These monster-sized oatmeal cookies are fun to make with kids at Halloween. It’s the perfect family recipe - while bigger kids can help prepare the cookie dough, smaller children can decorate the biscuits with the sweets (working with measuring cups rather than weighing is much easier with small children).
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If you are looking for a fun Halloween cupcake recipe, try this. The coloured, pale orange cream cheese filling contrasts perfectly with the chocolate cupcake for a spooky effect. They’re a fun treat to make with kids, so it’s time to tie the apron strings on your little witches and ghosts.
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This “Spooky Halloween Spiders” recipe is just the perfect activity for your child’s Halloween party. It requires no cooking whatsoever and is especially safe, mess free and fun to make with young and older children.
They are perfect to put in children’s party bags as a take home treat, so get your little monsters to wash their hands and start the Halloween fun!
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Another recipe for you in the run up to Halloween (and a few more to come). If you have any Halloween recipes you would like to share email me at info@bigfatblog.co.uk. Bon Appetit!
Have you ever wondered what to do with the flesh of your carved Halloween Pumpkin? After all the hard work scooping out the flesh and cutting the eyes and mouth no doubt you�ll want to settle for something easy and tasty.
Our easy pumpkin soup might just do the trick and provide the kids with a warm supper after an evening of trick or treat and gorging on sweets.
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Just the perfect dinner party recipe for those brave enough to entertain monsters on Halloween night, these creepy baked eyeballs in blood sauce can be served with giant white worms, or spaghetti if your local witch shop does not stock them.
This Halloween recipe is suitable for children, adults and ghosts too. If your dinner party guests are brave enough to try this horror recipe, they will ask for seconds so make sure you make plenty.
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Now Halloween is almost here!
Or to be more accurate Halloween is already here for me - as I have been preparing some haunting Halloween balloons and other scary gifts for our web site, I’m almost in the mood to get ready to trick or treat!
Last year, on the 31st of October, we had a weird procession of witches, monsters, vampires, pirates, a princess, Darth Vader, a few Spidermen, and two freaks wearing Tony Blair and George Bush masks, threatening us with ‘trick or treat’.
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I’m always on the lookout for interesting gift ideas but sometimes come across some bizarre ideas I wouldn’t recommend.
I tried to list some of the main pitfalls of gift buying in 8 Gift Ideas to Avoid and listed examples of real life bad gifts on the Big Fat Balloons web site. I even posted a recollection of funny gift mistakes collated from friends’ experiences on this site.
I have to admit missing this one out.
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A few weeks ago Selfridges allegedly sent out a press release announcing there were “Only 143 shopping days until Christmas”.
Twelve days ago the Daily Mail was lamenting about the commercialisation of Christmas announcing, “With more than a third of the year still to go and the summer holidays in full swing, Harrods and Selfridges launched their Christmas shops”.
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