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This blog combines two of my passions: baking and horror movies. Take a look around... if you dare.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339494761350323998.post-34258096414691272522015-08-20T12:32:00.001-04:002015-08-20T12:32:38.252-04:00From Dusk Till Dawn Cupcakes During these sticky summer nights, we all need something fun and refreshing to help beat the heat. Here's a little something for you sweet-fanged party animals: <a href="http://www.browneyedbaker.com/margarita-cupcakes-cinco-de-mayo/">margarita cupcakes</a>, with fresh lime, real tequila, and a sprinkling of sea salt. Now you can have your cake and drink it too! What could be better?<br />
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The table legs and tequila bottle are, of course, inspired by the film <i>From Dusk Till Dawn</i> (1996), directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. The story begins as the Gecko brothers, wanted bank robbers and murderers Seth (George Clooney) and Richie (Tarantino), attempt to make their way into Mexico, where they intend to live out their debaucherous lives in peace. To this end, they force a retired minister (Harvey Keitel) on an RV holiday with his two adolescent kids to smuggle the pair of criminals across the border. Once there, they must all pass the time in a horrendously rough bar until dawn, when the Geckos are to meet their Mexican contact tasked with their resettlement. Unfortunately, this is no ordinary dive, and the movie takes a sharp, unpredictable turn after nightfall. When the sun rises, who will be left alive?</div>
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"Okay, hard drinkers, let's drink hard. I'm buyin'."</div>
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Just when you thought you'd seen the last of me, Terrifying Treats is back from the grave! I thought I'd bring things back to life by taking on that staple of English puddings: custard. Hopefully I won't turn you off of the stuff permanently. The gently cooked egg yolks give this custard its thick texture and creamy yellow colour. The fondant ear is adorned with a pearl earring painted with lustre dust (all edible). The strawberry coulis and simple syrup make this heavy pudding more seasonally appropriate.</div>
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These custard dishes were inspired by a scene from the movie <i>Braindead</i> (1992), one of Peter Jackson's pre-<i>Lord of the Rings</i> splatter films, released as <i>Dead Alive</i> in North America. This movie takes the concept of zombies and pushes it to its hilariously gory and ridiculously gross extremes. There's a reason George A. Romero listed it as one of his favourite zombie films. The setting is Wellington, New Zealand in 1957, and the zoo has just acquired a rare Sumatran rat-monkey. The flustered and endearing Lionel Cosgrove is taking his shrew of a mother to the zoo when she is bitten by the aforementioned rat-monkey. Shocked and distraught, she falls to pieces... literally. And then she starts to get a bit bitey. I'll leave a clip of the custard scene below, but beware: you may never want to eat custard again. </div>
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"Damn fine custard! Rich and creamy, just the way I like it."</div>
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Want another dessert that plays an important role in a horror film? Be sure to check out <a href="http://terrifyingtreats.blogspot.ca/2012/11/minnie-castevets-chocolate-mouse.html">Minnie Castevet's "chocolate mouse"</a> from <i>Rosemary's Baby</i>.</div>
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Here are some festive black and orange cookies to celebrate. As the title would suggest, they are actually orange flavoured. From actual oranges, no fake stuff! The icing is a simple royal icing and I drew the designs on with food markers.</div>
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Stanley Kubrick's dystopian and controversial film, <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> (1971), is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess, O my brothers. After a series of violent activities, naughty boy Alex and his droogs have gotten into more trubby-wubble than he can handle. So when he's offered a place in an aversion therapy experiment instead of serving time, he thinks he's been given the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card. Too bad "freedom" doesn't feel like he thought it would. </div>
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And appy-polly loggies to anyone who doesn't think this is horrorshow horror... But quit govoreeting that chepooka, you bezoomny lewdy! I was poogly enough when I viddied it!</div>
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What better way to bid farewell to summer than with one of the great summer blockbusters? These are fruity and delicious piña colada cupcakes with pieces of fresh pineapple, topped with coconut icing. </div>
