Hi and WELCOME!!! ❤️ Thank you for joining me on this emotional journey that is Halloween hacks 🙃🎃👻 For anyone curious, that is pizza sauce not ketchup, I'm not an animal 😂 Which hack/product was your favorite?? ⬇️⬇️
With the balloon bowl: you need to oil the balloon a little so it doesn't stick. Also it helps to put one coat of chocolate, cool it in the fridge, then add another coat and cool again👍 I'm sure you can do it without any problems😄
The homemade dough would make a huge difference. If I was to do those pumpkins, I'd do my first proof and freeze my filling, then roll, fill, and shape, then string-but not tighten! Let the pumpkin shape come from the natural expansion of the second proof. They'd be less likely to explode because they aren't compressed and the dough would have gradually sealed any holes to prevent explosions. Maybe a tiny steam hole in the top would help too.
I was thinking this exact thing….the dough needed to prove and with all that extra sugar, it wouldnt take long and then the dough itself would create the ballooning around the string. Great idea and great effort Rachel! Halloween is approaching again and though it isn’t a big thing here in Aus (it is becoming more popular) i have always loved to celebrate it. I live at a rural address so even though i try to decorate (when i had a dam in the front, i filled it with dry ice and had bats ‘flying’ over it but not one child came to see it, i was so sad. So each year, i don my witches hat and go for a walk in town and find children to give my treats to. Even that was more fun when my children were younger (and home) and when i have foster kids Early but Happy Halloween to all my friends where it is celebrated and here is wishing i get at least one trick or tretaer this year! I wont give up decorating and celebrating and hoping…!!!
Lately, and particularly after covid, when our town hid teddy bears in windows and around their house, to give parents something safe to do with their kids….and the local paper and facebook group posted the addresses of people who participated, i am hoping something similar will happen with Halloween this year an then maybe parents will drive and find my home! A lot of highschool kids come near my front fence so last year i decorated early and had a big sign saying trick or treaters are welcome and will be rewarded. Even had a big bucket of bags of sweeties near the sign inviting kids to take early and hope to entice them to return on Halloween. Maybe i am beginning to act too desperate and turning them off because….though some bags were missing (and i was overjoyed) not one trick or treater, again Enough whining…..
Currently watching this, while eating a lunchable, as my newborn naps. You could say I’m living my best life, and you’d be right. Thanks for keeping me company as I learn how to be a mom, Rachel ❤️
You are such a bright spot in our dark culture! I know that you have things going on in your life that aren't always bright and wonderful, and you are open about sharing some of them, but overall you have such a joyful, grateful personality and I, for one, am very thankful. Praying for blessings for you and your family.
"How am I going to get this to not stick after ❔❓I don't know but that sounds like something future Rachel will figure out ❕❗" Now thats mood and me lol 😅
I'm still hopeful that the whole pumpkin everything trend makes it to the Netherlands 🤞🏻 I'm dying to get some flavored coffee creamers, pumpkin pie and just all the good stuff 😁
can’t be long!! I live right over in germany and i recently noticed that most of the coffee shops in my area offer it now! I‘m sure if we got it, you’ll have it soon aswell!
Oh that was fantastic Rachel. Do more fails please. My fave 2 parts were 'The internet lied to me' and 'Did you just sandwich his face' I actually laughed out loud! Brilliant!
I suggest making some royal icing using corn syrup for icing your gingerbread dead cookies . It flows well and then holds it's shape as it dries. You could also warm up the bag of the gingerbread house icing by placing the bag in some warm water to help soften it. Cute hacks! I think the pumpkin one was successful even with the escaping filling. Maybe that's why she suggested freezing the filling first? The dessert pumpkins seemed to have less overflow.
A couple things with the chocolate bowls: 1) put a blob of the melted chocolate on the tray where you are gonna set down the balloon so it fills in the bald spot at the bottom, 2) for the one that used an actual bowl, flip it upside down to set so the weight of the bowl doesn’t squish it all to the sides, 3) chill the bowl and the balloons to get better layers of the chocolate
Racheal I love what you do , could you please make a video about the products and hacks you started using in your daily life after testing them for a video.
