Halloween Desserts: Easy Simple Recipes Like Mummy Cookies and Monster Cupcakes

This Halloween, it's your time to unleash your inner baker and conjure up a culinary cauldron of creativity. With Halloween desserts easy and simple to create, you'll be able to create a showstopping menu without having to lose your mind over learning new tricks and techniques. For once, you can let your imagination run wild and transform your kitchen into a haunted bakery, filled with ghostly treats, creepy crawlies, and wicked delights.

Whether you're hosting a party, getting dressed up for a costume bonanza, or just thinking of surprising loved ones with some sweet indulgence, these Halloween desserts recipes

are sure to add some ghostly fun to your Halloween shenanigans. This is your chance to unleash that inner baker as you go through these easy-to-follow instructions and creative decorating ideas that will help you prepare a culinary masterpiece. Here are our recommendations for easy Halloween dessert recipes that you have got to try out.

Mummy Cookies

These little mummies are golden strips of dough, wrapped up in cute cookie skins. They are great for trick-or-treaters and party people, too, because they are just so sweet and buttery.

Ingredients:

• 501 gm flour
• 202 gm sugar
• 103 gm butter
• 3 eggs
• 3 tsps vanilla extract
• Food coloring

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C.
2. Then, line a baking tray with parchment paper, making sure it's smooth for your cookies. You can secure it by cutting the sides of the paper and folding them over the baking tray. Alternatively, you can use a cooking spray on the baking tray first and then lay down the parchment paper so that it sticks to the base.
3. Sift flour, sugar, and baking powder into a large bowl with a fine-meshed sieve. The aim is to ensure that there are no lumps left in the dry ingredients. Conversely, you can also use a fork to break apart any lumps.
4. After that, add soft butter and mix in a food processor until a dough forms.
5. Then, divide the dough into 12 equal pieces and roll each piece into a long rope, shaping your cookies into mummy-like forms.
6. Next, you have to wrap strips of dough around each cookie to create the bandages for the mummies. Overlap a few strips to make them look natural.
7. Then, place your cookies on the baking sheet, leaving some space between each mummy so that the dough strips don’t stick together when baking.
8. Finally, bake for 12-15 minutes, keeping an eye on them to avoid overcooking.
9. You have to let your cookies cool before decorating them with white and black food coloring, and serving them warm. Use the white food coloring to highlight the bandage strips and the black color to outline the cookie and make the eyes. You can also use edible markers or small pieces of black liquorice to make the eyes of the mummy. Adding liquorice gives the cookies a sour flavor dimension.

Monster Cupcakes

Ingredients:

• 251 gm flour
• 202 gm sugar
• 101 gm butter
• 3 eggs
• 3 tsps vanilla extract
• Food coloring
• Edible eyes

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 190°C.
2. Then, prepare a few muffin tins with cupcake liners. Alternatively, use cooking spray and sprinkle a generous amount of flour to avoid the cupcakes from sticking to the moulds.
3. In a large bowl, you are going to whisk together flour, sugar, and baking powder.
4. Next, add softened butter to the mixture and mix until it's a smooth batter.
5. Then, it is time for you to divide the batter among the cupcake tins, and bake for 18-20 minutes.
6. You need to wait for your cupcakes to cool down before frosting.
7. Make teeth with white frosting and drips of blood from the corner of the mouth with red food coloring.
8. Before serving, you need to add edible eyes to the cupcakes.

Graveyard Pudding Parfaits

Ingredients:

• 501 ml milk
• 202 gm sugar
• 103 gm unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• Oreos
• Gummy worms

Method:

1. In a medium saucepan, you are going to combine milk, sugar, and cocoa powder, and whisk continuously over medium heat until the mixture thickens.
2. After a while, you can remove the saucepan from the heat.
3. Then, you need to add vanilla extract and stir.
4. You are going to pour the pudding into individual serving cups.
5. Next, you have to patiently let your pudding chill in the refrigerator until it's set.
6. Before serving, you must top your pudding with crushed Oreos and gummy worms, creating a spooky graveyard effect.

A quick and easy way to customise these recipes is by adding essences. You can use almond, coconut or lemon essences to give each of these treats a boost of flavor. You can also dust citric acid powder mixed with powdered sugar on top of your cookies and cupcakes to give these sweet treats a sweet-and-sour flavor profile.