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Spielberg's <i>Jaws </i>(1975) always puts me in a good mood... unless I'm being reminded of it while at the beach. This classic film is set on the fictional Amity Island, a popular holiday destination off the coast of Massachusetts. When a great white shark (whose name, contrary to popular opinion, is not Jaws) violently stakes claim on his territory, only Spielberg's dream team featuring a jaded mainland cop, a spunky young scientist and a gruff, maritime war veteran can save the day. Wonderfully exciting and entertaining, <i>Jaws</i> took elements from the quest story and the monster movie and fused them together with that classic Spielberg storytelling, practically inventing the summer blockbuster.<br />
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Here, have another treat inspired by a fun thriller based on a common phobia: <a href="http://terrifyingtreats.blogspot.ca/2012/10/arachnoclusters.html">Arachnophobia</a>.</div>
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These cinnamon sugar cookies are topped with homemade royal icing and decorated using my new Wilton food writers. I'd been seeing all these cute popcorn cupcakes online and wanted to try it out myself. This one is caramel-flavoured and topped with mini marshmallows painted with a bit of yellow food colouring. You can find the template I used <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4P3QpRLS2LK5lvf2zwswdQzyHnx2Nyuqkx8HiN-bsJadtcVPY9aAD1K01b_7RZ6DL5VPtWBX8Ej8AHecmb_BoS3H3E5QBRLXrZIPDTNXj8aLaTgNClqUW-Wl7CarVoeTimXq2X9lQVXo/s400/cupcake_wrap_template.jpg">here</a>.</div>
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Together, the cookie and the cupcake are a reference to the end scene from one of John Carpenter's weirder films: <i>In the \Mouth of Madness </i>(1995). But first things first: the story. A talented insurance fraud investigator is looking into the disappearance of a celebrated horror fiction writer, Sutter Cane, who has vanished along with the manuscript for his latest book, <i>In the Mouth of Madness</i>. This leads him to a small, uncharted town in the middle of New Hampshire that looks alarmingly like the setting of Cane's book. But the landscape and architecture aren't the only things that seem familiar... And then some weird things happen.<br />
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In this scene, Sam Neill is at the cinema watching the maddening film within the film, based on the book within the film, which tells the story of the film itself... I know. Anyway, he loses whatever marbles he may have had left.<br />
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Here's another dessert combo for you sweet-toothed scare-seekers out there...</div>
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First I made vanilla cupcakes with chocolate suturing on top, based on an idea I saw in <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Cupcakes-Cookies-Pie-Oh-My/dp/0547662424/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374463151&sr=8-1&keywords=cupcakes+cookies+and+pie">this book</a>. Then came the dark chocolate surgical glove sugar cookies dipped in even more dark chocolate. </div>
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I was inspired to make these treats by the recent horror flick <i>American Mary</i> (2012) from newcomer, twin sister directors Jen and Sylvia Soska. Med school student Mary (Katharine Isabelle) wants nothing more than to become a surgeon. So when she becomes disillusioned with the world of medicine, she turns to underground surgery as a way to get her kicks and make ends meet. Mary performs body modifications, altering physiques, excising tissue and amputating appendages according to the whims of her eccentric patients. Isabelle is a knockout in more ways than one and the film itself is so sleek and deliberate that the overall effect is actually... charming. That, or I've really gone too far down the rabbit hole and there's no hope for me. </div>
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If you're the indecisive type when it comes to sweets, you might also like my <a href="http://terrifyingtreats.blogspot.ca/2013/04/the-apple-crisp-has-eyes.html">cookies and apple crisp combo.</a></div>
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Happy Canada Day!</div>
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I baked this batch
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<i>Shivers</i> (1975), Cronenberg’s first feature, is a wonderfully strange sci-fi
film that mixes sex and body horror. These parasitic worms infect their hosts
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The similarly titled <i>Scanners</i> (1981) explores the world of telepathic
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<i>Videodrome</i> (1983) tells the story of a TV station executive who discovers an eerie
