Issue 62 October 2017 Village Eye

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Tric or 1 packet Oreos, favourite flavour 8 oz Cream cheese (room temperature) Candy melts, assorted colours (you can get these on Ebay or at Hobbycraft) Shortening (Trex or Cookeen) 1 tbs per 1/2 cup candy melts. Candy eyes, chocolate chips, sprinkles, etc (for topping) Cake pop sticks (optional) Roll the dough into 1 inch round balls. Arrange on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. If the dough gets too sticky to work with, just pop it back into the fridge for 10 minutes to firm up again. Now for the really fun part... Get creative and decorate the cake balls. Once finished, they can be refrigerated for up to 1 week! Prep time: 10 minutes Makes 24 cake pops Chill time total 1 hour HOW TO MAKE THEM Crush the Oreos with a blender or food processor. If you don't have either, fill a sandwich bag with Oreos and crush with hands or a rolling pin to make fine crumbs. Use a hand mixer to combine the room cream cheese with the Oreo crumbs. Blend until a smooth and sticky 'dough' forms and form into a ball shape. Refrigerate for 30 minutes, or until firm. When all the dough is formed into balls, pop the balls in the fridge for 15 minutes. Use about 1/2 cup of candy melts, in each color of your choice, and melt with 1 tablespoon of shortening to thin out the melts. If using cake pop sticks, dip the end of each stick into each colour and push into the center of each dough ball. Refrigerate for 5 minutes to harden the candy and secure the dough ball. Roll each dough ball into each candy colour until they are completely coated. Arrange back on the parchment lined cookie sheet and refrigerate 5 minutes or until the candy has hardened. These easy to create adorable Halloween Oreo Balls — monsters, pumpkins, bats, and mummies; are each made with 5 ingredients or less! 34 34 To contribute, advertise or let us know your news please call 0118 933 3311 or email info@villageeye.co.uk facebook.com/villageeyemagazine @villageeyemag Issue 62 October D 2017(Paul).indd 34 19/09/2017 17:32
k or Treat Eye on Fun eye Towards the end of October there is often a buzz in the air, as children begin to get excited about Halloween and going ‘Trick or Treating’. We all know the practice. The children get dressed up in their costumes, knock on doors and challenge the house holder by asking, Trick or Treat? Of course, these days most Trick or Treaters only knock on the doors of their friends (often prearranged!) or at the very least, knock the doors of the neighbours who are displaying a pumpkin or other decorations. So, the question ‘Trick or Treat’ is posed and the children are pretty confident that, faced with this ‘terrifying’ band of young pirates, superheroes, pumpkins and princesses that the householder will answer ‘Treat’ and present them with a bowl of sweets. If you’re a cavityfearing parent, you might want to encourage the householders that you’re visiting to answer ‘Trick’. Task the kids with thinking up some tricks to play before you go out. It’s just a bit of fun, the “tricks” are as scary as a knock-knock joke is funny. One of our readers gave us a great example of this, “We used to chant, “Trick or Treat, you’ll smell my feet, if you don’t give me something good to eat!” Then if they said trick we’d wave dirty socks at them. Poooeeey! You could have a bowl of lollies outside with a walkie-talkie in the bottom of the bowl. Scare people with it when they reach for lollies. Another fun trick on halloween is to make caramel covered onions instead of apples. Or maybe you could spend some time making chocolate covered par-boiled sprouts... (yes, we’ve tried this!) Wrap them up in old ferro rocher wrappers (of course you’ll have to eat these yourself - shame) Hand these to the householder that asks for a trick and they will get a nasty surprise as they bite into one! But be careful, some householders may be getting ready to trick you back. Oh yes, those who do enter into the spirit of Hallowe’en may be looking for their own entertainment. Mwahahaha! Some will dress up and decorate their hallway, answering as a witch or another scary character. One particularly fun Dad we spoke to dressed up as a scarecrow and sat in a chair outside his door looking limp and lifeless with a bowl of sweets in his lap. As the trick or treaters approached he came to life. Now THAT’s scary! If you want to really confuse the trick or treaters, when you’re asked ‘Trick or Treat?’, try saying “Ooh, treat please!‘ and watch their confused little faces... Whatever you and yours are doing this Halloween, enjoy! 35 Issue 62 October D 2017(Paul).indd 35 19/09/2017 17:32
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