Pumpkin faces

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Prep Time:10 mins

Cooking Time:30 mins

Serves:8 Adults

Cost:Low

Sweet treats at Halloween don't have to be bad for you. The trick is to find nutritious natural ingredients and cast a little magic.

Ingredients

1 pumpkin - around 6kg / 13lb
60g / 2 oz. of Demerara sugar
60g / 2 oz. of butter, cut into little pieces
1 tablespoon of orange juice
1 level teaspoon of ground cinnamon
4 liquorice "bootlaces"

Method

Cut the pumpkin in half, peel and de-seed it
Use a sharp knife to cut circular pieces from the pumpkins for ‘faces’. Aim to get about 8 faces from the pumpkin
Carefully make holes for the eyes, nose and mouth, using the knife and an apple corer - children should ask an adult for help to do this
Lay the ‘faces’ in greased shallow roasting tins and sprinkle with the sugar, butter, orange juice and cinnamon
Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C / 350°F / Gas Mark 4 for 30 minutes, basting halfway through cooking
Carefully transfer each pumpkin ‘face’ to a plate and allow to cool
Arrange a few pieces of liquorice ‘bootlace’ around the top to resemble hair

What you will need

Baking tray
Chopping board
Chopping knife

Serving suggestions

If you don’t like cinnamon you can also use powdered cloves

Nutritional Information:

All our recipes are nutritionally analysed by our team of experts.

1/8 of the recipe contains

Energy

596kj

143kcal

Fat

6.9g

10%

Saturates

4.2g

21%

Sugars

14.2g

16%

Salt

0.1g

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