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Who doesn’t love Halloween? This year the annual sugar skulls were replaced with making caramel apples…. just a few for those “special” ghouls and goblins that stop by. My decorating is small and limited to a few outdoor pumpkins and pumpkin lights with most of the Halloween vibe inside the house and entryway. I get revved up by listening to my sister’s all out decorating process and studying the photos that I can persuade her to send to me. Her and her husband put a lot of time and energy into creating a Halloween scene to die for.

Not only do they decorate their house, but they also decorate the neighborhood park across the street from their house. They put many hours and ideas into carefully hand crafting many of these spooky and festive, delightful designs. And as soon as the children are home in bed after a long night of trick or treating, they are busy working on Christmas decorations.

Even though we don’t have any little kids in our houses anymore we are always left with a sense of accomplishment after seeing the little ones continuing the Halloween traditions.

No telling who will be flying by as you walk the streets in search of candy and goodies.

~ Magic is in the air ~

Okay…… I set out to make this lamb cake. A neighbor, Dorothy Waddell, used to make us a lamb cake every year for Easter when I was young. And she carried out the tradition for my daughter every year as she was growing up. She passed away quite a few years ago and her husband gave me her lamb cake mold so I could continue with the tradition. I had the cake molds put away and never attempted to make this until this year. I guess that I figured all of the hours watching “Ace of Cakes”, “Cake Boss” and a few other cake bake off television shows would have prepared me. It didn’t seem like it would be that difficult. Well….. it probably wouldn’t have been if I knew what the heck I was doing! Dorothy would place the finished cake, covered with coconut shavings to look like lamb fur, on a plate surrounded by Easter grass and sprinkled colored jelly beans around it. I had this vision of making one to surprise my family with this year and make some extras for my neighbors. Apparently, this was not going to happen. Here is what I got…

The head fell off and half of the cake broke into three pieces. I tried to glue it together with butter cream frosting, to no avail. It just kept becoming more and more of a crumby mess. All of the coconut in the world could not have covered up the mistakes and I didn’t even begin to add jelly beans! Is it just me or does that lamb cake mold look like it is laughing at me? There was no way that this would or could sit upright.

First of all, the cake was too moist, I think that I was supposed to use bundt cake mix. I don’t even care what the mistakes were that I made, actually. I only wish that I would have made a red velvet cake to complete the road kill look of this sad, sacrificial lamb cake.

~ Happy  Easter ~  ( Damn Lamb )