Saturday, October 29, 2011

BOO! The annual school Halloween Bake Sale in Tribeca

Working the bake sale at Max's school is fabulous fun, because the treats are so creative. Plus once the 8:30 crush of customers come and go, the volunteers get to buy!

Some of the outstandingly cr-e-e-e-e-e-e-py/ delicious baked goods at this years sale below:
My friend Erica and her 48 cupcakes with gummy bloody fingers, teeth and other body parts.
Stitched mouth ghoul cupcakes.
Spider and Fly infested cupcakes. 

I loved these mummy cupcakes, I bought 2. 
Ghost, bat and pumpkin cookies.
Simple and clever: Dracula brownies.
Elaborate chocolate cupcakes with RIP cookie tombstones, candy skull and bones coming out of the grave.
Bucket of (sugar cookie) bones.
Simple, spooky chocolate ghost cookies with orange eyes.

Ghost chips made by the same mom/volunteer who made the bucket 'o bones cookies. 
Soy, nut, seed, gluten free and vegan section. Great that kids with allergies aren't excluded
from the FUN of a ghoulish treat!
Lovely organizers of the Halloween Bake Sale, Stacie and Melissa.
---Monica Forrestall

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

DIG IN: City Gardening with Kids

Twice a year I head up a children's gardening event at Washington Market Park. This fall, it happened last week on October 15th, to coincide with the NY city-wide It's My Park Day. I worked with Chris, the park gardner, who gave a nice, helpful talk to the kids about how to plant bulbs.