I love autumn! It is probably one of my favourite seasons because I love the beautiful colours the leaves, the chill in the air, warm soups, hot chocolate with lots of cream and marshmallows, knitted jumpers, boots, snuggling up in blankets as well as the celebrations of Halloween and bonfire night leading up to Christmas! Halloween baking is another one of my favourites! As you have probably seen I have done a fair bit of Halloween baking over the past few weeks, lots of cupcakes, from scary devil and ghost vanilla cupcakes to salted caramel cupcakes with edible eyeballs and peanut butter Oreo Spider cupcakes. You can find all of the recipes on the links, This year I have been impresssed by the amount of squash and pumpkin varieties that are in the shops, they look so beautiful and my mind has been in overdrive thinking of all the things they am going to bake and cook with them. Today I decided to make a Pumpkin and Bacon soup and Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes out of one of the squash. I found the recipe for these Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes on the Delicious magazine website. The cupcakes are very similar to a carrot cake but they use grated squash instead of carrots, the basic recipe is the same as well as the spices and the addition of walnuts in the batter. The icing is a simple cream cheese icing with a dusting of cinnamon for that extra hint of spice.
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I love these Spider Cookies! They are so cute!! I got the idea for these on Pinterest. I love Halloween baking and Pinterest is the best place for inspiration. I used a recipe for peanut butter shortbread cookies from bbc as the base as I know the recipe works and tastes good because I have baked them before. The recipe is super quick and easy as it is a simple shortbread cookies with very little decoration. I love the edible googly eyes also.
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Welcome!Hello, I'm Laura and I am a 25 year old foodie with a passion for baking! When I'm not thinking, blogging about food, reading cooking magazines, searching Instagram for food porn I am usually cooking it!
This Blog started a few years ago now as a place for me to store recipes that I like and that work! I love to take pictures of food and I am on all of the social network site as polkadotcooking. I hope you enjoy my site and give me any feedback if you make anything :) Archives
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