Happy Halloween!

Yay for Halloween! We had a ton of fun. Last week I made a Haunted House cake.   

I decided to make Funfetti cake just because I like it and I wanted to eat it. I bought the Wilton house pan a while back because I had a Michael's coupon and it ended up being like $3 or something ridiculous. I've been itching to use it, and the box had this cute little Halloween house on it, so I decided to try it out. The 'black' frosting is just dark chocolate frosting from a can with a little bit of black icing color added to it and the purple and orange are homemade buttercream. The white frosting was from a can as well. The shutters are supposed to be made from Fruit Stripe Gum, which I of course couldn't find anywhere so I ended up rolling out some white fondant and painting it with orange candy color. The grass is shredded cocoanut with a little bit of green food coloring. I wish I had made it just a little bit darker. The ghosts are what Wilton calls 'dimensional decorating'. Basically, that means you pipe shapes with a fat tip. And I bought the little candy pumpkins. It's hard to see in this picture, but the black around the door is actually individually piped dots resembling cobblestones, just like the sidewalk in front. And the shutter is obstructing the door handle. Also, there is a tiny 'wrought iron' fence all the way around the base behind the pumpkins. This cake was ridiculously easy to do. I would highly recommend this product to anyone interested in fun cakes at home.

And of course on Saturday I ran the Half Marathon. Here's my badass finisher's medal as proof:

On Monday, Lily had a doctor's appointment in the morning, so we went in costume. 

I went as Waldo again, with a different shirt thanks to Susan's lucky find at Goodwill. And Lily was Charlie Chaplin. We got her a toddler suit jacket at a thrift store, a tuxedo onesie on sale, and a bowler hat from Target. The way she wobbles around and falls down was super cute. We tried to put a little mustache on her, but she immediately smeared it all over her face and I was worried that she would end up looking like a baby Hitler. To my surprise, she tolerated the hat quite well. Every once in a while she would take it off in sort of a 'Ta-da!' fashion and then try to put it back on. Definite cuteness all around.