Halloween treats to make with the kids
Thinking up some spooky ghoulish treats to bake can be a fun way to spend the weekend before Halloween. There are lots of ways you can craft your baking to make it scary, from having jelly worms pop out of your buns to ghosts made from whipped, white meringue or shortbread witches fingers with almond fingernails. The recipe included here for spider cookies are fun and tasty, there is the more sedate pumpkin bun or barmbrack for the grown-ups.
The old Celtic festival of Samhain has been subsumed into Halloween. Samhain was original celebrated in pagan times as it was believed to be the division between the light and the dark halves of the year.