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Finally, in <i>The Fly</i> (1986), quirky scientist Seth
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In conclusion, Canadians are weird. Let's celebrate!</div>
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I made these toppers entirely out of gum paste this time, which I find much easier to work with than fondant. I think the colours come out brighter, too.</div>
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This cupcake series pays homage to Reiner's <i>Misery</i> (1990), an adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name. It's unique for featuring one of the best movie villains of all time: the role that won Kathy Bates an Oscar. The story begins as Paul, a successful novelist, drives from Colorado to Los Angeles, only to end up driving off the road in a blizzard, breaking both his legs in the process. He is rescued by his "number-one fan", a nurse named Annie, who takes him back to her isolated cabin to nurse him back to health. Lucky coincidence, right? Not so much. When Annie says she's his number-one fan, she really means it. She will stop at nothing to keep him there, and after the two have an artistic disagreement, Paul finds himself writing to survive.<br />
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For another excellent film adaptation of a Stephen King novel, check out my <a href="http://terrifyingtreats.blogspot.ca/2013/01/the-shining-cakes.html">Shining Cakes</a>.</div>
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<i>The Blair Witch Project</i> (1999) was one of the earlier entries in the now wildly popular found footage sub-genre. Three student filmmakers venture into the woods of Maryland to make a documentary about the witch who supposedly lives there. Hunger, anger, and madness soon set in as they get increasingly lost. They start to hear strange noises outside their tents at night, and then awake to find rocks, figures and bundles of sticks arranged in threatening ways, sometimes containing animal organs.<br />
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For more fun with marshmallows, check out <a href="http://terrifyingtreats.blogspot.ca/2012/10/nosferatu-pfeffernusse.html">Nosferatu Pfeffernüsse</a>.</div>
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I first laid eyes on these lycanthropic cupcakes through <a href="http://www.annies-eats.com/2009/03/03/werewolf-cupcakes/">Annie's Eats</a> and knew I had to make them myself, in honour of my favourite werewolf movie. I try out different recipes all the time, and here I discovered a great one for <a href="http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/dark-chocolate-cupcakes/5fdeddad-2b8f-48aa-8e7e-faba07ea0aca">dark chocolate cupcakes</a> that I'll definitely be using again. The Underground sign is made from painted and coloured fondant with white icing piped on top. </div>
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The things I could say about John Landis' <i>An American Werewolf in London </i>(1981)... It's charming from start to finish, and it succeeds in being both a comedy and a horror film while excelling at the former. The makeup and special effects are phenomenal and still renowned today. It's my favourite werewolf film and my second favourite horror-comedy after <i>Shaun of the Dead </i>(2004). It starts with two young American men who begin their Euro trip by hitch-hiking through the Yorkshire moors. So they're pretty much asking for what happens next. They get attacked and one of them, David, ends up in a hospital in central London, where he starts experiencing strange hallucinations and cravings for live deer. As the full moon approaches, David struggles to keep his animal instincts under wraps, but soon finds himself engaging in "carnivorous lunar activities"...<br />
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If, like me, you enjoy movies set in the 1980's that feature attractive, dark-haired young men overcome by their darker impulses after nightfall, you should check out this post I made for <a href="http://terrifyingtreats.blogspot.ca/2013/03/frank-bunny-cookies.html">Donnie Darko</a>.<br />
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So, I decided to bake some up, and I noticed a striking resemblance to the Nevada desert. I topped it off with a sugar cookie decorated to look like an Airstream trailer. The glaze is a simple milk + sugar mix with a bit of black colouring and silver lustre dust. The wheel and blinds are made from gum paste. The "rocks" are actually cinnamon cookie nuts I bought at <a href="http://www.picardspeanuts.com/">Picard's Peanuts</a>. If you're ever in the area, I highly recommend picking some up.</div>
