DIY Bewitching Brew Straws

Need another last-minute Halloween craft for the kiddos? Fab, I've got you covered. These Confetti Pop printable, yes printable, witch straw toppers add a spooky spin to soda or any other concoction you've got in mind.

Have you found any quick Halloween ideas that you're using this year? Share a link in the comments. I'd love to see the great ideas you're finding.

In the meantime, stop on by Confetti Pop to download the free printables.

Guest Desserts: Little Witch Dessert Table

The ladies at Confetti Couture submitted this vibrant, girly Halloween dessert table for today's Guest Desserts feature. Confetti Couture makes lots of cupcake wrappers and cake pop kits to help you decorate your dessert displays.

Qeryldine, co-owner of the company, describes their design in her own words:

This whimsical table includes a bubbly citrus soda, Frankenstein cake pops, chocolate dipped hologram cookies, and caramel apples. Sweetly spooky!

The inspiration for this table comes from our Little Goblins collection of "Dessert Skirtz" cupcake wrappers. We hand paint/design these decorative wrappers and have found a bazillion different ways to use them. 

Thank you so much for sending in your submissions, ladies! You did a great job!

items on the table from Confetti Couture's shop:
Caramel apples with Sweet Stickz, displayed in Little Goblins Dessert Skirtz
Frankenstein cake pops using Little Black Dress Cake Pop Trinketz

images by Janet McBride of Confetti Couture

Witch Finger Cookies

One of my childhood friends, Christa of Le Petit Brioche, has taken up baking and cooking in a serious way. Christa is self-taught and through lots of trial and error, she's becoming quite the skilled baker. When I saw this post on her blog last week, I just had to share it with you.

Christa was unhappy with traditional witch finger cookie recipes she'd seen and decided to experiment with shortbread dough. If you've ever used sugar cookie dough with cookie cutters, then you know how misshapen the resulting cookie can become. The dough expands so much that you lose a lot of the detail the cutter created. Just think about these shortbread Girl Scout cookies. They retain the shape of the girl's silhouette very well.

 A dip into a pool of red-dyed white chocolate adds a bit of bloody goo to each witch finger.

Be sure to check out Christa's blog here for the witch finger recipe and step-by-step tutorial. Also be sure to check out some of her other posts like the iPhone cake for her dad and the Xbox 360 cake for her husband.