Add a touch of humor to your sweets with these coronavirus recipes for Halloween. You the cakes that have been most successful on social networks during confinement, cupcakes, and decorated cookies. Also, we tell you what the steps to make a pancake in the shape of a mask are.
1) Decorated cookies
For the cookies
⦁ 200 g butter at room temperature
⦁ 120 g sugar
⦁ 280 h of flour
⦁ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the frosting
⦁ 200 g caster sugar
⦁ 1 egg white
⦁ ½ lemon
⦁ Pastry sleeves with narrow nozzles
⦁ Food coloring
Preparation
⦁ Mix the creamy butter with the sugar.
⦁ Add a teaspoon of vanilla essence.
⦁ Put the sifted flour and mix well.
⦁ Roll into a ball and let it rest. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge.
⦁ When the dough is firm enough to work, knead it.
⦁ Cut with the different shapes.
⦁ Prepare the glaze by separating the white from the egg.
⦁ Sift a couple of tablespoons of sugar over the whites and beat with the whisk. Pour in the rest of the sugar little by little until it is the right consistency.
⦁ Add a few drops of lemon juice and stir.
⦁ Divide the frosting into different bowls and pour a different coloring into each one.
⦁ You will need to make gray, pink, and blue.
⦁ Tuck the frosting into the sleeves and decorate.
⦁ Start with the base colors. Let them dry.
⦁ Follow with a second coat of frosting for the details.
⦁ With a black food marker, make the details: the dots on the strips, the syringe's lines, or the numbers on the thermometer.
2) Cupcakes with a mask
Add the masks to your sweets. It is an original way to make muffins or cupcakes and standardize an accessory that will accompany us for some time.
Ingredients
⦁ Homemade cupcakes
⦁ 50g butter
⦁ 1 tablespoon of milk
⦁ 125 g caster sugar
⦁ 2 drops of vanilla essence
⦁ Blueberries
Preparation
⦁ Once you have the cupcakes made and cold, prepare the glaze with which to decorate them.
⦁ Beat the butter until smooth.
⦁ Add the milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar.
⦁ Beat again until everything is well mixed and uniform.
⦁ Let it sit until the frosting is textured.
⦁ Put in a pastry bag and make the shape of the mask.
⦁ Place two blueberries as if they were the eyes and put a small dot of frosting on each one.
⦁ You can substitute the frosting if it's easier for a fondant mask.
3) Pancakes in the shape of a mask
Ingredients
⦁ 150 g of flour
⦁ 75 g of warm water
⦁ White sugar
⦁ 1 egg yolk
Preparation
⦁ Mix the sifted flour with the sugar.
⦁ Add the water and mix.
⦁ Put the egg yolk.
⦁ Roll the dough into a ball and cover with plastic wrap.
⦁ Let stand half an hour.
⦁ Divide the dough into equal parts and roll out with a rolling pin.
⦁ Give a rectangular shape. Help yourself with your hands to make the folds of the masks.
⦁ Use a little more dough to make the rubber bands on the sides.
⦁ Put in a skillet lightly greased with butter over medium heat.
⦁ Do both sides. Use caution when turning it over.
