Wealden Times | WT233 | October 2021 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

Creepy Pizzas
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 5-10 minutes
Makes 4 small pizzas
If you don’t want to go to the bother
of making your own pizza dough,
there are kits available (near the ready
rolled pastry at most supermarkets),
and even part baked pizza bases and
tomato topping. They can be circular
or rectangular and any size you choose.
These are great fun for even the
youngest children to assemble and cook
really quickly too. Have fun coming
up with your own creepy designs.
• 4 x 20cm pizza bases
• 200g tomato sauce – either from a jar,
or made with 1tbsp olive oil, 1 tin finely
chopped tomatoes (or passata), 2 tbsp
tomato puree, 1tbsp basil or oregano
– combined thoroughly together
• 250g mozzarella pizza
cheese (must be sliceable)
• 15-20 black olives
1. Make/prepare the pizza bases
and spread with tomato sauce.
2. Slice mozzarella into thin slabs and
carve into ghost and spiderweb shapes.
Place these on the tomato covered
bases and add olives – cut into slivers
for ghostly outlines and spiders’ legs.
3. Use a whole olive for spider bodies
and a half for a head. The pizzas
can be prepared in advance and
kept in the fridge until required.
4. Place on baking trays and bake
in a preheated oven (gas 6, 180˚C)
for a few minutes. Keep your eye
on them, as overcooking will melt
the cheese into a grisly mess.
Black Cat, Bat &
Toothsome Cupcakes
Preparation time: 45 minutes-1 hour
(decorating takes the most time)
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes
Makes 18 small cupcakes or
12 muffin-sized cakes
These are surprisingly easy to
make – to be quite honest, any
combination of ghoulishly coloured
icing and lurid sweets will go down
well. Let your imagination run wild
and get monstrously creative.
For the cakes:
• 200g self raising flour
• 200g sugar
• 200g softened butter
• 3 eggs
• ½ tsp vanilla essence
• 1 tbsp milk (more if needed)
For the frosting:
• 100g cream cheese
• 100g softened butter
• 120g icing sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla essence
• black, purple (and or other
colours) food colouring
• small pack black roll
out fondant icing
• mini marshmallows
• strawberry laces and other
sweets for decorating
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