They're totally awesome, but even more awesome when you consider that, as an all-natural bakery, we never use food coloring, fondant, or shortening. It limits greatly the materials we have to work with when doing designs, but makes the designs we do so much more lovely (and tasty!)
Then there was trick-or-treating:
Jasper was a robot, Duncan was a daddy robot. Genius costume element: the plastic bucket as a helmet, which conveniently kept my little robot's head dry all through the soggy, cold, night.
Then, there was Dia De Los Muertos.
Folks stopped by all day on Sunday to make sugar skulls, see the altar, and (hopefully) reflect on the meaning of a day to honor, remember, and visit with those who have passed. One (sorta country) fella came in, he had never heard of us, but had seen a show on the History Channel about the sugar skulls. He went looking in Asheville for where to find them, and found us. He bought some to take home with him, and he said that it reminded him of Decoration Day in church, and that that meant something to him. It got me thinking that we have these rituals in every culture, because we have a spiritual need for them.
We also raised an amazing 317 dollars for Latino Immigrant's Rights Organization Defensa Comunitaria! Dias De Los Muertos: Activism + Cake + Celebration = Love.
Amy Kett, of Crankypants Knits, posted on her blog this picture of her memere on the altar:
She says: "Yesterday Henry and I went on down to Short Street Cakes and painted sugar skulls for Los Dias de los Muertos. Henry ate a triple chocolate ganache cupcake bigger than his head while I thought about my Memere and painted a sugar skull in her honor and put her picture up on the altar. If you are in Asheville...stop by and paint a skull, have some cake and blow my Memere a kiss."
Sigh.
And, with the season of death coming to a close, and without further ado, We now officially declare the beginning of:
The Holiday Season!
It's ON.
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