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Forever Nigella #9: Halloween Horrors

September 22, 2011 by Sarah Trivuncic 21 Comments

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Forever Nigella Halloween event

She’s back!

I’ve been touched how many people have tweeted and emailed to ask where Forever Nigella had disappeared to.

The truth is that despite having a stack of volunteers waiting to host, I have been too organise to liaise with everyone to set who does which month, which theme and then crack whip at husband to get a lovely badge designed in time.

A few days stretched into a fortnight and so I’ve decided to start a bit early and launch Forever Nigella 9: Hallowe’en Horrors. I will be hosting this time round to give future hosts more warning of them taking on the challenge for November and December (and me more time to organise).

So this month you have “sort of” free rein to create any Nigella dish you like. I say “sort of” because the caveat is that you must adapt it in some way to make it suitable for Hallowe’en. I don’t want just any old Nigella favourite, beautiful as that may be, I want proper Hallowe’en influenced goodies (and baddies). There MUST be a Hallowe’en twist of some kind – though I’ll accept cryptic ones if they’re convincing. Standard pumpkin and squash recipes are permitted without plastic skeletons required.

Scary pea soup with cobweb cream? “Eyeballs” in trifle? Cupcakes covered in “blood”?

Go ahead, use your imaginations – we want a line up of Nigella recipes that look really frightening (in a good way please).

The current theme is “Hallowe’en Horrors” runs until midnight November 1st wherever you are. The current host is ME.

A reminder of the rules:

Forever Nigella #9 Hallowe’en Horrors
Challenge: To prepare and blog any Nigella recipe with a Hallowe’en interpretation. You are encouraged to adapt non Hallowe’en Nigella recipes as well as any more obvious ones.
Deadline: November 1st 2011 at midnight wherever you are.
Round up: By the next weekend.

There are:

  • No rules about how often you must take part
  • No rules about stuff being secret until certain dates
  • No rules that everyone cook exactly the same thing
  • No rules about not being able to submit to any other blog events – just check it doesn’t contravene the other guys’ rules

But there are 3 rules:
1. Blog your entry by the deadline including:
a) the current Forever Nigella badge
b) a link to the current challenge announcement
c) a link to the official Forever Nigella page at Maison Cupcake:https://maisoncupcake.com/forever-nigella

2. So not to breach Nigella’s copyright you must NOT reproduce recipes verbatim as shown in her books. If using an original Nigella recipe, tell us which book it is from and/or where we find it online (see most likely sites below). If you’ve adapted the recipe in some way i.e. changed at least two ingredients or amended the method then it’s ok to publish the a recipe in your post but you MUST write the directions in your own words.

3. Tell us about your post by emailing “sarah AT maisoncupcake DOT com” with:
a) your name
b) URL of your post
c) a photo no more than 300 pixels wide.

Don’t forget to tweet your post with the hashtag #forevernigella – I will retweet all those I see!

N.B. Your entry must have been published since the announcement post. You may only submit something from your archives if you republish it as a new post.

 

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Sarah Trivuncic has published recipes, restaurant and travel reviews on Maison Cupcake since 2009. She lives in Walthamstow, East London with her husband and teenager.
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Comments

  1. Lynds @ Vanilla Clouds and Lemon Drops says

    September 23, 2011 at 1:11 am

    I can almost hear a fiendish cackle coming over me!! So excited about this one and so happy to see Forever Nigella is back!

    Reply
  2. Michelle says

    September 23, 2011 at 1:23 am

    Ooooh, I can’t wait. Halloween is really big here, so I am going to have to get creative.

    Reply
  3. Elizabeth says

    September 23, 2011 at 1:40 am

    I’m so glad it’s back!

    Reply
  4. What Kate Baked says

    September 23, 2011 at 7:19 am

    Yeahhhh! Welcome back Forever Nigella! I’ll get my thinking cap on!

    Reply
  5. nicola says

    September 23, 2011 at 8:09 am

    Welcome back! I’m delighted because I can join in now I have a blog, yay! I love Halloween so I can’t wait for this!

    Reply
  6. Lucy, Vanilla Frost says

    September 23, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    Pleased to see Forever Nigella is back. Looking forward to this one. What a great badge!

    Reply
  7. Barbara @ Barbara Bakes says

    September 23, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    Such a fun idea! I’ll start looking for something spooky to make.

    Reply
  8. Ren Behan says

    September 23, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    Yay! I’m so pleased Forever Nigella is back! I lost the thread during the picnic one and had a look on your site for a new one – so I’m so pleased you’ve re-launched a Halloween theme! Will get my thinking cap on!

    Reply
  9. Karen says

    September 23, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    YES! I thought I had missed this, but I haven’t ~ great! I am in ~ love the theme too!
    Karen

    Reply
    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      September 28, 2011 at 12:13 pm

      Great! I can’t wait to see what you make!

      Reply
  10. Chele says

    September 24, 2011 at 11:28 am

    Yippee!! I had been wondering where this challenge had gone to, I wasn’t able to take part in the last couple and thought I had just lost the thread of where it was up to. Very pleased to see this challenge, shall get the old thinking cap on!

    Reply
  11. Lucy says

    September 27, 2011 at 3:41 am

    Hurrah! I was wondering where FN had got to, thought it must have slipped down the back of the proverbial sofa. Am I still on the list of hosters? x

    Reply
    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      September 28, 2011 at 12:09 pm

      Yes you are! I will email you soon!

      Reply
  12. jan says

    October 10, 2011 at 4:13 am

    Em menos de 1 minuto você estará assistindo de graça TV em seu PC http://www.tvhd.com.br

    Reply
  13. Nicola says

    October 31, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    Happy Halloween!!

    For the new Forever Nigella challenge, “Halloween Horrors” by Sarah from MaisonCupcake, I chose to make these cupcakes. I actually made two Nigella recipes, one was the red velvet cupcake in “Kitchen” but I used dark green colouring instead of the usual red. It doesn’t show up very well in the picture but they are a very vivid shade of green, perfect for tonight! The other recipe I used was for the ghoul graveyard cake in “Feast”.

    I didn’t choose to ice my cupcakes with the black icing Nigella suggests for the recipe. Instead I decorated my cupcakes with swiss meringue orange buttercream and various Halloween sprinkles! I also did a few little monsters, at my little monsters request!

    Today I also made a gorgeous devil’s food cupcake recipe, it turned out really well but that’s for another post 🙂

    Happy Halloween everyone!

    Reply
    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      October 31, 2011 at 10:58 pm

      They sound fab! I can’t wait to see them!

      Reply
  14. cacau says

    February 8, 2012 at 10:02 pm

    m menos de 1 minuto você estará assistindo TV de graça http://www.tvhd.com.br

    Reply

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