Sugar and Spice Halloween Biscuits

Since this week is Halloween week, I thought I'd throw in an added bonus baking post for you all. Like my other Halloween post, I got the inspiration from Pinterest but added my own twist to it. These biscuits are easy for anyone to bake and make about 32 biscuits.

For the biscuits...

- 250g Plain Flour

- 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon

- 1/4 tsp Ground Allspice

- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder

- 125g Soft Brown Sugar

- 125g Butter

- 1 Beaten Egg

Method...

1) Preheat the oven to gas mark 4. 

2)Sift the flour, spices, baking powder and sugar into a bowl. 

3) Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles bread crumbs. 

4) Stir in the egg and then mix together with your hand to form a soft dough.

5) Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface until it's a few millimetres thick.

6) Using cutters of your choice, cut out as many shapes as possible from the dough. 

7) Re-knead and re-roll the dough trimmings to cut out more shapes.

8) Put the biscuits in the oven for 15-20 minutes until they're lightly browned. 

For the decoration you'll need...

- Icing Sugar

- Water

- Orange Food Colouring

- Black Food Colouring

Method...

1) Sift the icing sugar into a bowl, add a teaspoon of water and begin to mix together. 

2) Keep adding water until the mixture turns 'gloopy'.

3) Make two other small bowls of icing sugar, but slightly thicker. 

4) To one of the thicker mixtures add orange colouring and black colouring to the other. 

5) Put the orange icing into a piping bag with a small hole and pipe around the edge of the biscuits. 

6) Fill in the inside of the orange outlines on the biscuits with some white icing, using a teaspoon.

7) Put the black icing into another piping bag with a small hole and write out Halloween words such as 'boo!' and 'eek!' onto the biscuits. 

I hope you enjoyed this bonus Halloween post, stay around for more in the future! :) 

Becky x

Mini Lush Haul and Review

The Comforter

This bubble bar has been by far my favourite lush product. I love the fact that you get a large amount of the product allowing you to easily use half of it and use the rest another time. It also created lots of bubbles from only about a third of the bar which I think is really good. This product also turned my bath a beautiful pink colour and smelt scrumptious! I will definitely be repurchasing this again and I may even try out the Comforter shower gel since I loved the scent so much.

Space Girl

I really loved the scent of this bath bomb but was let down by its fizziness. This may have been because I used it with the comforter but it didn't fizz very much or create any pretty swirls of colour in the bath water. The scent of this bath bomb was very strong and smelt like those sweets that smell almost perfumy.

Tisty Tosty

This bath bomb truly reminds me of my nan and her perfumes. It has a sweet flowery scent to it and smells very spring-like. When I used this bath bomb, I only used half of it but I would recommend using the whole thing if you want your bath water to become softer and more moisturising. I also thought the couple of flower buds on the bath bomb which become free and floated on the top of the water when the bath bomb fizzies added an elegant and vintage touch. This bath bomb was also a bit more fizzier than space girl.

I hoped you enjoyed this post and be sure to stick around for more in the future! What's your favourite Lush product? :)

Becky x