If you're going to try to do the pumpkin shaped bread you should roll the dough with the edges thinner than the center so +hey'll build up to be closer to the thickness of the rest of the roll rather than make a thick spot. Also, depending on your dough you might be able to roll it on the counter like you would with a play doh ball to help even it all out. With that you won't have to put the "seam" facing down making the filling less likely to leak out as it melts.
The balloon bowl thing does work, but I have never done it with candy melts, and I wonder if that was the problem because I saw that the candy melts had fallen down to all around the base as they melted. If you want to do it, get small sized balloons like water balloons, don’t blow them too big, then melt a bunch of chocolate and build up several thin coats letting it harden in between!
A tip for the white chocolate if it helps: you HAVE to use oil based food dye. Water causes chocolate to seize which causes the fats to separate out from the rest of the chocolate and it goes lumpy. Even a drop of water can cause it which is why food dye can cause it. It cant be gel food coloring either because gel food dye is water based. It must be oil or powdered.
Although they certainly took their lumps, there was still trouble afoot with Rachel's pumpkin-themed pizza rolls when she erroneously created a weird pumpkin foot by stuffing all of the pepperoni at the bottom of that one pizza roll.
You should try using black cocoa (what they use in Oreos) because it will give you a very dark color (better than black food coloring) for the skeleton cookies
Love your energy around everything. We would have an awesome time baking if you were nearby where I live. Chris's personality is just like my brother in a great way cause its the same with me and my brother and Rachel and her hubby.
Try spraying the balloons with like coconut oil or something before coating in chocolate. Also tie the top of the balloons to like a skewer and hang between two cups
Instead of one long piece of string, cut your string lay them out put them dough in the middle and tie it a little loose, it is much easier and used less filling.
i've seen the balloon one being done successfully but i think you need to put some type of antisticking agent on the balloon, maybe not those pam sprays american always use, but something similar that won't affect the taste and still create a layer of "grease" that makes the bowl and the balloon separate easily
We dressed up as gru (husband), minion (me) and the fart that comes out of the minions fart machine (2 year old son)! It was so fun and little man loved saying he was a fart 🤣
Use your rolling pin to put the indent in. Also don’t chill your dough as much. If it’s to hard it won’t indent. Plus try using a no spread cookie dough. Pre made dough contains baking powder which spreads the cookies. I’ve been baking and selling cookies and cakes for about 15 years now.
One of my family members makes the chocolate balloon bowls for most of our holiday gatherings and she does one coat and then chills it and then does another coat and chills it and keeps going with that. It’s a sure way to make sure that you don’t have too much wet chocolate that it will drip like yours did! Her’s always turn out great but she’s also been doing it for years so she’s had plenty of time to perfect it lol
I just have to say the balloon Bowls do work you just have to use actual Chocolate and spray the balloons with cooking spray and the chocolate needed to be thinner.
The balloon hack works, watch How To Cook That channel. I made it with normal white chocolate melted in the microwave, but did several layers so it was quite thick. We filled it with cake and had a dinasour sitting on top so it looked like an egg. Was super easy n looked good
Hey Rachel! Happy Halloween! I just got married so it’s our first family Halloween my Husband and I are dressing as Bob and Linda Belcher (Bobs Burgers) my older dog is a cheeseburger and our youngest dog Butters the Corgi is Fabio doing the I can’t believe it’s not Butter Commercial! It looks soooo cute! I wish I could post a picture on here! Love love love your channel!
