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Make your own Fake Blood at home this Halloween

FancyFace — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:42:51 +0000

Halloween can get expensive if you buy all your own costumes and make up – and I’m assuming you don’t have much of a requirement for blood after Halloween? Here’s one way to save a little this year; make your own fake blood at home:

1/2 tumbler golden syrup
1/2 tumbler water
2 tablespoons red food colouring
up to 1 tablespoon green food colouring as required
1 teaspoon custard powder

Mix custard powder with a little water, add the rest of the water, syrup and colourings. Warm in a saucepan till blended. Add sufficient green colouring to correct the colour. You need to heat it enough to fix the colour without boiling the mixture. Test this by applying a drop of slightly cooled blood to your hand and see if it stains. If it does you need to heat it a bit more. It will also start to thicken as the custard powder cooks. Bottle when cool.

Note – cooked or not this recipe is likely to leave slight stains on clothing. Do not use while hot. Apply with care.

No cook playdough

FancyFace — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:41:44 +0000

I have just finished making playdough for my children. I have to admit I don’t often make playdough but when I do I get an enormous sense of satisfaction and a somewhat smug feeling of being an excellent mother – having done the right thing in allowing my children to be creative and messy and put aside my usual instinct to prevent them from making as much mess as possible to avoid the clearing up!

No Cook Play Dough

1 cup of flour
1 cup of boiling water
2 tablespoons of cream of tartar
a half cup of salt
1 tablespoon of oil

Directions:
Simply mix all the ingredients together! Be careful as it can be quite hot. I mix mine in the Kenwood which quite literally takes all the effort out of it. I imagine any mixer would do the job perfectly well. When mixed either split the mixture to make seperate colours or colour the whole lot whilst still in the mixer.

Microwave Mug Cakes

FancyFace — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:31:58 +0000

I like baking with my children, these days (they’re now 6 and 4) they do exactly as they’re told and there’s not much mess but the drawback is that I do like to eat everything we make… That’s not so great for my wasitline so I was delighted to discover that we could do individual portion baking – without the scales and without waiting ages for it all to bake! The recipie that follows is designed to be made in really a big mug but we split the recipe between the two children and used a middle sized average kitchen mug each. The resulting cakes were too big for the children to eat by themselves but they had fun trying!

Chocolate Cake in a Mug

4 tbs SR flour
4 tbs caster sugar
2 tbs cocoa
1 egg
3 tbs milk
a couple of drops of vanilla extract
chocolate chips

Mix everything together in the mug then microwave for about 3 minutes. (I halved the time for our medium sized, 1/2 recipe mugs and kept an eye on it – they rose out of the top but they were supposed to!) You can serve these on their own but they’re much nicer with ice cream.