Halloween

The Grossest Cake of All Time: Kitty Litter Cake! Happy Halloween!

By Rachael Narins Wed., Oct. 31 2012 at 2:32 PM
Categories: Baking, Halloween

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Kitty Litter Cake
When the gummy worm dirt cake first appeared, it was received as a giggle-worthy novelty for children's parties. It's silly and creative. When it started being a part of Halloween party foods, there were no qualms as most people saw it as funny. Then, someone had to one-up and thus was born the most disturbing food of all time: the kitty litter cake. Happy Halloween, may we offer you an air-sickness bag?

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Bay Cities Italian Deli & Bakery: Bread, Nutella + A Guy in a Shrek Costume

By Amy Scattergood Wed., Oct. 31 2012 at 11:41 AM
Categories: Halloween

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Halloween at Bay Cities
There are myriad reasons to stop by Bay Cities Italian Deli & Bakery in Santa Monica. The freshly baked bread, often still warm. The jars of Nutella. The Godmother sandwich. The rows and rows of pastas and olive oils and wines and tins of this and that. But it's even more worthwhile than usual -- and that's saying a lot -- to stop by today, as trick-or-treating has apparently started early. Maybe wear your costume when you swing by for lunch.

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10 Haunted (Maybe) Los Angeles Restaurants and Bars for Celebrating Halloween

By James Bartlett Thu., Oct. 25 2012 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Bars, Halloween, L.A. Restaurants

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J. Bartlett
The Magic Castle
Masked monsters -- or actors -- may be screaming and grunting for our attention at theme park-style events around town this Halloween, but there are plenty of places in Los Angeles for a trip into the city's past. Back in the days when "trunk murders" caught the public imagination and it was easy to buy poison -- and get away with murder.

Police were once searching for a "Ghost Woman" who'd given her husband cyanide coffee for lunch at the Alexandria Hotel, and long-gone owner Thomas O. Glover Sr. gets angry when there's talk of change at Yamashiro.

Are these places really haunted? Maybe order a drink or dinner and then decide. Turn the page for 10 of L.A.'s bars and restaurants that may have more than alcoholic spirits.

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Halloween Roundup: Candy, Pumpkin, Beer, Pumpkin Beer + More

By Elina Shatkin Mon., Oct. 31 2011 at 11:00 AM
Categories: Halloween, Holidays, Top 5 Lists

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Halloween pumpkins, teddy bears and Highlanders.
Stop trying to fight Halloween. Revel in the candy-coated madness of it all. From pumpkins to pumpkin beer, from candy to cookbooks, we've got your Halloween food needs covered. Tomorrow, we can all move on... to Dia de los Muertos.

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Nancy Silverton on a Pumpkin

By Elina Shatkin Mon., Oct. 31 2011 at 10:31 AM
Categories: Food Art, Halloween

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Nancy Silverton as a pumpkin.
Nancy Silverton has been carved into a pumpkin and not as part sort of horrific Saw sequel but as an artistic homage sure to last throughout the ages -- or at least until the pumpkin rots. The hipster geniuses at San Francisco's Bi-Rite Creamery created the best piece of food art we've seen in years, carving the Mozza chef's face into a pumpkin and posting it on their Facebook page. (Guess the celebrity visage and you receive a high-five. We hope that's some sort of sundae.) It may not be Botticelli's Venus (another pumpkin carving we'd like to see), but as food art goes, Nancy Silverton's face on a pumpkin is spectacular.

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Top 5 Pumpkin Beers: Drink Up, Pumpkin Kings

By Ben Mesirow Mon., Oct. 31 2011 at 9:37 AM
Categories: Beer, Halloween, Top 5 Lists

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Kern River's Pumpkin Ale and a whole pumpkin

Is there any vegetable more versatile than the pumpkin? They can be turned into delicious pies, magical carriages, whimsical lanterns, terrifying (or hilarious) helmets and, best of all, beer. Pumpkin beers come in a variety of styles, from ambers to porters, Belgian styles to sour wild ales, but the best ones all have an earthiness and spice that's perfectly suited to a cool Hallow's Eve.

For those who missed this Saturday's Pumpkin-palooza at Blue Palms Brewhouse, here's a list of the Top 5 Pumpkin Beers you can get around Los Angeles, which means, unfortunately, no Pumking.


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Downtown L.A. Halloween Bar Crawl [Photo Gallery]

By Elina Shatkin Fri., Oct. 28 2011 at 2:37 PM
Categories: Bars, Halloween, Photo Gallery

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Punch from Broadway Bar (top), the scene at Las Perlas (bottom), angry Scottish Highlanders from Seven Grand (right).
In Los Angeles, even the bars get dressed up for Halloween. This year, all eight of the downtown L.A. bars owned by Cedd Moses -- Casey's, Cole's, Las Perlas, Tony's, Cana, Broadway Bar, The Golden Gopher and Seven Grand -- are competing against each other to see which bar can be the most zombified with ghoulish decor, creepy costumes and special Halloween cocktails. There's real money at stake. The staff at the winning bar gets to keep all the profits from Saturday night and divide it among themselves. The real winner? You.

This weekend, each bar is serving a custom-concocted punch for only $5 a glass. In some cases, it's a drink that's already on the menu; in others, it has been created specially for the Halloween festivities. Check out the photo gallery and cocktail descriptions on the next page, and judge for yourself.

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Top 5 Halloween Treats for the Kid-At-Heart

By Lesley Balla Fri., Oct. 28 2011 at 1:10 PM
Categories: Halloween

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No matter how you slice it, Halloween brings out the sweet tooth in all of us. Sure, you can raid your kid's bag for something sweet, or grab that family-size bag of Kit Kats at Target (you feel the pull, whether you're giving out candy or not), plenty of local restaurants, bakeries and confectioneries have something more grown-up in store. Whatever you crave -- chocolate, pumpkin, candy -- here are five spots for Halloween treats for the kid-at-heart. We'll leave the tricks up to you.

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Cookbook Review

Halloween Candy Alternative: The Best Two New Kids Cookbooks + A Good Cause Bonus

By Jenn Garbee Fri., Oct. 28 2011 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Baking, Cookbook Review, Cookbooks, Halloween

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Polar Opposites: Both Are Good But As Always, Cookies Are Best
As that parental Halloween candy reality settles in -- no matter how you try to limit the caramels, kids (and adults) are going to find a welcoming candy bowl somewhere this time of year -- we offer two trick-or-treat alternatives: The just-released SpongeBob's Kitchen Mission Cookbook for the elementary school set and The Best Bake Sale Cookbook for older bakers (and their parents).

The idea being that when you're surrounded by candy corn food-additives and corn syrup, it's better to march the kids straight into the kitchen. With these two books, you'll actually keep their (and your) attention.

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My Drunk Kitchen: Halloween Candy [Video]

By Elina Shatkin Thu., Oct. 27 2011 at 3:28 PM
Categories: Halloween, Video
In the Halloween episode of My Drunk Kitchen, Hannah Hart goes from zero to drunk in 60 seconds (less, actually) as she pairs a Bloody Mary with whatever she pulls from her candy bowl. Despite her inebriation, she speaks truth to sugar, dropping profound insights: Tootsie Rolls: "Ugh. This is was a candy before candy was invented. This was a candy people ate when they didn't realize candy could be good." (We couldn't agree more.) Hershey's Cookies & Cream candy bar: "White chocolate... just when you thought no one could ever make chocolate shitty." (Ditto.) Bristol Farms lollipop: "Sometimes, like children, candy tries to over-achieve."

From the mouths of babes.


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