Halloween Pumpkin Contest

It is October, and it is the right time to take your knives and loop tools to sculpt a pumpkin.







My blog www.garnishfoodblog.com and the friend's www.howtogarnish.com are having the Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest.


How to enter the Halloween contest:

1. Sign up to http://www.howtogarnish.com

2. Submit a photo of your pumpkin carving at the Halloween contest page http://www.howtogarnish.com/contests

3. Share the link to the contest's photo at your Facebook/homepage/other social network and ask your friends and fans to vote for you.

The winner will be awarded with a PDF fruit carving tutorial from Selena Ze Arteest, Garnishfoodblog.

The contest date October 17 - November 03, 2016

No matter what level you are. Everyone is very welcome to take part and win an award. Likes from your friends and fans will bring you success.

Once signed up to Howtogarnish, you are able to take a part in the next online competitions, and be awarded with money cash or a prize.

Enjoy the Halloween-2016 to the fullest!

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Halloween 2015

Hello, I will be your guide to the castle of  Pumpkin Dracula

Hello,

 

Hope you guys had a great Halloween night. Even if you spent that night at home, I hope you did some pumpkin carvings.

 

I spent the night at the Halloween show in the cinema. Before seeing a horror movie the visitors tried themselves in carving scary faces in fruits. That was a quick class for joy.

 

I am looking forward to having official photographs of the evil party and monsters at my class :)

 

 

Halloween decorations 2015

 

 

 

Halloween carving class

How to carve scary face on fruits



Halloween carving class

 

 

 

 

Halloween streets

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Halloween Treat: Alien's Skull, Owl, Candy Corn Flower, Finger Cookies

Breakfast with a witch

Are you curious to know what a city witch has for a breakfast? Then you are invited to my home.

Today I have some fingers and aliens to treat you my dears. And a cool refreshing green potion.

Welcome to my kitchen. You will learn a super-easy method of cookie's decorating that you can use for making Halloween treats.
On the pictures you see ginger cookies in the shape of fingers (do you like the nail style?) and green alien's skulls.

Breakfast with the a witch.

Witch's fingers with green nail style

Grinning green aliens

A green potion I drink to stay young and beautiful

Halloween cookie decorating

I used a ginger cookie recipe to make the Halloween cookies as on the pictures. This time I designed  aliens, candy corn flowers, owl, mushroom, pumpkin and evil hearts.
What makes the cookies look bright is the glaze icing of yelk.

Aliens and Halloween candy corn flowers

Halloween candy corn flower cookies

Glaze icing recipe:

You need 1 egg. Separate the yellow yelk from the white yelk. We need the yellow part.

Add few drops of food coloring into the yellow yelk and mix well.

If you need glaze icing in more colors just divide the yelk in several plates.



Add few drops of food coloring into the yellow yelk and mix well

 How to make Alien's Skull cookie

1. Use the cookie cutter to cut a round detail.
2.  Cut off the details as shown in the picture #2 to shape a skull.
3. Use the small details to make eyes and grin.
4. Prepare the yelk glaze icing.
5. With a finger or a brush, apply the glaze icing on to the skull.
6. Place the eyes and grin on to the skull as shown in the picture #6.
Bake the cookies for 7-10 minutes at 180*C.

How to make Corn Flower

1. Use the flower cookie cutters, a big and a small one, to cut out the flowers.
2. Cut the small flower in 6 pieces.
3. Place the small details as shown in the picture #3.
4. Paint the flower in yellow and orange with the glaze icing. Bake the cookies for 7-10 minutes at 180*C. The white center is applied to the baked cookie and it the white yelk whipped with sugar powder.



 More Halloween cookie's designs

Owl, mushroom, evil heart and pumpkin cookies made with cookie cutters and painted with the glaze icing.

Cookies before being baked

Little owl cookie

Baked cookies

 HAVE A SPOOKY COOKIE HALLOWEEN!

More Halloween ideas:
Haunted Tree
Disney Theme For Halloween Treat
Guide To 3D Pumpkin Sculpturing
Beautiful Pumpkin Lantern. Step Instruction
Easy Halloween Pumpkins
My First-Time Pumpkin Lanterns

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Haunted Wonder Tree. Halloween Decoration

This time my beloved Wonder Tree turned into Halloween tree haunted by ghosts and monsters.
Ghosts riding clouds are carved of zuccini skin. Stars are made of pumpkin with a cookie cutter. I used cloves for the eyes.

Garlic monsters are the easiest crafts I ever made :)
Tiny pumpkins are made of carrot balls carved with a melon baller. The same baller is used for making a Mickey lantern.

