Happy (almost!) Halloween! For the last weekend before the big day, here are a few Halloween dessert ideas from Mary Margaret McBride's Encyclopedia of Cooking Deluxe Illustrated Edition (1959).
First, we have a simply decorated cake.
The decorations are so simple that the blurb beneath the picture is all the instruction you get: use orange frosting to make pumpkin. Paint on face with chocolate. Looks cute, but I'm distracted by the witch pumpkin in the background. Is that just really weird shading, or does she have some kind of complexion issue? Maybe a weird birthmark? I know better than to ask, so I'll just leave it to my imagination. (Scarring from surviving a burning-at-the-stake attempt it is!)
I know the Party Clown isn't technically Halloween-related, but I'm throwing it in anyway, given the ubiquity of killer clowns in horror movies and Art the clown's recent box office success.
This clown looks more like a horror movie victim than villain, though-- just a disembodied head resting on ... something. At least this dessert has instructions, so I can find out.
Ah-- so disembodied clown head atop a cake round. Now I want a new clown-related horror movie with a title like Big Top Bakery of Blood.
The real horror, though, is the Halloween Fig Faces cake.
The little dude staring at us from the center of the top row realizes just how racist this cake will look in 65 years, and he wants nothing to do with this picture.
The book doesn't give instructions for this one either, I guess because it was so easy to tap into the free-floating racism of the time that it was second nature...
Hope I didn't ruin your Halloween with these sad little figs! If you feel too down, I find that a nice Reese's peanut butter pumpkin can always set things right.
The party clown reminded me of the wizard sundae we would get at a certain restaurant when we were kids. The wizard was great with chocolate facial features and whipped cream hair. As usual, the clown is scary with raisins and no hair (not even a rainbow wig?), and a plain ice cream cone hat that may or may not have candies attached to it with sugar paste. If this is the party clown, I'd hate to see what the horror movie clown would look like. Then again, it may involve some strawberry syrup which would automatically make it better than the party clown.
ReplyDeleteYeah-- I thought of that sundae too! I did get one of those when I was fully adult just for fun. (Still, it was probably 20 years ago. Man, am I old!)
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