Do you want to make sweets, to give as gifts or to eat for Halloween? Follow the advice of our pastry chef of La Suola de La Cucina Italiana
The party of Halloween is now at the door; you can't be caught unprepared if someone rings at the door saying "Trick or treat?". Here you can find simple and quick ideas for Halloween sweets to prepare with the children, three easy recipes and also fun.
Don't miss the advice of pastry chefs from The School of Italian Cuisine, to prepare Halloween sweets for this special party.
Greedy "Pumpkins"
To make small delicious "pumpkins", you can take some tangerines and dig the inner part, removing the pulp; use a teaspoon to help you. Once the slices are removed, dry the inside with a sheet of absorbent paper and with a black marker draw the eyes and the mouth of a scary Halloween pumpkin.
Then fill the mandarins with a pudding to the chocolate. The scenic effect is assured: the dark color of the pudding and the orange of the mandarin will create a beautiful contrast. Here is a quick recipe!
Ingredients:
200 ml Milk
50 lt Fresh cream
50 g Milk chocolate
2 g Fish paste
25 g Egg yolk
85 g Whole eggs
100 g Sugar
1 g Salt
Orange peel
Method:
Bring the cream and milk to the boil. Combine the grated orange zest, chocolate and isinglass, previously soaked and squeezed. In a bowl beat the eggs with the sugar and salt. Combine the two compounds and pour everything into the baking molds. Cook at 150 ° C in a water bath for about 50 minutes. Then let it cool and serve.
Witch's Fingers
To make the horrible fingers of the witch, roll out the pastry, creating a sausage. Divide it, then, into pieces about 8 centimeters long; to make them more like fingers, place three small cuts on the surface and place one end on one almond. Cook i cookies in the oven and serve them next to a jar of jam of berries, to simulate blood. Do you want to make jam at home? Follow this recipe!
Ingredients:
– 500 g Forest fruits
– 100 g Sugar
– 6 g Pectin powder
– 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
Method:
Cook the berries together with the pectin and sugar; count 6 minutes from when it reaches a boil. When they are completely wilted, add the lemon juice and mix.
Sweet ghosts
To make some funny ghosts, take some meringues dried with the classic sprig shape; let it melt chocolate in a bain-marie or directly in the microwave oven and draw the eyes and the mouth of ghosts. Alternatively, you can use a food marker. Your Halloween treats will be good and scary at the same time!
Don't you know how to make meringues properly? Here is the recipe!
Ingredients:
– 200 g Egg whites
– 400 g Sugar
Method:
Pour the egg whites into the planetary tank; mount them, making them foam, and add the sugar several times. Continue to whisk until you get a firm meringue. Insert the mixture into a pastry bag with the spout of at least 1 cm. On a baking sheet make many small tufts, respecting the classic cone shape of the meringues. Bake in a static oven at 90 ° C for at least 2 hours / 2 hours and a half based on the size of the meringues. Allow to cool and decorate to taste.
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Texts by Caterina Limido
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