A Beautiful Fairy Princess
Stranger with Candy: Don’t you look pretty!
Ellie: Yes, I do!
Mindful Fiber results when my Random Number Generator wakes up from her sugar-crashified beauty sleep. There’s more Halloween on Flickr while you wait.
Not pictured: Crown and wand.
Ingredients
1 c. creamy peanut butter (not the natural kind)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
¼ tsp. salt
1 c. sugar
⅓ c. light corn syrup
½ c. water
¾ c. chocolate chips (Ghiredelli semi-sweet are dairy free)
1 T. shortening
Instructions
Grease an 8-inch square pan.
In a small saucepan, stir together peanut butter, vanilla, and salt. Warm all that over low heat until it’s melty and then keep it warm.
In a medium saucepan, stir together sugar, corn syrup and water.
Cook sugar goo over medium-high heat just until it reaches 290 degrees, under hard crack. Don’t tweet. Don’t get bored. Don’t look away it will surprise you!
Quickly stir in peanut butter until well mixed.
Dump in prepared pan, QUICK IT’S ALREADY COOLING!
Let cool on a wire rack (or cold stove eye) for about 8 minutes. Don’t try to eat it yet (HOT).
Melt the chocolate chips and shortening in the microwave. Heat for 30 seconds at a time, stirring in between until molten chocolate is achieved.
Pour the chocolate over the top of the peanut butter candy part and spread it out to coat. Put it in the ‘fridge so it will set more quickly. Cut it into bars and eat every last crumb before you think about taking a picture. Wonder how soon is too soon to make more…
I finished in time for her to dress up for school last Friday.
Who could she possibly want to be for Halloween?
Three story book characters in a row. Maybe she’ll want to be a mummy or something next year.
Happy Halloween, Knitters!
Cat ears for costumes!
You need a little yarn, a store-bought headband and less than an hour and a half.
Available on my Free Patterns Page and on Ravelry. Early adopters, stick with Ravelry. This freebie has not been test knit and Ravelry makes it easy to send corrections.
Goldilocks
She picked her costume herself – including pattern style and fabric. She says it turned out “pretty good.” Heh.
The part of Baby Bear was played by James.
All done!
The cat was a special request. The cat was lonely, thus the pumpkin.
The little jack-o-lantern isn’t made from this pattern. But it was a direct inspiration (I didn’t want to get up and disturb the cat just to get the laptop so it’s really a ‘recreation’). Want to make your own pumpkins? Click one more time to get to Natural Suburbia. While you’re there, take a look at her little garter stitch bats. And when Halloween is over, there are ladybugs and flowers to keep you occupied.
Yoink!
Happy Halloween!