No tricks, only treats

This halloween, let your treats have some extra tlc. try out these carefully curated recipes by home chefs and bakers as you go around trick-or-treating

This halloween, let your treats have some extra tlc. try out these carefully curated recipes by home chefs and bakers as you go around trick-or-treating

Apple Cinnamon Bread Loaf

Ingredients: 2 sweet apples | 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tbsp baking powder | 1 tsp salt |1/2 tsp ground cinnamon| 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg | 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened | 3/4 cup sugar 2 large eggs | 1/2 cup milk| 1 cup chopped dates

Method

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
• Grease and flour a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan
• Peel, core, and finely chop the apples until the fruit measures 1 1/2 cups
• In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg
• Using a stand or hand mixer, cream the butter with the sugar. Mix for about 5 minutes
• Roughly beat the eggs in a small bowl and add them to the creamed butter and sugar
• Add half of the flour mixture into the creamed mixture. Mix for 3 minutes
• Add the milk
• Add the remaining flour to the mixture and mix well for another 5 minutes
• Add the dates and chopped apple into the batter. Mix well. The batter will be quite stiff
• Spread the batter in the loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour and 5 minutesor until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean
• Cool the bread in the pan
• Transfer the loaf out onto a rack to coolcompletely

(The Ofen, Banjara Hills)

Simple Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients
2 eggs | 1 can pumpkin puree | 1 can sweetened condensed milk |1 tsp pumpkin pie spice | 1 (9 inches) unbaked pie crust

Method

• Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C
• Combine eggs, pumpkin puree, sweetened condensed milk and pumpkin pie spice in a
• large bowl and mix until combined
• Fit the pie crust into a 9-inch pie dish; pour the pumpkin mixture into the crust
• Place the pie on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes
• Reduce the heat to 175 degrees C and bake until the filling is set. This will take 35-40 minutes

(The Ofen, Banjara Hills)

Angry Oreo Loop Churro

Ingredients
Churro premix | 1 marshmellow 2 Oreo cookies | 1 box of black edible glitter| Ice cream | Chocolate
syrup| Chocolate chips | Chocolate waffers Chocolate crackles | Cinnamon sugar

Method

For loop churro:

• Use churro premix and fry the churro in the form of a loop
• Coat it with black glitter
• Coat the back of the churro with cinnamon sugar
• Microwave a marshmallow for 5 seconds, it will form strings
• Gently decorate the strings on the churro
• The loop churro is ready. Place it aside and now decorate the glass base

For glass decoration:

• Use the chocolate crackles to form a base for the ice-cream (Optional)
• Use 2 scoops of any ice-cream
• Pour the chocolate syrup on top of the ice-cream and sprinkle some choco chips on the side
• Dip 2 Oreo cookies in chocolate sauce
• You can get the eye lids outside, decoratethem

(Frykiki — @wearefrykiki, @sweetland_loops)

Halloween Spidey Cake

Ingredients
150 gm unsalted butter | 150 gm sugar | 150 gm maida | 3 eggs | 1 tsp baking powder | 1-2 tbsp milk |1 tsp vanilla extract | A pinch of salt
For butter cream frosting: 3 cups (360 gm) icing sugar | 1 cup (230 gm) softened unsalted butter | 3 tbsp heavy cream | 1 tsp vanilla extract | Pinch of salt | Black edible food colour | Purple edible food colour

Method

• Preheat the oven at 175°c
• Bring the butter to room temperature and whisk it in a bowl till it becomes pale and fluffy
• Add in the sugar and whisk it till well combined
• Crack the eggs into the mix one at a time while whisking continuously
• Sift the dry ingredients in a separate container (maida, baking powder, salt)
• Add the dry ingredients into the egg mixture and fold it gently with a spatula. Do not over mix
• Add the milk and vanilla essence to the batter and fold
• Pour the batter in a baking tin lined with baking paper
• Bake the cake for 30 mins
• Check the cake with a skewer. The skewer should come out clean
• Frosting
• Whisk room-temperature till light and fluffy
• Add in the sifted icing sugar gradually while whisking for 3-4 mins
• Add in the heavy cream, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt
• Whisk till well combined
• Divide the frosting in two bowls
• Add the purple colour in one bowl and black in another
• Frost the cake with purple frosting and draw webs and spiders using the black frosting

(Crembarhyd)