Win Hearts With This Yummy Pumpkin Cake On Pumpkin Day & Halloween

September 29th is Pumpkin Day (link to Pumpkin Day). It was Originated at Sally B. Elliott many years ago. This annual event is celebrated with lots of fun and food – especially the pumpkin recipes. Here's a recipe that you can try out on this Pumpkin Day or at Halloween (link to Halloween), which is close at the hand too. You can win over hearts of both kids and adults with this classic pumpkin recipe.

INGREDIENTS
Pumpkin Pure – 15 Ounce Can
Eggs – 3
Vegetable oil – 1 cup full
Sugar – 2 ｽ cups
Flour – 2 ｽ Cups
Salt -- 1/4 Teaspoon
Vanilla Extract – 1 Teaspoon
Walnuts (chopped) -- 1/2 cup
Ground nutmeg -- 1 Teaspoon
Ground allspice -- 1 Teaspoon
Ground cloves -- 1 Teaspoon
Ground cinnamon -- 1 Teaspoon

DIRECTION
Step 1: Preheat oven to 175o C. Grease one 10 inch tube pan.

Step 2: Cream beaten eggs, oil, pumpkin and vanilla all together.

Step 3: Sift the baking soda, nutmeg ground, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, sugar, salt and flour together and the mixture to the pumpkin mixture. Mix them thoroughly and pour it into the prepared tube pan.

Step 4: Bake at 175o C until it's baked well. Insert a toothpick in the middle and it should come out clean, if its baked well. Let it cool in the pan for half an hour and then turn it out onto a plate and sprinkle some confectioners' sugar over it to decorate.

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You can surprise your guests with this yummy cake on this Pumpkin Day. It will also be wonderful to add this in your Halloween menu. Have a great time and enjoy the Pumpkin Day to the fullest extent. Reach out to your friends with special Pumpkin Day wish.

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Tips For Purchasing Halloween Costumes

Halloween celebration without special Halloween costumes is really dull. With Halloween just close at the hand the local malls have started facing the wave of people intending to shopping for Halloween – especially the Halloween costumes. You can get loads of information regarding Halloween Costumes and decors and tons of sites selling those stuff online.

I never go for purchasing things online. So I purchased my Halloween costume from a local mall. By this I can say for sure that I've got the right thing at right price. Here awaits a few tips for choosing Halloween costumes for you and you kids:

1) Safety first. Make sure that your Halloween costume or mask doesn't impair you vision. Moreover if you're having a sensitive skin you have to be quite choosy about picking the right kind of thing.

2) A Halloween costume that corresponds to any current news event is usually conversation-provoking and often priced higher. If you are in tight budget, it's really wise to avoid purchasing those costumes.

3) If you are choosing a costume to wear to a Halloween party, consider the guest list. If it is a grown-up get together, you can wear whatever you like, but if there will be kids get together, just pick the classy one from the G-rated category.

4) While purchasing Halloween costumes for your kids, just go for the quality ones. By this you can be sure that your little one's not going to end up with skin rashes at the end of the day.

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Halloween Costumes -- Spooky Ideas Of Scaring People On Halloween

Yes I know it's going to be dark and cold within a short spell of time. Halloween is approaching fast and the kids of my locality are probably ready with all spooky ideas of scaring people. Come on, I'm going to share with you some secret about me. I'm ready with my ideas too. Yes, I have purchased a typical Halloween costume that I'll be using on Halloween this year. $45 that dress cost me. My mom told me that I was mad, spending all that money on the wolfman Halloween costume that includes a shirt with fur, weird looking pant and a headpiece (Halloween mask). But I know that I'm worth every penny, as there's nothing better than this for scaring Mr. And Mrs. Richards – my immediate neighbor and other friends of mine out here.


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Anyway, I shall miss my friends staying at Houston, as I'll not be there this year. So all that I can do is sending them Halloween Ecards to wish them Happy Halloween. If you are among those unlucky persons, like me, who will be missing their childhood friends this Halloween DON'T FEEL BAD. Just spread the warmth of your presence by sending them Halloween wishes.

