Monday, October 29, 2012

More Halloween Stuff

I seem to have caught a cold.  In order to not dwell on it I am trying to keep busy with other things, like thinking up another post for my blog.  Since Halloween is the next holiday, I will do something about it again.  We have an elder that just had a birthday so we invited them over for cake & ice cream.  I decided to make the cake on a Halloween theme.  Here he is:

"Not all that impressive", you are thinking.  Well, when it was time to bring it out I put a sugar cube on top of each eyeball, soaked them with lemon extract and lit them.  Flames shot out of the eyes. And, yes, it does have to be lemon extract.  I tried it with vanilla and almond extract, hoping that I wouldn't have to buy the lemon.  Apparently it isn't the alcohol in the extract; it must have something to do with the lemon.

Sorry, I know the picture is a little blurry, but this one shows the flames pretty well.  He got a kick out of it.

4 comments:

Laura said...

Wow! The things I would never think of.....

Jeanette said...

That's really awesome Mom. I love it. I can't wait to come visit. Not that we will be having sugar cube fires but still....I can't wait.

Amy said...

Oh, man... I just laughed SO HARD.

Mike said, "Wow. Your mom's getting kind of fiesty, isn't she?"

Karen said...

I was laughing so hard Mike had to come over to see what I was looking at. I bet he loved it, I would have! :)