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Halloween Monster Cake Recipe |
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This recipe will keep your kids occupied for an hour or
so and it's easy enough for a six year old to do most of the work. Use
your imagination for the decorations.
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KEY POINTS
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Preparation Time: |
20 minutes |
Cooking Time: |
25 minutes |
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How Difficult |
Easy |
Freeze? |
No |
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Servings |
4 portions |
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INGREDIENTS
The basic ingredients are shown in the recipe picture below.
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Metric |
Imperial |
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100 g icing sugar |
4 oz icing sugar |
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100 g soft butter |
4 oz soft butter |
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300 g Self Raising flour |
10oz Self Raising flour |
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1 medium egg (at room
temperature) |
1 medium egg (at room
temperature) |
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1 teaspoon Vanilla extract |
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract |
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10 whole blanched almonds |
10 whole blanched almonds |
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Red food colouring |
Red food colouring |
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Black food colouring |
Black food colouring |
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1 heaped teaspoon baking
powder |
1 heaped teaspoon baking
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WHAT SPECIAL KITCHEN EQUIPMENT
Medium bowl to mix ingredients
Turn the oven on, setting it to 170 C / 325 F / Gas Mark 3.
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Mix the icing sugar, butter and egg together with a blunt knife or fork. Mix
till most of the ingredients are blended. Add the flour and mix again for four
or five minutes till blended. |
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Add two tablespoons of water and mix in with your hands, blending it in then
rolling it into a ball. The pastry should be moist but only enough to be able to
roll it all into a ball.
Add a tablespoon or so of water if it is still crumbly. |
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Roll out ten fingers of
pastry which are a bit thicker in the middle (the knuckle). Form a nose
and two largish eyes. Make ten or so small teeth portions. Roll out the
central face (lots of flour on the surface to roll easily) Click the
picture to enlarge it to see what we mean. Put them on greaseproof paper
in a tray and cook in the oven for 25 minutes at 170 C / 325 F / Gas Mark
3.. Don't open the door until 20 minutes has gone by! |
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Stick the almonds in the ends of the fingers to form yellowing finger nails -
yukky! The decoration is up to you! We used black food dye to colour the teeth
and red food dye on the eyes and fingers. Use anything you have, allsorts
sweets are good. |
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