Although I’m not what one would consider a goth (I mean really, do goths tan or more accurately fake tan?), I am not really surprising anyone when I say that I do all of the accoutrements of the gothic world. That doesn’t mean that I also don’t like the girly but I get similarly excited when I see the Hallowe’en decorations filling the stores. Not only do I get to create some creative food, I also get to dress up. And you see Dear Readers, that is what girls do best.
My Hallowe’en parties are costume only affairs. I admit that when guests don’t dress up, I get a little upset inside and somewhere a unicorn dies (ok not really). Costumes don’t have to be elaborate or costly. Case in point, my friend Miss America made an awesome costume where he stuffed a pillow under his shirt and wore a retro shirt and hat from a vintage store. So when people don’t bother dressing up, like Franck Eggelhoffer would do, I strike them off my invite list for the next year. Yes I can be ruthless that way. The guests that tend to not get dressed up are the boys. Mr NQN is a prime example. He will do anything to try and avoid getting dressed up.
As you can see I delighted in getting dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood. OK my costume was a little shorter than I wanted. Queen Viv was going to make it for me but she was called to South Australia for work so with no time left, I bought it on ebay. And I warn you if you go that route, they only seem to sell sexy adult costumes and I spent to whole night pulling down my skirt trying to ensure that I wasn’t mooning my guests. And along with dressing the part, I also like making the food. The more ghoulish and blood like the better and I tend to use a lot of black and red food colouring for this holiday.
I got the idea for these directly from Linda’s lovely Bubble and Sweet blog where they were more of an ode to Twilight but of course the timing wasn’t lost on me. She was kind enough to email me tips on how to do it. I did the lazy route and made pops out of white Tim Tams rather than cake. One thing that I would suggest is to buy the Wilton red chocolate melts which is what Linda suggested as painting the white chocolate was a) fruitless b) stupid and c) time wasting. I’d like to save you from that fate but still enjoy these gorgeously vampish treats.
Sure there is some food colouring involved and when Teena brought little Annabel to the party I didn’t give her any for fear of her turning into a head spinning toddler. But they are surprisingly easy to make, especially the lips. Plus they can help give you the vampire teeth look while providing you with a snack at the same time.
So tell me Dear Reader, do you like getting dressed up for costume parties or Hallowe’en?
Vampire Cookie Pops
Makes 16 Vampire Pops
- 1 packet white chocolate Tim Tams
- 50grams/1.7 ozs light or regular cream cheese (I used light)
- 3-4 tablespoons almond meal
- red food colouring gel or liquid
- 250/6ozs Wilton red chocolate melted
- Lollypop sticks
- a small batch of black royal icing (see recipe below) or you can use chocolate fondant
- white fondant for teeth and fangs
1. In a food processor, process the biscuits, cream cheese and red colouring until it becomes a smooth paste. You may need to stop and scrape 2-3 times to do this. Add almond meal if it becomes too sticky. Scrape the mixture into a bowl and refrigerate for 30 minutes until it becomes firmer.
From a ball, to a flattened ball..
To a diamond
To lips!
2. With a melon baller or small spoon scoop out truffle shaped balls and rolls these into balls between your palms. If you have hot palms like me, run them under cold water and quickly towel them dry. Shape them into lips but making a diamond shape and then fashioning lips-this is surprising easier than you would think 
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3. Melt red chocolate in a double boiler. Dip a lollypop stick or a small wooden skewer into chocolate and carefully and gently insert it into the base of the cookie pop. Allow to set firm. Then dip each ball in the chocolate making sure that excess chocolate drips off-this is very important. Place back on parchment lined tray to set firm.
4. When set, add a little black royal icing in a long oval shape in the centre of the lips. Then shape some fangs with the white fondant and some teeth and affix these to the royal icing which will set hard and adhere them.
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The picture of the blender scares me a little. Reminds me of a horror flick where the character placed in a heart and blended it.
*shivers*
I gotta say the picture of the food processor with splatter red dough is straight out of a horror film…
Awesome! You are a more adventurous and creative cook than anyone I know.
I have never actually been to a Halloween party!! But dress up parties can be a lot of fun!
Love the shot of the fp blade with all the spluttery “blood” around it lol
I loooooooooove getting dressed up. I actually have a costume box full of dress up costumes.
I have a Snow White costume that has the same problem as your Little Red Riding Costume. It’s way too short. So I’ve just bought a skirt that I wear under the costume for modesty. I suggest you do the same.
And, I also have the same problem as you with my partner. He hates dressing up and I have to drag him along kicking and screaming. Although we’ve managed to work out a compromise now. He dresses up a little bit, just to satisfy me
I love your Halloween idaes and parties! I keep meaning to have one but life gets in the way.
I love dressing up, we don’t do it nearly as often as we should. The pops look wonderful!
Woman, you’re scaring me..
Hehe cool lips. And very good idea not giving it to the toddler!
I love dress-up parties! I also love DIY outfits. I’m going to a Halloween party on Saturday night as the Wicked Witch of the West. Witches hat, black lipstick, green face paint and all!
