If you think about it, you could decorate a cake with about any Halloween theme - a skull, a pumpkin, a ghost, a bat. You get the idea. Let your imagination run wild. And it can be any shape. I saw a rectangular one with a graveyard on it. Next week I will show a really fancy Haunted Castle cake, so if you are waiting for a challenge, be on the watch for that one.
I wanted to show another cake option that is really easy to make. Yesterday I demonstrated how to make the Ghost Cake using a store bought bundt cake. This one is a traditional two-layer cake using a cake mix. It happened to be a yellow cake, but obviously any flavor will work. As you can see from the photo I used chocolate frosting with a white frosting to make the spider web. I think a white cake with a black web would show up well. Or even an orange web. I made this cake a few years ago for a library program, and the library owned that huge spider that temporarily made his home on it. Spooky, huh?
If you think about it, you could decorate a cake with about any Halloween theme - a skull, a pumpkin, a ghost, a bat. You get the idea. Let your imagination run wild. And it can be any shape. I saw a rectangular one with a graveyard on it. Next week I will show a really fancy Haunted Castle cake, so if you are waiting for a challenge, be on the watch for that one.
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I remember the excitement of visiting the public library as a child. The magic and suspense of reading favorites like The Velvet Room and The Secret Garden tugged at my imagination. Biographies of George Washington Carver and Betsy Ross allowed me to see the lives of those who came before me and to appreciate their accomplishments. Poetry collections like my favorite The Tall Book of Poems, which I took with me on sleepovers, introduced me to a range of poetry where I could consider how the placement and rhythm of words affected your mood – sometimes bouncy, other times melancholy. Plus, I really loved the way that book felt in my small hands. My goal in writing children’s books, I think, is an attempt to recreate those feelings, those early years of reading books where everything seemed possible.
I received an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University and won the Karen and Philip Cushman Late Bloomer Award from SCBWI. I worked as a Children's Librarian for 20 years and still prefer to read books written for young people. I have two Cavapoo dogs named Prince Albert and Daisy Wu, and a black kitten named Mortimer. I am married and split time between homes with my husband Rod in Dayton, OH and in Cadiz, KY where we enjoy our pontoon boat on Lake Barkley.
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