Friday, October 31, 2008

A Halloween Treat


Last night I stayed up late making a Halloween dessert to take into the office. Have you ever had dirt cups? It was kind of like that--Cool Whip, crushed up Oreo cookies, and chocolate pudding. The whole thing was supposed to look like a graveyard with pumpkins, grave stones, and ghosts.

To disguise the pan, I spent some time cutting out fence pieces from cardstock that I planned to tape to the outside of the pan.

To make the grave stones, I melted chocolate and then used a paint brush to apply it to the fronts of five chocolate fudge cookies. Once that dried, I made a small batch of white icing and carefully piped "RIP" on the five grave stones.

I mixed up the cemetary "dirt" and spooned it into the pan to chill overnight in the refrigerator.

Next, I unrolled and laid out a green fruit jelly roll to harden a little overnight, so today I could cut it into "grass" shapes to decorate my graveyard.

Finally, I set the five grave stones on a plate so the chocolate and piped icing could set up overnight. At 12:45 a.m., I had finished everything I could and I headed to bed.

This morning, I went out to the kitchen to fix a cup of coffee and found Hubby admiring my plate of clever grave stones. Here's what I told him:

"Those are the grave stones for the dessert I made for the office. It's supposed to be a graveyard. It's made like the filling for dirt cups--the pan is in the refrigerator. It looks like dirt and you stick the gravestones into it. Oh, and I had some leftover cookies that I put in the cookie jar--you can have some if you want."

I then carried the cookie jar over to the kitchen counter where he was fixing his lunch and set it down next to his lunch bag. Off I then went with my coffee.

Here's what HE heard:

"Blah, blah, blah, leftover cookies, blah, blah, blah."

When I went back out to the kitchen a half hour later to feed the cats, three of my grave stones were gone.


Every now and then, I'm completely convinced Black Widow spiders have it right when it comes to mates.

12 comments:

Unknown said...

So we didn't see the completed graveyard scene. Is Hubby going to be in it now? Men, just don't get it.

Happy Halloween

Yvonne said...

LOL......shows how afraid of you he is......NOT! lolol

PunkiePie (Jen) said...

Sounds like my husband sometimes! Sorry to hear your hardwork and late night ended up with your husband's lunch.

Happy Halloween!
Jen :)

Judy said...

I hate that so much...mine even forgets to listen when HE ASKS me a question! Yes, sometimes I could bite his head right off! They look cool though!

MichelleB said...

Oh man! Were you able to fix it? I hope we get to see the whole thing.

I have to tell you, that candy corn cartoon totally grossed me out! Yuck! I never did like candy corn, now I know why!

Penni Domikis said...

I had the same day yesterday. Yet again you make me laugh. I read the whole thing to my hubby. His eyes got big like if he would've done that I would've killed him. Keep your head about you girl. Can't wait to see the finished product. You're like my own little Martha Stewart. By the way, Candy corn cartoon grossed my hubby out too. He's the one that eats the candy corn.

Candace said...

Toooo funny, Kim! I read about what husbands actually "hear" a while back - now if I really need mines attention, I ask him to look me in the eye while I'm talking - does it work???? Guess! Cheers!

Anonymous said...

Ewwww, that spider gave me the heebie jeebies! We have them really bad at our house. Every couple of nights, hubby and I go on a black widow spider hunt, ugh!!! But I know what you mean about them killing their mates! LOL

Darling Jill Quilts said...

OMG! All that work down the drain! Oh, I totally would've gone oall black widow on him!

deb said...

LOLOLOL....he sounds just like my hubby!!!!!!!!

Red Geranium Cottage said...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lorraine said...

wow...talk about selective hearing....!!and he is still alive then?