It's that time of year again and I've been looking forward to getting in the kitchen and baking some halloween themed goodies. I haven't made cupcakes in a while so I decided on baking these, plus some tombstone shaped shortbread.
I also made a batch of chocolate cupcakes and decorated them in butter icing that I dyed with red food colouring for a devilish twist! For the devil horns I used broken bits of Cadburys giant buttons-yum!
Along with the cupcakes I baked some shortbread which I flavoured with orange peel and cut into tombstone shapes. I then half coated these in milk chocolate and finished them off by icing 'RIP'- quite difficult to do when the biscuits are coated with sugar as the icing does not stick very well!
Next week I'll be using up the flesh from the pumpkin I carved- I'm thinking pumpkin pie maybe? If you have any other suggestions for baking with pumpkin please let me know :)
To be honest, they were more like cookies than biscuits as they were soft and chewy but this is what I expected. Not bad for a healthy cookie though!
Ok, so I couldn't resist making something a bit more indulgent! Muffins are the one thing I'm not so good at making so I thought I needed a bit of practice :) I decided to go for something simple, so I chose a recipe for choc chip muffins but added orange essence to make them a bit more exciting. I also had to make some rich chocolate icing to go on top....yum!
