Simple Halloween Cakes and Treats Kids Can Make

Scare up some spooky fun with these Halloween cake ideas that are perfect for kids of all ages to make. From cute and colorful to creepy and crawly, these cakes will be a hit at any Halloween party and they can have fun decorating them beforehand too.

I love cooking and baking with the boys and for me, the secret is letting go and dealing with the mess afterwards, plus good planning, making sure all the ingredients are out and the equipment etc.  I think empowering the boys to cook and bake will stand them in good stead as they get older, they can start cooking dinner and feed me!

Simple Halloween Treats Made By Kids

Also they might not look perfect, but I can assure you they taste mighty fine.  So, First I will bring you Maxi’s chocolate cakes and biscuits. Bear in mind he is five years old!

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Basic Cookie or Biscuit Recipe

This basic Cookie or Biscuit recipe is perfect for kids. Also it has no eggs.

Ingredients

• 175 g 6oz Plain Flour
• 100 g 4oz Butter or Margarine
• 50 g 2oz Caster Sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees

2. Cream the butter or margarine and caster sugar
3. Stir in the flour and once mixed knead the dough together until it forms a ball
4. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface until it is about 5mm thick
   

5. Cut out your cookies and place on a greased baking tray

   

6. Bake for 10 minutes

7. Allow to cool on tray for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool before decorating,

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Spooky Chocolate Web Cakes

Course Cake

Cuisine British

Keyword `Cooking with Kids, halloween

Servings 12 cakes

Ingredients

• 6 oz margarine
• 6 oz caster sugar
• 5 oz self raising flour
• 1 oz cocoa powder
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 large egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• Icing Sugar
• Hot water

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees c

2. Cream margarine and sugar together with a maxer. The colour will get much lighter and create a trail when the whisk is removed

3. Add eggs, flour, cocoa powder and baking powder, then 2 tbls of milk

4. Scoop into case cases in a 12 peice cake tray

5. Cook for 15 minutes for until a skewer comes out lcean

To Make the Decoration

1. To make the web, mix icing sugar and hot water and spoon over the cake.s

   

2. Create a swirl in black icing (we used Silver Spoon Black Designer Icing kindly supplied by Silver Spoon)

3. Then take a cocktail stick and drag the icing out towards the edge.

   

These chocolate cakes are all Maxi’s (aged five) own work and they looked fantastic and tasted even better – such a cute Halloween cupcake.

Other Spooky Halloween Cakes for Kids

To get you in the Halloween spirit we’ve rounded up our favorite Halloween cake recipes that all the ghouls and goblins in your life are sure to enjoy. There are no tricks here – just treats of the delicious kind!

• Spider Cookies
• Homemade Toffee Apples
• Vampire Donuts Recipe
• Pumpkin cakes
• Claw Cupcakes
• Spooky Meringue Mushrooms 
• Dirt Cupcakes with Gummy Worms
• Tombstone Cupcakes
• Owl Cupcakes
• Vampire Bite Cupcakes for Halloween – Cooking with kids
• Cupcake Monsters
• Chocolate Mummy Cupcakes
• Oreo Spider Cupcakes
• Ghost cakes
• Graveyard cakes
• Halloween Eyeballs, An Easy Halloween Cupcake Recipe
• Haunted Gingerbread House – Cooking with kids
• Monster Cakes
• Easy Frankenstein Cupcakes
• Bloody Halloween Cupcakes
• Black Cat Cupcakes
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