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🎃 “Lazy Pumpkin Roll” Cupcakes

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Alright. I bought some Halloween fun-shaped silicone pans from Aldi and I wanted to use them. I’m not a baker. I could have made beer cheese bread? This seemed easy enough though. No measuring. No fuss. Fall shenanigans good for Halloween or Thanksgiving. These taste like delicious pumpkin rolls.

A countertop view of the baking ingredients used, featuring a box of Baker's Corner Classic Yellow cake mix, a can of 100% pure pumpkin, and a cup of applesauce.

Three ingredients. OK, four. I used some pumpkin spice. Alright, five if you count the frosting.

Ingredients:

  • 1 box (15.25 oz) Yellow Cake Mix
  • 1 can (15 oz) Pumpkin
  • 1 single-serve cup (4 oz) Unsweetened Applesauce
  • A shake or two of Pumpkin Spice
  • 1 tub Baker’s Corner Cream Cheese Frosting

Instructions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. Get your cupcake tins of choice ready, grease, spray, or line ’em if so inclined.
  3. Dump the cake mix, the can of pumpkin, & the cup of applesauce t into a large bowl.
  4. Shake on some pumpkin spice and/or cinnamon. Mix it all together. Mix it well.
  5. Slap that batter into your cupcake thing, go about ¾ fill ’cause it’ll rise.
  6. Pop the baking sheet into the oven and bake at 350°F for about 30 minutes.
  7. Pull ;em out & let ’em cool.
  8. Slather on a generous amount of cream cheese frosting.

Notes:

  • I used the silicone cupcake trays, so I put them on a flat backing sheet. Apparently this can extend typical baking time a bit. I started checking at 20 minutes with a knife, and it was still gooey then.
  • This would be fine in a cake pan or pie plate or casserole dish or even a loaf pan or two, I bet. I am here for you doing you & using what you’ve got.
  • I like pumpkin flavor more than pumpkin spice. Of course, go heavy if that’s your thing.
A white plate filled with an assortment of freshly baked, golden-brown Halloween-themed cakes shaped like skulls, pumpkins, a bat, cats, and Frankenstein's monster.
A close-up of a golden-brown baked Halloween treat on a white plate, thickly frosted with white cream cheese frosting, with a tub of Baker's Corner cream cheese frosting sitting blurred in the background.

Hit me up with your tips, tricks, similar recipes, or super easy stuff to bake.

Vintage/Nostalgic Jack O’ Lantern Halloween Decoration

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So, I made a quick & cheap Jack O’ Lantern Halloween decoration. OK, I made 8 of them. The pumpkins are $1.97 at Walmart, although the teal one was from CVS and $4.49 because not wanting to kill kids with peanuts or chocolate is definitely something that should be cost prohibitive.

I saw these all over social media, and I had to try it out.

Two tall stacks of colorful plastic jack-o'-lantern trick-or-treat buckets standing on a dark surface in front of a white door. The left stack features orange, black, orange, and white buckets from top to bottom. The right stack features teal, orange, black, and orange buckets.

I grabbed some acrylic makers from the craft section, but had to get the green one online. I got orange, black, white, & yellow in a few different tip sizes. I kept it simple, and sort of like those paper Halloween decorations that were shiny on one site and matte on the other that were everywhere from the 50s to the 90s.

I’m probably gonna hit them with a clearcoat spray so they can survive a bit outside.

You should try ’em out and make your own!

A close-up of an orange plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket featuring green cat-like eyes, a nose painted to look like a piece of candy corn, and a broad smile showing white teeth.
A close-up of a teal blue plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket featuring stylized orange-and-black eyes with short painted eyebrows and eyelashes, an orange nose, and a wide orange-lined grin. (For the Teal Pumpkin Project & Food Allergy Awareness!)
A close-up of a black plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket featuring painted orange triangular eyes with small black pupils, an orange nose, and an orange-accented smiling mouth
A close-up shot of an orange plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket with painted black triangular eyes, a small triangular nose, and a wide grinning mouth, with the top of a teal bucket visible just above it.
A close-up of an orange plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket featuring triangular eyes with round, surprised-looking orange-and-green pupils, a small nose, and a classic carved grin.
A close-up of a black plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket featuring bright green cat-like eyes with vertical pupils inside yellow triangles, a yellow nose, and a wide yellow-lined grin
A close-up of a white plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket with black triangular eyes containing white highlights, a black nose, and a wide black-and-white toothy smile. (An amalgamation of a classic 🎃 & the Misfits' FIEND or Crimson Ghost logo.)
A close-up of an orange plastic jack-o'-lantern bucket featuring green eyes inside yellow triangles and a wide, mischievous grin filled with many white teeth.

