Three Frightful Halloween Bakes to Make with the Kids
Get the kids involved with making these ghoulish treats
Clown Cupcakes
Send in the clowns!
Sweet, sinister and ready to bite – these Halloween clown cupcakes are dying to be devoured.
- 12 Plain shop bought or homemade cupcakes
- 1 tub white buttercream
- 12 Opies Cocktail Cherries
- Edible glue
- Edible eyes
- Liquorice string
- Candy floss
Spread the icing onto the cupcakes.
Tear pieces of candy floss and stick onto the cupcakes to make the clown hair.
Using edible glue, fix the edible eyes into place. Add a cocktail cherry for the nose. Add a small piece of liquorice for the mouth – bent into a smile or a grimace!
Ghostly Gingerbread
Get spooky with this hauntingly delicious ghostly gingerbread
The perfect bite-sized fright for any trick-or-treaters.
- 175g plain flour, plus an extra tbsp for rolling
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 80g light muscovado sugar
- 2 balls Opies Stem Ginger in Syrup, finely chopped, plus 1 tbsp syrup
- 5 pieces Opies Crystallised Ginger, finely chopped
- 50g unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 1 medium free-range egg, beaten
- 1 icing pen and edible eyes
Preheat the oven to 160C, Fan 140C, Gas 3.
Line a baking tray with parchment.
In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients.
Melt the butter and golden syrup in a microwave then add the ginger syrup.
Pour the melted butter mix over the dry ingredients, add the egg and stir to mix through. Knead lightly if needed, until a dough has formed.
Cover the dough with cling film and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.
On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough to three millimetres thick and cut into ghost shapes and place on the baking tray.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes but leave to cool on the tray for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
Decorate using white icing and edible eyes.
Mini Bloody Eye Tartlets
Sink your teeth into these deliciously gory treats
The perfect balance of spooky and sweet for your Halloween spread.
- 16 mini sweet tartlet cases
- 3 tbsp Opies Compote
- 3 tbsp thickened cream
- 16 Opies Cocktail Cherries
- Edible glue
- 16 edible eyes
Spoon the compote into the cases, followed by the thickened cream.
Add the cherry, then glue on the eyeball.
Serve with a ghoulish smile!
