Halloween
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Halloweentown Themed Dinner
This week, we’re kicking off the spooky season with a special Halloweentown themed dinner! Halloween starts early in our house – too early some may say. But the way I see it, if Halloween parties are taking place at Disney, then we should be celebrating too! So, to kick-start the Halloween season, we enjoyed a themed dinner to the Disney Channel Original Movie – Halloweentown! To create our Halloweentown dinner menu, I took inspiration from the characters and fun food references in the film. So, grab your broomstick and a witch’s brew as we share our Halloweentown dinner and movie night! Town Square Jack-O’-Lantern Cheeseball The giant jack-o’-lantern in the…
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Haunted Mansion Themed Dinner
Welcome, foolish mortals. This week, we are wrapping up our Halloween festivities with a Haunted Mansion themed dinner! There’s no doubt about it – the Haunted Mansion is my absolute favorite attraction at the Disney Parks. This fan-favorite ride takes guests on a spooky tour through a dilapidated estate inhabited by the spirits of the deceased. The Haunted Mansion has developed quite a large and devoted following over the years, and it’s no surprise. The moment you step through the mansion’s doors, you become totally immersed in the rich storyline. It’s satisfyingly creepy, but also fun and light-hearted. Everywhere you look there are amazing details to discover, which makes you…
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Halloween Recipes From the Disney Parks
This week, I’m sharing Halloween recipes straight from the Disney Parks! No one does Halloween like Disney. From the spooky decorations, lively parties, spectacular entertainment, and devilishly delicious treats and eats – you can count on Disney to bring the Halloween spirit. But if you are missing the Disney Parks this Halloween, you can create some Disney magic at home with these spooktacular recipes! Which one of these Disney Halloween recipes will you be conjuring up in your kitchen this year? Pumpkin Cupcakes – Contempo Café (Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort) Looking for a show stealing dessert to serve at your next Halloween party? Then look no further than these…
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Nightmare Before Christmas Themed Dinner and Recipes
This week, we had a spooky and merry time enjoying a Nightmare Before Christmas themed dinner! The Nightmare Before Christmas is the perfect mashup of Halloween and Christmas spirit. There is a hot debate as to whether it’s considered a Halloween or Christmas movie, but I personally believe it’s a Christmas movie for the following reasons: It’s our family tradition to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas after a night of trick-or-treating to conclude Halloween and welcome the Christmas season! (Yes, I’m that person that jumps right into Christmas in November). But while considering the food references in the film, I decided the menu had a much more *Halloween* feel. So,…
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Top 10 Disney Villains of All Time
With Halloween around the corner, I decided to celebrate our favorite Disney villains with a Top 10 countdown! Disney villains have the remarkable quality to make us laugh, cry, or cower under the covers. Sometimes, our favorite villains have a certain charm and charisma about them. We enjoy watching them carry out their dastardly deeds and may even find ourselves secretly rooting for them. Other times, we eagerly await their timely and deserved demise. Each Disney villain possesses unique evil-doing characteristics that elicit various reactions from viewers. So, how does one go about ranking the top Disney villains? We’ve all seen the go-to Disney baddies dominating these lists: Maleficent, Scar,…
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Hocus Pocus Dinner Party
For our final Halloween Themed Dinner, we had a Hocus Pocus Dinner Party with our close friends! If you’ve been following this blog, you know that Halloween is a BIG DEAL in our household. We have a bucket list of our favorite Halloween movies we look forward to watching every year, but this is IT, people! The crème de la crème, the pièce de résistance, our absolute FAVORITE Halloween movie of all time – HOCUS POCUS! Every year, we invite my friends over for a Hocus Pocus Dinner Party and enjoy a Halloween-themed meal during the movie. We really outdid ourselves this year, so I decided to share our menu…
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Beetlejuice Themed Dinner
It’s time for another Halloween-themed dinner, and this time we’re dining with the ghost with the most – Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice is a Halloween staple in our household, and a movie we find ourselves quoting all year round. There are a lot of great food scenes in this movie, so it was a lot of fun creating this menu for our Beetlejuice Themed Dinner! It’s Showtime! To kick things off for our Beetlejuice Themed Dinner, I served some roasted roaches as an appetizer. Don’t worry – they aren’t REALLY roasted roaches. These delicious morsels are actually cheese stuffed dates wrapped in bacon. I found the idea and recipe over at Castellon’s…
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Disney Halloween Crafts to Make This Fall
Spooky season is upon us, and what better way to get in the spirit than with some fun Disney Halloween crafts?! Whether you are looking for Disney Halloween décor, apparel, or functional everyday items – we’ve got the crafts for you! Emulate your favorite Disney heroes and villains this Halloween with these headband crafts Princess Leia Headband from As the Bunny Hops Maleficent Horn Headband from Just Halloween Crafts Create some Disney villain tombstones commemorate the villains you LOVE to HATE Disney Villains Tombstones from Adventures in Familyhood These Mouse Ears are a great Halloween craft you can wear to the Parks! Jack Skellington Ears from A Pumpkin and a…
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Ghostbusters Themed Dinner
It’s not Halloween in our household until we’ve watched Ghostbusters, and this year we enjoyed a special themed dinner to celebrate! One of my favorite Halloween memories was the year we all dressed up as Ghostbuster characters for trick-or-treating. Eric even constructed an Ecto-1 wagon for Gemma to ride along in while we jammed to the Ghostbusters theme all night. We had a blast! For this reason, Ghostbusters will always be a Halloween staple in our household. For our Ghostbusters Themed Dinner, I wanted to embrace some quintessential dishes from New York City that appear in the film. I also wanted to create some “slimy” and “marshmallow-y” treats inspired by…
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Casper Brunch and a Movie
Today, I’m sharing our Casper Themed Brunch to celebrate National Pancake Day on September 26th! We typically enjoy fun themed dinners in our house, but to take advantage of this pancake-loving holiday, I switched things up and planned a brunch menu instead! And because now is the time to celebrate all things Halloween in our house, I decided to give our brunch a fun Halloween twist while we enjoyed the movie, Casper! What does Casper and brunch have to do with each other, you ask? In one of my favorite scenes from the film, Casper whips up an INCREDIBLE breakfast for his new housemates on their first morning together. You…
