Entries tagged with 'Halloween'
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[Photograph: The Gourmet Mama] The Gourmet Mama has a simple idea for dressing up hard boiled eggs for Halloween: Make jagged cuts into the base, decorate with black food coloring, and you've got yourself some protein and fat-rich disembodied spirits. Related Photo of the Day: Ghost Cupcakes Photo of the Day: Ghost Dots The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs...
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Butterfinger, Reese's (the cups and the pieces), Snickers, Oh Henry, Baby Ruth, Mr. Goodbar, Payday, Watchamacallit—so many Halloween candies involve peanuts or peanut butter. Here are some fun ways to eat them, not that there's anything wrong with the straight-from-the-wrapper approach.
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On Wednesdays, Andrea Lynn, senior editor of Chile Pepper magazine, drops by with Serious Heat. [Flickr: Fiona Watson] When others find out your world is spent submerged in hot and spicy food, there are questions galore. One of the most popular revolves around the best thing I've ever tasted. Of course, the answer constantly changes. But recently I've been craving spicy chocolate. Start with the melt-in-your-mouth goodness of chocolate and add a tinge, or even a flame of heat, and you've got perfection. We searched for the best spicy chocolates, munching through bars that crunched and burned. I personally can't get enough of Chuao Firecracker—a smoky chocolate that pops in your mouth like tiny fireworks. It's a revelation for the...
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[Photo: Serious Eats Flickr Pool] Called "The Ghosts of Cupcakes Past," these charming desserts from A Baked Creation are about as cute as Halloween gets. Learn how to make them here....
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In the latest episode of Working Class Foodies, Max and Rebecca Lando show you how to make chocolate-covered pumpkin seed brittle and "grown up" candy apples for Halloween. The brittle combines recipes by chefs Dan Barber and Jacques Torres, and the candy apples dipped in red wine-flavored caramel are from Gourmet. Unfortunately, the candy apples recipe doesn't come out so well. Watch the video after the jump....
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Halloween is serious business for kids. They want candy. Lots of candy. And with a few sleazy and not-so-sleazy tactics, they can get enough candy to last until next Halloween. Some simple tips include wearing a great costume and being an enthusiastic trick-or-treater; mildly more complicated is emptying your pail into a larger sack, changing costumes, and going back for seconds to the houses giving out the best candy. Watch the video after the jump....
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"Even the dot was delicious!" Sprinkles, the wildly popular cupcake bakery that started in Beverly Hills, has been touted by many celebrities including Jon Stewart, Bobby Flay, and Oprah, and featured in countless publications (like Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and the Los Angeles Times.) While other cupcakeries, such as New York's Magnolia, stick to classic flavors like vanilla and devil's food, Sprinkles offers up more than twenty inventive varieties including chai latte, coconut marshmallow, and ginger lemon. Distinguished by their signature dots, these sweet little confections are arguably the most famous dessert in Hollywood. Recently, Williams-Sonoma paired up with Sprinkles to create a line of cupcake mixes, so even if you don't live in 90210 territory you can still...
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[Flickr: diabetik] Wouldn't the world be better if all traffic cones just looked like candy corn? These were spotted in Washington D.C. by Flickr user diabetik. As a candy corn hater, I vote for more of these, less of the nasty Halloween triangles. [via DCist] Related Video: How Candy Corn is Made Cakespy: Homemade Candy Corn Candy Corn Knit Cap...
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[Photograph: The Imaginary World ] For the person in your life who loves blood-sucking creatures and anthropomorphic toast, get them the Mega Vampire Toast plush doll ($16) from the Mr. Toast Store. Related Photo of the Day: Vampire Cupcakes Serious Eats Gift Guide: Toast-Related Accessories Photo of the Day: We Like Pie Plush Toast Keychain...
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[Flickr: emergencyfan2000] For some Halloween inspiration, here's a meat-covered skull made by emergencyfan2000. Get a cheap skull, slather on some cream cheese, apply a layer of thinly sliced, flesh-colored meats, shove some olives into the eye sockets, and you've got a creepy centerpiece for your Halloween party....
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