All language subtitles for The Curious Creations of Christine Mcconnell s01e06 Halloween Tricks Treats

[Rankle] On the top of a dark
and distant mountain,

there is a beautiful and talented woman,

who uses her unique skills of baking,
sculpting and sewing

to create delicious confections
and hauntingly disturbing decor.

She finds beauty in the art of darkness
with each creation

and shares them with us, the unusual
creatures she has taken into her home.

Join us in her delightfully dark world.

Welcome to...

[yawns, sighs]

[gasps] Hey! It's here!

It's here! You guys, it's here!

Hey, stupid, get up!

What? What? Where? What? Oh, a spider!

- Yeah! It's Halloween!
- Oh, wow.

How did she do this?

- I didn't hear anything. Ha ha!
- Me neither!

Do you like it?

Are you kidding?

[laughs]
I've never seen anything like this.

- This isn't even the best part.
- What?

Come this way.

Oh, wow!

[Edgar] Yeah.

I can't believe you did all this for me.

I did this for everyone. And see the tree?

There is something under it
for each of you.

- [Rose] A thing!
- [Edgar] Oh!

[gasps] Oh.

[Rose] Oh, my God! Look at all of this!

- [Edgar] Oh, yeah.
- [Rose] Yeah!

[Edgar] This is a real bounty of delights.
[groans] Open, open, open, open.

Oh, yeah. [laughs]

Rankle, there's even something for you.

[gasps] An offering? For me?
Oh, goody, goody, goody.

- Look what I got!
- Huh.

[Rose] What'd you get?

[sniffing]
Some kinda cross-shaped chew toy.

- That's a crossbow, dummy!
- Oh.

- How's it work?
- Gimme it.

[gasps] You shouldn't have.

[groaning]

Mmm. Freshly dead. I can still taste
a little bit of his soul.

Where did these come from?

I'm glad you asked.
I made them last night.

Keepsake ornaments are usually intended
to last for generations.

But when you make them out of a cookie
and you've got some hungry guests,

they'll probably only be around
about five minutes.

The first step to making these

is to bake off either a sugar cookie
or a shortbread.

The shortbread's kind of fun
because it looks very bulky,

but it actually is pretty flaky
and sort of just melts in your mouth.

I made these about two inches thick
and let them cool to room temperature.

So we're gonna hollow these out
just a little bit

and fill them with candy
before we seal them shut.

The Dremel tool's gonna come in handy
for carving these out,

and getting them into the really precise
shape that we want them.

Obviously, be a little on the safe side.

[whirring]

Remember, you want to hollow the cookie
deep enough so you can fill it with candy.

But leave it thick enough so you can carve
a face on the other side.

The bit I'm using is just really good

for grating sharp edges.

Make sure to hollow out
two separate cookies.

You can use a paint brush to get out all
of the extra cookie dust.

Okay. So, once you hollowed out
a little bit,

you can fill it with candy.

I'm using chocolate-covered raisins,
but you can use whatever you like.

And then we're gonna seal it
with royal icing,

which is my favorite edible glue.

At this stage,

we're gonna start sculpting in some
of the basic features

for our shrunken head.

I'm starting with the eyes making sure
they're sunken into the head.

Then I'm going to start to thin out
the cheeks to get a really gaunt look.

I'm using a sanding drum attachment
for my Dremel tool

to carve out the features of the face.

Not too bad.

So now that we have a basic shape,

I'm gonna take some royal icing
in a piping bag,

and sort of embellish some of the features
that I really want to stand out

before painting it brown.

So, something simple like that,
with three prongs.

Because it's a shrunken head,

you want the cheekbones
to really, really look emaciated,

with some deep grooves.

I'm using a small brush
to blend the royal icing

into the face for more detailed features.

This ornament has a nice little
shrunken head look to it already.

I'm gonna let this dry and then
I'm gonna paint it brown

with some edible brown food color,
done with an airbrush,

and then pipe on those last details,

and they should look beautiful
on the tree.

I went over it a few times
to get the color just right.

All nice and brown.

I think we are ready for some
of those finishing touches.

I'm using the same royal icing
as I did before, to create the eyes.

Using a small-tipped brush,

I gently even out the eyes to make sure
they're perfectly round.

And now for the stitches on the mouth.

So this is royal icing

with a piping bag

and cut to a very, very fine tip

and delicately strung along...

to give the appearance
of a stitched mouth.

