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How to Make a Bubbling Cauldron Cake for Halloween

October 22, 2016 by Jenn

Today I’m showing you how to make a real bubbling cauldron cake. This witch’s brew cake appears to have special brew bubbling away above a fire. The delicious eight layer Halloween cake is coloured black, orange, green and purple on the inside . . . a crazy surprise when it’s sliced open. 

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How to Make Candy Apples Two Ways (Traditional Candy Apples and Jolly Rancher Candy Apples)

October 9, 2016 by Jenn

Today Jenn Johns shows you two ways to make candy apples. We all have seen the traditional red candy apple, but have you seen pink, blue or purple candy apples? What about glitter Jolly Rancher candy apples.

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Floating Eyeballs Halloween Cake- with Bloody Witch Fingers and Skeleton Bones

October 24, 2015 by Jenn
In this video tutorial we show you how to make a Halloween cake with floating eyeballs, witches fingers and skeleton bones.  I’m also giving you recipes and a tutorial for how to make the Witches fingers and the Skeleton Bones!  It’s like a three in one video! 
 

 
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Bloody Jello Brain Cake

October 17, 2015 by Jenn
Today, I am showing you another gross Halloween treat- Bloody Jello Brain Cake! It is sure to disgust all of your Halloween party guests if you dare serve it to them!
 

 
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Gummy Worms in Dirt- Halloween Dessert

October 15, 2015 by Jenn

Today, I am joined by my guest host Paityn to bring you a gross Halloween treat- gummy worms in dirt cups!  Gummy worms made from Jell-O, and dirt made from cookies and pudding, is an easy and fun addition to any Halloween party.

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Giant Cookie Cake with Leftover Halloween Candy

November 5, 2014 by Jenn
 If you have a bunch of leftover candy from Halloween, this is the recipe for you!  If you ate it all your Halloween candy, good news- it’s all on clearance at the local stores, so go and grab some more before it’s all gone!  If you do not live where you participate in Halloween festivities, you can use any candy you want to!  I’m solving all of the world’s problems this morning- finding solutions to a lack of candy.  You’re welcome.  
 
Some people (not naming names- ME) went out of town after purchasing Costco candy for all the trick-or-treators in the neighbourhood and have a ginormous bag of candy (that I don’t like) leftover- NEVER opened!  Oops.  If you’re like me, there is serious strategy to buying Halloween candy.  I buy what you don’t like, and then you won’t eat it.  Usually, that is a fail safe way ensure there is no snacking, BUT since I recieved so many requests for a new recipe on how to use up leftover candy, I had to go out and buy some. Had to.  HAD to!  Then I HAD to go out and buy more when we snacked our way through the chocolate candies.  HAD TO PEOPLE!! YOU MADE ME!!  I thank you for that.  My pants don’t, but I do.
 
 Making a giant cookie cake definitely saves time, rather than dishing out individual amount of dough to make smaller cookies.  You can do this with this recipe, but the fun is in serving a slice to your family or friends.  Triangular pieces are a change from the standard round cookie, as are chunks of candy!  If you choose to roll these cookies into rounds, bake them for 15-18 minutes, or until golden brown at 350F.  
 
Whether you choose to make this the traditional way, or in it’s giant cookie form as seen in our tutorial, it’s a delicious, and fast way to use up any candy/chocolate you might have hanging around! 
 

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How to Make Edible Fake Blood & Bloody Halloween Cupcakes

October 15, 2014 by Jenn
This idea is gross.  There’s no way around that.  If you don’t want to think about squeamish things, don’t keep reading!  But, if you need something for Halloween that is disgusting, then this is perfect for you! 
 
In this tutorial, I show you how to make edible BLOOD!  If blood covered cupcakes doesn’t revolt you enough, then definitely add our Heart and Brain Cupcakes to your dessert buffet.  The combo of the two cupcakes is sure to scare and frighten people away from eating them!  Who needs a diet when you serve bloody, heart and brain cupcakes?!?
 
To make the edible blood, all you need is corn syrup, chocolate sauce and red gel paste.  You can get away without the chocolate sauce, but it adds a bit of flavour to the mixture, rather than the pure sugar rush of just using the corn syrup.  Don’t worry, you’ll still get a sugar rush from this combination, it will just taste better!  Also, the chocolate tames down the brightness of the red gel paste, which makes for a more realistic blood colour.  I don’t have a ton of experience when it comes to blood, but I do know that it’s not fluorescent red when it comes out of my mishaps.  Adding a small amount of chocolate helps with that.
 
If you want to add an additional element of gore factor, fill the middle of the cupcakes with a bright red cherry filling that will burst out when you first bite into the cupcake.  I’m sure that will be gross enough for the goriest, gore lover!  Also, teaming these cupcakes up with “broken” fingers, and “blood” filled syringes, like we have in the final shot of the video, will help make for the perfect Halloween scene.  If you can handle it, that is!
 
We have lots of other Halloween ideas up on our YouTube channel, so make sure you check out our Halloween playlist! 

 
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Halloween Candy Bark: Chocolate Bark Recipe

November 2, 2013 by Jenn

 This is one of the easiest, quick and FUN ways to use up any leftover Halloween candy that you have!  I originally made an Easter chocolate bark version of this (post here) and thought a Halloween twist of it would be a great.  You can put anything in this bark and it can be themed for any party or holiday!  Get chopping you chocolate bars and you’re ready to make this! 

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