Cake fourteen

Scary Halloween

Today’s Halloween and it’s practically celebrated worldwide. It wasn’t so when I was young and I still find it rather difficult to accept Halloween parties, pumpkins and scary cookies outside the English speaking countries.. I know for sure, it’s  a problem of generation gap! In fact my children and especially my 17-year-old daughter love it and have loved it since they were young kids. I’ve made pumpkin-shaped cookies or pizzas with them and I thought it was already much... I’d have never gone so far as to make a tomb-like cupcake with an arm coming out of a grave! This is what my younger daughter made yesterday and, most incredibly, I helped her to realize! We really do things for our children we’d never ever have done ourselves! 

At first I was kind of disgusted making the tomb or the dead arm, but after a while I must admit I was having fun..... It’s all a matter of a different perspective, I was used to seeing a graveyard as a scary place to avoid while younger people love horror stories with vampires and walking dead. I’ve come to understand it’s only a way to handle the fear for monsters and ghosts and to keep them away, which is in line with the ancient Celtic tradition, isn’t it? 

Song: Eleonor Rigby

Talking about tombs and graveyards, have you ever heard of Eleonor Rigby's sad story?

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