The ice cream bowls worked for me but I used dark chocolate, I think the problem was in the candy melt 🤔 you are right it is very time consuming but in my case also big crowd pleaser 😊
If you want to get the bowls to work watch Anne redanons video on her channel how to cook that. She made sugar bowls like this and put some water in the balloons first I think to help them set
My brother, sister and I are planning on being Cobra Kai, Myagi-Do and Eagle Fang Karate students for Halloween, even though we’re hot going anywhere or doing anything. 🐍🥋🦅
Does anyone else accidentally mistake her top cupboard handles as the pause symbol on the screen and try figure out why it’s paused but still playing, to then remember it tricked you once before and it’s just cupboard door handles?! 😂😂😅😅
With the li'l pizza pumpkins, I think you would have done better to combine the chopped mozzarella, pepperoni & tomato sauce in a bowl and then put that filling in all-in-one, if that makes sense? 🎃🍕
Rachel, check out Ann Reardon's channel called How to cook that. She does the balloon chocolate bowls in a few videos and shows how to do it. I think your chocolate wasn't melted enough, but I don't remember what else she does to make it work.
Hi and WELCOME!!! ❤️ Thank you for joining me on this emotional journey that is Halloween hacks 🙃🎃👻 For anyone curious, that is pizza sauce not ketchup, I'm not an animal 😂
Which hack/product was your favorite?? ⬇️⬇️
How about the cinnamon as mummys
Does the tomato sauce you use come in a squeeze bottle? If so, that's a good idea.
thank you for that! as an American i was very curious!
Thanks for explaining, I was very concerned 😟
Love the cookies!
With the balloon bowl: you need to oil the balloon a little so it doesn't stick. Also it helps to put one coat of chocolate, cool it in the fridge, then add another coat and cool again👍 I'm sure you can do it without any problems😄
Agreed. I made them for cub scouts. We had to do multiple thin layers. Not sure if there a difference in the balloon size, but we use water balloons.
Yep. I also Made it once. Oil and small Ballons are the Key
I was just thinking it probably would have worked better with a bit of coconut oil or something.
The homemade dough would make a huge difference. If I was to do those pumpkins, I'd do my first proof and freeze my filling, then roll, fill, and shape, then string-but not tighten! Let the pumpkin shape come from the natural expansion of the second proof. They'd be less likely to explode because they aren't compressed and the dough would have gradually sealed any holes to prevent explosions. Maybe a tiny steam hole in the top would help too.
And I would use marinara sauce, this looked like ketchup.
I was thinking this exact thing….the dough needed to prove and with all that extra sugar, it wouldnt take long and then the dough itself would create the ballooning around the string. Great idea and great effort Rachel! Halloween is approaching again and though it isn’t a big thing here in Aus (it is becoming more popular) i have always loved to celebrate it. I live at a rural address so even though i try to decorate (when i had a dam in the front, i filled it with dry ice and had bats ‘flying’ over it but not one child came to see it, i was so sad. So each year, i don my witches hat and go for a walk in town and find children to give my treats to. Even that was more fun when my children were younger (and home) and when i have foster kids
Early but Happy Halloween to all my friends where it is celebrated and here is wishing i get at least one trick or tretaer this year! I wont give up decorating and celebrating and hoping…!!!
Lately, and particularly after covid, when our town hid teddy bears in windows and around their house, to give parents something safe to do with their kids….and the local paper and facebook group posted the addresses of people who participated, i am hoping something similar will happen with Halloween this year an then maybe parents will drive and find my home!
A lot of highschool kids come near my front fence so last year i decorated early and had a big sign saying trick or treaters are welcome and will be rewarded. Even had a big bucket of bags of sweeties near the sign inviting kids to take early and hope to entice them to return on Halloween. Maybe i am beginning to act too desperate and turning them off because….though some bags were missing (and i was overjoyed) not one trick or treater, again
Enough whining…..
Currently watching this, while eating a lunchable, as my newborn naps. You could say I’m living my best life, and you’d be right. Thanks for keeping me company as I learn how to be a mom, Rachel ❤️
Congratulations on ur new baby!
