and the frosting. If you’d like to decorate the cakes once they’ve been frosted, use orange jelly sweets or orange slices.Adapted from The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days (Collins, £20) Photograph by Kate WhitakerDon't miss... More delicious recipes including

the milk and vanilla extract and turn the speed up. Mix for about 5 minutes until the frosting is light and fluffy.Use a piping bag to pipe the frosting onto the cakes, then decorate with some star anise or liquorice sweets to finish.Recipe adapted from

until the icing is smooth and creamy. Ice each cake with a generous spoonful of icing and add your Halloween decorations. As an alternative these ginger cupcakes look very pretty simply topped with a sprinkling of Demerara sugar over the icing. Store any

the underside of 12 of the cookies and the green buttercream over the underside of the other 12. Top with the remaining cookies.To decorate your spiders, use the untinted buttercream to pipe 2 eyes on top of each spider. Press the green and orange chocolate

of the mixture, mix in a drop of green food colouring, cover and set aside. Pipe swirls of the remaining filling onto 12 of the pie halves. set aside.To decorate, mix the 200g icing sugar, orange juice and a few dots of orange colouring until glossy then use