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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal233
  • fat10g
  • saturates6g
  • carbs35g
  • sugars22g
  • fibre0g
  • protein3g
  • salt0.24g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Butter, then line a 30 x 20cm Swiss roll tin with baking parchment. Melt the butter in a large non-stick saucepan. Tip in the marshmallows, then melt very gently for about 10 mins, stirring regularly to make sure they don’t stick.

  • step 2

    Once smooth, stir in the cereal until all of the grains are coated. Spoon the mix into the tin, then press down to make it flat and smooth. Chill until cool and set. Can be made up to 2 days ahead.

  • step 3

    Make the ghost shapes two ways. Cut the cake into rectangles, then use a sharp knife to round off the tops and zig-zag the bottoms. Or, to make flying ghosts, stamp out circles about 9cm across and use a sharp knife to divide into teardrop-shaped ghosts. Cut pieces of leftover cake to make arms, if you like.

  • step 4

    Carefully push a lolly stick into the bottom of each ghost. Put onto a cooling rack. If you’ve made arms, stick them on using a little white chocolate, then spoon over more chocolate and paint it over and down the sides of the ghosts with a pastry brush. Leave to set. Pipe on eyes with the plain chocolate or icing.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2010

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Step 4 days to"spoon over more chocolate". .... Where was the original chocolate added? 300g seems a lot of chocolate. Not yet made them but bought ingredients and can't understand the 'more' unless it relates to firstly the sticking on of arms which is optional?

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goodfoodteam

Hi, thanks for your question. Yes it relates to the sticking on of arms. It's not used anywhere else in the recipe, just for this final step (If you’ve made arms, stick them on using a little white chocolate, then spoon over more chocolate). We hope this helps. Best wishes, BBC Good Food Team.

elliex1

We made these with 50g less of the marshmallows, after reading the comments about the mixture being too sticky, which worked well. Cut the batch into rectangles and made 12 good sized ghosts. Also, only painted the front of the bar with white chocolate, which still looked good without being too…

alex101

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Made these at halloween and they tasted great and the kids loved them. I didn't find them hard to make but I agree that they were very sticky!

stellababe

A star rating of 1 out of 5.

Tasted lovely but what a sticky fiddly waste of time! Our trick or treaters humoured me but I would say more car crash than ghost! Advice: Try something else!

bremen

I used 2/3 of the recipe which filled my slice pan nicely. It made 8 large ghosts but there were quite a lot of small off cuts from cutting out the design. I dipped my wooden spoon in hot water to help smooth of the crispy mixture when filling the tin and stop it from sticking. Not too bad to make…

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