Would sale her my husband he ant free .. need millions $$ for this one more like Billions 👍
That’s cute 🥰 and congratulations mom 🎉 you’re doing a great job
Congratulations! Also lunchables and Rachel are amazing 👏
This sounds lovely and makes me so excited to start our own little family next year 🥺 frightening for sure, but I know it will be worth it ❤️
You are such a bright spot in our dark culture! I know that you have things going on in your life that aren't always bright and wonderful, and you are open about sharing some of them, but overall you have such a joyful, grateful personality and I, for one, am very thankful. Praying for blessings for you and your family.
100%!! 💜🙏
Agree!
"How am I going to get this to not stick after ❔❓I don't know but that sounds like something future Rachel will figure out ❕❗"
Now thats mood and me lol 😅
I loved that comment.
Rachel just delivering on the Saturday Halloween content we all needed 😍 🎃
This MIGHT be my favorite thing about Saturdays 😂🥰
I'm still hopeful that the whole pumpkin everything trend makes it to the Netherlands 🤞🏻
I'm dying to get some flavored coffee creamers, pumpkin pie and just all the good stuff 😁
can’t be long!! I live right over in germany and i recently noticed that most of the coffee shops in my area offer it now! I‘m sure if we got it, you’ll have it soon aswell!
Pumpkin spice is not a pumpkin flavour 😊 it is just spices that are in a pumpkin pie so, mainly cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves
Love your sweater!! The ginger dead cookies are awesome!!!! 💛💛
I love how your videos show your normal life with Chris coming in and stuff love it Rachel
At least, you’ve tried. Sometimes, the journey is all that matters and seeing that both Chris and you having fun is priceless.
The calvin and hobbes Shelock shirt is so cool!
Oh that was fantastic Rachel. Do more fails please. My fave 2 parts were 'The internet lied to me' and 'Did you just sandwich his face' I actually laughed out loud! Brilliant!
Here comes the queen just as I sit down for tea 🙌🏻
The balloon one actually works it’s just a lot more complicated than you’d think
Always feel better when watching your video!
I suggest making some royal icing using corn syrup for icing your gingerbread dead cookies . It flows well and then holds it's shape as it dries. You could also warm up the bag of the gingerbread house icing by placing the bag in some warm water to help soften it.
Cute hacks! I think the pumpkin one was successful even with the escaping filling. Maybe that's why she suggested freezing the filling first? The dessert pumpkins seemed to have less overflow.
Saturday just got better! 🥰
Maybe if you coated the balloon with cooking spray? Lol cute ideas xo 🎃😘
Rach, hacks and Halloween? YES!
My Saturday is now complete!
Christopher shirts are the best.
I really love your videos and your energy, but I always wait to see the new t shirt🙈
i’m so glad the halloween content is here!!! i can’t wait to try out some of these recipes!
Girl I NEED that sweater!!! It's so fall 😭😭😭
A couple things with the chocolate bowls: 1) put a blob of the melted chocolate on the tray where you are gonna set down the balloon so it fills in the bald spot at the bottom, 2) for the one that used an actual bowl, flip it upside down to set so the weight of the bowl doesn’t squish it all to the sides, 3) chill the bowl and the balloons to get better layers of the chocolate
For the skeleton cookie cutter, use a roller to indent the print on if you can't press it enough with your hands
Racheal I love what you do , could you please make a video about the products and hacks you started using in your daily life after testing them for a video.
ur nails look adorable and so does ur sweater
If you're going to try to do the pumpkin shaped bread you should roll the dough with the edges thinner than the center so +hey'll build up to be closer to the thickness of the rest of the roll rather than make a thick spot. Also, depending on your dough you might be able to roll it on the counter like you would with a play doh ball to help even it all out. With that you won't have to put the "seam" facing down making the filling less likely to leak out as it melts.
The balloon bowl thing does work, but I have never done it with candy melts, and I wonder if that was the problem because I saw that the candy melts had fallen down to all around the base as they melted.
If you want to do it, get small sized balloons like water balloons, don’t blow them too big, then melt a bunch of chocolate and build up several thin coats letting it harden in between!
