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Halloween cookie bars take one tin and 20 to 25 minutes in the oven: cream the butter and sugars, beat in an egg, fold through a cocoa dough, stir in Halloween M&Ms and bake at 180C. The catch is the colour, because black cookie dough has a habit of baking to a flat grey, or turning bitter when too much colouring goes in.
Pumpkin spice cupcakes are a simple sponge. Cream 150 g of butter with 150 g of light brown sugar, beat in three eggs, fold in self-raising flour and 1½ tsp of pumpkin spice, and bake at 180°C for 18 to 20 minutes. That's how to make pumpkin spice cupcakes, and the baking is the easy half. The half that catches most Irish bakers out is the spice. Pumpkin pie spice is an American blend that rarely sits in an Irish cupboard, and without it you've baked a plain bun with a vague smell of cinnamon.
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