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Halloween mini cake ideas
The easiest and fastest way to make mini bake is Halloween muffins — the favorite confectionery of adults and children. These sweet baked goods are very similar to mini cakes with a cream cap that с can decorate in the spirit of Halloween.
Every year I look for interesting new food ideas — baked goods, desserts, and snacks that look like a holiday. But last year, I wanted something elegant and chocolate and made some delicious, delicate, and fluffy Halloween muffins with chocolate.
This recipe is perfect for any occasion, depending on the decor of your muffins. For Halloween baking, I chose a chocolate spider web and a mastic witch hat.
Why is Halloween the best holiday
Halloween is an ancient holiday with a hazy past, the most popular and a great reason to have fun! On Halloween, it is customary to dress up in costumes of evil spirits and cook a bunch of sweets in the form of insects, ghosts, witches, skeletons, and other horrors of this and other worlds. The night of October 31, the eve of All Saints’ Day, is commonly celebrated by children who dress in costume and go door-to-door asking for candy — “Trick or Treat”!
You can invent the design of sweets yourself or use proven recipes, for example, Halloween muffins chocolate. Then Halloween will be a success. Whichever option you choose, remember: the dishes should be scary and delicious to the point of trembling in the knees.
Halloween Chocolate Muffins Recipe
Ingredients for muffins:
- Flour — 200 g
- Butter — 80 g
- Sugar — 100 g
- Milk — 150 g
- Baking powder — 11 g
- Salt — pinch
- Chicken egg — 2 pcs
- Vanilla essence — 0.5 tsp
- Cocoa powder — 3 tbsp
Ingredients for the cream:
- Sour cream 15% — 170 g
- Cream cheese Philadelphia — 220 g
- Gelatin — 15 g
- Sugar — 120 g
- Vanilla extract — to taste
- Orange gel dye
Ingredients For decor:
- For cobwebs: Chocolate Black — 80 g
- For witch hat: Confectionery mastic black, white, orange
Cooking steps:
- Prepare all the food you need to make web Halloween muffins. Eggs and milk should be at room temperature. Whisk the eggs in a deep bowl. Pour in butter, milk, and essence, continue whisking.
- Add all dry ingredients — flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, a pinch of salt.
- Mix the dough until smooth, leave for a few minutes.
- Insert the muffin sleeves into the baking dish, pour a little more than half into each dough. Send the form into an oven preheated to 356 °F(ca. 180 °C) for 20 minutes, check readiness with a wooden skewer.
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Steps for making Halloween muffins cream
- While the muffins are baking, prepare the cream. Whisk the sugar and sour cream, add the cream cheese, cut into pieces, continue beating until smooth.
- It is better to take a gel dye; it works well in a cream. Start by adding a few drops, as it is different for every manufacturer.
- Dissolve the gelatin according to the instructions in a small amount of water, cool it, gently insert it into the cream, continuing to beat. At this stage, the cream will become thinner, but don’t let that scare you. Put it in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes — it will take the desired shape.
- When the Halloween muffins are completely cool, apply the cream and send it to the refrigerator until wholly solidified, for 30 minutes.
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Decor for Halloween muffins
Spider web:
- For the spider web, we need a dark chocolate bar and a pastry bag. Break the chocolate, put it in a bag, put it in the microwave for 1.5-2 minutes.
- Place a piece of cling foil on a hard, flat surface with the glossy side up, cut a corner off the pastry bag. Draw cobwebs with melted chocolate, refrigerate for a while to freeze the blanks. Carefully remove the spider webs from the foil.
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Witch hat:
I had only white mastic; I dyed it myself, adding a few drops of gel dye and kneading it like a regular dough.
- Pinch off two pieces of black mastic, blind from a tiny circle, roll out with a rolling pin. On the other, you need to mold a cap with a strong base. Roll the orange mastic thinly, cut into thin strips, glue a white mastic buckle in the middle. You should have a belt.
- Glue a belt at the base of the cap, cut off any excess. Place the lid on the circle clearly in the middle so that the same hat’s brim. Press down well on both blanks.
Happy Halloween to you and your kids!
Halloween Muffins
Ingredients
For muffins
- 200 g Flour
- 80 g Butter
- 100 g Sugar
- 150 g Milk
- 11 g Baking powder
- 1 pinch Salt
- 2 pcs Chicken egg
- 0,5 tsp Vanilla essence
- 3 tbsp Cocoa powder
The cream
- 170 g Sour cream 15%
- 220 g Cream cheese Philadelphia
- 15 g Gelatin
- 120 g Sugar
- To taste Vanilla extract
- 2-3 drops Orange gel dye
For decor
- 80 g Chocolate Black
- 120 g Confectionery mastic Black, white, orange
Instructions
Halloween Muffins
- Prepare all the food you need to make web Halloween muffins. Eggs and milk should be at room temperature. Whisk the eggs in a deep bowl. Pour in butter, milk, and essence, continue whisking.
- Add all dry ingredients — flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, a pinch of salt.
- Mix the dough until smooth, leave for a few minutes.
- Insert the muffin sleeves into the baking dish, pour a little more than half into each dough. Send the form into an oven preheated to 356 °F(ca. 180 °C) for 20 minutes, check readiness with a wooden skewer.
- While the Halloween muffins are baking, prepare the cream. Whisk the sugar and sour cream, add the cream cheese, cut into pieces, continue beating until smooth.
- It is better to take a gel dye; it works well in a cream. Start by adding a few drops, as it is different for every manufacturer.
- Dissolve the gelatin according to the instructions in a small amount of water, cool it, gently insert it into the cream, continuing to beat. At this stage, the cream will become thinner, but don't let that scare you. Put it in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes — it will take the desired shape.
- When the Halloween muffins are completely cool, apply the cream and send it to the refrigerator until wholly solidified, for 30 minutes.
Decor for Halloween muffins
Spider web
- For the spider web, we need a dark chocolate bar and a pastry bag. Break the chocolate, put it in a bag, put it in the microwave for 1.5-2 minutes.
- Place a piece of cling foil on a hard, flat surface with the glossy side up, cut a corner off the pastry bag. Draw cobwebs with melted chocolate, refrigerate for a while to freeze the blanks. Carefully remove the spider webs from the foil.
Witch hat
- Pinch off two pieces of black mastic, blind from a tiny circle, roll out with a rolling pin. On the other, you need to mold a cap with a strong base. Roll the orange mastic thinly, cut into thin strips, glue a white mastic buckle in the middle. You should have a belt.
- Glue a belt at the base of the cap, cut off any excess. Place the cap on the circle clearly in the middle so that the same hat's brim. Press down well on both blanks.
Notes
- To easily remove the chocolate from the foil, sprinkle cooking spray on the surface of the foil.
- Choose the color of the cream and culinary mastic as you wish. Show your imagination, make cute and delicate muffins for Halloween or bright colors.
- If you don't find a colored mastic, make it from white by adding food coloring and knead it like dough.
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