Which one’s your favorite? Hit me with some of your creations in the comments!

As always, you ought to listen to some Halloween jams, and maybe try out some of my free Halloween mazes if you’re gonna do this as a Halloween party activity! I got you with Halloween pasta & hot dog ghosts too.

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Did anyone try to solve “A Crazy Maze?”

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I had someone reach out via Instagram messaging to ask if anyone had ever solved this one. I don’t think anyone has.

Anyone want to try to attempt it now, & I’ll share your solution? Help another puzzler out?

I love these (A maze solution submission.)

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This came from nowhere the other day, attached to an email, no name or text in the body.

It’s the solution to an OLD maze from 2012: Shift Spiral Spin [Maze]

Please, come forward and take credit! I can tag you on socials or link to any projects you have going on.

I’d love to know how you found it! I try to post them to my maze board on Pinterest if I remember. There are a ton here and on my Instagram, or my maze Instagram.

If this inspires you to do one, that would be awesome. Post on social media & tag me @AiXeLsyD13 on just about everything. (Except PayPal. Whoever has that must be a real asshole because I have been using AiXeLsyD13 since like Angelfire and AOL Instant Messenger.) I am trying out Threads and Blue Sky while Twitter is becoming 𝕏. I gave up on Mastodon and that one other one I forget the name of.

You can also email it to me like this anonymous solver did at world.and.lunar.domination@gmail.com.

☡🚧🚨🚨🚨🚧 SPOILER ALERT! Solution Below: 🚧🚨🚨🚨🚧☡

Reader-submitted solution to a 2012 maze that I inexplicably called “Shift Spiral Spin.”

Yinz like mazes?

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Can you dig it?  Complete one.  Post it in the comments or on the social media platform of your choice, and tag me.  @AiXeLsyD13 is usually it.

Posting #AllMyAxes. 🎸 (Part 2)

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Did you see part one?  I felt like posting all my guitars online simply for something else to look at, and I thought others might enjoy.

I still plan to blog about some of the more interesting ones.  Hopefully you guys enjoy the content.  Thanks for the likes on social media.  I don’t think anyone else started to use the #AllMyAxes hashtag.  Oh well.  Ha ha.

Show me some of yours in the comments, tag me on social media, or use your own hashtag!

 

The Family Ukuleles & Mandolin

The Kids' Guitars

 

A Crazy Maze – Try it out!

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Lots of people have some extra time right now.  Take the time to challenge yourself with this maze.  I drew it on graph paper.  The paths are very small.  I would love to see someone tackle it.

I scanned the original & left as-is, then played with the brightness/contrast a bit on a second one to try to get the blue grid out.

Print one out & give it a try.  Or, try it out on your mobile or tablet screen.

If you do finish it, post it & tag me on social media.  I’m @AiXeLsyD13 on Instagram & twitter.  You can find me if you look on Facebook too.  You could even post it in the comments.

 

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Crazy Maze

 

Crazy Maze 2

𝕾𝖔𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝕸𝖆𝖟𝖊 →🖨️→✍️→📱→

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I won’t get preachy here other than to say stay informed, follow the best practices, and wash your damn hands.  I have posted plenty of that on Facebook.

Social Distancing Maze

Print, solve, & re-post!

Print it & complete with a pen, pencil, crayon, marker, or whatever.  Then take a photo & post it on your favorite social media site, and tag me; @AiXeLsyD13 (Twitter & Instagram)

You can even download it & use a note app or one like PicsArt on your phone to complete the maze, then share it too.  Share it on Pinterest.  Lots of people are looking for stuff to do right now.  I’d love to see how far this (or any of my mazes) can go.

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Here’s some stuff I posted on Instagram but not really here;