Crafts & activities

Bake some fun squashed fly biscuits

Murder Most Unladylike fans will love getting the party started with a delicious batch of squashed fly biscuits, Daisy and Hazel’s favourites! Serve with ghostly milk for a spooktacular midnight feast.

Puffin team
Bake some squashed fly biscuits

You will need:

•  110g self-raising flour

•  pinch of salt

•  25g spreadable butter

•  25g caster sugar

•  2 tablespoons milk

•  50g currants (or squashed flies!)

•  some egg white

•  a sprinkle of granulated sugar

How to make them:

1.  Preheat your oven to 200C

2.  Mix flour, salt and butter in a large mixing bowl and rub into fine crumbs

3.  Add sugar and mix in enough milk to create a firm dough

4.  Move the mixture to a surface that has been lightly dusted with flour and roll into a rectangle

5.  Sprinkle the currants (squashed flies!) on half the surface. Fold the remaining half on top of the squashed flies and re-roll into the original rectangle

6.  Cut into spooky fingers and place the biscuits on a baking sheet. Brush with some egg white and sprinkle with sugar for extra Halloween sweetness

7.  Bake near the centre of the oven for 12–15 minutes, and cool on a wire tray.

Now you have a batch of gruesome squashed fly biscuits, a perfect treat for the ultimate midnight feast! 

 

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