Scary muffins for School Buffet

Baby A had a Halloween/Autumn party in school this week. In Germany, Halloween was generally unheard of before 1990. Later, like Valentine's Day (or Grandparents Day for that matter - I bet you've not heard of this one. It's sort of vaguely "celebrated" on October 14) it's now a commercial success. For children, it's just another reason to dress up and party.

Some German families, normally in new residential areas, do organize among themselves for a couple of hours after dark of "Treat or Tricking" (Here, they'll say "Süßes oder Saures"). It's pre-arranged, so the children would actually know which house to go to. The area where we live in, we are not very much into it... yet. (So ask me again next Wednesday).

Yesterday, I baked 2 dozens of chocolate muffins for Baby A's party at School. In class, they'd carved pumpkins and made pumpkin soup. Other mums volunteered to varied the buffet. As Baby A wanted chocolate, she got 24 gooey chocolaty muffins. We don't do scary.. so sticking eye balls or amputated fingers were out of the question. Instead, we went "funny-scary-yummy".

A quick google later, we came up with this simple to do combination. You can download the spiderwebs template from the Country Living website. The kids loved it, especially the webs and the funny toppers. (And I'm pretty sure they've gobbled down the muffins too.)

Muffin toppers

Ready for the party!