Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween!!!

Today is one of DS's favorite days of the year, trick or treat! Before doing the rounds in the village this evening, we'll have some of DS's friends over for a make-up session and Halloween tea party. Creepy muffins, ghoulish sweets and spooky cookies are the order of the day.

Boo!!! Having slightly 'aged' from yesterday's look ;-) Good thing is, it's much easier to breathe! Sarves and accessories as yesterday.

Cup cakes recipe as in kid's cupcakes post, only with different colored icing and decoration

Halloween cookies

125 gr butter, unsalted and softened
60 gr sugar
1 large egg
2 tbsp liquid honey
2 tsp finely chopped lemon zest
310 gr flour
1/2 tsp ground ginger

Mix butter and sugar on high speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix on medium speed until well combined. Add lemon zest. With mixer on low speed, add ginger and flour in two batches, mixing until just incorporated. Form the dough into a ball, wrap with cling film and leave for a minimum of two hours in the fridge. Roll out the dough in between two layers of freezer bags. Cut out cookie shapes. Preheat oven to 180 degrees and bake for approx. 10min.

Icing:
220 gr Icing sugar
2-3 tbsp lemon juice
Beat icing sugar with the lemon juice and add food coloring to your liking. Spread on biscuits with a spatula. Decorate with pearls, contrasting icing, sweets etc.

14 comments:

  1. Yes, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! What a treat for the little kids :D
    DS looks too scary might I add once again LOL xxx

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  2. Happy Halloween to you too DD!! ITA with you on DS, but at least for the moment there is no lasersword poking out of the eye ;-) x

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  3. MT, yes, that was a horrible look on your DS! ;) Great creativity!

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  4. Hahaha DD! Halloween really seems to bring out his talents!

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  5. How brilliant you are!! Fabby costumes, yummy themed treats!! I can imagine Halloween in your household was just THE best fun!! Thank you for sharing! xxxxxx

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  6. Thank you DB! And yes, it was all great fun, fuelled of course by a super duper sugar high, lol!!

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  7. You are creative, talented, fun and beautiful...all rolled up into one.

    Love your blog and I loved your Halloween treats and outfit!

    Teri

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  8. Gosh those looked yummy, bet they went down a treat!!

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  9. Teri, really happy you enjoy it here. And thank you for the lovely compliments, so very nice of you to say so! :-)

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  10. JA_UK, they were gobbled up in seconds!! ;-)

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  11. I love your posts about your cooking/baking. Everything looks so wonderful!

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  12. Hello Astrid and welcome! Thank you for your kind comment, happy you enjoy it here! :-)

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  13. Hi MaiTai, I love this post! I hope you don't mind, I have linked to it on my blog. If you'd like me to take the reference down just let me know and I can do so immediately.

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  14. Happy you like the post, Black is the new Black, and honored that you have linked to it. Many thanks :-)

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