Pumpkin Galore!

We had a good sized pumpkin we never carved for Halloween.  I did not want it to go to waste.  While speaking with my mother, she suggested I make my own pumpkin puree.  It sounded easy enough. 

The smart thing I did was use the electric knife to slice the pumpkin open!

We had a small pie pumpkin I sliced and cleaned out as well. 

I baked the pumpkin halves for about 2 hours. 

At that point the skin peels right off. 

My puree ingredients

Sliced pumpkin

18 cups of puree

I then decided to make a pumpkin bread roll with a cream cheese filling. 

The bread out of the oven

Rolled up and cooling

The cream cheese filling

Rolled up and ready to slice

Very nice!

Yummy!

Halloween Goodies

These are the goodies I made for Ian's preschool class' Halloween party. For the insects, all I did was melt cocoa candy melts, then draw them out on wax paper with a piping bag.  Before they cooled and solidified, I added the M&Ms.  I should have used a white icing, but kids always love chocolaty things. 

These are suppose to be centipedes, but the kids all called them caterpillars.

An ant

Ewww!  Ticks!

Creepy Crawly Spiders!