Easy Flapjack Recipe Feat. Choco Writers*

I love making cakes and other sweets and recently I had some time off so decided to bake something quick and easy that is also super tasty. As Halloween is just around the corner I thought it would be a great idea to fit these Flapjacks in with that theme with the help of my new tool..

I recently received these Choco writers and I couldn’t wait to get creative in the kitchen and think of some ways of using these. After browsing the website, I had plenty of ideas on what I could do with my Choco Writers. I came up with this delicious flapjack recipe and the Choco Writers enabled me to create a really fun topping for them.

Ingredients:
120g Butter
100g Light Muscovado Sugar
250g Oats

6 tbsp Golden Syrup

For the topping:
200g Milk Chocolate
Choco Writer in contrasting colour.

Method:
In a saucepan on a medium heat, mix together the butter, sugar and golden syrup until everything has melted down. Turn off the heat and stir in your oats. It's that simple! Press your oats into a baking tray, I use a silicone dish so the flapjacks are easier to remove at the end. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees C for about 25 minutes or until golden.

The Choco Writers are so easy to use. The chocolate is already in the tube so there is no messing about with piping bags and melting chocolate. Simply pop the tube into hot water to melt, snip the end off and then write, swirl and draw at your own free will. I couldn’t believe how simple they were to use and I loved that there was no mess to clear up and the end.

To decorate my flapjacks and to keep with the Halloween theme, I covered the whole of the flapjack with melted milk chocolate. I then used my white chocolate Choco Writer to draw a spiderweb on top. I think it turned out really great, and it was so simple to do. I also did it in the reverse colours and that worked out really well too.

Choco Writers come in 3 different flavours, white, milk and dark and can be bought in national retailers across the UK including Lakeland, Asda and Sainsburys.

*I received these Choco Writers free of charge in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own and I was not influenced in any way.

Happy Halloween! Party Ideas!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Over the past few weeks I have been posting recipes that you can use for a Halloween party, suitable for a children’s party or even for nibbles for an adult party before hitting the town so I thought I would summarise and link back to all of the recipes I have posted!

These ghostly pizzas were super tasty, the ghost shapes can be melted onto mini pizzas or onto a larger one and sliced up which is what I have done. You can find instructions on how to do this yourself here.

 

These broken glass cupcakes went down a treat! The ‘glass’ was made from mints so was 100% edible and the ‘blood’ was made from red icing. Recipe can be found here.

This was pretty self explanatory so I didn't need a recipe post. I hollowed out a mini pumpkin and filled it with a ‘dip’ I used cottage cheese but you can fill this with anything! Serve with carrot sticks, peppers, celery, bread sticks or cucumber. The possibilities are endless and the pumpkin ties this in with the Halloween theme perfectly.

 

These mummified cake pops look too cute to eat! They were so easy to make and look great at any Halloween Party. I’m going to make these again tonight for trick or treaters! You can find out how I did these here.

My pumpkin cake pops came out slightly paler than I had hoped for, but still worked well for the Halloween theme. The eyes melted a bit under the heat of the lights but you can sort of see what they are, right?! Recipe can be found here.

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"Broken Glass" Cupcakes for Halloween

I wanted to make some cupcakes for Halloween so when I saw this in the most recent Tesco magazine I decided I wanted to try them out! 

I used my standard cupcake recipe which never fails me! You can see this here.

I used a mixture of green yellow and red icing which made them sort of a coral colour. 

I then piped some green icing onto them using my Wilton 2D nozzle. You can find out more about how I ice my cupcakes here and a video tutorial here.

  
To make the ‘broken glass’ I melted some clear mints on a low heat in a saucepan for about 5 minutes. Once they had melted, I poured them onto some foil to set. They cooled off really quickly and when it was completely cool I broke it into ‘shards’ ready to stab into my cakes.

 

For the ‘blood’ icing, I simply mixed red food colouring, icing sugar and water and drizzled it on top of the cakes.

I think these are a great addition to any Halloween party, oh and they tasted amazing!

Halloween 'Ghostly' Pizza!

I saw these 'ghostly' pizzas in the most recent Tesco magazine and thought they looked so good! I really wanted to make them, but I'm not a fan of olives so I thought I would take my own spin on it. These are SO easy and can be served up for children on Halloween or placed on the table for a party.

I started off with a ready made pizza base which I spread tomato and basil passata on top of. You can then of course add whatever toppings you like. It's all about the cheese with these! I added peppers and tomatoes to mine.

The key to these is to make the cheese into the shape of ghosts. This may have worked a lot better with a ball of mozzarella but I only had grated so this proved challenging! 

 When the ghosts 'melted' in the oven, I used a knife just to tidy up the edges and I think they came out quite well. I used a bit of brown sauce for the face.

 These tasted lovely as well. You could even make mini ghosts on top of mini pizzas for snacks. What a fun Halloween snack!

Halloween Cake Pops!

One thing I’ve seen LOADS of on Pinterest recently is Halloween themed cake pops, so I decided I wanted to give them a go myself. Now I don’t know if you’ve seen my previous cake pop attempt (here) but I really wanted to try again using the tips I received after the last failed attempt.

  

I used the exact same recipe as last time which can be found here however this time I decided to make the cupcakes a green colour (they look more like brown though!). 

 When they were cooked, I let them cool, then stuck the cake pop sticks into them using a bit of melted chocolate to secure them. I then put them in the freezer overnight. This was a tip I received and I am so glad I did it this way! My problem last time was that the cakes crumbled when I coated them so by using frozen cake pops, I didn’t have this problem.

I decided to decorate the first half to look like mummies to keep with the Halloween theme. I simply dipped the pops into white chocolate, then when the first layer had cooled, I drizzled lines onto them to resemble bandages and then added a couple of ‘eyes’ with black icing. 

They look so cute! I am really pleased with how they came out.

I then decorated the second half of my cake pop batch to look like pumpkins. I couldn’t find any orange gel colouring at late notice so they’re more of a peach colour, but I don’t think they turned out too bad, and they were really easy.

Once again I added features using a black gel icing.

I can’t believe how easy these were to do, especially now that I know to freeze the cake pops before decorating them, I can’t wait to try some different designs! (Maybe Christmas ones?!)