by Helen Kain | Oct 13, 2023 | Black, Grey and Pewter, Halloween, Orange, Organization, Recent, Storage
Back in the Stone Age, when I was a child, we waited with delicious anticipation for the annual screening of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, on TV. Hard as it is to fathom today, it was shown once; if you wanted to watch it, you had to show up in front of...
by Helen Kain | Oct 13, 2023 | Cakes, Fall Recipes, Halloween, Recent
Chocolate cupcakes are frosted with luscious chocolate French buttercream. The wings are made with sinfully delicious dark chocolate wafer cookies. Add the candy eyes and drop the cupcakes into spidery cupcake holders, and you’ve got deliciously fun Halloween...
by Helen Kain | Oct 23, 2022 | Black, Fall Tablescapes, Halloween, Orange, Purple, Recent
Longtime readers of Entertablement will know that Halloween is not my favourite holiday. While I love seeing the little ones dressed up in their costumes, the destructive and sinister side of Halloween doesn’t appeal. But plates of animals dressed in costumes?...
by Helen Kain | Oct 23, 2022 | Christmas, Desserts, Halloween
As a child, the approach of Christmas heralded the arrival of several treats in our house: Quality Street Chocolates, Petticoat Tails Shortbread, Terry’s Chocolate Oranges, and my hands-down favourite, Poppycock. The first three items still fill me with delight,...
by Helen Kain | Oct 30, 2021 | Black, Fall Tablescapes, Halloween, Pink and Red, White
Greetings, dear readers. We flew from Heathrow Airport yesterday after spending eighteen days in various parts of England, beginning and ending in London. We were blessed with marvellous weather—warm and dry enough for a leather jacket and jeans, mainly, with only a...
by Helen Kain | Oct 31, 2020 | Cakes, Fall Recipes, Halloween
I had completely forgotten about the package of Halloween cupcake liners and toppers that had followed me home last year. Well, we couldn’t let another year go by with them languishing in the drawer, now could we? Hmmm – orange and black – not my...