In this article, discover 5 eerie-sistible baking recipes for Halloween that are cost-effective and perfect for making with (or for) the kiddies – no tricks, just treats!
Spooky Shortbread Mummies
Covered in chocolate and iced with super-spooky ‘bandages’, these munchable shortbread mummies are soft, buttery, and fiendishly delicious!
Ingredients:
Apart from dark chocolate, unsalted butter and plain flour, you’ll just need our Tate & Lyle’s Pure Cane Caster Sugar and Icing Sugar to complete this simple, straightforward recipe.
Prep time: 40 minutes
Baking time: 12-15 minutes
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Petrifying Pumpkin Pie
Fancy a pumpkin spice pudding this Halloween? You can’t go wrong with this spooktacular (in a cute way) pie. With its scrumptious pumpkin spice filling and ghostly crust, this Halloween dessert is truly in the spirit of the occasion!
Try adding a dollop of whipped cream or crème fraîche to make your Halloween pumpkin pie extra sinful!
Ingredients:
For the pastry, you’ll just need unsalted butter, plain flour and salt. For the filling, you’ll need Tate & Lyle’s Pure Cane Caster Sugar, Light Brown Soft Sugar, cream, eggs, pumpkin puree and some spices.
Prep time: 1 hour
Baking time: 40 minutes
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Very Scary Vegan Brownies
A dessert loved by vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters alike, chocolate brownies make the perfect Halloween treat. The best bit of this recipe is using melted marshmallows to make the eerie ‘cobweb’ effect that’s sure to impress your party guests!
Ingredients:
For this recipe, you’ll need Tate & Lyle Pure Cane Granulated Sugar, ground flaxseed, coconut oil, vanilla extract, baking powder, plain flour, dark chocolate, cocoa powder and plant-based milk.
Prep time: 20 minutes
Baking time: 25 minutes
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Creepy Chocolate Cupcakes with Meringue Ghosts
If you were hoping to make some Halloween cupcakes, prepare to step it up a notch with these supposed-to-be-spooky-but-actually-kind-of-cute cakes!
These deliciously moist chocolate cupcakes are topped with little googly-eyed, somewhat startled looking meringue ghosts to make them extra festive and fab-boo-lous!
Ingredients:
For this fun little recipe, you’ll need Tate & Lyle Pure Cane Caster Sugar, eggs, candy eyes, milk, natural yoghurt, cocoa powder, plain flour, baking powder and unsalted butter.
Prep time: 25 minutes
Baking time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Frightfully Tasty Salted Caramel Pumpkin Cupcakes
And last but not least, check out our frightfully tasty, salted caramel pumpkin Halloween cupcakes. These little treats are perfect for parties, or even for satisfying the sweet tooth of any trick-or-treaters who come knocking!
Ingredients:
In addition to Tate & Lyle’s Fairtrade Pure Cane Light Brown Soft Sugar and Fairtrade Cane Icing Sugar, you’ll be needing grated pumpkin, orange zest, mixed spice, self-raising flour, bicarbonate of soda, butter, double cream, sea salt and cream cheese.
Prep time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 25 minutes
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Be sure to stock up on all the Tate & Lyle sugars, syrups and other sweet treats you’ll need before getting started on your spooky Halloween desserts!
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