Oh, autumn is so lovely! It’s all about the good things: sharing, warmth, family, thankfulness, and God.
And Halloween, but us ‘churchy’ types tend to gloss over that in favor of “Trunk or Treat” or “Nut Night” or similar church-directed activities. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about church-directed activities, and I myself enjoyed many a “Nut Night” dressed as a clown, or a bunch of grapes (that was a moment of genius on my mom’s part, not gonna lie).
All of that is to say, I generally don’t ‘celebrate’ Halloween per se, but I’m not above some orange pumpkin muffins with Halloween-y themed decorations. Like fall leaves cupcake liners, cemetery gate-inspired cupcake holders, and spiderweb napkins.
Now let me tell you my secret: These are PEANUT BUTTER PUMPKIN gluten-free muffins (using this recipe from King Arthur Flour and all-natural Sunspire Peanut Butter chips!)! And they are delicious. Now don’t give away my secret, or I may have to release the bats & spiders! Muahahahahahahahahaha.
I got some other Autumn-y goodies at the Dollar Store:
The napkins & cupcake liners, of course. And some feather eyelashes cause I’m a dork and I want to try them (and because boyfriend said he would laugh at me if I did), some pretty hair clips, Thanksiving cards & pretty stickers to seal them with (3 for $1)!
I was a bunch of grapes too! And a pile of leaves!
Those muffins look delicious!
Those are SO CUTE! They're so beyond perfect for halloween. I think I might borrow your idea and make some of these for my little halloween party. so cute!
PB pumpkin muffins?! Those look amazing!!! And the cupcake liners are adorable!! Just dropping in from the little things link-up 🙂
I love those little muffin holders. So festive. Have a great weekend!
I love dollar store finds! Also, those muffins looks to-die-for! I love the little sleeves they're in- Adorable.
I love those cupcake holders!! So adorable!
everything looks amazing! you are officially making me hungry 🙂 love your scores at the dollar store by the way..
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Can totally relate with your Halloween experience as a kiddo. I was queen Esther one year. Try explaining that to the school kids. Social experiment fail. Hahahah. Great post and yummy looking cupcakes. 🙂 happy nut day!!!!! 🙂
Thanks, ladies! You are all so sweet and I can't wait to check out your blogs, too. Love the linkup! P.S. Added the link to the Gluten-Free pumpkin muffin recipe I used, and Sunspire natural peanut butter chips. YUM! {the cupcake holders were from King Arthur Flour}
Looks good!! I JUST heard of "trunk or treat"…and posted about it tonight 😉
Hi Natalie! I loved reading this post! I'm super excited to try out this peanut butter pumpkin recipe!! The black liners are adorable. Thanks for sharing :o).
Meg