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Halloween recipes - 20 recipes

Make fun Halloween recipes with pumpkin and orange for starters and mains or scary cakes and sweets for your trick or treats!

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Trick or treat time! This kids' party dessert may look gruesome, but the eyeballs and fingers are all sweet and fru

  • 2 x 135g packs strawberry or raspberry jelly
  • 425g can lychees in syrup
  • 12-14 small seedless green grapes
  • 12-14 dark coloured jelly beans
  • 80g white marzipan
  • 6-8 whole blanched almonds
  • red piping gel or red icing in a tube
3.5/5 (128 Votes)

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Like carrot cake? Then try using up your leftover pumpkin in this clever traybake for Halloween

  • 300g self-raising flour
  • 300g light muscovado sugar
  • 3 tsp mixed spice
  • 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 175g sultanas
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 4 eggs, beaten
  • 200g butter, melted
  • zest 1 orange
  • 1 tbsp orange juice
  • 500g (peeled weight) pumpkin or butternut squash flesh, grated
  • For drenching and frosting
  • 200g pack soft cheese
  • 85g butter, softened
  • 100g icing sugar, sifted
  • zest 1 orange and juice of half
3.5/5 (121 Votes)

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Spooooky little treats for Halloween! Having not yet tried out my electric whisk, I thought i'd give macarons anoth...

  • Makes 16-18
  • Three egg whites, aged for at least two days
  • 4 tablespoons caster sugar
  • 130g ground almonds
  • 200g icing sugar
  • A few drops of orange food colouring
  • Black icing pen
  • 150g dark chocolate
  • 100g quark or mascarpone
3.5/5 (116 Votes)

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Place all the ingredients in the bowl of a bread machine starting with the liquids and start the machine on the set...

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Get everyone in the Halloween mood with this gory but tasty pasta dish

  • 100g cherry tomatoes
  • 150g pack mini mozzarella balls, drained
  • handful basil
  • 400g green tagliatelle
  • 350g jar tomato sauce
  • 4 tbsp fresh pesto
3.3/5 (122 Votes)

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Cut the squash into cubes and peel

3.1/5 (150 Votes)

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Peel and drain the pumpkin, cut into cubes

3.4/5 (167 Votes)

Making the pumpkin soup: Sweat the onions in butter

  • Pumpkin soup:
  • - 30 g of butter
  • - 50 g of onion
  • - 500 g pumpkin, nutmeg pumpkin and squash
  • - the juice of 2 oranges
  • - 1/4 of 1 orange peel
  • - 1/2 litre of chicken stock
  • The bacon cream
  • - 30 g of smoked bacon
  • - 20 cl of chicken stock
  • - 5 cl single cream
  • - 1/4 sheet of gelatine
4/5 (102 Votes)

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Make the pastry. Butter a tart tin and place the pastry in the tin

  • Pastry:
  • - 125g of flour
  • - 60g butter
  • - 1 yolk
  • - 1 cup of water
  • Filling:
  • - 150g of pumpkin puree
  • - 35g of cream
  • - 1 egg
  • - Cinnamon
  • - Cloves
  • - Nutmeg
  • - Salt
4.5/5 (50 Votes)

Prepare the pumpkin and papaya stew: In a casserole, place together the pumpkin and papaya, peeled and diced, the...

  • 1 kg pumpkin,
  • 200 g papaya, not too ripe,
  • 100 g red onions,
  • 50 ml of oil,
  • 4 cloves of garlic,
  • salt
  • pepper
  • thyme
  • 50 g butter,
  • 100 g grated cheese,
  • 100 g of bread crumbs,
  • 200 g of bechamel white sauce.
3.9/5 (85 Votes)

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