My friend, Shirlene Reeves, is a wonderful baker and made this Apple Stack Cake for a birthday party. She found the recipe in Southern Living online. Six pounds of apples and six layers later, half a wedge of one layer was enough of a taste for me to enjoy this delightfully delicious Halloween creation. Click on the link below to make your own stack cake. http://www.southernliving.com/food/entertaining/tempting-apple-dessert-recipes/apple-stack-cake
And we can't leave out Abby, our Gracious Jane Marie mascot, modeling her Halloween pumpkin costume. She thinks she's the cutest pumpkin in the patch. I tend to agree with her!
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1880s
Fernandina, Florida
Grandmother Peeper writes: We're havin' a Halloween party at
Dunnigan Manor this year. The youngins is just about finished amakin' their costumes. Breelan's is a tall pointy hat with a floatie veil pasted ta the top. She'll be a princess. Carolena fashioned some pretend wire glasses, will pin up her mess a hair and carry a pile a books. Likin' ta read, as she does, she will be a librarian. Miss Ella made little Marie a bunny mask ta wear with her pink apron and Jack Patrick wants ta be a ax murderer. He asked ta borrow Clover's hatchet and cover the head of it with my strawberry jelly fer blood,
Miss Ella sent out invitations asayin' there will be a fortune teller at the party. That will be me. I'll tell everybody their future will be bright. Well, everybody but Aunt Noreena. We always have ta include her since she's right next door and would come over, invitation or not, like she always does. I'll make her fortune sound so awful, she won't sleep for the next month and a half.
When the people come, we'll have only frightening jack-o-lanterns ta light the way ta the opened front door, leading them into the dark welcome hall. Michael will be dressed as a ghost, wearing a white sheet. He'll reach out his hand covered with wet salt. That will give them a start. Clover is gonna make loud scary sounds from behind the talkin' tree ta get folks in the mood, too. We'll hang apples from the porch ceiling, sos they can try and bite them with no hands. Breelan is gonna tell ghost stories after we all eat, we'll play cornhole toss and--Well, I don't want ta give away all our surprises but it will be a night they'll be atalkin' about until next Halloween! All our Dunnigan parties is like that, ya know. If it's worth doing, says Michael, it's worth doin' ta excess.
Happy Halloween!
Grandmother Peeper is a featured character in Amelia Island's Goodbye Lie Trilogy. Everybody loves her but Aunt Noreen. That's got to tell you something ...
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