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US Halloween Celebration -- Insanely Huge

Halloween is really great in my nation -- US. And often it seems as if every house has become a haunted mansion, being adorned by the wide range of weird decors. The local Wal-Mart tends to be waved by people of all generations, buying the decor elements before Halloween. Special dishes, costumes and fireworks are the inseparable part of our celebration. Kids dress up as ghouls, zombies, ghosts, goblins and witches and knock at the neighbors' doors to gather sweets, nuts and fruits. The scenario is like this at least where I've grown up. Its really amazing!!

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Ok friends, I would like to know how this INSANELY HUGE event is celebrated outside US.

How do you freak out to celebrate Halloween in your nation?
Is there anything special for kids where you're living?
What about the foods? Anything Special??

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Halloween Trivia For Kids

Ever wondered how to make your Halloween party more fun filled? Just arrange for a homely quiz competition for your kids and the other little goblins. And yes, they can also learn some very interesting facts related to this great event.

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Here's some of the interesting points that I could collect from various sources. And you know what? I'm also planning to freak out to make my Halloween party more interesting with these trivia.

Did you know?

• Jack o’ lanterns originated in Ireland and people over there used to place candles in hallowed out turnips to keep away the spirits.

• It was believed that Black cats were witch's familiars who protected their powers.

• Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in United States.

• Black and Orange are colors of Halloween because black (darkness) is associated with death, while orange with the Fall harvest.

• Chocolate candy bars are the most popular candies for trick-or-treaters with Snickers #1.

• The ancient Celts used to wear weird masks and costumes to keep themselves from being recognized by the ghosts, as they thought that evil spirits roamed all around the countryside on Halloween night.

• The movie "Halloween" was actually shot in the Spring and used fake autumn leaves.

• The Count Dracula Society was founded in the year 1962.

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Special Pumpkin Ice Cream For Halloween

Dishes like Monster Cupcakes, Witch's Fingers, Haunted Hands etc. some of the delicious preparations that are very common on Halloween. Why not try for a recipe that is a bit different? Yes, I mean some preparation that may strike your special guests with wonder on the Halloween eve.

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We'r making special Ice Cream pumpkin pie for our guests this Halloween. It's really eassy, you don't need to prepare pumpkin ice cream from scratch for this preparation. And your little goblin guests can also mix vanilla ice cream with pumpkin pie and line a cinnamon-graham crust to make it little more tasty.




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YUMMY ! Here's how you can make your ice cream pumpkin pie, it serves 8.

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cups crushed cinnamon-sugar graham crackers
10 teaspoons butter -- melted
Canned pumpkin -- 1 cup
Vanilla ice cream -- 1 quart
Sugar -- Little less than 1/2 cup
Cinnamon -- 1 teaspoon
Assorted dried fruits
Ginger -- 1/2 teaspoon
Nutmeg -- 1/4 teaspoon

DIRECTION:
Heat the oven to 350º. Mix the graham cracker crumbs and melted butter in a 9 inch pie plate. Crumble the mixture with your fingers until the butter is evenly distributed and then gently press it around the bottom and up the sides of the pie plate. Bake for 5 minutes and let it cool down to room temperature.
Step-2. Let the ice cream sit at room temperature for 15 minutes. Scoop it into a large mixing bowl and break the icecream bar apart with a spoon, then add the pumpkin, sugar and spices. Mash it well until all the ingredients get distributed evenly through the ice cream.
Step-3. Pour the pumpkin ice cream into the cooled crust, cover with plastic wrap and put it to freezer for 6-7 hours.
Step-4. Decorate the Pumpkin icecream with those dried fruits to give io a look of a colorful jack-o'-lantern face. Slice it and serve.




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Halloween celebration idea

Hey! Have you planned for a Halloween celebration this year? You can freak out for a grand party with all your friends alfresco with bonfire and special Halloween dishes and enjoy the whole night. This weekend John and I were planning for the party and I want to share our ideas with you. We planned for an old friends reunion this Halloween and want to spend the whole night outdoor with all special dishes. The whole night we'll enjoy the fireworks on the expansive and will all be in scarecrow attires. That would be the perfect Halloween costumes. We've planned to drive to Miami beach -- North, located at Collins Avenue 46th Street to 78th street. We don't really mind paying the parking fees because it would be a grand enjoyment for us. How's that?

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