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Certainly not me, anyway. These are salted caramel cupcakes with salted caramel icing. Good lord. It's a toss-up between these and the <a href="http://terrifyingtreats.blogspot.ca/2013/03/leprechaun-cupcakes.html">Leprechaun Cupcakes</a> for the title of Most Delicious Thing I've Made for the Blog. The recipe is <a href="http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2013/01/10/triple-salted-caramel-cupcakes/">here</a>. I highly recommend it. I used a ribbon tip to make the bandages, and chocolate chips for the eyes.</div>
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The most interesting mummy movie I've seen would have to be <i>Bubba Ho-Tep </i>(2002). I'm not that drawn to mummies for their own horror merit, so there has to be some comedy for me to get into it. This movie fits the bill. In it, senior citizens Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy defend their nursing home from a mummy looking to snack on some souls. You read that correctly. There are some hilarious one-liners that I unfortunately can't repeat here. You'll just have to see it for yourself.</div>
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I made these creepy bunny cookies to celebrate the beginning of spring with something terrifying. They're basic sugar cookies, cut into bunny shapes and decorated with a simple glaze, with white chocolate for the teeth and eyes. I brushed them with silver lustre dust to give them that eerie shimmer.</div>
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While it's not strictly speaking a horror movie, <i>Donnie Darko</i> (2001) was one of my favourite films during my teen years. You'd be more likely to put it in the category of sci-fi, fantasy or drama, but it's still a creepy film that defies genre. The story is confusing and admittedly flawed, but the dark, stylish direction more than makes up for it. It's set in 1988, and Donnie is your average moody teenager played by a very cute Jake Gyllenhaal. However, Donnie has quite a spectacular problem. He is led out of his house one night by a terrifying, 6-foot-tall bunny who tells him that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. He has until then to find a way to stop it, all while getting the girl, taking down an annoying motivational speaker and figuring out why his new best friend is wearing that stupid bunny suit.</div>
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Check out another holiday sugar cookie I made: <a href="http://terrifyingtreats.blogspot.ca/2012/12/gremlin-cookies.html">Gremlin Cookies.</a></div>
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I used the holiday as an excuse to try out these <a href="http://www.annies-eats.com/2009/10/16/guinness-baileys-cupcakes/">Guinness and Baileys cupcakes</a> I'd been hearing so much about. These are probably the best chocolate cupcakes I've ever had. The batter contains a generous amount of Guinness, which made them nice and moist without tasting of stout. They're filled with a Baileys-chocolate ganache and topped with Baileys buttercream icing and they taste like Irish heaven. </div>
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You may or may not have heard of the movie <i>Leprechaun</i> (1993). It's mostly known for featuring a pre-Rachel Jennifer Aniston and for being awful. A leprechaun is trapped inside a wooden crate in a South Dakota basement for 10 years, until the four-leaf clover holding him captive is brushed aside. Now, he's on the loose, and he's after his gold. He can teleport and he's got a nasty set of chompers, but you can easily distract him by throwing dirty shoes in his direction, as he is compelled to polish them. I've definitely seen worse films, but this one is pretty bad. It consists mainly of Aniston screaming "Leave us alone!" and the Leprechaun replying "I want me gold!" However, there are some amusing sight gags and even a scene where a man is killed by a pogo stick. </div>
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I thought it was time to add some Caribbean flair to my blog to combat the late-winter blahs. These cupcakes and coffin-cake are <a href="http://www.mygourmetconnection.com/recipes/baking-desserts/cakes-pies/spiced-banana-rum-cupcakes.php">banana rum</a>. The rainbow icing is, well, rainbow and the coffin is covered in salted caramel icing. The "snake" was made from half-and-half and then painted, as were the almond "petals".</div>
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This sweet scene was inspired by Wes Craven's <i>The Serpent and the Rainbow</i><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>(1988). Loosely based on the non-fiction book of the same name, it tells the story of an ethnobotanist/anthropologist who travels to Haiti to investigate a poison used by vodou practitioners to make their victims appear dead. Later, they rise from the grave as zombies. It soon becomes clear that the more our curious scientist keeps "digging", the more likely he is to get voodooed himself. </div>
