Tag Archives: Pumpkin

🎃 “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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HALLOWEEN MUSIC | Epic Playlist List 💀🎃👻

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OK, I have posted my Halloween Playlists before… but there’s more. Someone asked for spooky songs on Threads today and it kicked me into Halloween mode. It’s basically October, right? You can move these to your preferred streamer with Tune My Music. I have amassed more spooky and spooky-adjacent playlists.

I may have a problem.  Let me know if I’m missing some obvious or obscure bangers!  A lot of these I will listen to on shuffle/random, because I add stuff in what could be aptly described ss manic bursts of energy. Bold ones are ones I probably hit more often.

I definitely hit a lot of them on random/shuffle too. The main Halloween one is 50+ hours long.

(Updated Oct. 31st, 2026!)

Halloween Stuff:

Halloween Costumes & Creatures:

Spooky Vibes in General:

Playlists not by me:

I guess if you’re having a party, you might wanna add some pizza songs to your list. Like I said the last time I posted these: You can peep this Misfits tribute from 20 years ago too, and don’t forget to get some Halloween swag or solve some free Halloween mazes.

AiXeLsyD13's Halloween Playlists on Amazon Music

If you wanna do some free Halloween-ish mazes while you listen, peep these:

I probably have Halloween Mazes pop up a lot here.

Shameless Plug: Get a Turkey Maze T-shirt! 🦃✍️

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I love Thanksgiving. It’s coming soon. This is some Turkey Day attire that you can relax in. Wear it under a nice cozy flannel. It appears to be on sale at both my TeePublic and RedBubble shops currently. You should take advantage of that if you’re so inclined.

A green Thanksgiving T-shirt featuring a colorful turkey maze design, available for sale.
Green t-shirt featuring a colorful turkey design with maze patterns, labeled 'Turkey Maze 2023 Essential T-Shirt' with a price discount.

You can get this design on an apron, a coffee mug, a tote bag, a hoodie, a blanket, a pillow… or all kinds of stuff really. You can change the clothing color with a bunch of options & styles at each site too. Poke around & see if you can find something you like!

Also, you can print this out & try to solve it for free. Or do it on your phone/tablet/whatever. You can post it on social media & tag me @AiXeLsyD13.

A colorful maze illustration of a turkey with intricate patterns in its feathers, depicting a fun Thanksgiving theme.
A maze illustrated in the shape of a turkey, featuring intricate labyrinth patterns throughout its body and feathers.

Of course, I have a buch of other Thanksgiving themed mazes too:

I suggest printing the mazes for guests to compete to see who can finish first while dinner is being cooked. I have my recipes tips & tricks for that too… as well as recipes Turkey Noodle Soup and Thanksgiving Sliders. I’ll even hit you right in the stuffing nostalgia.

Hey, this pumpkin maze works for Halloween and Thanksgiving if you ask me. And, you can get two versions of it on all kinds of stuff too:

Illustration of a pumpkin designed as a maze with intricate lines and an orange color scheme.
Black and white illustration of a pumpkin designed as a maze.

You can get the full color orange one on stuff at TeePublic and at RedBubble. You can also get the black & white one on stuff at TeePublic. I thought that might look cool on an orange T-shit.

You can do all that while listening to my Thanksgiving Playlist too, on Amazon Music or whatever you listen to.

@aixelsyd13

Get my #Turkey #Maze T-shirt from #TeePublic or #RedBubble now so you can impress your friends & family by wearing it on Thanksgiving. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/53088197-turkey-maze-2023 https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Turkey-Maze-2023-by-AiXeLsyD13/154800158.6ATOD 🦃✍️  @TeePublic @Redbubble

♬ Oh You Cant Find This In The Store – THE TUMBLER AMBASSADOR ✨

🍗 Have any suggestions for Thanksgiving recipes, songs, or mazes? I’m all ears. 🌽🌽 Hit me up in the comments!

Halloween Music

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I have a playlist problem. So, I have a lot of Halloween and Halloween-adjacent playlists. Some I have that are just massive & I listen to them on random. Some are a little more compact. What are your favorite Halloween songs? Anything I’m missing, songs or themes?

Screenshot of a Halloween playlist on Amazon Music, featuring album covers and the playlist title 'Halloween' with a pumpkin emoji.

I mostly listen on Amazon Music, but can use Tune My Music to pop these over to Spotify if you’re interested.

Straight-up Halloween:

Spooky Vibes:

File under “Of course”:

Good Halloween Costumes:

Damn, reading this… I feel like I’m slacking for not having Vampire, Werewolf, & Zombie playlists.

More Halloween & Food Mazes & Maze Merch!

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Here’s a few to do for free, and you can get ’em on some stuff at my TeePublic & RedBubble Stores! As always, if you try ’em, please share your solution & tag me on social media. I’m @AiXeLsyD13 on just about everything.

I drew this one quickly & did some color on it today. I really could have leaned into the pumpkin patch theme had I planned it out a bit better. What should I do for my next book? Holidays? Spooky stuff? Just mazes? Simple stuff? A mix?

Jack O' Lantern in a Pumpkin Patch Maze (Color)
Jack O' Lantern in a Pumpkin Patch Maze (Black & White)

I wanted to do some simple ones for merch, the food ones seem fun, and I wanted to do some more Halloween mazes.

Candy Corn Maze (color)
Bat Maze (color)
Soft Pretzel Maze (color)
Hot Dog Maze (color)

I thought this went without saying, but I guess I have to say it. Please don’t download these and put them into your own print-on-demand books for sale and pass them off as your own. Please?

