What treats did you make for Halloween? Share your recipes with Flora and you could win a £200 John Lewis voucher NOW CLOSED

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Flora have asked us to find out about Mumsnetters’ favourite Halloween themed recipes.

Here's what Flora have to say, "With Halloween and half term coming up, it’s a great time for making treats with your children. We’d love to hear about your favourite recipes for Halloween treats.“

So what are your favourite Halloween treat recipes? Do you make an impressive spooky sponge? Or maybe you prefer a classic pumpkin pie? Are you an expert at making creepy cookies?

Have you seen any Halloween creations you wish you could make? What has inspired you to get creative this Halloween?

Whatever your favourite Halloween recipes are, Flora would love to hear them. Please post links/pictures/descriptions of your favourite Halloween creation on this thread.

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Parkin cake with muscovado unrefined sugars and stem ginger. I could use flora in the recipe :-)

spagetti in gravy to look like worms in mud, hard boiled eggs with red food colouring to look like veiny eyeballs, cupcakes with white icing then put a blob of black icing in the middle and use a toothpick to make lines going outwards and in circles to look like a spider web.

I made ghost shaped biscuits covered in white icing with my Godchildren

We also did the veiny eyeball eggs and cupcakes with cobwebs iced on top.

Number 1...

Pumpkin Brains Dip...

Top & hollow out your large pumpkin, carve it a scary face as normal - make sure that the hole left by taking its top of is a good fit for a Heat proof type bowl - the clear Pyrex type are best

(don't throw away any of the innards as if used properly, it all tastes bloody lovely & can be used in several ways)

Make a basic cheese sauce, season with a bit of paprika

(you could use flora for this, but if I'm honest I hate all that margarine stuff & would go with real butter every time)

Put a few lit candles into the pumpkin

Pour cheese sauce into the heat proof bowl - add a handful of grated mozzarella cheese & a few small dollops of tomato purée - roughly stir through so that it looks streaked with bloody & the mozzarella is stringy

Sit bowl into the hole where the pumpkin lid would usually sit - over the lit candles - this will keep it warm

Sit pumpkin with its bloody brains cheesy dip in the middle of a large platter

arrange cut raw veg crudités around the pumpkin to fill the platter - these can be things like - carrot - cauliflower - cucumber etc etc

Dip veg into pumpkin brains & eat -

this has always been a bit hit with kids at all the Halloween parties we have had here :) -

for an adult version change cheese sauce dip to your favourite fondue recipe

Number 2...

Dead mans finger nails...

The scooped out seeds washed & tossed in a little sesame oil with sea salt & chilli, then spread out on a tray toasted in the oven until golden & crisp are nutritious & bloody lovely & can be served instead if peanuts as dead mans nails or used to decorate half hotdog sausages to make into dead mans fingers

Number 3

Bloody chocolate nightmare...

Melt cheap lower cocoa chocolate, with veg oil & red gel food colouring to make it look bloody - best served in a chocolate fountain - but if not a second pumpkin as above will work

Serve with cut fruits like strawberry, banana, apple etc etc, (marshmallows will work too) provide bamboo skewers to spike fruits & dip in chocolate blood

A pile of bone shaped pizzas & spooky cupcakes that's it, party sorted :)

I would love to make pumpkin pie.

We made cupcakes to look like Jack o lanterns - orange zest and orange and carrot juice in the sponge mix, and made up the icing with orange and carrot juice instead of water. Chocolate drops to make the eyes and mouth.

Eye Ball Cakes - Make fairy cake mix, and use cupcake maker or cake pop tins to get smaller, rounder cakes. Ice the top with white icing. Then decorate the top with a jumbo Smartie to make the coloured part of the eye, and draw on a pupil with a black food colouring pen, or stick on a choc button. Make red veins with strawberry shoelaces.

Quite a large proportion of smarties, choc buttons and strawberry laces will be eaten before they make it to the cake, so buy extras.

I have made the worms in straws - they are really great.
My mother in law put plastic dog poo in jelly to frighten the neighbours kids.......
and then took her teeth out!!

Ok, those worms in straws were my nemesis.

I packed straws into a glass, there was a little space so I wrapped with an elastic band. Poured in jelly and left o set. Forgot for two days. Went to squeeze out jelly worms after running under warm water. Jelly all over outside of straws also. Coated self in jelly. Squeezed each straw to eject jelly. Twenty five jelly worms later I sneakily chucked the other twenty five in the bin.

Really? I must have missed something. It is currently on my never again list. What did I do wrong.

Alternative - bake cakes. Make lurid green icing, and bright red icing, calling the latter bats' blood icing. Give each child icing, and haribo spooky sweets. Allow children to decorate cakes themselves, and eat the left over icing. Gain twenty mummy points for less effort.