All right. The string was achieved simply
by taking a sculpting tool

and punching through. And because it is
a fairly soft cookie,

it wasn't too hard to punch straight
through and pull this right on through.

And that is how you make
an edible ornament.

[laughing]

[Edgar growls]

Rose, give Edgar back his toy.

- No, that's mine.
- Aw. Fine.

Well, now that we've opened presents,
do you guys want to go

bake a haunted gingerbread house?

- Oh. Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah! Gingerbread house.

Sounds better than what I had planned.

[Christine]
All right, I'm gonna go change first.

Gingerbread houses are usually associated
with Christmas.

But with a few tweaks, I think they can
make an amazing fall centerpiece.

Today, I'm going to be making
a ginger-dead house.

Oh, I get it.

It's like gingerbread, but...

- it's ginger-dead.
- Yeah.

Don't hurt yourself, okay?

[laughs]

So if you want a gingerbread house
that's really gonna impress,

it's gonna require a little bit of
pre-planning and a lot of cardboard.

So the very first thing I do is cut out
some cardboard pieces

and then putting them together to mock up
what that shape is.

And if the height isn't right, or I decide
I want a window somewhere,

this is a perfect time to sort of sketch
it on. Have a ruler and a pencil handy.

The terrific thing about working it out
in cardboard first

is not only do you find out
what's gonna work, what isn't,

but when you're done, you have a stencil
that you can use to cut out your cookie.

Let me show you.

So, I have a couple secret weapons
when making a gingerbread house

that is sure to impress.

Two things.

Start with a gingerbread dough that
you've omitted any leavening agent from,

meaning no baking powder, no baking soda.

The reason you want this
is you don't want a cookie

that's gonna puff up too much
and fill up with air.

You want something a little dense
and crisp.

Can we eat it now?

Well, no. This is for something
beautiful. A piece of art we're making.

Oh.

And a decorated cookie
is the tastiest cookie.

You really want to start out
with too much dough,

'cause you can always pull stuff away,

but incorporating new dough
once you're rolling out a big sheet

is a little trickier.

My second secret weapon is rolling out
the dough into a cookie sheet,

so you're not overly manipulating
anything.

When you see the pieces building up
on the side,

use an X-Acto knife to cut out
the excess dough.

You can just roll out the excess later

for those additional details.
Don't discard it.

You want to take your time with this part,

because especially with a large sheet,

you want the density to be pretty even
throughout the whole piece.

So once you have your dough
to the thickness that you want,

it's ready to be cut out,

take your stencil.

This is just one side wall
of the gingerbread house.

You'll need to build several more
just like it.

Trace along the stencil to cut out
all the windows from the mold.

So just remove all of the excess...

holding down the cardboard
so nothing gets shifted.

And you can still perfect any edges
or anything

you don't like at this stage
before it goes into the oven.

Okay. I'm ready to pop this into the oven

for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.

And then it's time
for a candy glass window treatment.

- [bell dings]
- [Edgar sniffing]

Oh, man, that smells fantastic.

That does smell good. And it covers up
Rose's horrific stench.

- I smell like experience.
- Yes, a bathroom experience.

[mocking laughter]
Can we eat it now?

No, it's gotta cool off and also harden
so we can work with it.

So once your cookie has cooled
and hardened,

you want to transfer it
from this baking sheet

to a perfectly smooth, clean baking sheet

that's been lined in aluminum foil
with the shiny side up.

Once in place,

using isomalt or candy glass,

you want to take a measuring spoon
and pour it into the cavities

of each of the windows.

I like to use a little bit
of blue food coloring

to give my windows a real glass effect.

And just gently pour into each cavity,

taking your time.

Isomalt is a sugar substitute,
so it's perfectly safe to eat.

I usually let mine cool about 30 minutes

before trying to play with it too much.

So, once it's fully set,

you can peel it off from the foil.

Now, if you end up with a foggy background
from the foil,

taking a brulee torch and torching it
momentarily from the back

will gloss it back up and give you
that translucent effect.

And there you have very clear candy glass.

- And you can eat the glass, too?
- [Christine] Yeah.

- Can we eat it now?
- No, it's for tonight.

- [Rose grumbles]
- It's see-through. Glass.

Oh, that's enough thinking
for one day, big guy.