Candy Corn Maze (black & white)
Bat Maze (black & white)
Soft Pretzel Maze (black & white)
Hot Dog Maze (black & white)

Seriously, check this stuff out on all the merch! You can get it on a variety of things, and customize a lot of the colors.

Candy Corn Maze Throw Pillow @ RedBubble
Bat Maze T-Shirt @ RedBubble
Hot Dog Maze Apron @ RedBubble
Soft Pretzel Maze Spiral Notebook @ RedBubble
Candy Corn Maze T-shirt @ TeePublic
Bat Maze Hoodie @ TeePublic
Hot Dog Maze Shorts @ TeePublic
Soft Pretzel Maze Baseball Tee @ TeePublic

Is there anything you’d like to see made into merch? Any of my mazes I have drawn, or have an idea for one?

Also… for the artists… Ever have a hard time drawing something simple? I could not settle on a bat shape for the maze. I worked up sketches, which I rarely do. I worked through a bunch of stuff & shared it on Instagram.

The pretzel was inspired by this:

Shameless Plug | T-Shirts on Sale

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I try to not plug my books or T-shirts too often. You know the art (one guy even tried to steal the art). You know the links to Amazon, RedBubble, & TeePublic & the links up top here. There’s even the Linktree. It’s a fun creative outlet for me, and I would appreciate a few more sales, just like I appreciate all that you have purchased!

T-shirts are on sale this weekend at TeePublic, so you can snag one for $16, Stickers, pins, & other stuff are on sale at my shop too.

@aixelsyd13

TeePublic is having a sale, you can get these shirts & more for $16 thos weekend! Should I upload some more Halloween themed mazes? May be time to draw some new ones! You can get stickers, hats, pins, & other cool stuff there too. #TeePubic @TeePublic #TShitts #Mazes #Guitar #Food 🤘🏻 https://tee.pub/lic/AiXeLsyD13

♬ suara asli – hasby – hasby

Thanksgiving Mazes! 🦃

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I was going to share some mazes for Thanksgiving, and I realized I have a bunch of them. I did some quick dirty coloring of some old ones. I am sharing new ones that will be in my second book, some from the first book, and I have some that are loosely related to fall or Thanksgiving dinner.

Please, use them to have some fun this holiday season! They could be placemats, an activity for those that aren’t cooking while they’re waiting for dinner or for company to arrive, or used as a game to see who finishes first. You could use them to make place cards too if you wanna get creative!

If you complete the mazes by printing them out & solving, or on your phone/tablet/PC with a drawing app, share it on you preferred social media platform & tag me! I’m @AiXeLsyD13 on pretty much all of ’em. (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, TikTok, Tumblr, YouTube, etc.) I’d love to see a video of a race to complete the smaller easier ones… and I love to see solutions! I like to draw mazes, not so much solving them.

Mmm, Thanksgiving dinner. Stuffing is my favorite. I need to figure out how to do a stuffing maze.

You can solve these while listening to one of my Thanksgiving playlists on Amazon or Spotify, or while talking about what you’re thankful for! I love the reflection this time of year.

This year’s turkey maze:

Colorful turkey maze on a transparent background.
Black & white turkey maze from 2023 - quick phone scan.
2023 Turkey Maze - Colorful turkey on a green square background.
2023 Turkey Maze

Thanksgiving-ish themed mazes from the upcoming book:

Turkey Giblets Maze - Can you name all the giblets?
Corn Maze ... Maze. With a scarecrow!
Turkey Giblets Maze & Corn Maze …Maze – from my upcoming second book.

Newly (& quickly) colorized old Thanksgiving themed mazes:

A Slice of Pumpkin Pie Maze
Cornucopia Maze
Turkey on a platter maze,
Fall leaves maze - w/ fall colors.
Fresh takes on old Thanksgiving Mazes

Random older related mazes:

<shameless plug> The turkey from this year and the “giblets” maze are also available on some cool merchandise from my RedBubble and TeePublic shops too. Why not get a turkey maze T-shirt or an apron with the giblets maze? You can get both designs on hoodies, pet bandanas, stickers, magnets, coffee mugs, and even a damn shower curtain if so inclined. </shameless plug>

🦃 UPDATE! 🦃

After posting this, I found an OLD turkey maze of mine on Pinterest, so I downloaded & edited it a bit. So, here’s one more:

Cartoon Turkey Maze - Black & White
Cartoon Turkey Maze in Color
I guess I forgot about this one.


Massive Maze Morass ✍

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Here’s a bunch more mazes. No real common theme. Inspiration is weird. Try ’em, post ’em, tag me. Post it on your WordPress or Instagram or Twitter, or Facebook or Tumblr or TikTok or whatever. I’m @aixelsyd13 on most all platforms. I think I even signed up for Hive and Mastodon. Host it somewhere and use html to post it here in the comments. You have a world full of options.

Do it on your phone or tablet. Print it and do it like it’s 1993. Have fun. There are no rules. Anarchy abounds!

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Halloween Mazes 2022

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The maze bug bit me lately. Thought I’d share here. These are scans from my phone, so not the highest quality maybe? At any rate.. post ’em if you solve ’em!

Maze gallery of halloween mazes.
Jack O’ Lantern
Bat
Ghost
Skull
Cat
Witch’s Hat
Square-ish maze with a bat in the middle.