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PLACES TO GO 16 raring2go.co.uk 17 For more delicious recipe ideas visit our website www.raring2go.co.uk Pumpkin Halloween Vanilla Cake Pops Pop • Makes 20 Portions s 20 Portions • Preparation 60 minutes ration 60 min • 25 minutes cooking time • 180 C°, 350 F°, Gas Mark 4 350 F Gas Mark 4 Ingredients For the Sponge ts For the Spo 115g Unsalted butter (soften 115g Billing n Billington’s ened), 115g Billington’s ingto ’s ed butter (soft 5g Bi ingtons Unrefined Golden Cast Sugar, 2 F e range lden Caster Sugar, 2 Free medium egg(s), 140g g , / p aising white flour, 1/2 tsp g(s), 140g Self-raising whit flour, /2 Baking powder, For the Buttercream r 200g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar, 85g U ed butter (softened), n Icing Sugar, 85g Unsalted butter (softened 1 tbsp Milk (semi-skimme tsp Nielsen-Massey Milk e mmed), 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Ex t For the g or the ation, 200 Orange xtract, For t e or the Decoration, 200g Orange candy me 1 t ing elts, 1 tube Writing icing (black) Method Step 1: h ven to 180°C (1 fan, gas Preheat the en to 180°C (160°C fan eat the oven to 180°C en to 180 C C fan mark 4 an 8” cake t nd l an8” mark 4). 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Step 5: To make ar the buttercream, beat together the icing sugar, ug m, beat tog he d a t butter, milk and va extract until smooth. a d vanilla extract u eperfect How to make the perfect buttercre m ke t ke the perfect buttercream tercr Step 6: cake When the ca e has fully cooled, crumble xi g b it up in a large mix ow and then mix togethe m r w n hen t up in a large mixing nd then mix together mixing bowl and then mix together t with the buttercream unt rcre ntil it combines into a stiff mixture. Step 7: Using a teaspoon scoop out the mixture and roll into walnut s d balls. Place o into walnut sized balls. Place on a ace o baking sheet. Step 8: Once all of the mixture has xture has been rolled, pop in the fridge chill for 20 min n the fri fridge to chill for 20 minut minutes. Step 9: Insert the cake pop sticks into each of the of th balls. Step 10: Melt the orange melts in t the orange candy melts in a heatproof bowl over simmerin immering water or in short bursts in the microwave. Step 11: Dip each of the cake pops in the coloured chocolate so at d chocolate so that they hat they are fully coated. Step 12: Allow the cake pops to drip dry, twirling the pops once dipped to av ce dipped to avoid avoid the chocolate running. Step 13: Once the cake pops are fully dried decorate the facial featu facial feature and feature an pumpkin stalks with writing icing. Halloween recipes If you feel yourself getting a little ‘peckish’ this Halloween, we’ve got you covered with these tasty Halloween themed spooky treats... Spider Cookies • Makes 12 Portions • Not Suitable for freezing Suitable for freezing • Preparation 5 minutes • 1 minutes cooking time °, 275 F°, Gas Mark 1 • 140 C°, 275 Ingredients • 12 Chocolate Chip Cookies ers • 24 Malteasers Squar te Chocolate • 6 Squares White Chocolate • 12 Squares Dark or Milk Chocola or Milk Chocolate Method Step 1: Mi Dark/Milk chocolate over boiling Melt the Dark/Milk wave water of microwave water of in the microwave of in the microw Step 2: o an icing bag and draw 8 legs Put into an icing bag across the biscuit, and a couple of blobs in the he biscuit, and a coupl Malt middle. Before it dries add the 2 Malteasers to the efore it dries add th tick blobs of chocolate so that they sti chocolat Step 3: e and pipe 2 eyes Melt the white chocolate and pipe 2 eyes onto 1 Malteaser and 1 tail onto the other Malteaser. othe obviously a quick ‘cheats’ recipe! 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