Shop bought treats in the 10things house i'm afraid. I did roast the pumpkins seeds though!

We had a go at making this cake:
Boo-tiful Cake
But a certain someone me finished off most of the marshmallows while waiting for the cake to come out of the oven.
So we just ended up eating an undecorated sponge. Oh, and we substituted the recipe on the website for one that had Flora veg oil in it! MUCH tastier than a butter cake. Honest.

We made "sick". Rice pudding with a bit of red food colouring sprinkled across it. It even got eaten!

Also, "finger food" - veggie hot dog sausages, almond flakes for nails, ketchup for blood. We had a plateful to offer the teenage trick or treaters.

Slime with bugs (lime jelly with plastic or icing bugs in).

Brains with eyeballs (red jelly with lychees in)

Mud pie (oozing red worms and green maggots made from icing).

I'm a jelly at hallowe'en kindagal: with spooky treats mixed in...simple and who doesn't love a jelly!?!

We made Ginger bread Ghosts and cookies in the shape of Witches hats. Almost half of them made it to the door for the trick or treaters. They were very yummy :)

I prepared and served a spooktacular Halloween feast, as I do every year for my family. Our favourite treat was the green spider cupcakes filled with oozing blood! I wish I could share a photo here but there doesn't appear to be an option. You'll have to check it out on my blog instead: www.elizabethskitchendiary.co.uk/2013/10/a-spooktacular-halloween-feast.html

I've put a pic on my profile of last year's Halloween dinner. I didn't get a chance this year and the kids missed it so I've definitely got to try again for next year.

We made something truly you my looking but very delicious. Strawberry jelly embedded at the surface with lychee eyeballs (tinned lychees with a green grape inside which has a bilberry inside) and marzipan fingers with little indentations as knuckles and a flaked almond painted red with food dye as a nail. Looked fantastic and tasted pretty good.

Sorry, typo there...not you my but yucky.

For an easy “always ready” meal on Halloween I made a vegetable casserole using butternut squash, peas, peppers, root vegetables, cauliflower and split lentils, and to go with these I made some pumpkin topped cheese scones (recipe below).

225 g self raising flour
55 g Flora
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp mustard powder
½ tsp salt
150 ml milk
50 g of grated cheese

mix the dry ingredients together with the butter, then add the cheese and milk to make a dough. Roll out about 2 cm thick and cut into shapes (squares make the best use of the mixture with no waste). Then brush with beaten egg and top with pumpkin seeds and cook for 15 minutes. Serve with the casserole for a lovely warming Halloween meal.

Our sweet treat then was simple chocolate cupcakes filled with a sticky strawberry jam centre for a gooey blood effect and topped with various coloured icing and sweets made into monster style faces, simple but delicious and effective and the children loved decorating these, so a fun baking experience for the family too.

Cupcakes:-

150 g Flora
150 g soft brown sugar
3 eggs
115 g self raising flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp vanilla extract
35 g cocoa powder

Mix together the Flora and sugar until fluffy then add the eggs, then fold in the dry ingredients. Put a large spoonful of the mixture in the a cupcake cake then top with a small blob of jam and then another large spoon of the mixture so that the cake bakes with a lovely jammy centre. Bake for 20-25 minutes and when cool decorate with funny monster faces from icing and sweets.

I made Halloween cakes with my dc. Pics on profile.

We do bake loads though so not that exciting for my dc.

Some of these sound great.

Blimey, my Halloween party food consisted of jacket spuds, hot dogs and crisps! Er, so I guess the theme was quick, easy and washing up free. This year anything that might have required the application of food colouring or a scary theme would have pushed me over the edge.

Previous years I have done jelly 'kids cocktails' with jelly worms in, themed buns with spider web icing (made with Flora! Check!) and mud sandwiches (marmite). You can also make pretty convincing slugs from cocktail sausages with a couple of small carrot or cucumber sticks at one end.

For us it's toffee apples and jelly with the pick and mix worms set inside!

Meringue ghouls - meringue piped out into ghostly shapes, once cooked and cooled dot melted choc on for eyes and mouths. Looked lovely!

It's all in the name; on the double, double, toil and trouble theme.
I do a 'cauldron' casserole.
Beef/lamb chunks- Dog's do's
Tomatoes - blood clots
Baby carrots - fingers
Pickling onions- eye balls.
etc. etc.
I takes some nerve to eat it!

We actually made a lot of treats at home... ok, we also got a 5kg bucket full of sweets but only because we had a house full of kids...

We made a Halloween themed flat hard cookies using chocolate chips for eyes and food colouring to make a huge red mouth.

We also made donuts which were actually plain inside but covered with orange and black frosting - we tried to recreate a pumpkin look

Making it was fun and kids learn a lot

Ghoulish macaroni cheese (sauce made with flora), coloured with green and red food colouring.