A tip for the white chocolate if it helps: you HAVE to use oil based food dye. Water causes chocolate to seize which causes the fats to separate out from the rest of the chocolate and it goes lumpy. Even a drop of water can cause it which is why food dye can cause it. It cant be gel food coloring either because gel food dye is water based. It must be oil or powdered.
Thank you for your efforts, Rachel!!❣❣❣❣
Your always so beautiful. Love your videos always so fun and creative. 😊🥰
Although they certainly took their lumps, there was still trouble afoot with Rachel's pumpkin-themed pizza rolls when she erroneously created a weird pumpkin foot by stuffing all of the pepperoni at the bottom of that one pizza roll.
I love ur channel smmm
You should try using black cocoa (what they use in Oreos) because it will give you a very dark color (better than black food coloring) for the skeleton cookies
Love your energy around everything. We would have an awesome time baking if you were nearby where I live. Chris's personality is just like my brother in a great way cause its the same with me and my brother and Rachel and her hubby.
For the balloon bowls spray the part of the balloon that you want to make the bowl. Like spray it with nonstick spray or use butter. 😊
Try spraying the balloons with like coconut oil or something before coating in chocolate. Also tie the top of the balloons to like a skewer and hang between two cups
YOU ARE GLOWING TODAY!!!
Instead of one long piece of string, cut your string lay them out put them dough in the middle and tie it a little loose, it is much easier and used less filling.
Rach, are you calling ketchup “tomato sauce???” Love your content girl! ❤️
edit: oop-nevermind! saw the pinned comment. thank goodness 😂😂
Rachel, it’s NOT tomato sauce for pizza. That’s ketchup!!!🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂 love this
I think you should just leave the twine on the pumpkins and call them “Bondage Buns!” Still appropriate for Halloween!
You can make the bowls. Before you dip spray the balloon with cooking spray an do at least 3-4 layers of chocolate coating
i've seen the balloon one being done successfully but i think you need to put some type of antisticking agent on the balloon, maybe not those pam sprays american always use, but something similar that won't affect the taste and still create a layer of "grease" that makes the bowl and the balloon separate easily
We dressed up as gru (husband), minion (me) and the fart that comes out of the minions fart machine (2 year old son)! It was so fun and little man loved saying he was a fart 🤣
Entently watching~ loving the video- and then wondering why I have a huge pause button on the screen🧐… it’s the cabinet handles😂😂
Rachel saying something is too sweet for her makes me think it could probably give mea sugar coma LOL
Use your rolling pin to put the indent in. Also don’t chill your dough as much. If it’s to hard it won’t indent. Plus try using a no spread cookie dough. Pre made dough contains baking powder which spreads the cookies. I’ve been baking and selling cookies and cakes for about 15 years now.
Also try royal icing. Homemade is better. Thin it a bit with water and then fill it in.
One of my family members makes the chocolate balloon bowls for most of our holiday gatherings and she does one coat and then chills it and then does another coat and chills it and keeps going with that. It’s a sure way to make sure that you don’t have too much wet chocolate that it will drip like yours did! Her’s always turn out great but she’s also been doing it for years so she’s had plenty of time to perfect it lol
I just have to say the balloon Bowls do work you just have to use actual Chocolate and spray the balloons with cooking spray and the chocolate needed to be thinner.
Rachel just fold in the cheese! Don’t break it, fold it in 🤣 I can see David and Moira doing the pumpkins
for both the pumpkin stringing and the balloons, you need to oil the string/balloons
Balloons should have been balanced in a bowl with coated side up, and u can also double coat it after frozen once I guess😀
The balloon hack works, watch How To Cook That channel.
I made it with normal white chocolate melted in the microwave, but did several layers so it was quite thick. We filled it with cake and had a dinasour sitting on top so it looked like an egg. Was super easy n looked good
LOVE those nails ❤️
I love your sweater!! It’s so fall!! Where did you get it? I NEED it!! 😊🎃
For the balloon molds, you needed to use tempered chocolate.
For the pizza filled pumpkins. Fill with your “toppings” then wrap up. Once they’re baked, dip them in the pizza sauce. (Similar time Stromboli.)
