Getting in mood for Halloween

This is my new love in the kitchen!!! I ordered this cake stand on the internet from Rakuten...it's like the Japanese version of Amazon. As you can see from the packaging, you can use it to display not only desserts but other food as well. Can't wait to have a luxury Continental breakfast at the weekend with my boyfriend. Unfortunately I gotta get up so early on weekdays, I just force down a bowl of cereals and rush to the train station....

Also, it means I can throw some lavish home parties, coz now I have everything to serve a stylish lunch or dinner! Can't wait to actually have some friends over. I don't know if I have mentioned it here already, but my hobby is baking sweets and stuff...so...maybe a smaller Christmas or New Year's Party would be nice. Of course with a limited number of people. The apartment is small and we don't have enough chairs either...lol

It just would look soooo gorgeous with a Christmas cake on top, some gingerbread cookies in the middle, and maybe a few orange chocolate cupcakes in the bottom. Or beigli? But I don't think I can make beigli... (Hungarian Christmas rollcake)...I don't think I could find all the ingredients here, plus it's troublesome. Well...we'll see.

And here are some Halloween cookies I made last weekend, mainly for my co-workers. They are just simple vanilla butter cookies with royal icing. It was the first time I tried royal icing, and turned out pretty good. Although it was quite time consuming, but I guess it's gonna get better with experience.

I was trying to be very Japanese her. I wrapped them all up in Halloween cellophane bags and put them in a lovely box. 

Looks pretty cool, huh?