Kids in the Kitchen: Five wickedly delicious Halloween treats to make at home today 

Serve up a ghoulish feast of homemade treats this Halloween 

Make Halloween homemade this year.

Monster cookies

recipe by:Michelle Darmody

Although this recipe entails a bit of assembling, the end result is worth it for kids to enjoy a spooky treat

Servings

12

Preparation Time

 15 mins

Cooking Time

 9 mins

Total Time

 24 mins

Course

 Baking

Ingredients

• 150g butter, softened

• 60g sugar

• 70g light muscovado sugar

• 1 egg, lightly beaten

• 225g plain flour, sieved

• ½ tsp bread soda, sieved

• 200g chocolate chips

• To decorate:

• red icing pen

• 24 round large white marshmallows and 60 small ones

• 24 extra chocolate chips, for the eyes

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 190°C and line two large flat baking trays with parchment.

2. Beat the butter with both of the sugars until light and fluffy. Slowly add in the egg.

3. Mix the sieved flour and bread soda well. Then add the flour, a third at a time, to the butter mixture until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.

4. Place 24 spoons of the cookie mixture onto the prepared baking trays. Leave a little room for them to spread as they bake. Bake for 9 minutes until golden around the edges.

5. Once cool enough to handle place onto a wire rack to cool completely.

6. Pipe red icing on the base of two of your cookies. Sandwich about five of the mini marshmallows between the two cookies and allow to set until hard. Repeat until you have 12 sandwiches.

7. Stick the chocolate chips onto the base of the bigger marshmallows with a blob of icing and then stick these onto the cookie sandwiches as eyes.

Spooky ghosts

recipe by:Darina Allen

This meringue mixture can make spooky ghosts, pumpkins, brooms, cats, moons and stars, perfect for kids to get busy in the kitchen this Halloween

Servings

6

Preparation Time

 15 mins

Cooking Time

 30 mins

Total Time

 45 mins

Course

 Imported

Ingredients

• 4 egg whites

• 250g icing sugar, sieved

• 300ml whipped cream

Method

1. Cover three baking trays with a perfectly-fitting sheet of silicone paper.

2. Mix all the icing sugar with the egg whites at once in a spotlessly clean bowl.

3. Whisk until the mixture forms stiff dry peaks – 10 to 15 minutes. Spoon into a clean piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe into spooky ghost shapes.

4. Bake immediately in a low oven 150°C for 30 minutes or until set crisp.

5. Pipe eyes with melted chocolate on half of the ghosts. Sandwich the meringues together with whipped cream.