I would suggest using powdered sugar instead of flour for the cookie dough cut outs
Such cute ideas. Our 2 year old son was cookie monster I was milk and my husband was a chocolate chip cookie
Maybe for the pizza pumpkin, make the tomato as dip instead of adding it?
I love your videos ❤️❤️
Am I the only one who just bangs the cinnamon roll can on the edge of the counter for it to pop open?? I hate being scared with a passion lol.
Hey Rachel! Happy Halloween! I just got married so it’s our first family Halloween my Husband and I are dressing as Bob and Linda Belcher (Bobs Burgers) my older dog is a cheeseburger and our youngest dog Butters the Corgi is Fabio doing the I can’t believe it’s not Butter Commercial! It looks soooo cute! I wish I could post a picture on here! Love love love your channel!
The ice cream bowls worked for me but I used dark chocolate, I think the problem was in the candy melt 🤔 you are right it is very time consuming but in my case also big crowd pleaser 😊
You have the too much gene too! 😂
I LOVE YOUR SWEATER!!! can you please share where you got it?????
Did you lubricate the balloons surfaces? either with flour or a cooking spray? That might make the melts stick less once set.
I like the genger bread cuter the most it's so cute, yet I don't think I have the tolerance for it 😂
I really think the pizza ones would work without the sauce inside. Just do the pep and cheese and have a sauce as a dip on the side.
Just made poutine for lunch and now sitting to watch!! ❤
I'll start running to the comments to chat with rachel!
Your sweater!!!!!
Can you make a key chain that says "Christopher!!" in bold italic preferably
Was that squeeze marinara sauce?
And I am dressing up as Darla from finding Nemo!
Do you edit your videos? I love all the little effects. They always make me laugh! Thanks
If you want to get the bowls to work watch Anne redanons video on her channel how to cook that. She made sugar bowls like this and put some water in the balloons first I think to help them set
I have never been this early for anything in my life
"nobody wants that in a pizza" me, having sauce as my fav part of pizza: ;-; ?
My brother, sister and I are planning on being Cobra Kai, Myagi-Do and Eagle Fang Karate students for Halloween, even though we’re hot going anywhere or doing anything. 🐍🥋🦅
You should watch the chocolate bowl recipe from Ann Riordan (How to Cook That). She is the OG.
Does anyone else accidentally mistake her top cupboard handles as the pause symbol on the screen and try figure out why it’s paused but still playing, to then remember it tricked you once before and it’s just cupboard door handles?! 😂😂😅😅
Hey everyone !!
Pizza sauce in a sqeezy bottle is the most genius idea I’ve ever heard. Wtf is the US doing with it being in jars smh
Check out how to cook that for more on the balloon bowls, she did them with sugar and chocolate and I'm pretty sure the content farms copied her...
With the li'l pizza pumpkins, I think you would have done better to combine the chopped mozzarella, pepperoni & tomato sauce in a bowl and then put that filling in all-in-one, if that makes sense? 🎃🍕
I dress up as a mom tired from making her 4 kids costumes.... who wears Halloween socks, every year.
I love the ginger dead cookies. But why wouldn't you use gingerbread cookie dough?
You have to oil the balloon to keep it from sticking
Why did I hear "prison" tie it vs present.. lol
Love your vids! You need to 'oil' your balloons ❤️
Rachel, check out Ann Reardon's channel called How to cook that. She does the balloon chocolate bowls in a few videos and shows how to do it. I think your chocolate wasn't melted enough, but I don't remember what else she does to make it work.
The chocolate bowls do work. Check out Ann reardons video.
I was looking to see if anyone mentioned ann Reardon's video.
Oh my GOD is that a Calvin and Hobbes Sherlock t-shirt??? WHERE DID HE GET IT
Rachel, what is that rolling pin? We aren't painting walls here, get a big wooden one, it's better trust me
I'm gonna ba a rosebush for Halloween and my friend is a butterfly
I would have thought they would All workout!