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Gingersnaps are basically an excuse to eat gingerbread year-round, and I adore spice cookies. These ones appear to have fallen into the hands of a teenage werewolf. Ouch! I scratched them up when they were fresh from the oven, and the "blood" in the cuts is made from strawberry jam and grenadine.</div>
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These classic cookies also lend their name to the excellent Canadian werewolf movie <i>Ginger Snaps</i> (2000), which is probably my favourite coming-of-age horror film. Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald are two sisters who don't fit in at their high school, probably because they spend so much time faking their own deaths and hating their classmates. One evening, big sister Ginger falls victim to puberty, as well as the savage wild beast terrorizing their suburban neighbourhood. But hey... same thing, right? She loses control of her body and behaviour as she becomes a lycanthropic woman. Brigitte must do what she can to help the now unpredictable sister she used to know so well. I love this movie for the setting, the dark humour, and because for anyone who survived adolescence, the central metaphor is spot-on. </div>
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First I made little fondant axes based on the one from the movie. I made an eggnog cake (gotta use it up) and a couple of eggnog cupcakes. The icing has some eggnog in it as well. It's a subtle flavour but makes for some really moist cakes! I cut off a slice and decorated it to look like a door, with white chocolate splinters and a chocolate chip doorknob.</div>
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These cakes pay homage to the famous scene from Kubrick's <i>The Shining </i>(1980). This is an excellent film that drips unsettling originality all over the screen. It tells the story of Jack Torrance, a writer who takes a job as caretaker of snowed-in hotel. He, his wife, their young son and a whole host of ghosts live together for months, cut off from the outside world. Eventually the cabin fever gets to Jack and he develops a strong dislike of bathroom doors and hedge mazes. </div>
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The cupcakes are basic vanilla with buttercream. I loved practising the swirls with my new decorating tips. I made the "lungs" out of half-and-half (equal parts fondant and gum paste) coloured pink. I made the ridges of the trachea and the branches of the bronchi and bronchioles using a matching pink icing. I then splattered them with a mixture of strawberry jam and grenadine. I got the idea of the lungs from Zilly Rosen's awesome book <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Zombie-Cupcakes-Zilly-Rosen/dp/1907332278/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1358202390&sr=8-1">Zombie Cupcakes</a>.</div>
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These cupcakes were inspired by the seriously creepy film <i>Excision </i>(2012) from newcomer Richard Bates Jr. <i>Excision</i> tells the story of an utterly insane teenage girl who is obsessed with blood and dreams of becoming a surgeon. No one imagines how destructive her delusions would become.The awkward dark humour makes it feel a bit like <i>Donnie Darko</i>, and her disturbing (day)dream sequences feel very Cronenbergian. Overall, the whole thing is superbly acted. It's excellent, but a word of warning: It is a disgusting, nightmarish trip. </div>
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Ever wonder what happens to the poor gingerbread souls who still haven't been eaten days after Christmas?</div>
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Zombies! These cookies are made from your basic gingerbread recipe, cut to look like people, some of them sans limbs. Once baked and cooled, I decorated them using a basic milk+icing sugar glaze. </div>
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These zombie cookies inspired me to re-watch <i>Dawn of the Dead </i>(2004). I'm probably among a minority group of people who actually prefer Snyder's remake of Romero's 1978 original. I recognize that the original is probably "better" in terms of originality, influence and social commentary, but I find the remake to be much more enjoyable. First of all, I prefer fast and strong zombies for their ability to scare the living daylights out of me, even if they are less "authentic." Then again, why can't we have both? If you don't have anything better to do with the rest of the holiday season, you can watch both of them while nibbling on some stale gingerbread.</div>
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Meet Gizmo, the sweetest little mogwai of the bunch!</div>
