Halloween Food

  Hello everybody!

  This week’s blog post is all about Halloween food! Last night my family had a Halloween party at our house and the food was spookily great, so I thought I’d write about it! This menu is good for a sit down meal or a buffet!

Starters

▪️ Stuffed cockroaches - We stuffed dates with cream cheese and finely chopped walnuts, by cutting a small slit into the the dates and piping in the cream cheese and walnut mix. These really looked like cockroaches so they were very effective and so easy to make! It looks even more effective if you put some fake plastic cockroaches on the plate too!

▪️ Pukin’ pumpkin - We carved a pumpkin to make it look like it was vomiting and put some spicy bean dip coming out of its mouth to look like vomit. We then added a small pot of salsa in the part of the head cut out to make it look like brains! We put the pukin’ pumpkin on a plate and surrounded with Doritos for dipping.

▪️ Mini pizzas with spiders - This is pretty simple - all we did was cook mini pizzas and cut up a black olive to make it look like a spider and placed it on top of the pizza!

▪️ Mummy sausages - We got frankfurter sausages and wrapped puff pastry strips around them to make them look like mummies!

▪️ Cheesy Halloween shapes - We cut out ready-made puff pastry using cookie cutters in Halloween shapes such as ghosts, pumpkins, bats and tombstones etc. They were brushed with egg wash and sprinkled with cheddar cheese on top and then baked in the oven!

Mains 

▪️ Chilli with pumpkin purée - We cooked a normal chilli, but put pumpkin purée in it! We served it with rice and sour cream.

▪️ Monster tacos - We made normal tacos using a taco kit and then sliced some black olives and put them in the filled tacos to look like monster eyes!

Desserts

▪️ Halloween cupcakes - We bought some cupcakes from Morrisons that were Halloweeny and they were delicious.

▪️ Mixed berries cheesecake - We bought a mixed berries cheesecake and stuck fake finger into it to make it look like there was a hand emerging from the cake! We added puréed fresh mixed berries as a finishing touch to resemble blood!

▪️ Strawberry jelly brain - We bought a jelly mold from Morrisons to make some strawberry jelly and it was really cool because it wobbled so much (so much that I dropped mine lol) and it looked like a real brain! We put some worm sweets around it too.

  That’s all for this week’s blog post! I hope you enjoyed! I hope you all have an amazing Halloween if you celebrate it! I will see you next week for another blog post! Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!

Halloween Makeup

  Hello everybody!

  This week’s blog post is Halloween themed! I’ll be showing some of my favourite Halloween makeup! Credit to the people included in this post. I’m so excited for Halloween and this blog post is perfect to get you into the mood!

▪️ Half-skull

▪️ Witch

▪️ Pennywise

▪️ Day of the Dead skull

▪️ Pumpkin

That’s all for this week’s blog post! I hope you enjoyed! I’d love to know if you have planned your Halloween costume and makeup, so let me know in the comments below! I will see you next week for another blog post! Love you all! 

  Byyeee!!!!

October 2018 Playlist

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  This week’s blog post is something I haven’t done in ages! I’ll be showing you what’s on my playlist at the moment and I’d say my taste in music is quite mainstream, but there are the odd songs that are different! I have Spotify (@ISayBell.blog) so you can listen to my playlists! I last did a blog post like this in April 2018, but I have downloaded so many songs since then so I’ll be sharing them with you now!

▪️ I Love You So - The Walters

▪️ Warned You - Good Morning

▪️ Ava - Famy

▪️ Waving Through a Window - Ben Platt

▪️ Turning Tables - Adele

▪️ Personal (Jaded Remix) - The Vamps

▪️ Imagination - Shawn Mendes

▪️ Hawaiian Party - Club Sport

▪️ No Control - One Direction 

▪️ Your Song (Cheat Codes Remix) - Rita Ora

  That’s all for this weeks blog post! I hope you enjoyed! I know these songs aren’t new releases, but they are songs I’ve been loving and listening to over this month! If there any songs you’ve been listening to recently, I’d love to know what they are in the comments below! I will see you next week for another blog post! Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!

Simple Cinnamon Rolls

  Hello everybody!  

  This week’s blog post is a baking post! This bake is different to anything I’ve baked before! I’ve always loved cinnamon rolls, but I’d never attempted to make my own, so I was really excited to see how these would turn out! This recipe is a simple version because it doesn't use yeast and therefore no need to let it proof.

Makes: 8 

Prep time: 40 mins

Cook time: 35 mins 

Ingredients

300g self-raising flour

2 tbsp caster sugar

1tsp ground cinnamon 

100g butter, melted, plus extra for glazing

2 egg yolks

150ml milk, plus extra for glazing

For the filling

1 tsp ground cinnamon 

55g light brown soft sugar

2 tbsp caster sugar

1 tbsp butter, melted 

For the icing 

150g icing sugar

1 tbsp cream cheese, softened

½ tbsp butter, softened 

½ tsp vanilla essence 

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Grease a 20cm loose-bottomed cake tin and line the bottom with baking parchment. Mix the flour, caster sugar and cinnamon together with a pinch of salt in a bowl. Whisk the butter, egg yolks and milk together and combine with the dry ingredients to make a soft dough. Turn out onto a floured surface and roll out to a rectangle, about 30 x 25cm.

2. Mix the filling ingredients together. Spread evenly over the dough then roll it up lengthways, like a Swiss roll, to form a log. Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into 8 even-sized slices and pack into the prepared tin. Brush gently with extra milk and bake for 30-35 mins or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 mins before removing from the tin.

3. Sift the icing sugar into a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Place the cream cheese and butter in the centre, pour over 2 tbsp boiling water, and stir to mix. Add a little more water until you have a drizzly consistency. Stir in the vanilla essence, then drizzle the icing over the rolls. Serve warm or cold.

  That’s all for this week’s blog post! These tasted great however they weren’t the easiest thing to bake. They were maybe a tad dry and not the neatest, but overall I think they were a success and my family and I are looking foward to eating them in the morning with a hot chocolate or a cappuccino. I will see you all next week for another blog post! Love you all!

  Byyeee!!!!