Chocolate nut spread spider cupcakes

Through Google + I came across this picture. Children love to create and eat.  So while learning about nature, our environment or even holding different parties and celebrations such as Halloween or trick and treat times making these Chocolate Nut spread spider cupcakes is a treat treat.

Ingredients

• 1 box of chocolate cake mix
• 375 g [12 oz] bag of choc chips
• 1 tsp cutter 
• 1 bag pretzels,
• 1 jar of chocolate nut spread - use your favourite.
• chocolate sprinkles
• red hot cake decorating marzipan [Smarties or M&M's are okay too]
• 2 cups Cocoa Puffs

Method

1. Prepare the work bench area.
2. Make the 24 cup cakes and let them cool.
3. While the cupcakes are cooling place a cover over another cooling rack [covered in waxed paper].
4. Melt the chocolate  [either in double boiler method of microwave in a bowl for 30 seconds each burst until the chocolate is melted.
5. Into the chocolate put the pretzels.
1. Cover the pretzels well
2. Remove pretzels and place on cooling rack.
3. Sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles.
4. Refrigerate these legs!
6. When both the legs and the cupcakes are cool insert the legs into the cupcake.
1. 4 on each side.
7. Spoon 1/2 tsp of the Chocolate Nut spread onto the top of the cup cake.
1. Chocolate or caramel frosting will do.
8. Add red two eyes.
9. Now add the cocoa puffs on the body

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Martian Ears

Instructions

• Refrigerated biscuit dough
• Melted butter or a butter spray.
• Sugae 
• Cinnamon

Method

1. Use the  refrigerated Green Mint Biscuit biscuit dough log.
2. Slice to 7 mm depth.
3. Flatten the biscuit dough in your palm.\Gently place the cupped shape biscuit on aluminium foil.
4. Shape the biscuit to resemble an aliens ear.
5. Spray [or brush] butter on top of it.
6. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top.
7. Place in oven at 190 deg C [375 Deg F] 
8. Cook until dry looking but just turning brown.

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Heart Necklace Valentine Cookies.

Add a string or bow and there
 you have an edible bracelet.

makes about 30 heart shapes.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter - softened / margarine.
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla exxence
• 1 tbsp lemon zest
•  2   1/2 cups self raising flour -sifted.
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3 drops of red food colouring or beetroot juice.
•  70 gr [2  1/4 oz] candy sprinkles [ cake decorating marzipan decorations]
• 60 red licorice pieces - in vines for tying.

Method

1. Cream 1 cup butter  and 3/4 cup white sugar together.
2. Blend in the egg, 1 tsp vanilla essence and lemon zest.
3. Sift together 2  1/2 cups of self raising flour and baking powder into another bowl.
4. Add to the creamed mixture and blend well.
5. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
6. Prepare the work bench area.
7. Preheat the oven to 190 deg C [375 deg F]
8. Lightly flour the rolling area.
9. Roll out the dough to7mm [1/4 in]
1. Note if the weather is extremely hot when making these Valentine Cookies then take from the fridge 1/3rd of the dough at a time.
10. With the heart shaped dough cutters flour them lightly before using them to cut.
1. You'll need both a 2.5 and a 5 cm [1 and 2 inch] cutter.
11. Cut out the dough.
12. Place cut out dough on a paper lined tray.
13. Use a straw to press a ring in the top of the heart shape.
14. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes.  
15. Cool on wire rack.

Now for the decorating

1. Stir in the colouring .
2. On the cool cookies spread the frosting.
3. Decorate the top of the frosting
4. Use a toothpick to dislodge the 'hole'.
5. Thread the licorice into the hole and tie.

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Marshmallow Dip Sticks

Ingredients

Easy to make... fast to eat.

