Halloween Treats

Halloween is right round the corner (Yippee), so today I decided to make some Halloween treats that you can have a go yourself.

                               

Cupcakes (24)

Ingredients: 

200g Soft Margarine 

200g Caster Sugar 

250g Self Raising Flour

4 eggs 

200g Icing Sugar (normal icing) 

280g Margarine and 560g Icing Sugar (Butter Icing) 

24 Paper Cakes Cases

Sprinkles or sweets

1) Firstly set the oven for 180 degrees - Gas Mark 5

2) Secondly place the margarine, sugar,eggs and flours in a mixing bowl and mix altogether, until it  forms a even mixture.

3) Using a tablespoon, evenly divide the mixture between the paper cases 

4) Bake for 25 minutes until they are all a golden colour 

5) Next transfer the cakes to a cool surface 

Now wait till they have all cooled down

6) For the butter icing, whisk the margarine and icing sugar together until a smooth consistency

7) Next, put the butter icing in a piping bag and carefully swirl the butter icing around the top of the cakes. This part is all free style and up to you with what you want to do. 

8) Finally decorate the cakes, however you want to 

For the normal icing: 

6) Mix the icing sugar with a tiny bit of water, keep stirring and adding a little bit of water each time until it is the right consistency for you.

7) With a spoon carefully put a blob of the icing sugar on the middle of the cake and carefully swirl the cake around until the icing has covered the cake. 

8) Finally decorate the cake, however you want to

These cakes taste amazing and they are very addictive! 

Spider Biscuits:

Ingredients: 

50g Icing 

6 Plain digestive biscuits

Water

Black writing icing

1) Firstly place 1 digestive on its back, on a flat surface 

2)  Mix the icing sugar with a tiny bit of water, keep stirring and adding a little bit of water each time until it is the right consistency for you

3) Next, with a teaspoon do a little circle of the icing and wait for it to set.

4) Finally, with the black writing icing draw 8 legs coming of the black circle (as you can see I only done 7, opps!) and draw some eyes!

Vampire Mouths

Ingredients: 

Biscuits cookies

Mini Marshmallows 

25g Icing sugars

Water

Red writing icing (optional) 

1) Place 1 cookie on a flat surface

2) Mix the icing sugar with a tiny bit of water, keep stirring and adding a little bit of water each time until it is the right consistency for you

3) Next, cover the cookie with icing sugar (DO NOT LET IT DRY!)

4) Then, around the cookie place the marshmallows on top

5) Now, with another cookie cover the one with icing sugar and stick it on top of the marshmallows.

This is now optional: 

6) Finally, with the red writing icing draw lines with the pen to make it look like individuals teeth (mine didn't really work!) 

I hope you enjoyed today's blog post, make sure you tag me on instagram (@amybatchen) if you create any of these, be lovely to see!

Enjoy!

Amy x