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For these, I used a basic sugar cookie recipe and cut out individual, mogwai-shaped cookies before baking. Coincidentally, a mogwai head is about the same shape as Yoda's head, so you could easily double up on your pop culture references in one batch. Here, I kept it (sort of) simple. The icing is a basic glaze made from icing sugar and milk. The consistency should be smooth but not runny. I used gel colouring to get the right shades and then I broke out my paintbrushes and got to work.<br />
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These sweet little treats might not look very terrifying, but appearances can be deceiving. They hail from the classic Christmas movie that gave you nightmares as a child: <i>Gremlins</i> (1984). It's hard to see how anyone wouldn't want a mogwai for Christmas. They're only the cutest pets imaginable. They sing, they play games and they're fairly low-maintenance, too. You only need to follow three simple rules: 1. Keep them out of bright light, 2. Don't get them wet, and 3. Never, ever feed them after midnight. Remember, the last one is especially important.<br />
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I've painted scenes from everyone's favourite macabre children's holiday classic, <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas </i>(1993). Pictured above (clockwise) are Skeleton Jack's silhouette on a mountaintop, the Boogeyman, Jack's ghost-dog Zero and a close-up of Skeleton Jack's face. As a small child, this movie was one of my earlier experiences with horror and dark comedy. I remember being captivated by the world of Halloween and all the creepy characters, stunning animation and catchy music. This might be a family-friendly film, but even today, as an adult, I find the scenes where Santa is mistreated to be incredibly disturbing. That's probably the only part I still don't like. I love Jack's hilariously misguided attempts to make Christmas, resulting in a hysterically funny and terrifying Christoween. If you haven't watched it in a while, I recommend putting it on again this season. It's as charming as ever!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339494761350323998.post-46826231537901452902012-12-04T16:44:00.000-05:002012-12-04T16:46:14.483-05:00Fingers from the Grave<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week I used another Martha recipe, this time for <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/356428/ladies-fingers">Ladies' Fingers</a>. Although, I think mine look much more disturbing than hers, with their bony knuckles and unvarnished, rotting nails...</div>
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These dreadful digits remind me of the final scare from the movie <i>Carrie </i>(1976)<i>. </i>Carrie White is a very unfortunate teenage girl. She's the daughter of a religious fanatic and everyone at school hates her for existing. It just so happens that Carrie also has telekinetic powers, which she uses to exact revenge<i> </i>against the whole town. After the ordeal is over, a surviving classmate is racked with guilt at the way Carrie was treated, and visits Carrie's grave in her dreams. As she kneels down to lay flowers on the grave, an undead arm reaches out of the earth and grabs hold of her. Gotcha! She wakes up, screaming. This is one of my favourite jump scenes, and I am not a fan of jump scenes. I wonder if they'll try to do something like it in the remake that's coming out soon. We'll see.</div>
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These cupcakes pay homage to the famous execution scene from Dario Argento's <i>Suspiria </i>(1977). A deranged murderer is on the loose in a ballet academy and ends up killing two birds (ballerinas) with one stone (stained glass ceiling). <i>Suspiria</i> is a brilliant, colourful, twisted movie that's a lot of fun to watch. It's about an American ballerina who moves to Munich to attend a prestigious ballet academy, when strange things start to happen...</div>
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So far I've chosen desserts and tried to make them scary, so this time I tried to think of horror movies in which a dessert plays an important role. My all-time favourite horror movie, <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> (1968), just happened to fit the bill. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the pivotal pudding that gets the ball rolling, and the precursor to one of the most uncomfortable dream sequences of all time. From confection to conception. Allow me to explain...</div>
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Rosemary's husband, Guy, answers the door after dinner and brings in two cups of chocolate mousse from their next-door neighbour, Minnie. One for him and one for her. As they eat, Rosemary notices a funny taste, while Guy denies this and aggressively tells her, "The old bat slaved all day on it; now eat it!" Even though she slips most of it into her napkin, within 10 minutes she's losing consciousness. Oh yeah, and when she wakes up the next morning, she's pregnant with the devil's child. </div>
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