Halloween is approaching and adults and children are ready to celebrate the scariest night of the year with parties, costumes, carved pumpkins and the famous "trick or treat". Obviously, even in the kitchen you need to prepare to churn out dishes monstrous based on skulls, zombies and terrifying ghosts, here are some easy and creative ideas for preparing the perfect Halloween sweets, you have until October 31st to take all the necessary ingredients and make your guests shiver.
Pumpkin Cupcake: soft and tasty, to prepare these sweets you just need to prepare the dough cupcakes . Once ready, let them cool and then garnish them with a tasty pumpkin, chocolate or pistachio icing, finally add themed decorations such as sweets, biscuits and liquorice, just use your imagination, they will be a success.
Cookie Mummy: sweet and crunchy, if you want to impress but with little effort this is the recipe for you. Prepare some simple ones shortcrust pastry biscuits giving it an oval or rectangular shape. Once ready, let them cool and decorate the surface using a white chocolate icing to create the blindfold effect, finally create the eyes with two drops of dark chocolate... and the mummy is served!
Spider Brownie: they are squares of pure chocolate, where taste and softness blend. Here she is recipe . To garnish, once cooked, wait for them to cool and cover the surface with chocolate melted in a bain-marie. Wait a few minutes for it to solidify and then decorate the squares with the white chocolate icing to create the cobweb effect. Make many circles with the icing, one inside the other and with a toothpick, starting from the center outwards, make some lines. Finally, create the little spiders by getting some round chocolate biscuits combined with a filling and some liquorice swirls. Stretch and cut the rolls into small pieces to create 8 legs for each spider, join the legs to the biscuits using the filling as glue and place the spiders on the brownies.
Panna cotta eyes: This scary recipe is not for the faint of heart! Get a silicone lollipop mold and first prepare the pupils. Pour a few drops of caramel into the mold and place a raisin or a chocolate chip in the center, then place in the freezer for 15 minutes. In the meantime, mix milk, cream and the Ar.pa panna cotta preparation in a saucepan and bring to the boil following the instructions on the package. Once ready, let it cool. Take the mold and pour the panna cotta inside, put back in the freezer and leave to rest for 5 hours. Once the time has passed, unline the balls on a tray and decorate with red berry syrup.
Bat Nest: no bats were harmed for this recipe, all you need is puddings and lots of chocolate. First prepare the chocolate puddings with the prepared Ar.pa , once ready, arrange them on a tray and decorate them with crumbled biscuits. Then prepare some separately chocolate truffle , to use as a body for the bats and create the wings by breaking a biscuit in half. Finally, place the two pieces of biscuit on the sides of the truffle and arrange the bats on the puddings.
Witch's Fingers: the witches are back... but we can nibble on their gnarled fingers to defend ourselves from their evil spells. To create witch fingers, make gods shortcrust pastry biscuits . Knead until you obtain a homogeneous dough. Take the dough and divide it into twenty small balls. Work the balls and create pieces as long as your finger. Shape the pieces and recreate the folds of the skin with a toothpick. Then take a handful of almonds and place them at the end of each piece to recreate the nail, attaching them with melted chocolate, jam or honey. Once the fingers are ready, place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for 15 minutes at 180°.
Now you have everything you need to create a spooky Halloween! Good fun.