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When it’s cold outside I crave comfort food and the limited edition Spicy Sausage and Red Pepper Pasty from Ginsters fits the bill perfectly.
With a recipe crafted by expert chefs, the Spicy Sausage and Red Pepper Pasty combines spicy 100% British sausage and smoked bacon with red peppers and onions in a rich smoky tomato sauce. Seasoned with a kick of fiery chilli and encased in flaky golden puff pastry this Halloween pasty is just what you need on a cold autumn day.
Made with high quality ingredients and locally sourced potatoes, it can be served hot or cold although we did prefer it hot as the pastry crisps up nicely when it is warm. It’s not too spicy and is the perfect treat to warm you up after trick or treating with the children.
The limited-edition seasonal specialty is only available until 6th November, so grab one fast!
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October half term can be quite cold and wet so it’s good to have a few rainy-day activities up your sleeve to keep the children occupied. With Halloween at the end of the month these Halloween craft packs from ToucanBox are a great idea to keep the children entertained and away from the electronic devices!
If you haven’t heard of ToucanBox before they are a flexible art and craft subscription box aimed at children aged 3-8 years old. The boxes are inspired by the school curriculum to develop cognitive, social and motor skills and each box contains all the materials and inspiration you need for 2 different craft projects, as well as instructions, stickers and a great magazine that has even more puzzles and activities to enjoy. The step by step illustrated instructions are very easy for younger children to follow and depending on the age of your child, require minimal assistance.
WACKY SCIENTIST’S GHASTLY LAB
This pack contains everything you need to construct a wacky scientist’s lab which can be decorated with ghastly specimen stickers.
FACE FLIPPIN PHANTOM GLOWING GHOST LANTERN
This pack contains everything you need to make a ghostly lantern which makes a great Halloween decoration.
Both packs contain the Halloween magazine and the activities inside cover STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Maths). Children will enjoy creating a bubbling cauldron and making paper mâché pumpkins as well as baking some Scrummy Mummies biscuits along with other Halloween themed activities.
I was really impressed by the contents of the packs and the fact that they contain everything you need for the craft – a real winner for busy parents! Take a look at their website for more Halloween crafts ideas to keep the little monsters occupied over half term!
RRP £12.95 with 20% off if you buy 2 Halloween packs
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It’s almost October and the shops are pulling out all the stops with an incredible array of Halloween themed products. As well as the traditional costumes, decorations and accessories there is a huge selection of Halloween themed food and drink available which is perfect for parties. Obviously, you can’t have a party without cake (well not in our house) so our little witches and ghouls have been testing some terrifyingly tasty Halloween treats (with a little help from us of course!!)
We’ve decided that the Halloween Naked Nationwide Cake from Lola’s Cupcakes will make a fantastic centrepiece at any Halloween party and if you don’t live near one of their London stores don’t worry, as they can be posted anywhere in the UK. The delicious vanilla sponge with orange and mauve buttercream icing is topped with bright orange pumpkins, spooky sprinkles, sugarpaste ghosts and bats with “Happy Halloween” piped on the top. The moist sponge cake has a nice thick layer of mauve buttercream and the sponge is really light and fluffy. The cake is tastefully decorated so it is appealing to children yet sophisticated enough for adults too!
It’s always a worry ordering cakes online, but this cake was incredibly well packaged in a cardboard box with cool blocks and a thermal liner to ensure it arrived in perfect condition. Once opened the cake should be stored at room temperature in an air-tight container and whilst it is best eaten within 48 hours if but you do have any left it can be kept in the fridge for another 2 days – although I can guarantee there wasn’t much chance of that happening in our house!!! I was also pleased to discover that the thermal liner and ice pack can be returned to Lola’s Cupcakes for them to clean and reuse, they even include a prepaid label so this doesn’t cost you anything.
Overall, I was really impressed with this cake, it not only looks impressive it tastes amazing too, the sponge is nice and light which makes it rather moreish, and the combination of the buttercream filling and the sponge was absolutely delicious.
Lola’s Cupcakes make all their cakes fresh by hand each day from scratch, using only high quality ingredients so if you want to treat your ghosts, ghouls and witches this Halloween I would take a look now! The first day of delivery for this cake is the 24th October and the last is just in time for Halloween on the 31st October.
The company has a variety of delicious treats on their website and after with a few celebrations coming up it won’t be long before I’m ordering some more….
‘Dying to unwind’ then the slender corkscrew is beautifully detailed, with Day of the Dead facial designs, bony hands and jutting out hips.
Dive into the wine SKULL-er and fetch me a ‘full-bodied’ blood red bottle of Bordeaux. Don’t ‘devour’ it all at once, you’ll end up with a real ‘head-ache’.
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Spooky season is upon us, and it is our favourite time of year.
Decorating the house with eerie decorations, carving pumpkins, answering the door to trick or treaters followed by lighting pumpkin pie scented candles and snuggling up under warm blankets to watch a Halloween movie.
Tonight’s choice of movie is Hocus Pocus 2 which is now on Disney+ UK.
One thing we love as a family is spooky snacks which really set the scene for spooky season.
Haribo has just the perfect treats!
Your little and not so little ghosts and goblins will love the spooktacular range of Halloween treats from Haribo!
From freakishly delicious Sour Skeletons to spine tingling Monster’s Zing, these fruity treats are bound to put a smile on your trick or treaters face.
Haribo is also the perfect treat for a spooky family evening of Halloween fun if you are not a fan of trick or treating.
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Halloween is just over a month away and your little ghouls and goblins are in for a real trick (or treat) with the spooktacular Little Monster’s Halloween Bumper Box from toucanBox!
Packed full of ghoulishy great activities that’s will keep your little monsters entertained for hours!
Toucanbox is a flexible subscription encouraging crafting, creativity and learning in children aged 3-8 which promotes fun away from screens!
This Limited Edition Bumper Box contains
:🎃 3 limited edition Halloween crafts.
🎃 Spooktacular Scenes magnetic viewing box for seeking out hidden mysteries in a Halloween scene!
🎃 Super Spooky Luminous Lantern for lighting up fright night.
🎃 Spindly Spider for making a scuttle-tastic Halloween display.
🎃 Monster Cupcake baking kit sold only with the Bumper Box!
🎃 toucanBoxes best selling bedtime storybook, The Oopsie Daisy Spell.
🎃 Plus Halloween magazine, stickers, bubbling cauldron experiment card and much, much more!
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