I-Mockery has up a review of Halloween Candy for 2005.

X-Entertainment reviews the Jones Soda Halloween flavors. And yay, the Halloween Countdown is well underway.

Yay! The Meat Head pages have reappared! Meat Head is a fabulously elaborate and utterly disgusting way to serve cold cuts for Halloween. I mean, you could do it for other holidays but I don't think anybody would find it funny on, say, Labor Day.

For a completely different holiday - instructions on how to make sturday Christmas Crackers, with links to more at the bottom of the page.

Last night I managed to roll and cut out the pastillage stars and bake around 100 cupcakes, here are 96 of them. Having the divided dry ingredients made things so much easier, yay me! How much do I love the cupcakes containers? Much. They'll make transport far easier. The stars are stacked between layers of parchment and stored inside a mostly airtight container. Tonight I make a massive amounts of buttercream, decorate, and we're off to the party.

If I hadn't managed to get these cupcake trays I would have used the large shallow rectangle Rubbermaid Take Alongs. They hold 12 cupcakes pretty well, and are deep enough for some taller frosting.

Something I stumbled across while looking for cupcake transport - Ziploc makes huge storage bags, the boxes show pillows and sporting goods fitting inside. I'm guessing they'd work well for yarn and fabric storage for the fiber obsessed.

Birthday Cupcake Baking update: Last night I divided dry ingredients into bags based on which ingredients will be going in at the same time. This will free up my measuring cups for the wet ingredients and I'll spend a lot less time cleaning inbetween batches. Somehow every grocery store around managed to simultaneously run out of packs of regular white baking cups, which was ok since it gave me a reason to take some time to drive out to Home Cake and buy in larger bunches and get some backup pastry bags at the same time. I resisted impulses to buy more pastry tips and tiny heart sprinkles. (And tiny candy cup molds to make peanut butter cups to put in ice cream, the ice cream I'll make myself with the ice cream maker I don't have yet.) I took the pastillage out of the fridge to get ready to roll out. I'll cut out the stars tonight and store them in an airtight container between layers of parchment paper. Have acquired expensive chocolate and vanilla beans, makes me happy. And I finally had a reason to buy one of those flats of 18 eggs.

Note to self: correct this later -- you wrote down the version of the recipe hanging on the fridge incorrectly, there really is 1/2 C sour cream to a regular batch of 12, so that Too Much Sour Cream test run was actually the Just The Right Amount of Sour Cream test run. (Note that you predicted a recipe busting typo on that same page, see? You were right.)