This easy-peasy recipe is perfect fodder for little witches and ghouls and will fill them all the energy they need for their trick-or-treating exploits in Surrey and beyond.
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Dried
pasta,
whatever you can find that resembers "brains" (wide taglietelle works well). However much you would normally prepare for your hungry warlocks
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Tomato
pasta
sauce, there are so many really lovely ones in our local farm shops that you probably don’t need to go to the trouble of making this yourself
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Button
mushrooms,
enough for about 4 per child
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Black
edible
food colouring pen (red as well if you can get one, to add blood shots!)
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Few
plastic
spiders for decorating the bowls
- Wipe the mushrooms and draw a black circle in the middle; colour it in with the black pen. This is the “iris” of the eye. Add jagged, “vein-like” red lines leading out from the iris, in red edible ink pen if you have one. The result should look like a blood-shot eyeball. Yuck!
- Cook the pasta in a large pan and then stir in the sauce. Heat through.
- Dish up the pasta into warmed bowls and arrange the eyeballs so they are looking out at the horrified diners. Add a few plastic spiders round the edges.
- Serve with blood juice (strawberry cordial or Wright's Original Very Cherry) – you could even decorate the glasses with small plastic spiders stuck on with washable glue.
