Halloween Candy

The last of my halloween baking this year. I made these for the trick or treaters who couldn't believe that I made these myself! I went to Hobbycraft at the weekend for the first time - how have I never discovered this before?! Anyway, better late than never right? I spent more than an hour there browsing and filling up my basket very quickly. I bought supplies for my cake pops (tip 1: candy melts here are cheaper than if you buy from amazon or other online stores; tip 2: buy oasis floral foam blocks to hold your cake pops) and came across this halloween candy making kit which was on sale. Of course I had to buy it and it was the last one! 

It comes with 3 moulds, wilton candy melts (light cocoa, orange, white and red), 20 lollipop sticks, 4 disposable decorating bags, 1 decorating brush and 20 party bags.  All for £9.99! I was really pleased with the final results. Will definitely be making more of these next year. 

 melt the candy melts in the microwave using the disposable decorating bags 

 

 

Halloween Oreo Cupcakes

Oreo cupcakes with a Halloween twist. I saw these limited edition mini oreos and just couldnt resist. I used my trusted oreo cupcake recipe and they went down a trick and a treat. It was like a magic trick as one minute it was there, the next it was gone! 

Halloween Cake Pops

It has been a mega halloween baking effort from me this year. I managed to make about 100 cake pops and cake balls over a few days which have all been eaten! Plus Halloween candy and cupcakes which will be featured next.  I went on a cake pops class earlier this year taught by Leigh of Craft Cakes at the Oak Studio. Been planning to make cake pops since then but not had a chance until now. Luckily I still remembered how to but really need to practice my decorating skills. I did fail art at school so really you can't blame me! I also had some help from my friend P who was staying over and helped decorate the cake pops. The first time, we used writing icing which was difficult to control resulting in the cake pops above.
I then asked for some help from Olivia of livalittlebakery as her cake pops looks amazing, check it out here.
So the second time round, I used sugarflair colour paste with a paintbrush. However my brush was not fine enough and by then I was really tired and just wanted to get them done. Lesson learnt for next time. Leigh also had a great tip of using royal icing which I will definitely try next time.

 prepare your items. I forgot to add in the tic tacs which I used for the pumpkin stem. Sainsbury's has an amazing baking range at the moment including these orange buttons. 

 dip cake balls and allow to set. I 

 I had this brilliant idea of using a pumpkin to display my cake pops and am glad it worked. Its also my first time carving a pumpkin so I'm pretty pleased with myself :) I need to carve the mouth a bit higher though. 

 yummy mummies (all decorating ideas are from Bakerella's cake pops - highly recommend if you want to make amazing looking cake pops) 

 2nd time - I tried making some skulls - ugh. Good thing its Halloween so ugly is pretty haha. I also got these oasis foam blocks and wilton candy melts from hobbycraft - great for cake pops. They were still a little difficult to balance using the empty egg cartons. 

 pumpkins using black sugarflair paste with a (too thick) brush and wilton candy melts - brighter orange colour but I think the silverspoon buttons gave a smoother appearance. 

 little pumpkins when I ran out of lollipop sticks and time to draw more faces... still looked good and tasted great. 

If you need a reminder on how to make the actual cake pops, click here

Happy Halloween Everyone!