At Halloween, I developed a candy hierarchy, along with an elaborate trading scheme in which I would try to pawn off the candies I couldn't stand to unsuspecting friends and neighbors in exchange for a candy bar. Those trades were built around an exchange of quantity for quality. More
Not Martha shows you how to make crawly spider cakes for Halloween using various kinds of Pocky, snack cakes, sugar eyes and chocolate sprinkles. Spiders will never again look as freakishly adorable or taste as sweet.... More
Learn how to make a bacon costume. All you need is foam, some big plastic bags, stick pins, spray paint in various baconesque colors, a hot-glue gun, Velcro fastener tape, and a burning love for bacon. [via Make]... More
The above video from About.com shows you how to carve a pumpkin in just three minutes! ...I mean, the video is three minutes long. It'll probably take you longer than that unless you have an electric saw. Whatever you do, don't hack it with a sword. Carving a pumpkin is easy, results in a nice decoration, and is a good way to get our your aggressions if you want to stab something. Check out these links for pumpkin carving tips, stencils and inspiration: Pumpkin Carving 101Pumpkin Carving Tips - How to Carve a Pumpkin for a Jack-O'-Lantern Howstuffworks - How to Carve a PumpkinHow to Carve a Pumpkin VideoExtreme Pumpkins (How-to, gallery)Pumpkin Way (Gallery)The Pumpkin Wizard (Gallery, patterns)Pumpkin Carving... More
Lately I've noticed Halloween-themed cupcakes popping up at bakeries and grocery stores, but none of them look as cool or creepy as Nicole Weston's vampire cupcakes. They pulsate with the sugary goodness of cherry pie filling blood!... More
Suicide Food points out the unsettling side of Martha Stewart's baby Halloween costumes that turn your helpless bundle of joy into a roast turkey or lobster: "You are pretending for your baby, imagining she is food, meat, a dead and cooked animal." Perhaps slightly less gruesome: a salad or a pie.... More
