- 31 October (or thereabouts) is the ancient Celtic New Year's Eve - ancient being pre-Roman - and is where Halloween originated. Miss 3.5's birthday is modern New Year's Eve, and I liked the synchronicity.
- Its well before the pre-Christmas insanity of late November/Early October
This afternoon we had a trial run of the Halloween biscuits we'll be making for the party. Mostly because I couldn't wait to play with our new biscuit cutters.
All went as smoothly as any cooking project does when assisted by a 5 year old and a 3.5 year old, until we came to ice the cookies. After clearing up a small misunderstanding regarding ice the frozen stuff and icing the stuff you put on cakes - I poured my icing onto the cooled biscuits as per the cook book instructions.
Ruh-roh - as Scooby Doo used to say.
Through trial and error I discovered I needed a lot more water in the mix and it had to be hot enough to really hurt when I poured it onto my hand by accident. Oh, and I added some food colouring.
Ruh-roh - as Scooby Doo used to say.
Through trial and error I discovered I needed a lot more water in the mix and it had to be hot enough to really hurt when I poured it onto my hand by accident. Oh, and I added some food colouring.
Hmm, think I'll be having another stab at it before the big day.
I also discovered that putting tasteless orange food colouring (and by that I mean the food colouring has no discernible taste and not that it is not stylish, I mean orange is the very definition of style is it not?) into vanilla flavoured biscuits magically makes them taste of orange.
Miraculous.
