Happy Halloween!

On insta, I have seen so many creative recipes for Halloween! So, today as I had to work and will be late coming home! I thought I would make a nice suprise sweet treat for my boys when they come back from school! I needed something super quick and the boys love oreos so I made some bats with them and spider designs!

All you need is 2 oreos per bat, break one in half and stick them down with white chocolate or icing as the wings, add some candy eyes. For the spider web, I drizzled the white chocolate and added a chocolate chip for the spider body and black icing for the legs!!

For our dinner, I made hot dog mummies as I saw this recipe post from Warburton. So simple to make and delicious! I will be making this again! In the hot dog bun, add some ketchup, grated cheese, hot dog from the tinned/jar, add more cheese and wrap it around with the bacon to make it look like a mummy. You can use olives for the eyes, I didn’t have any at home so I used some grapes! Put them in the oven for 20 – 25 minutes GM6 and enjoy!

Pandan Loaf Cake

I recently bought some pandan extract from a Chinese grocery store. I found this recipe from the Decorated Treats blog and I didn’t fancy making a pandan chiffon cake as I find that process quite complicated! If you have never had pandan flavour before, it has a vanilla and flowery taste. This recipe is a pound cake so the method is really easy and it tastes delicious! I have already made this cake twice!!

Ingredients – 180g salted butter, 180g granulated sugar, 180g Self-raising flour, 3 x eggs, 3 x tbsp milk, half tsp of baking powder, pinch of salt, 1 tsp pandan extract. Optional – green food colouring.

Method:

1. Preheat oven to GM3 and line your loaf cake tin. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy into your mixer.
2. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt and mix this into the creamed mixture in 3 batches. Alternate each batch of flour with milk, starting and ending with flour.
3. Add the pandan extract and if your extract is white, add some green food flavouring. Mix until well combined.
4. Pour the batter into your loaf tin and smooth it at the top. Bake for 40 minutes or until the cake is ready (no wet batter sticking to the skewer to check). Leave it in the tin for 5 minutes and turn it out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy!