Frightening fairy cakes

Some devilish delicacies for Halloween that your little horrors will love!

Ingredients (serves 12)

For the cakes:

  • 4oz (113g) butter or cooking margarine
  • 4oz (113g) caster sugar
  • 4oz (113g) self-raising flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • White and brown hundreds & thousands
  • Dark-coloured icing pen (available from your supermarket) – optional

For the decoration:

  • Spooky Halloween sweets
  • Icing sugar
  • A few drops or red, yellow and green food colouring
  • A splash of water

Method

1. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 / 180 degrees. Put paper fairy cake cases into a 12-hole fairy cake tin. Hunt out some Halloween cases at your local supermarket!

2. In a bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Sift the flour onto the mixture. Crack the eggs into a separate bowl and mix – fold them into the rest of the mixture gradually until all ingredients are combined. Spoon the mixture into the cake cases until each is about two thirds full. Decide who gets to lick the spoon!

3. Bake in the centre of the oven for about 20 minutes until the cakes are lightly golden in colour and they spring back to the touch. Don't be tempted to open the oven door too soon during cooking or they will sink! Leave to cool on a wire cooling rack.

4. Once the cakes are completely cool, mix together the icing sugar with a little water until you get a fairly thick consistency.

5. To make green icing, mix in a few drops of green food colouring. To make orange-coloured icing, mix in a drop of red food colouring and a drop of yellow – keep adding the colouring until you reach your desired shade.

6. Spoon the icing onto the top of the cakes. While the icing is still not quite set, shake on some hundreds & thousands and decorate with your spooky sweets.

7. For an extra surprise, before you ice the cakes, hollow out a little of the top of the cake and fill it with strawberry jam before icing! You might just need to make your icing a bit runnier to make it easier to apply and ensure that the icing doesn't smudge too much in your jam.

8. If you've got an icing pen, use it draw on a cobweb instead of adding a sweet. If you're a little more artistic and have a white icing pen, you could even try drawing a skeleton!

Halloween eyeballs2Eyeballs in goo

A perfectly devilish delicacy for halloween, your little horrors will love this ghoulish recipe for 'eyeballs in goo'.

Ingredients (serves 8):

  • 135g raspberry jelly cubes
  • Cold cranberry juice
  • 4 plums, halved and stoned
  • 4 green grapes
  • 4 black grapes
  • Handful of blueberries
  • Handful of pumpkin seeds

Method:

  1. Make the jelly, but instead of finishing it with cold water, use the cranberry juice. Allow it to cool fully.
  2. Place the plum halves in a shallow dish. Put either a green or red grape in the hole where the stone used to be. Top with a blueberry. Pour the jelly mix around them and put in the fridge to set.
  3. Before serving, push some pumpkin seeds into the jelly at the top of the plum hales, like eyelashes.
  4. Serve your little ghouls their eyeballs in goo and watch them squeal with delight!

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