Do you like the Wonder Tree? You can get it for free! Just submit a photo with your pumpkin /melon/ watermelon carving to The Fall Carving Contest 2012 and win it.

Haunted Wonder Tree (Cuccagna)

Garlic monsters, tiny pumpkins and Mickey lantern

Ghost riding clouds

The Haunted Wonder Tree is shared at:

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3D Pumpkin Sculptures

If you follow carving art's news you might heard about Ray Villafane's 3D Pumpkin Tutorial. Ray makes fantastic 3D sculptures in pumpkins which look like real faces. The good news is that Ray released a DVD tutorial with lessons and loop tools for pumpkin face sculpturing. 

I bought his DVD and tools last year when the pumpkin season was over. I have been waiting for a whole year to test the loop tools.  And it's the time now! I watched his video several times before I started. 

I should confess I doubted whether I can carve the 3D face or not. I plucked up my courage, left my fears  behind and took the tools. 

That was something incredible. Following the Ray's tutorial I carved (the better word is scraped) 3 pumpkin faces in 2 days. On the picture below is my very first face made exactly as Ray teaches in his DVD:

my very first 3D pumpkin Grrrrr Face and Ray's tutorial

Other two pumpkins were made the next day. I thought my own desing for them. Following Ray's tips and explanations I managed to do them!

the second attempt, Smiling Face

the third pumpkin, Thiniking Face

Cool, isn't it? :)

By the way, Ray published an album with his pumpkins. I purchased it also. There are photos with close-up look of pumpkin faces in the album so you can see clearly the details like a mouth line, nose or eyes position. 

I have all the products of Ray Villafane:

Pumpkin 3D Sculpture DVD Tutorial

Loop tools

Pumpkin Sculpture album.

Scrape the pumpkin  inside and insert a candle inside. 

3D pumpkin gang

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Halloween Disney Garnish From Carrot

Look at what I bought in Tokyo Disney Land. This is a Mickey Lantern keychain.

Halloween Disney lantern

I made a Mickey copy in carrot. It is absolutely edible.
Carved with a thai knife.

Mickey carrot garnish  for Halloween food

Chicken, salad and carrot Mickey garnish

There are a chicken fry with soft dough (my chicken tempura:)) and pumpkin salad on the picture above. For the salad I used the pumpkin I practiced the thai design in. I never throw away carving waste and my carved fruit and vegetables. I bake and fry them or store in a fridge for the future cooking.

Pumpkin salad ingredients:
radish,
cucumber,
raw pumpkin,
vegetable oil
salt

Check up more salad recipes with garnishes

Linked to:
eRecipeCards.com
Sweetology
Tea Rose Home

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Glamour Pumpkin Project and Sweet Pumpkin Dessert After

I enjoy carving pumpkin lights. I am not a fan of scary Halloween lanterns. Would love to add a beautiful aspect to my autumn pumpkin crafts. 

It is getting cold and raining here in October. When I put a light to my pumpkin I feel warm and cozy. 

This time I made a glamour pumpkin with a moon in it. I call this design Gothic Moon. 

Continue reading the instruction to find a recipe of a sweet pumpkin dessert. 

Gothic Moon 

Glamour Pumpkin Carving Project

Step 1. Pick up a nice pumpkin for this design. My pumpkin was flat so I adjusted it on its side.

You need to cut a leed off and clear the pumpkin inside. I used my Triangle thai knife for carving my pumpkin.

Step 2. Important step. When you clear your pumpkin keep the pumpkin flesh for the dessert we will cook a little bit later. I used a melon baller to scrape the pumpkin inside.

Step 3. Drawing the design. This design consists of the series of the circles of the different sizes. Fill each circle with curly details.

Step 4. Carve your pumpkin following the scratched design.

Step 5. Be sure to connect the curls into a nice pattern.

Step 6. I attached this photo to show the work in progress.

Step 7. Step by step you are finally done with the carving part!

Set a fire inside the pumpkin and enjoy the glamour look of your craft.
Now you have time for some cooking.

Sweet Pumpkin Dessert

Check up more dessert recipes

For the dessert you need:
pumpkin (removed flesh)
1 apple
1 orange (optional, add it for a rich taste)
1 pear (optional, add it for a rich taste)
2 tablespoons of raisin
1 or 2 tablespoons of honey

Cut the fruits and pumpkin, mix it together with raisin and honey. Cook it in the oven or microwave 20 min, t 200* C. I used a silicone container for baking the pumpkin dessert.

Serve a cool dessert.

Linked to
Sweetology

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