With the Halloween season upon us, there is only one question on everyone’s mind. What is the spookiest dish to cook? Well, we are here to solve that problem for you. We have compiled the 3 spookiest foods you can make this Halloween to make your party stand out! Let’s begin-

1- Skeleton biscuits

Ingredients

• 200g unsalted butter
• 100g caster sugar
• 265g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
• 30g cocoa powder
• 1 tsp black food colouring
• For the decoration
• 80g icing sugar

Method

1. Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat together with a whisk or electric beaters until smooth and fluffy. Tip in the plain flour, cocoa powder and food colouring, and mix again. Chill for 30 mins – this will make the dough easier to roll out. Lightly flour the work surface and roll out the dough until 1cm thick.
2. Cut out the biscuits using a person-shaped cutter, and arrange on 2-3 large baking trays. Reroll the excess dough and repeat. Chill the dough cut-outs for 30 mins.
3. Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and bake for 18-21 mins, until hardening around the edges. Leave to cool fully.
4. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and gradually pour in 1-1½ tbsp water, constantly mixing, to get a thick paste. Put the icing in a piping bag, snip a little off the end to make a small hole, and pipe bone shapes and a skull onto the biscuits so they look like skeletons. 
5. Leave to set. Will keep for up to a week in an airtight container!

2- Sugar Cookie Eyeballs

Ingredients

• 16 oz. tube sugar cookie dough
• White candy melts, melted
• Green M&Ms
• Black icing

Method-

1. Coat a 24-cup mini-muffin pan with cooking spray. 
2. Cut a 16.5-ounce tube sugar cookie dough into 6 slices, then quarter each slice. Press a piece of dough into each muffin cup. 
3. Bake at 350° until set, 12 minutes; let cool. Fill with melted white candy melts and top each with a green M&M. Use black icing to make the pupils.

3- Halloween Cake Pops

Ingredients

• 100g/4oz madeira cake
• 100g chocolate sandwich biscuits
• 100g bar milk chocolate, melted
• 200g bar white chocolate, melted
• few sugar-coated chocolate beans and icing pens, to decorate
• 10 wooden skewers
• ½ small pumpkin or butternut squash , deseeded, to stand pops in

Method-

1. Break the Madeira cake and cookies into the bowl of a food processor, pour in the melted milk chocolate and whizz to combine.
2. Tip the mixture into a bowl, then use your hands to roll it into about 10 walnut-sized balls. Chill for 2 hrs until really firm.
3. Push a skewer into each ball, then carefully spoon the white chocolate over the cake balls to completely cover. Stand the cake pops in the pumpkin, then press a Smartie onto the surface while wet. Chill again until the chocolate has set. 
4. Before serving, using the icing pens, add a pupil to each Smartie and wiggly red veins to the eyeballs!

Have a great Halloween!