Organise a Halloween party at home or street

Google: “Halloween or Hallowe’en is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Saints’ Day. It begins the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints, martyrs, and all the faithful departed. It’s now popular in Australia, complete with costume parties, spooky decorations, and kids going trick-or-treating.”

Make creative, fun desserts with your kids and/or make some spooky food. It will be lots of sugary treats available around Halloween but encourage kids to enjoy a few sweets that are less sweet and let them decorate the dessert or food. This year my street is having our own street Halloween party. Each household is to bring a plate. I decided to made panna cotta. Something different from what I seen on internet.

Google: “Panna cotta means “cooked cream” in Italian, and that’s essentially what the base is—heated heavy cream (often with a little half-and-half or whole milk) mixed with gelatin powder and flavoured with vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste. The mixture is then poured into ramekins or small moulds and chilled.”

This is my experiment using my mom’s moon cake moulds. I am glad to make use of these moulds which she had not use it, thus it is collecting dust. My dessert is cute looks scary but not too scary, most of the kids would love them something they can jiggle all the way to their seat and its chilled fun to eat too. Let’s cook and get the kids to decorate them; make sure not to mess up the kitchen!!!

Ingredients

10 ml cold water
5-7 Tsp gelatine powder
710 ml thickened cream
280 ml milk
200 g castor sugar
2 Tsp vanilla extract
1 Tsp vanilla extract
oil, grease moulds

Decorations

8 oreo biscuits
16 eyes balls
black gel for the spider legs

Method

Grease the moulds with oil and set aside. In a large pot bring thickened cream, milk, sugar and salt to a simmer stirring frequently to dissolve sugar. Remove from heat once it simmers. Pour water into a bowl, add 5 Tsp gelatine first all at once and mix well. Let rest at least 5 minutes.

Set pot over a basket filled with cold water, and stir with a spoon until it’s cool to the touch. Check to see if it had thickened slightly. If not add 1 tsp more gelatine with 1 Tbs water. Stir in vanilla and check again if it had thickened slightly. Once it’s the right consistency. Pour the panna cotta mixture into a jug for easy to pour into 8 moon cake mould. If you like you can cover them with cling wraps and refrigerate for at least 4-6 hours or overnight. I didn’t bother as I don’t like wasting my cling wraps.

Before serving; unmoulds the panna cotta, using tooth pick gently run around inside edges, and flip over to plates and gently squeeze and it drop onto plates. Then I got my mischievous nephew to help decorate: he places the oreo biscuits and eye balls on each mould then I squeeze the black gel over the sides of the oreo biscuits to make the legs.

Note: Panna cotta should be wobbly a bit. Do watch the amount of gelatine added to the milk mixture. You can use scary design moulds if you can get them: skulls or witches. You may top with a berry sauce if you want to make a splatter of blood. You can decorate with mush mellows or any scary characters, or jelly beans.

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