PUMPKIN EMOJI RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C/Fan160C/Gas 4. Melt the butter, muscovado and syrup in a saucepan – don’t let the mixture boil. Stir together the flour, bicarbonate and ginger. Stir in the hot butter mixture and then add the egg yolk and mix to form a stiff dough.
• Cut out your pumpkin emoji template from cereal packet cardboard using the template provided (you can download it by clicking the link above).
• Between two sheets of greaseproof paper, the same size as your baking tray, roll out ¼ of the warm dough to be a little thicker than a £1 coin - there’s no need for flour. Using a sharp knife and the template, cut out gingerbread shapes, leaving a gap between them. Carefully lift off the leftover dough between, leaving just the biscuits on the paper. Carefully place the paper on a baking tray. Repeat three more times until you have 12-14 shapes, you can re-knead and re-roll the trimmings to make spares.
• Bake 10mins until firm and browning round the edges. Leave to cool and firm up on the baking sheets.
• To make the icing, whisk the egg white until frothy then gradually beat in the icing sugar. Beat for a further 2-3 mins until the royal icing is thick and glossy. Cover with cling film until ready to use; the cling film should touch the surface of the icing.
• Colour 4tbsp royal icing orange. Spoon into a piping bag fitted with a small plain nozzle and use to outline each biscuit. Leave the remaining icing in the bag. Leave biscuits to dry for 15 mins.
• Colour all but 1tbsp of the remaining royal icing orange. To make a spreadable icing stir in 1/4 - 1tsp of water (you may need a little more). Divide the orange icing between the biscuits and spread out with a small palette knife. Leave to set for 10 mins.
• Using the remaining orange icing, pipe grooves on each pumpkin.
• Knead the yellow icing until soft and roll out thinly on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Cut out eyes and mouths and lift into place.
• Colour the remaining royal icing green and dab a little on the top of each biscuit for a stem. Leave biscuits to dry until all icing is fully set.

Steps:

• Whip the cream from one can coconut cream (removing liquid) together with the sugar and vanilla on medium for one minute.
• For yellow emoji, beat in a few drops of yellow food coloring.
• For pumpkin emoji, beat in canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice.
• For poop emoji, beat in cocoa powder.
• Cut out emoji faces and glue onto cups. Insert pretzel stick to act as the pumpkin stem.