Zombie Cupcakes

I'd love to take credit for this monstrosity but I stole the idea from yoyomax12 from youtube click to watch. She's a baking mad mum who makes some amazing cupcakes which I'm obsessed with copying. Instead of using green icing for grass, I made a pandan cake instead. Which is an Asian cake using pandan leaf extract and coconut milk. It tastes amazing, which I thought was more interesting than just chocolate.

Ingredients:

120g unsalted butter

220g caster sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp pandan paste

250ml coconut milk

300g plain flour

Chocolate biscuits

Chewit sweets

Biscuits

Icing sugar

Jam

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 170 deg C

2. Whisk butter and sugar until pale and light

3. Add egg one at a time until well mixed

4. In a small bowl mix the pandan paste with some coconut milk until dissolved 

5. Add the pandan mix to the butter mixture and mix well

6. Add the remaining coconut milk and flour alternating, careful not to curdle. Fold in

7. Fill cupcakes 3/4 way full

8. Cook for 25 minutes

9. Skewer the cakes, a clean stick is a cooked cake.

10. Watch video for decorating tutorial

These look so gross but they taste amazing! 

Until next time xo

Halloween Treats

Halloween is only 25 days away. My god. I don't even have a costume yet! I want the trickle treaters ( I mean trick or treaters, but I've always said trickle) this year to have something a little different. I've done a trial run of some cookies I'm planning on giving out. I've got a few ideas for other creepy, gross treats. But they're for another time!

Recipe

100g unsalted butter

100g caster sugar

1 egg

275g plain flour

1tsp vanilla extract

1. Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy

2. Add the egg and vanilla, mix again

3. Fold in the flour until it forms a dough mixture

4. Roll out dough, by dusting the surface with flour first and cut shapes

5. For jack face, use the lid of vanilla extract bottle to cut eyes

6. Place all biscuits onto a baking sheet and preheat oven at 190 degrees

7. Place hard boiled candies into eye holes and they will melt into place

8. After cooling decorate with writing icing.

Make sure to use boiled candies and not sugar ( My sugar eyes burnt or did not melt at all!)

These are pretty sweet, but the kids loved them. My little brother wont eat jack, he think's he's too scary! Awww.

I denied this guy a face completely because he couldn't decide if he wanted to melt or not melt. 

Until next time xo