• 2 cups chocolate chips
• 1 cup peanut butter, cashew butter or other nut spread
• 300 g [10 oz] bag marshmallows
• chocolate sprinkles
• pretzel sticks
• waxed paper

Method

1. Set up the work bench.
1. If thee are a team of smaller helpers then set the bowls of pretzels, marshmallows, nut paste, melted chocolate and sprinkles far enough apart for ease of movement between each person. 
1. By the way with helpers forget the waxed paper.
2. Insert pretzel sticks into the marshmallows.
1. about 3/4 down into the Marshmallow.
3. Dip the top of the Marshmallow into the nut butter.
4. Set aside on the waxed paper.
5. Melt the Chocolate chips in a microwave, stove top or double boiler.
6. Dip peanut butter end of the marshmallow into the chocolate.
7. Immediately dip the chocolate end into chocolate sprinkles.
8. Place on waxed paper.

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Valentines Kisses

Makes 4 to 6

Ingredients

• 6 cups Rice Bubbles
• 1 pk 250gr marshmallows
• 3 tbs Margarine
• Vegetable cooking spray

Method

1. Prepare the work area.
2. Follow a Rice Bubble Treats recipe.
1. The Rice Bubble Treats made with Marshmallows recipe until step number seven [7]
3. Cool the mixture down until it is warm enough to handle.
4. Meanwhile spray the inside of your funnels.
5. Break off some of the main Rice Bubble Mix.
6. Mold the mix into the inside of the funnel. 
7. Slide out of the funnel [keep the ^ shape] onto the waxed paper..
8. Respray the funnel if needed and repeat the shaping process.
9. Cool the shaped Rice Bubble treat completely.
10. Meanwhile get the children to write a simple I love you message for Valentines Day, or a Happy Birthday, or even Happy Mothers Day message
11. Wrap as a gift in Aluminium foil.

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Lollipop Valentines

Ingredints

Ours have never quite ended up looking
 like this before they were eaten.

• 12 ice block sticks [or craft sticks] - soaked for one hour before use in a bowl of cold water.
• 1/2 cup chocolate buds [brown / white or a combination of]
• 1/2 cup butter - softened.
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar [brown caster sugar]
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 egg
• 2 cups all purpose [self raising] flour.
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 28 grams [1 oz] white chocolate
• 1 egg white
• 1  1/4 cups icing sugar
• 3 drops red food colouring [ or beetroot juice]

Method

1. Over a low heat stir chocolate chips until melted and smooth;.  
1. Using a double boiler also is a good method.
2. Remove from heat - let cool.
3. In a large bowl beat the butter, brown sugar and vanilla until fluffy.
4. Beat in the egg.
5. Beat in the cooled chocolate.
6. Now slowly beat in the flour, cocoa powder and salt -until smooth.
7. Divide the dough in half.
8. Preheat the over to 190 Deg C [375 Deg F]
9. Grease two large waxed baking papers.
10. Between the two waxed baking sheets roll half the dough out to 0.7cm [1/8 inch].
11. Freeze the dough while it is still in the wax paper for 5 minutes.
12. Peal the top sheet of wax paper off.
13. Using heart shaped 7.5 cm [3 inch] cookies cutters press out as many as the dough will allow.
1. Repeat the procedure with the scraps of dough.
14. With 2.5 cm [1 inch] between them place half the amount of hearts out on a tray.
15. Drain the sticks and pat them dry.
16. Place each stick so that there is a handle of 6.5cm [2.5  inch] sticking out below the cookie dough. 
1. Gently press the stick down on the doughs surface.
17. Now place the other hearts on top of the first set of hearts..
1. press the edges gently down.
18. Bake 12 minutes until firm to touch.
1. cool on wire racks.

Making the covering 

1. Either use a double boiler or a heavy pot that disperses the heat for the next step.
2. Stir in the white chocolate until melted and smooth consistancy is reached.
1. If using two different coloured chocolates then use two different pots.
3. Remove from the heat.
4. Holding each lollipop by the handle dip the heart into the chocolate on both sides.
1. Let the excess drip back into the pan.
5. Place each lollipop onto a wax paper-lined baking sheet and let cool for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
1. until set.

Making the icing

1. Beat the egg white and icing sugar until this is very smooth.
2. Remove some of this main mix and place it into a small bowl.
1. Drop a drip of colouring into this section of the mixture.
3. Spoon icing into a decorating bag that has a writing tip attached to it.
4. Pipe out the patterns and words that you want to say.
5. Decorate with small cake decorating marzipan shapes.

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