Want some Halloween treats? ID gives you two recipes animals posted on Instagram. Among the many online resources, we find the blogger Perle en sucre (@perlenesucre). Since 2017, this influencer has only offered 100% plant-based recipes in his latest book. The taste of childhoodpublished by La Plage.
Perle en sucre ghost cakes
For Halloween, she recommends making little ghosts as musical cookies. It is made with a base of delicious biscuits, an Italian meringue with aquafaba with agar agar and a fine chocolate shell.
To make a delicious biscuit, you will need about thirty ghosts: 75g margarine, 150g flour T55, 25g of ground almonds, a little salt and 27ml of flour. vegetable milk cold.
“In a container, mix flour, powdered sugar, crushed almonds and salt. Add the margarine cut into pieces and mix everything with your fingers until you get a sandy dough”, suggests Pearl in the sugar, before adding: “then add the milk and mix to make a uniform dough.”
Next, roll the dough between two sheets of parchment paper, then place the dough on a baking sheet and refrigerate for one hour. After removing the dough from the fridge, she recommends cutting the shortbread using a cookie cutter about 4 cm in diameter.
Then place them on a baking sheet lined with silpat or baking paper, and separate them. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and in the meantime, put the cookie sheet in the freezer “, continues Pearl in the sugar. The last step: bake for 10 to 15 minutes, then put the cookies on the wire until they settle.
The full recipe can be found here.
Marie Laforêt’s pumpkin shortbread
For her, vegan cookbook writer Marie Laforêt (@marielaforetvegan) has several ideas. delicious food for Halloween, especially pumpkin shortbread. About 20 cookies, you need 450 g of wheat flour, 250 g of cane sugar, 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon, 1/4 tsp of salt, 130 ml of vegetable oil, 100 g of cooked pumpkin, 90 ml. soy drink, spelled and hazelnut 100 g dark chocolate.
Once the ingredients are purchased, you will need a bowl to mix flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt. “Add the oil and mix with your fingers on the sand. Mix the cooked pumpkin with soy sauce, topped with hazelnuts, and add to the salad bowl, “says Marie Laforêt on her blog. After doing this variety, you will need to knead to make two balls of dough. Then, film, and leave in the fridge for ten minutes three.
Next steps: Roll out the dough with a pin, cut out the shape of the pumpkin with a cookie cutter or a knife, and bake the short cakes for 10 minutes at 180 ° C, on a baking tray lined with baking paper. The last tip given by Marie Laforêt: “Cool the biscuits in the pan, melt the dark chocolate in a bain-marie and with the help of toothpicks or fine brushes dipped in melted chocolate.”
Other special Halloween recipes can be found here.