Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated in Mexico and elsewhere associated with the Catholic celebrations of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day. It is celebrated in countries with large indigenous populations on November 1 and 2. 
Altars are created to remember family and friends with prayers and traditional dishes served as part of the celebrations. Here in AZ, there are many celebrations and remembrances. The cemetery in Tubac was a busy place with people visiting and decorating grave sites. 

Recap of some holiday fun.

What a fun evening filled with good food, games, and friends to share it all with.

 I'm sharing some of the foods enjoyed by all.

Spider Web Appetizer

Black Magic Cupcakes 

Followed recipe from https://sockfairies.blogspot.com/2019/10/black-magic-cake.html

The spider cupcakes (with a little imagination) are decorated with chocolate frosting and heavily sprinkled with chocolate sprinkles. Use pretzels for legs and candied eyes. The pumpkin cupcakes are chocolate frosted, sprinkled with crushed Oreos for dirt, with green dyed coconut for grass. 

Peanut Butter Halloween Cookies

Vampire Kiss (Halloween Sangria)

Directions:

4 hours before serving in a large pitcher place slices from 2 oranges, 1 cup red grapes, and 1 apple sliced. Stir in 1/4 cup sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon Saigon cinnamon. Mix and let sit for 20 minutes. Add in 1 bottle of dry red wine such as Rioja and refrigerate for 4 hours, stirring occasionally. To serve, fill one glass with ice and halfway with red wine and the rest of the glass with Sparkling Cider. Garnish with orange slices. Note Sparkling Cider looks like a bottle of Champagne and I found it in a section with sports drinks at Walmart. 

Halloween Blood Orange Margarita

Directions:

Rim the glass with salt. Use a bottle of Ultimate Orange Margarita Mix. Add crushed ice to serve and slip in a gummy worm. 

Meatball Sliders

The recipe can be found at https://togetherasfamily.com/hawaiian-roll-meatball-sliders/ 

There are step-by-step photos and I bought a bag of frozen Italian meatballs from Costco to shorten the work time.  

Halloween Attire

We did not give anyone a direction on what to wear so all was a surprise,

 Lucy's outfit was definitely a show-stopper dressed in her burrito costume. 

She should have won a prize for Most Creative.