Happy Octotber

Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting “haunted houses”, carving Jack-o’-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, and occasionally in parts of Australia and the United Kingdom, . In Sweden the All Saints’ official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.

What are you going to be for Halloween?

Here is a little recipe to have fun with?

Ingredients:

2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking soda
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 cups oil
1 small can pumpkin
4 eggs, beaten

Icing
1 cube soft butter or margarine
3 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 box powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups finely chopped pecans
1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:

Mix all together. Bake in well greased and floured Bundt or tube pan. Bake 1 hour in a 350 degree oven.

Beat butter and cream cheese till well mixed; then blend in vanilla and powdered sugar, a little at a time until fluffy. Fold in nuts. Ice cake after it has completely cooled. Keep refrigerated.