I made glazed ones because I planned to take some to a family in our ward who had visited the U. S. and loved the donuts there. I figured glazed would be most likely what they had eaten. I made some sugared ones because Alan likes those, and I like to spoil him a little. I made some with maple frosting because those are my favorite and I like to spoil myself too.
I was having a little trouble keeping the temperature steady so they came out in varying shades. I decided that was okay here in Brazil because that is how the people are; varying shades.
On Sunday afternoon we made caramel apples for a Halloween party in one of the wards. My friend is the Y. W. president and she wanted to have some traditional treats for the party. It's not something they celebrate much here, so she asked for my input. I told her donuts and apple cider were probably the most traditional, but since you can't buy either of those here, I offered to make the apples.
She was going to be out of town for the weekend on mission related business. Her husband is in the mission presidency and they were doing some auxiliary trainings in another city. I thought making 25 caramel apples was a pretty good trade off for not having to prepare and give training meetings, especially since their three kids, that were home alone for the weekend, came to help with the job.
Alan pitched in too and before you could say BOO!, we were done.
I snapped a picture of the youth decorating the room for the party. Becca got a steal of a deal on some Halloween decorations after Halloween last year. She sent some balloons, napkins and some of those stretch spider webs and they put them to good use. Speaking of spiders...
This big fella was in our living room a few weeks ago. Sorry about the blurry picture, but I was in a hurry for Alan to kill it and I didn't take time to focus. I think you get the idea though. EEEEEEEK!
