Fiendish Fizzies Cupcake Recipe – Halloween

Recipe for Fiendish Fizzies cupcakes Makes 36 cupcakes Ingredients: 1 Free range egg 2 oz Self raising flour 2 oz Unsalted butter 2 oz Caster sugar 1/4 tsp Baking powder 1tsp Vanilla extract 2tsp Coca powder Decoration: 6oz Icing sugar 3oz Unsalted butter 1tsp Vanilla flavour 1tsp Green food colouring 1 pack of Fiendish Fizzies … Continue reading →

Carrot Muffins Recipe – Halloween

Halloween Carrot Muffins Preparation: 20mins Cooking: 25mins Makes 12 200g/7oz soft light brown sugar 200ml/7floz sunflower oil 2 medium eggs 200g/7oz plain flour 2.5ml/1/2 tsp baking powder 2.5ml/1/2tsp bicarbonate of soda pinch of salt 5ml/1 tsp ground cinnamon 200g/7oz carrots, peeled and grated 50g/2oz walnut pieces, chopped 5ml/1 tsp vanilla essence For the icing: 225g/ … Continue reading →

Spider Chocolate Cup Cakes Recipe – Halloween

Spider Cup Cakes Chocolate Cup Cakes decorate them with liquorice legs, great for Halloween! Makes 12 cakes Ingredients 100g plain chocolate 4tbsp golden syrup 150g unsalted butter, softened 80ml double cream 150g caster sugar 100g milk chocolate 20g cocoa, sifted 100g plain chocolate 3 eggs, beaten 3 tbsp Rachel’s Greek Style Natural Bio Live Yogurt … Continue reading →

Spooky Halloween Jelly Recipe

These easy jellies are great fun to make and kids love to decorate them – the spookier the better! Ready in: 4 – 6 hours or overnight Serves: 4 Ingredients: 4 leaves of gelatine 8 tbsps bottlegreen Cox’s Apple and Plum Cordial 2 clementines Selection of jelly sweets, i.e., wriggly worms, false teeth and snakes … Continue reading →

Spooky Halloween Craft Project

Simply follow our step-by-step guide and create the scary spiders in their glow-in-the-dark web! All you need is your Dremel Glue Gun and some special glow-in-the-dark hot glue sticks which are re-activated by light to make this spooky addition to your porch or window. Materials required : Dremel Glue Gun 7mm Glow-in-the-Dark glue sticks x … Continue reading →

Gruesome Halloween Treats That Help Children Eat Vegetables

Frankenstein Fingers and Sheep’s Eyes For a bit of Halloween fun, try these spooky ideas! They are quick and easy and get the kids eating veg too! Fill a small bowl with ready-made guacamole, houmous or other favourite dip. Take 5 baby carrots and take a thin slice off the tip of each. Then use … Continue reading →

What Does It Feel Like To Be Adopted? – National Adoption Week

It is National Adoption Week. I intend to blog about adoption every day this week and hope to cover various viewpoints. It is one of those life issues that affects many people, rippling out down the years and across boundaries. So there are many voices – adoptive parents, birth parents, adopted people, siblings of adopted … Continue reading →

How To Make Toffee Apples

Try this all-time favourite at home but take care when making as the toffee gets very hot! Children can help to weigh out and melt the ingredients but should let mum do the boiling and coating… Makes 6 Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 10-15 minutes Ingredients 6 eating apples 175g (6oz) light buttery spread … Continue reading →

How You Can Lose Weight Even If You Think You Can’t – 8 Tips

I quite like my weekly routine of getting weighed on Monday morning. This week I have lost another pound which is not bad at all considering rather too much indulgence in alcohol and Half-Term activities preventing me taking as much exercise as I would have liked. Here are my learnings so far or tips if … Continue reading →

Can You Think Of A Caption For This Picture? Caption Saturday

Now after thinking of a caption for this one, have fun looking at the other entries over on the lovely Mammasaurus blog.