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Halloween sweets, three tips to prepare them with the children – Italian Cuisine

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.

Do you like cooking with your children? Come to La Scuola de la Cucina Italiana! We have many laboratories dedicated to families: look here!

Texts by Caterina Limido

or how to make children eat fish – Italian Cuisine

Fish cakes are fried fish balls, tasty and fun to eat. You can use cod, but also salmon. Here is the recipe

Have you ever heard of fish cakes? This delicious dish of the British tradition it is one of the most appreciated snacks across the Channel and in the States!

It's about a fish meatball (to choose as you like between what you like or have at home) lightly flattened with le potatoes and the eggs, fried then in the boiling oil. The fish cakes are very good and very easy to prepare, with a lively taste that even the little ones like. It is therefore a great way to make people eat fish also for children, presenting it in a tasty and fun way.

How to prepare fish cakes

Ingredients

300 g of cod fillets (but the salmon or another fish you have at home is fine too)
5 large potatoes
2 eggs
Grated cheese (grana or pecorino)
Garlic
Chives
Chili pepper
Flour
White wine
Extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper

Method

The first thing to do to prepare tasty fish cakes it's cooking fish. Sauté a clove of garlic in a pan with extra virgin olive oil. Then add the fish, adjust to salt and pepper, blend with a little White wine and let it cook until it becomes soft. At this point put it in a fairly large bowl and mash it with the help of a fork.

Then take the potatoes, peel them, cut them into slices and cook them in the same pan where you cooked the fish, adding a little oil and a little water. Cook them until they become very soft. At this point, drain the water well, mash it well and add it to the bowl with the fish.

Add the beaten eggs, the grated cheese, thechives (alternatively, parsley and basil can go well), chilli (do not overdo it, especially if they have to eat fish cakes even the smallest ones) and mix everything together. When the mixture is homogeneous let it rest for a few hours fridge or freezer to compact it better before frying it.

At this point formed the fish cakes from the dough, must be of the meatballs slightly crushed. Pass them in the flour and dip them in the boiling oil, frying until they are well browned. Dry them and eat them hot, they will be one delight for the palate!

You can accompany fish cakes with one sour sauce or one mayonnaise to make them even tastier.

In Milan water bottles as a gift for elementary and middle school children, the idea of Beppe Sala – Italian Cuisine

Less than two weeks before the start of the school, the news of a "precious" gift waiting for them on their return arrived for all children enrolled in primary and secondary schools in Milan. This was announced on his Instagram profile Mayor Beppe Sala, making himself proud with two aluminum flasks in his hands. Here it is gift for the 100,000 elementary and middle school children in Milan: an aluminum water bottle to strongly reaffirm that Milan is becoming increasingly plastic free. And what is more sensible than starting from them, from children, to convey the message that a world without plastic is possible, with the effort of everyone and with small but important new habits to be acquired?

In September, therefore, 100,000 children (60,000 enrolled in the primary school and 40,000 in the lower secondary school) will be distributed as many aluminum water bottles, probably bearing the logo of one of the participating companies that the Mayor Sala is involving in the project (A2A or Mm). Thus the Mayor of Milan announced and explained this initiative on the pages of the Republic: "To set a good example we will start with our subsidiaries and public services. And we will also do symbolic actions that will help to reflect: the City will give all the girls and the children of the elementary schools, and the boys of the middle schools, on their return to school, an aluminum flask to mark our will to fight the plastic. We need signals and, above all, examples ".

We need signals, and examples. All parents know that they learn quickly how much their children learn more from their gestures than from their words. And even Beppe Sala (and the municipal administration) knows this very well and has realized how fundamental it can be to teach children a reduce the use of plastic in favor of a healthier and more livable environment.

And then in Milan the mayor's water is good and controlled, what better way to carry it around in the "mayor's bottle"?

The first step has been taken, now we are waiting for the next projects of respect and care for the environment that Milan intends to launch to be able to tell them and who knows, to hope that they can be "signs and examples" also for other Italian cities and beyond.