Quick pre-Halloween blog…

If my travel blogs weren’t enough I’m now doing my very best Martha Stewart impression. :)
Even though Halloween isn’t as big here as it is across the pond we do still play along.
I love to decorate my house this time of year. And I very much love to carve pumpkins with my boys…last year I had 7 twenty somethings in my kitchen creating and carving away.
Each year the pumpkin guts always go to waste, which seems ever such a shame. But I happened to see a post my niece Hana put on her Instagram in which she had made a cake from the stringy wasted guts of the pumpkins.
Well I was totally inspired after 20 odd years of throwing them away, maybe in America it’s a well known use of the wasted insides.
But here’s the recipe and instructions for a less wasteful Halloween;

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We don’t usually use the cups measure here so that bit was a bit tricky but other than that this cake is dreamy!!

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I’ve gone pared back and classy (well that’s the hope anyway) this year for Halloween decorations.
Now the boys are grown up I’m pretty much just doing it for me.

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In the 13 years we’ve lived in this house we have never had a single trick or treater!
Ironically our road is a bit too spooky at night and with only 4 houses down here I doubt if the spooky/haul ratio is enough to bother. Hahahahaha

I buy the sweets for them anyway, Chris just eats them in the end. :)