I went to where the people were on a Saturday night...

Today is Halloween! I'm much more excited about it this year than I usually am. I grew up in a home where Halloween was not really celebrated. I wasn't allowed to Trick-or-Treat, but my brother and I were allowed to get dressed up and go to the church Harvest Festival and get giant hand fulls of candy out of a treasure chest. There was a bonfire and roasted marshmallows. One year my brother got hit in the face with a flaming marshmallow. In any case, it was really fun, and though we never had Halloween decorations or the whole door-to-door thing, I never really missed Halloween. As I got older I regarded Halloween decorations as tacky and never really got the hubbub. Like the past few years, I have to work this evening. This year though, my work is requiring us to dress up. I was a little annoyed at the forced gaiety at first, but now I'm feeling pretty into it. I'm dressing up as an elf. I got pointy ears at Party City, I'm making ghost and pumpkin shaped cookies to take into work, and earlier in the week I spent an evening watching the scary movies I wasn't allowed to watch when I was a kid. And now I'm sort of getting it. Halloween is fun. I'll be doggoned. One of my favorite shows is Ace of Cakes, the Food Network show that follows the folks at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore. Here's what they made to celebrate the holiday.