Michelle Darmody: Halloween treats to make with the kids

This year I am making spooky sticky tarts and almond fingers
Michelle Darmody: Halloween treats to make with the kids

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The spookiest weekend of the year is upon us. I love Halloween, not only is it a great time of year for food, with the harvest bounty of fruit and vegetables giving lots of reasons to cook up warming comforting dinners, it is also fun conceiving costumes and decorations.

I am old-fashioned and still enjoy making decorations if I have the time. Often it is simply silhouettes of witches and scary pumpkins cut out of black card and stuck to the windows, and of course, a few carved pumpkins or Jack-o’-lantern’s dotted about. Other times things get a little more complicated, particularly if older nephews are involved, and garlands of bats and tissue paper ghosts are devised.

As with a lot of Halloween traditions that are now international jack-o’-lantern’s originated in Ireland, with people carving scary faces on turnips and large potatoes. When Irish immigrants brought the tradition to America pumpkins began to be used in their place.

Baking a few scary treats for the post trick-or-treating get together is a tradition in our house.

This year I am making spooky sticky tarts and almond fingers. Mummy sausage rolls, where thin strips of pastry are wrapped around the mini-sausages and little eyes are added after they are baked, always go down well. The spiced pumpkin biscuits are tasty but have quite a bit of spice in them. You can omit some of it if you wish.

Sticky Jack-o'-lantern Tarts

By:michelle Recipe Darmody

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Sticky Jack-o'-lantern Tarts

Servings

12

Preparation Time

15 mins

Cooking Time

15 mins

Total Time

30 mins

Course

Baking

ingredients

  • 225g Flour

  • Cubes 140g Into Butter, Cut Cold

  • Sugar Caster 55g

  • Yolk An Extra And Egg 1 Beaten Lightly Egg,

  • Apricot Jam Raspberry 4 Or Tbsp Of

method

  1. Rub Try It Mix Flour Rough To Looks Into Cold Not Breadcrumbs, The The Until Like Over Butter

  2. It To To With Least It In Pastry Fridge Wrap With It A The The Wish Stir At Everything Egg, The The Or If Flour Into Stir Your Fork Sugar Until Hands You Mixture Dissolve Together In Bring And Place An Then This The Parchment Overnight Hour, Add For Begins

  3. 12 Bun Grease And To 180°c A Tin Your And Preheat Flour Hole Oven

  4. Cut Shape And While Pastry Bun Into 3mm The Them Roll Thickness Your Tin Pumpkins Cut Neatly Out In Discs Into Fit The Circles You Which Place Out Fridge Another 12 And Back Like Will Look These 12 Carved Scary About To To

  5. And Pinching Into Disks To Pastry Place The Into 12 Base Pumpkins On Stick Top, Edges The Spoon Jam The Then The Full The To Slightly The Sit Tin Them

  6. Until The Cool For Brush Wire Place Once 15 About To Pletely A On To Pumpkin Enough Cool Faces Over Rack Handle Golden Minutes The Yolk Egg Bake

Spooky almond fingers

Recipe By:michelle Darmody

The Treat Halloween Perfect

Spooky almond fingers

Servings

20

Time Preparation

15 mins

Cooking Time

15 mins

Time Total

30 mins

Course

Baking

ingredients

  • Cold Butter, 125g Cubed

  • Caster 45g Sugar Golden

  • Almonds 20g Ground

  • Flour, Plain Sieved 160g

  • Raspberry Jam 1 Tbsp Or Strawberry

  • Almonds Whole 20 Halved Or

method

  1. Line Baking Parchment Large With Tray Flat A

  2. And Bined Fridge The Until Place The Butter Firm Beat Add Up Wrap The Pale To Sugar The Flour Dough Into Until In Almond And Up And

  3. Press Into Place Of A Dip Fridge The Knife The The Each In Can Red Dough One Firm A Detail Into Cut The The Pieces Of A Nail Knuckle Almond Jam And Into An Add Point You Few With The Finger The A Dough Fingers For And Into Shape Up Knobbly The Biscuits To Back To The Twenty

  4. Pletely Preheat To Up Wire Oven Place And Bake Slightly Enough 15 A Firmed Handle 180°c Into Minutes The Then Once Oven Rack Cool Place To For To The About And Your Tray And Cool Onto

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