So when it comes to piping on
the flashing, the trim

and all of those little details
around the windows,

I use royal icing in a piping bag
that I tinted brown

to match the gingerbread walls
using food coloring.

You really have a lot of creative
leeway here,

so I would say go wild and just make
the windows of your dreams.

Or nightmares.

So, a slightly non-mathematical method
I use

for visually getting things
to look even

is by creating three points and just
gradually breaking them down by halves.

I visually look for the middle,

and then I break each point down by half.

This is just one wall, and I'm building
a three-story Victorian mansion.

So I'm going to repeat this process
over and over again

until every detail is perfect.

Oh, sweet. Nap time.

[doorbell rings]

[Rose] I'll get it!

[Edgar sighs]

- Hey, Happy Halloween!
- Say, fuzzy, is Vivienne home?

I'm coming.

[gasps]

Oh, yeah, I forgot.

You can go out tonight.

Don't wait up.

- Wow. She looked nice.
- Yeah.

[Christine] The house is ready.

Perfect.

- [gasps] Wow.
- [Edgar] Whoa.

Too bad it's too small to live in.

[Christine] Obviously, it takes
a considerable amount of time

to make a house with this much detail.

I used those gingerbread scraps
from earlier to make the decorative trim,

the steps and the doors.

I then used royal icing for the shingles
and the roof,

then airbrushed the entire house
to give it that lived-in look.

What do you guys think?

- Whoa!
- Wow.

[Rankle] That is truly remarkable.

[Christine]
I'm pretty happy with how it looks.

Can we eat it now?

- Not yet.
- [Edgar] Oh.

I think we're ready to move on
to making some incredibly delicious treats

that all trick-or-treaters would love.

- Rusty nails?
- Sand?

- Old prescriptions.
- Live hand grenades?

- Tapas!
- Ah...

- A nice ros�!
- Band-Aids?

- Used ones?
- Anthrax? Always a goodie.

Bones of animals that have been run over
by trucks.

Watch it!

- No. Edible spiders.
- That's what I was gonna say!

[Edgar groans]

[Christine] So, there's a species
of edible spider that I like making

that not only tastes delicious,
but is also truly terrifying.

This little guy, my favorite,

when he's finished being painted will look
exactly like a creepy and brown recluse.

And all he is,
is three simple ingredients:

hard caramel candies, half a peanut
and one whole macadamia nut.

I've placed the hard candies
on a baking sheet.

I have the oven preheating to 325,

and I'm going to pop them in
for just about five minutes,

making them soft and flexible,
so we can create our spider legs.

Make sure that you use hard caramels

because if you use soft ones,
they won't stiffen properly.

So once it's heated,

it's pliable for only a short
period of time.

Peel your caramel off your baking sheet.

Work quickly, it's hot.

Now, begin to pull off tiny slivers
to create your legs with.

Bend them once in the middle
to make the end taper off

to a sharp point.

And repeat that motion over and over,

until you have a bunch of creepy little
spider legs.

Now I'm going to melt one of the little
caramel legs

and use it to attach the peanut head
to the macadamia nut body.

The sharpness and symmetry of each leg

will determine how realistic
your finished spider looks.

So, using the same method,

take the end of the leg
and melt it with your candle,

and apply it to your spider.

And sometimes they burn a little bit,
but it doesn't taste bad.

Now, we're going to repeat the step,

being very careful not to burn our fingers
in the process,

until we have an eight-legged
brown recluse.

Oh.

They're very delicate.
So, if you just know that going in,

pace yourself.

- [Edgar gasps]
- [snarling]

I think he's ready to be airbrushed now.

Take all of your spiders and set them
together on a piece of parchment paper.

I'm painting them with a little bit
of edible food coloring.

There you go. I think that's all done
and nice and creepy.

Now, this is a brown recluse.

But if you want a black widow,
marry me.

- Good one, Christine.
- Oh, what a tangled web you weave.

Can I eat it now?
How about now?

- We're saving them for company.
- Now?

- Is now the time?
- [laughs]

- Can I eat it?
- I think you're eating plenty.

- How about now?
- Okay. I think I'm gonna go change.

I'll be back in a bit.

Who cares about trick or treaters? You
want to go eat all the stuff she made?

- [Edgar] Yeah.
- [doorbell rings]

[gasps] I'll get it!

Right behind ya.

