Posting a special Halloween haunted haiku for Monday Macabre.
righteous pumpkin
seen through the haunted veil
death comes for us all
Monday Macabre, Week Three 2025
Category: Halloween
Sinister Saturday – Frankenilla Cups
After last week’s baking failure, me and my bruised ego are playing it safe with a no bake dessert for this Sinister Saturday, Frankenilla Cups!
It’s a super simple recipe with 4 ingredients:
•vanilla pudding
•graham cracker ready crust cups
•whipped cream
•green food coloring
Decorations (opt):
Candies
Marshmallow Peeps
Sprinkles
Yes, I used Keebler Graham ready crust cups and Jello brand pudding. If you want to do it from scratch, knock yourself out. I got a B52s/Devo concert to get to. For all the rest of my lazy friends and all the working moms out there, here’s how it’s done…
Steps:
â—‡First mix 2 drops of green food coloring in the vanilla pudding and mix well.
â—‡Spoon green vanilla pudding into graham cracker ready crust cups.
â—‡Add 4-6 drops of green food coloring in the whipped cream and mix well.
â—‡Add green whipped cream on top of vanilla pudding.
â—‡Pop in fridge or freezer for 60 mins.
â—‡Decorate with sprinkles or candies or whatever you want.
Okay, 60 mins might not have been enough time to freeze. They still look cute! think the kids are gonna love this one.
Happy Halloween!
Friday Fright Nightcaps – Haunted Lagoon
Happy Friday! Tonight’s Friday Fright Nightcaps is a Haunted Lagoon. It’s like a Blue Lagoon but it’s missing the lemonade. Perfect drink when you have the blues.
Ingredients:
1 oz. Blue Curacao
1.5 oz. vodka
1 oz. cranberry juice
.5 oz. grenadine syrup
.5 oz. sparkling water (opt for fizzy)
Mix ingredients well. Garnish with Maraschino cherries or fresh fruit. Serve chilled.
This electric blue cocktail is a super cool drink for parties, and it’s highly adaptable, only as sweet as you make it. You could even add the lemonade back in. It might turn a little less blue, but still really yummy!
Happy Halloween!
Timeless Thursday –Â Halloween 80s Playlist
POST UPDATE 10/16/25: I cannot seem to get the videoplayer to upload my entire playlist, so it’s now a hyperlink that opens in a browser or Youtube. Sorry! Some GenXers just ain’t great with technology! LOL
Timeless Thursday, Throwback Thursday, it’s all the same, it means, we’re going back in time!
I made an Halloween 80s Playlist on YouTube. These are some of my favorite songs. Growing up in the 80s actually feels a lot like this year of 2025, GOP in control and ruining just about everything. Cold war was on, threat of nuclear war was high, terrorism threats were daily, antiwar songs were on the radio, high unemployment, groceries prices were rising, no one had healthcare, no one had rights but old white guys with money, racism, sexism, bigotry was running rampant, and of course, capitalism was consuming the world.
But the 80s had the best music and you should add these obscure gems to your Halloween Playlist.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw-pyzpxGDXmNPaTZpLAEYoVeDLjHrfYe
I’ll keep adding more songs as they return to my memory. Cuz that’s a real thing when you get old! LOL
Happy Halloween!🎃
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Trick or Treat Tuesday?
Monday Macabre, Week Two 2025
Posting a special Halloween haunted haiku for Monday Macabre.
under the moonlight
apparition on the fence
my old cat
Sinister Saturday – Haunted Manor Pumpkin Bread (cake fail?)
Happy Sinister Saturday! Today, we attempted to bake pumpkin bread using a Nordic Ware Haunted Manor pan.
Nordic Ware pans are amazing. The Haunted Skull cakelet pan is my favorite.
The Haunted Manor pan will set you back $25-30, depending where you buy it and when.
This might be a purchase to save for after Halloween or a Black Friday sale for a nice discount. Highly encourage everyone to buy Skull pan. It’s super useful for a ton of different recipes.
I started with a box of Libby’s Pumpkin Bread.
As I said before, I’m not into baking. I mean, I’d love it if I wasnt so damn bad at it!😅
I’ve been successfully using Libby’s Pumpkin bread for years. The recipe is super easy, four eggs, a cup of water, half cup of oil and mix well.
So fast, so easy, a child could do this. After baking for an hour, it looked like I might pull it off.
30 mins later, reality crushed my weekend dream of making Haunted Manor pumpkin bread. The cake broke into several pieces with the top half not all agreeing to come out of the pan.
I eventually gave up and dug it out, resulting in the above picture. It seems a Haunted Manor pan may be too advanced for my baking skills!🤣
While the Haunted Manor cake visual was complete failure, it tasted fantastic! Just like always. That’s why I love this pumpkin bread mix from Libby’s.
I used some leftover batter to make pumpkin muffins instead.
Pumpkin muffins save the day!
Happy Halloween! Be safe out there!
Addendum:
This cake pan is NIGHTMARE to clean!
Friday Fright Nightcaps – Spooky Cosmo
Happy Friday! Tonight’s Friday Fright Nightcaps is the Spooky Cosmo. It’s a Cosmopolitan, but spooky, cuz I said so.🤣
Ingredients:
3 oz. cranberry juice
2 oz. vodka
1 oz. Cointreau
.5 oz lime juice
.5 oz grenadine
1-2 drops of red food coloring
Garnish: Fresh fruit, hibiscus flower, orange rind, tiny umbrellas
Pour ingredients in a glass and mix well. Garnish with fresh fruit or flowers (hibiscus 🌺 would be nice)
Can be served chilled or unchilled.
Cosmos sneak up on you. They taste mild, but remember, vodka! Please don’t drink and drive.
Stay safe out there!
Timeless Thursday – Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett’s Other Monster Hits
Timeless Thursday, Throwback Thursday, it’s all the same, it means, we’re going back in time!Â
Did you know that Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett had a couple of lesser known monster hits after the chart topping smash hit Monster Mash in 1962? The original Monster Mash album had 16 tracks altogether, including this one:
Title: Monster’s Holiday
Singer/Band: Bobby Pickett
Date: 1962
Well, actually, comedian Pickett was probably the only person who ever continually parodied his own music, but the success of Monster Mash was never duplicated. He sure looked like he was having fun anyway.
Title: Monster Swim
Singer/Band: Bobby Pickett
Date: 1964
I suppose, if it aint broke, don’t fix it!😄
Title: Monster Rap
Singer/Band: Bobby Pickett
Date: 1984
About that Monster Mash, it was spoof on popular dance craze songs at the time. The song was co-written with Leonard Capizzi in May 1962 and hit the top US Billboard 100 by October the same year. By 1973, it had re-charted five other times and eventually earned gold status, making it the greatest novelty song in history.
Hit up Wikipedia to learn more about Bobby Boris Pickett. By the way, did you know Monster Mash still generates $1 million dollars annually in royalties?! <grunts> Mash goooood!
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Wicked Art Wednesdays 2025 – James Crouch
From rock stars to sports icons, custom jobs to landscapes, and Hollywood Murals to Disneyland Halls, chances are if you live in the USA, you’ve probably already seen SoCal artist James Crouch’s vibrant stunning art murals somewhere in person.
Artist: James Crouch
Company/Studio: https://croucharts.com/
Where to Purchase Goods: https://croucharts.com/collections/vintage-monsters
Why we love it:
James Crouch is an Imagineer working with Walt Disney Company for over 30 years. Some of us just grew up seeing this guy’s iconic work our whole lives.
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/crouch_arts/
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