Trick or treat?

1. Black Widow cocktail

Photo credit and recipe: Talk of Tomatoes

2. Transylvanian gourmet chocolate truffles

Photo credit and recipe: MyRecipes.com

Who knew gourmet chocolate truffles can look so spooky?

3. Vegan cooking: Ghost cake

Photo by veganbakesale

4. Halloween Shortbread cookies

Photo by junebugmomma

5. Organic cake: Spooky tree

Photo by The Bleeding Heart Bakery

An organic cake with a crazy squirrel on top, made with organic milk, organic eggs and pure organic products.

6. Vampire blood tomato soup test-tube shooters

Photo credit and recipe: Food Network

7. Brain food

Photo by treedork

Now that’s an extreme Halloween dish! It’s made with peach jello and red grenadine syrup.

8. Halloween Bento

Photo by pkoceres

9. Halloween cupcakes

Photo by covetthycupcake

10. Eyeballs

Photo credit and recipe: Jojoebi

Eyeballs are always a staple at Halloween parties.

11. Caramel pear mice

Photo credit and recipe: Food Network

12. Dark and spooky cocktail

Photo credit and recipe: Food Network

13. Halloween cupcake toppers

Photo by Artisan Cake Company

14. Monster’s eyeball pasta

Photo by HAMACHI

15. Multi-tiered Halloween cake

Photo by jewelsb78

16. Spoooky Ghost Cupcakes

Photo by The Frosted Cake Shop

17. Pot O’Gross Stuff cake

Photo by debbiedoescakes

18. Halloween chocolate martini

Photo credit and recipe: bloomacious

19. Candy corn mousse

Photo credit and recipe: The Runaway Spoon

20. Mummy cupcakes

Photo by delish.com

21. Halloween marshmallows

Photo credit and recipe: Distracted Gourmet

22. Tombstone cookies

Photo credit and recipe: MyRecipes.com

23. Brew-Ha-Ha punch

Photo credit and recipe: SouthernLiving.com

24. Eyeball cheesecake & ghost toast

Photo credit and recipe: Woman’s Day Eyeball cheesecake | Ghost toast

25. Gingerbread haunted house

Photo by jybikerboy

I hope you enjoyed this roundup of Halloween dishes. Have a happy Halloween!

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This being Halloween and all, I thought it would be fun to do up a Halloween edition of Sparklette. You know, transform the usual purple layout into something spooky.

So, I came up with this:

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Welcome to the dark side! We have spooky storm clouds! Spooky mist! Even the dreamy neuschwanstein castle has turned spooky. I was going for the whole haunted castle look! Be sure to view it in full size!

I meant to use the black layout for this whole Halloween week, I really did. But time wasn’t on my side. I had just enough time to design the piece but not enough to actually implement it on the blog.

Personally, I really like how this whole thing turned out and thought it would be quite a waste if you guys didn’t get to see it. So, there you go! Meanwhile, I’ll just settle for wearing a black witch’s pointed hat.

Happy Halloween!

November 10, 2008: I made this into a usable theme after all! Check out the shiny new style switcher.

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Have you bought your Halloween decorations or cooked your Halloween dishes yet? For ideas on holiday food, check out my list of 25 crazy and wacky Halloween dishes for an extreme Halloween!

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Spooky! My first holiday-themed jewelry, for Halloween of course. Spooky is a cute little ghost who tries to go around scaring people. But because of his wee little size, he mostly invokes chuckles instead of chills. As a result, his ghostly pals always look down on him. How sad!

Ironically, our little ghost spooks easily too. That’s why he carries with him a weapon to protect himself. It’s a little gold pistol that he arms himself with, a vintage beauty from decades ago! And that’s not all. Spooky even has a tiny Swarovski pearl and blue shiny star that lights his way in the dark!

Adopt “spooky!” for a fee of $28. Heck, if no one wants him, he’s mine for keeps!

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