- Ooh! It could be a trick or treater.
- [gasps] I got an idea.

Let's use your present on this one.

Three. Two. One.

- Trick or treat!
- Aha! Oh.

- Safety's on. Trick or treat, Rose!
- Huh?

I got a treat for you right here.

[Christine] Norman!

- [Edgar] Huh?
- Happy Halloween.

[Edgar sniffing]

Thank you, Rose, for greeting Norman
so warmly.

[laughs] It could get a lot warmer.

[Norman laughs] Okay.

Okay, this time you smell it, right?

Why don't you two go jump into
your costumes?

[sniffing]

Oh. That's fresh blood.

Oh, this?

I found this outside. Didn't want anyone
to get hurt,

so I thought I'd bring it in.

I really like how it goes
with your costume.

I know! Kooky, right?

Must be fate.

[laughs] Well, I'm just in the middle
of getting everything

from the kitchen into the dining room.

Would you mind helping?

- Mind? I'd love to.
- Right this way.

- Hey, mister, wanna buy some cookies?
- Aah! [laughing]

Rose! You got me.

- Wow, that truly is terrifying.
- It is.

Ah! Hey.

If you wouldn't mind,
the ginger-dead house is all that's left.

All right! I'm on it. [laughs]

[Rose laughs]

Good times.

Hello, pumpkins!

- All right. Here we go.
- [Christine sighs]

[Norman] I can't get over how you're able
to do all of this.

[Rankle]
Brace yourself, Johnny Suspenders.

This is just a snack.

[Edgar] She's real good.

Well, I helped.

- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.

What did you do?

Did you see the stain
on the living room floor?

[hissing]

- [thunder crashing]
- [gasping]

The storm must have knocked out
the power.

- [knock on door]
- [Rose] Ooh!

- You mind if I get that?
- Yeah, no problem.

- I love passing out candy.
- [laughs] I'll follow you.

Hmm.

Huh.
Nobody else is weirded out by that guy?

[Norman] Coming.

Happy Halloween!

Oh! My, do you look festive!
Oh, yes, come in, come in.

Get out of the rain, dry yourself off,
the candy can wait a little bit.

Oh! Good gravy!

- Evelyn!
- Hello, cousin.

My invitation to your party must've
gotten lost in the mail.

Where's your straitjacket?
Leave it in the car?

[laughs] I would have called first,

but the phones at the asylum
weren't working

ever since the building burned down.

[growls]

This is your cousin? [laughs]
Good looks run in the family.

What's wrong with him?

- Finally! You smell it, too.
- [Evelyn laughs]

Evelyn, you really shouldn't have
burned down the asylum.

[mocking]

But since you're here, do you want to stay
for the party?

- And just let Norman go?
- You should see everything that we made!

I don't want to come
to one of your stupid parties.

- I wanna kill you! [shouts]
- [Norman grunts]

- [gasping]
- [Christine sighs]

Aah.

Gee wilikers. You girls in this house
are crazy.

And I like it. [laughs]

Huh. So, should we let Bernard eat her

or start digging a hole in the backyard?

- [grunts]
- [screams]

No!

[gasps] No! Rose!

[Rankle] She's getting away!

- On it.
- Rose!

My little princess. Wake up.

Rose. Oh.

[thunder crashing]

Are you sure you want to do this?

Yes, I'm sure.

[growls]

Well, I think we're just about ready.

Now, we just need some lightning.

But what's a few more days?

She won't spoil any more than
she already has.

I would just treasure the silence

and the lack of urine-soaked flooring,
and... Oh, watch out! This is an outrage!

Thank you, Edgar.

- You're welcome.
- [thunder crashing]

[laughs]

[electricity sparking]

[Edgar] Huh?

[Christine] Rose...

[Rankle grunts] Uncover me! This instant!

Oh, no. Did it work?

[Rose farts]

[all groan]

What does she eat, death?

- Ha ha! What'd I miss?
- Oh, well, maybe next time.

Where's Norman?

He's taking care of Evelyn.

He said he had a special place
he was sending her.

That guy. Mysterious and sexy

and yet, oddly helpful. I like him.

If you like killers.

Hey. What's with all the sour pusses?

Let's go upstairs and party
like the undead!

It's Halloween!

[thunder crashes]

[grunts]

[whistling]

[sighs]

[animal howling]

[Rose] Oh! Jack-o'- lantern!

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