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Halloween Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies + Bleeding Candle

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Halloween Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies with Bleeding Candle and Spiders

Halloween Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies with Bleeding Candle and Spiders

I love Halloween—it’s my favorite holiday! I’m always excited when October comes around and I can start making scary Halloween treats, like my blood-splattered cookies or these jagged glass cupcakes.

Halloween Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies

This Halloween on Flavorful Journeys I wanted to feature a dessert that isn’t as macabre as in years past (don’t worry if you like the dark side of Halloween as much as I do—I’ve also included instructions for making the bleeding candle pictured above). So I made Halloween chocolate sprinkle cookies with dark chocolate Hershey’s kisses. read more

Flavorful Journeys Best of 2014 – By Popularity

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I love New Year’s Day.  It’s a chance to reflect on the past year and celebrate experiences to come. In that spirit, here are the 10 most popular posts on Flavorful Journeys from 2014:

Homemade Italian Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs

1. Homemade Italian Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs

You can’t go wrong with spaghetti and meatballs, especially when everything—from the pasta to the sauce—is made from scratch! This dish takes some time to make, but it’s totally worth it!

Chocolate Truffle Tart Slice

2. Chocolate Truffle Tart

This chocolate truffle tart was my first recipe post of 2014. I wanted to bake something that would set the mood for the year, and this indulgent treat proved the perfect choice! read more

Chocolate-Raspberry Glass Cupcakes

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Chocolate-Raspberry Glass Cupcakes

Chocolate-Raspberry Glass Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. I love its spookiness, as this allows me to embrace morbid concepts in fun ways. For example, these chocolate raspberry cupcakes play on hyelophobia, or fear of glass. The sugar glass–its jagged edges covered in red food coloring–looks very much like broken shards of glass smeared with blood. The buttercream icing with red swirls further plays on this theme.

Chocolate Raspberry Glass Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing

Glass Cupcakes Topped with Buttercream Red Swirl read more

Blood-Splattered Cookies

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Blood-Splattered Cookies

Blood-splattered cookies are a deliciously morbid Halloween treat. They’re also wickedly fun to make. These blood-splattered cookies are a mash-up of Jackson Pollock and Dexter–Pollock’s ingenuity plus Dexter’s insanity equal disturbingly beautiful Halloween cookies.

These blood-splattered cookies are somewhat labor-intensive, but the dramatic results of slinging icing like a madwoman definitely make them worthwhile.

  • Start off with round cookies of your choosing

I made a combination of chocolate and sugar cookies. Allow the cookies to cool completely before applying the icing. read more