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Our best Halloween and bonfire night recipes

All the recipes you'll ever need for the ultimate spook-tacular celebration

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From spooky ghost brownies and easy chocolate bark to the ultimate cheesy centrepiece fondu, we've got all the recipes you'll ever need for for a tasty Halloween or bonfire night celebration. Plus, there's lots of fun decorating ideas too like our spooky kraken and cyclops cupcakes, and a spider web Bakewell tart.

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Pumpkin Bakewell Spider Web Tart

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This decadent tart is the perfect way to celebrate Halloween.

Recipe: Pumpkin Bakewell spider web tart

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Halloween Battenberg

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Impress your guests this Halloween with our green and purple chequered Battenberg cake! Almond flavoured sponge is encased in marzipan and served in slices.

Recipe: Halloween Battenberg

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Lancashire parkin

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A crumbly-textured spiced cake that’s often eaten around bonfire night.

Recipe: Lancashire parkin

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Medusa Tear & Share Bread

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Turn your guests to stone this Halloween with this spooky bread. Spinach, olive and sun-dried tomato bread is paired with a fiery ‘snake bite’ dip.

Recipe: Medusa Tear and Share Bread

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Cyclops Cupcakes

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Oreos are covered in white chocolate and an eye is iced on to each to represent the cyclops. A delicious way to celebrate Halloween.

Recipe: Cyclops Cupcakes

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Kraken Cupcakes

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Release the Kraken! These rum and raisin cupcakes are inspired by every pirate’s favourite tipple.

Recipe: Kraken Cupcakes

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Bleeding Graveyard Fondants

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Chocolate sponges are filled with a bright red chocolate ganache that bleeds out when broken into. Serve with our tombstone biscuits to create a spooky graveyard scene.

Recipe: Bleeding Graveyard Fondants

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Toffee Apple Cake

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This toffee apple cake is worth the effort – the perfect autumn dessert for toffee apple fans.

Recipe: Toffee apple cake

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Frankenstein Cupcakes

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These chocolate cupcakes are so simple to decorate, but so effective – perfect for a Halloween party! If you want to achieve the jet-black icing (and darker cake), it’s important to use black cocoa powder. Ordinary brown cocoa powder will turn the icing grey.

Recipe: Mr and Mrs Frankenstein cupcakes

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Devil Cupcakes

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Get spooky with these oozing red velvet Halloween cupcakes.

Recipe: Devil Cupcakes

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Venus Fly Trap Cupcakes

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These cupcakes are the perfect spooky treat to celebrate Halloween with! Kids will love decorating these biting plants.

Recipe: Venus Fly Trap cupcakes

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Frankenstein Cocktail

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This decadent cocktail is sure to impress your guests this Halloween. Crème de menthe and crème de cacao are mixed together with cream to create a delicious mint chocolate cocktail, topped with an edible eyeball. Truly gruesome!

Recipe: Frankenstein cocktail

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Ghoulish Pumpkin Cheesecake Squares

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Kids and adults alike will love these Halloween themed cheesecake bars. White chocolate and marshmallow ghouls sit on top of plain and pumpkin flavoured cheesecake bars with an Oreo base. Truly spooky!

Recipe: Ghoulish pumpkin cheesecake squares

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Harry Potter Sorting Hat Cupcakes

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These are the perfect treat for Halloween. When you bite into these gooey chocolate cupcakes, that are topped with the Harry Potter sorting hat, your school house is revealed. Find out whether you're a Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff!

Recipe: Harry Potter sorting hat cupcakes

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Creature of the Deep Cheesecake

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This zesty Halloween cheesecake is sure to give you shivers down the spine - and it's got a secret oozing centre!

Recipe: Creature of the deep cheesecake

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Spooky Halloween Ghosts

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Try these spooky white chocolate treats for trick-or-treaters this Halloween.

Recipe: Spooky Halloween ghosts

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Halloween Biscuits

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These easy biscuits can be decorated in lots of spooky ways and will look great on the Halloween party table.

Recipe: Halloween biscuits

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Halloween Oreo Cheesecake

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Made with an Oreo biscuit base and fresh strawberry coulis filling you’d never guess this blood curdling cheesecake is actually delicious strawberries and cream flavour.

Recipe: Halloween Oreo cheesecake

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Baileys Freakshake

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Get into the spooky spirit with this adults-only freakshake, or swap the Baileys for chocolate milk for a family-friendly version.

Recipe: Baileys freakshake

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Pumpkin Spice Brownies

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Welcome in the colder autumn months with these warming, spiced brownies and celebrate everything this season has to offer.

Recipe: Pumpkin spice brownies

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