all the churches round our way were actively doing halloween celebrations.

you can bring your cakes down here next year we'll look after them well...

How rude and jobsworthy of them.

I thought Halloween was All Hallows Eve and was a Christian festival parked onto an older pagan one?

group rents space from church and that's all. fair enough the church has rules and i guess the vicar - or priest as dh now reveals - has his foibles. he's probably out now, shaking his fist at fireworks.

Your cakes look lovely, and I'm not surprised you where . I know churches can be a bit funny, is it a church type palygroup, or is it separate but just held at the church?

i know, i can't believe he was so slow. he's got to go.

Jaysus - could not your dh just have explained they were the holy ghost cakes?

sorry grounddogrocketscientist haven't been mn for a while. they're just choc cupcakes with a large blob of choc butter icing on top, then well chilled and moulded with hand to smooth down to head type shape and then rolled out individual sheets of icing, trimmed with a sharp knife to neaten edge (no particular shape) and then gently draped over cake. eyes poked through with, well, a matchstick or skewer would have worked but what i actually used was one of those spouts you put into bottles of olive oil so you can pore in tiny stream rather than glug. it's a teeny little circle cutter in effect.

bet you're sorry you asked!

It does seem a bit strange given that Hallow'en is the same as christmas and easter - has it roots in a religious festival and has been taken over by modern commercialism. Did they not want to teach the children about the religious side of it because they felt it was too scary or something?

Normally playgroups don't allow home-made cakes in case of allergies.

They are brilliant cakes though, well done!

That is a superb idea gatheringstones

I knew they looked familiar but couldn't think why