make&Take was hosted by Pam, and as always she dazzled us with her baking creativity! Are these the cutest cookies ever! Our Halloween Day session was complete with every detail to get us into the Fall spirit! A touch of Halloween and a cookie recipe to carry us through to Thanksgiving!
Take off 1/3 off the ball and add 5 tablespoons of cocoa with it to make the chocolate part of the owl. Blend well.
Roll out the chocolate cookie dough into a log that is 20 inches long.
Make the vanilla dough into a log and then flatten it out into a 4 inch by 20 inch long rectangle.
Lay
the chocolate cookie dough in the center of the vanilla dough and wrap
the vanilla dough around the chocolate dough. Then roll the dough on
the counter gentle until it is rounded and smooth.
Cut in 1/8 to 1/4 inch slices.
Take
two slices and lay them side by side on cookie sheet. (place them
tightly together). Pinch the top corners to form the ears of the owl.
You will need a can of cashew nuts to use for the beak of the owl.
Put a cashew in the center of the two cookies to form the beak.
For
the owls eyes. You will need 4 ounces of cream cheese. I put the
cream cheese in a pastry bag and use a # 3 tube to put a dot for the
white of the eye.
You
will need a bag of chocolate chip for the pupil of the eye. Place one
chocolate chip on the dot of cream cheese and press down gentle.
Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat and cool on rack.
Make 3 dozen.
While we were waiting for the owls to bake up, Pam provided a wonderful Fall lunch. It was Halloween Day so we had black and orange cheese ravioli with her famous pumpkin ragout sauce, delish! Then darling brownie ala mode with chocolate spiders.
These cute little favors are Halloween s'mores. Package 2 graham crackers, 2 small individual snack size Hershey bars, a one darling ghost marshmallow peep on top. The perfect party favor!
Melt butter
in a saucepan over medium heat, and cook and stir the onion and garlic
until the onion is translucent, about 3 minutes. Whisk in the chicken
broth, and bring to a boil; whisk in the pumpkin puree, chipotle peppers
and their sauce, milk, sage, salt, coriander, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Allow sauce to come to a simmer, then lower heat to hold at a simmer
until serving time.
Well, after a long summer break the Make and Take group is back in the saddle. We will be having two sessions this month, because our September got away from us. Today Jean dazzled us with a wonderful meal and a craft that was cozy fun and easy. We made these beautiful velvet pumpkins in no time at all. Simply take a round of velvet to the size you want, bast the edges, about 1/4 inch from edge, pull string/fishing line to cinch the top leaving enough room to fill with rice, the cinch tight and sew shut. The best part is to glue gun on a REAL stem from a pumpkin as the finish touch! Way too darling to make only one!
As an added bonus we made fun floral arrangements with the leftover pumpkins :) Another wonderful project Jean! I must say the gluten free brownies and Halloween oatmeal cookies
made my day even better! Thank you for the space to create and be together!
