Tasty and Delicious Halloween Fairy Cakes

Spider's webs, monsters and vampires - make these Halloween fairy cakes as scary and as healthy easy desserts as you dare using writing icing and sweets. Un-iced cakes can be frozen for up to 3 months, which can then be decorated when defrosted. The cakes can be decorated when defrosted. Desserts with a dark side are coming soon to a kitchen near you, courtesy of your favorite domestic doyenne. Only Martha Stewart could devise these devilishly ingenious cupcake recipes and decorations and also try to do something out of those ingredients on making ice cream recipes, including eerie eyeballs, taffy tentacles, and buttercream bandages. 

I made these cakes for the kids on Halloween but you can use the recipe and idea and swap the colours and jelly shapes for different ones for other themes like other easy dessert recipes. For the cakes I used my basic fairy cake recipe but feel free to buy some if your not a Nigella or use your own recipe. For the frosting I use half butter and half icing sugar and drops of food die till you create your desired colour.

Preparation:

For the scary fairy cakes: Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4. Place the baking cases into a 12-hole fairy cake baking tray.

In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 

Gradually beat in the eggs and the vanilla extract. If the mixture starts to curdle, add a little flour. 

Fold in the remaining flour and cocoa powder with a large metal spoon.

Place spoonfuls of the mixture into the baking cases and bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 mins until well risen and firm to the touch.

Remove the fairy cakes from the oven and leave to cool on a cooling rack.

For the decoration: Choose your desired colour of fairy cake icing, massage the pouch for 1 min to loosen the icing, then snip the corner off the pouch and pour a small amount of icing over each cake. Using a knife, spread the icing thickly over the fairy cakes.

Decorate the cakes using the writing icing and sprinkles to make scary faces. Make them as scary as you dare!