I have never done pumpkin carving before in my life so I thought I would try it!
This was my attempt:
Happy Halloween!
Scary Halloween Buns
Need something to tuck into on Halloween? Try these…
Ingredients:
- 110g Unsalted Butter
- 110g Caster Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp of Vanilla Extract
- 110g Self-Raising Flour
- 1 tsp of Baking Powder
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line a 12 hole muffin tin.
- Cream the butter and the sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Whisk the eggs until they are bubbly.
- Slowly – while mixing – add the eggs and the flour gradually.
- Put the mixture into the tin and bake for around 10-15 mins until a skewer or fork comes out clean.
Decoration – for the mummy cakes:
- Make sure your cakes are flat on top, you may need to shave the top off to make them flat.
- Roll out some white fondant icing next to some black fondant icing (also rolled out.)
- Cut the black and the white into strips.
- Put one black strip in the middle of the cake then layer the white strips on top.
- For the eyes, make tiny round white circles and put 2 even smaller black circles on top.
- Place the eyes onto the black strip of icing and that is the mummy cakes done!
Decoration – for the spider web cakes:
- Make sure your cakes are flat on top, you may need to shave the top off to make them flat.
- Roll out some green and black fondant icing.
- Cut the green icing into circles (big enough to cover the top of the cake.) Place the green circles on to the top of the cake.
- Now cut the black icing into very thin strips and copy the picture of the cakes above!
Happy Halloween!
Hot Chocolate Recipe
Now, the time has come where everyone’s dream is to snuggle up with a lovely warm hot chocolate but now this dream is a reality…
Ingredients:
- Hot Water (and a kettle)
- Milk
- A cup
- A couple of teaspoons
- Your favourite hot chocolate flavour
Decorations (optional) : 
- Mini Marshmallows
- Squirty Cream
- Your favourite hot chocolate flavour
Steps (to the perfect hot chocolate) :
- Firstly, put 2-5 spoonfulls of the hot chocolate flavouring (this can vary depending on how chocolatey you want it to be) into the cup.
- After that, pour a dash of milk into the cup with the hot chocolate powder. Mix this until the contents looks like this:
- Then add some hot water until it is around 3 quarters full, mix this until:
- To finish off the mixture, add milk until it is a colour you like.
- I know it looks the same but I have filled it up more!
Decorations (optional) :
- Just throw whatever you think will be tasty on!
- I did mine like this:
Thank you for reading,
Sparkle Girl x
September Favourites – Sorry
I know it only seems like a week ago when I did my August Favourites but time has flown by so fast… And now it is October. I’m going to be honest… I haven’t really discovered anything new so for my October Favourites I will add in the one thing I came up with for September Favourites.
Thanks,
Sparkle Girl x
DIY Glitter Pens!
I made these a few months ago and I thought they were brilliant.
You may want to do this on a surface you don’t mind getting messy because it will!
Equipment:
– Glue -Glitter -A tap -Some Biro Pens (which you can easily take apart)
-A glass -A spoon
Method:
– Remove the inside of the pen like this;
– Then fill your glass with a few spoons of water;
– After that add a couple of spoons of glue and mix it up until it looks quite milky;
– Pour some of the glue mixture into the empty pen tube; Be careful as this is a lot more fiddly than it looks, you may want to use a jug with a thin spout to help. When you have poured it in it should look like this;
– To make them glittery though, pour some glitter into the pen until it is 3 quarters full. Then put your fingers over the holes and shake the pen until the glitter has covered the entire pen like this;
I used purple and gold glitter but a lot of other colours or even more than 2 types of glitter.
I hope you enjoy making these pens!
Sparkle Girl xx