Your cookiepops look like so much fun!
Not sure what’d I dress up as…the bride of Frankenstein perhaps? Or one of the zombies from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video…I can do ratty looking hair really well!
I’ve never been to a Halloween party! We celebrated Halloween for the first time in NZ, when we were living there – two years in a row. The kids loved it. They got to dress up for school – and teachers did it as well – and we door-knocked for treats. (We did not do any tricks if there were no treats).
Kids would like to do something this year, but I’m not sure if anyone in our area will be doing it. Possibly we will go to a local Halloween festival, so we get to enjoy the fun. And yes, I’ll dress up at any opportunity.
One question: Can I replace the almond meal is this recipe with something else? Thanks. xo
Aw these are so cute and I love your costume! Your Halloween posts are always so much fun to look forward to and they never disappoint.
Ooooh yummy, and your pictures with you holding the pops are oh so cute!
Love the props Lorraine!! And may I add, you look dead gorgeous in blood red
I bet you could give the Cullens a run for their money any day of the week! You do look rather gorgeously spectacular
Aaahhhh Yes.., getting dressed up is what girls love to do for sure. Love the ‘blood splattered’ blender & at the risk of being gushy… OMG., you really are such an adventurously creative cook, so impressed.
Lorraine, Very realistic, creepy vampire pops! Shivers! Those lips would be great for Valentine’s Day:)
I think it’s fun getting dressed up. This year I am a hippie:)
Love the Red Riding Hood:) Happy Halloween!
Very cute! where did you get the inspiration from?
That food processor photo looks way too scary! hehehe
They are very cool btw.
Emanuela The Foodie Goddess
Brilliant decoration and pops! The dress and the pops are excellent excuses to eat more sweets
Cheers,
Gera
Fantastic!! They are so cool & so much fun. Your food processor looked rather gruesome!! Love Posie
wow! the red looks so sparkly, like a really glittery lipgloss. you look so pretty, it’s lovely to see pictures of you here.
Those cookie-lip/fang thingies look rather sensual!
haha, you look like a murderous Little Red Riding Hood, great stuff!
SO creative and cute!!!
So adorably scary and very creative.
you are the cutest little red riding hood!
HAHAHAHAHAH thats the coolest Halloween thing Ive seen ever! .. so cute.. love your little vampire get up!
You look great in your costume and the vampire pops are the perfect scary prop. Thanks for the link.
More fun with Tim Tams! Gosh, here I finally mastered the “straw” after like three attempts, and now there’s fake lips to add to the equation, too? Sigh, don’t think they sell the white ones in the States, unfortunately. Sheesh, what’s up with that?
I love the red riding hood outfit! you are right about ebay having mostly adult costumes.. I much prefer silly haloween get ups to the sexy nurse, sexy pirate, sexy policewoman variety and hate it also when people dont make the effort! Even if it is dressing up in normal clothes, putting on some glitter and whacking on these vampire pops so you can be that sparkly vampire edward from twilight!
Clever! I am not too much of a dress up person. I do love it but I think dressing up is more of a twice a year thing and halloween is definitely one of them
These are so cool!! I love dressing up =) I never buy a costume because my parents don’t see the point in buying something that I’ll only wear once (unless it’s really cheap) but it’s always fun to try and match up bits and pieces of clothing to create some sort of costume, even if it’s a really unconvincing one! It’s never fun when people don’t dress up- And it’s even more annoying when people turn up saying they’re dressing up as ‘themselves’!! haha….I completely understand why you’d cross people off the list!
These lips look really convincing! I wouldn’t have thought they’d be so easy to shape! And they sound delicious too- with white TimTams =)
Just bought my white Tim Tams !! I know what I’m making tomorrow
They are so cute!!
Oh my.. That is a little way too much effort for me! Well done though… i’d probably get struck off your list pretty quickly then.. I’ve never been to a costume party! Ever.
The first picture of the recipe with the red splatter looks very scary halloween (though the fun foodie version is much preferable to me) These pops sound a bit like some red velvet cake truffles I have seen elsewhere
So much work but what a great result! I would have wanted to preserve them but I suspect the smell of the Tim Tams and chocolate would have been too much! Happy Halloween!
Love the costume Lorraine!! I love getting dressed up too. We have a vampire slayer outfit which looks pretty cool – as well as a Cleopatra outfit etc. Would love to go to some more dress up parties though…
Oh man, I had my halloween party last weekend too. Such a shame because I would have totally made these! They look amazing! Always next year, I guess.
I love fancy dress. I went to a party last month as a Freak Show ticket girl
I have black fairy wings, a tiara and a velvet hooded cape amongst other things in my dressing up box. Well, it’s less a box and more a bag under the bed. There is no embarrassment in being a Goth either. It’s easier to dress in black all year in the UK!
I know what you mean, I hate it when ppl are not sporting!
Fang-tastic! And you are a stunning LRR…
I love your Halloweens, the costumes, the treats, everything and I want to come to one of your parties one year. Too cool! And the lips are fabulous, especially with that costume! And is that one of the sexy adult costumes? Oh as for me, no Halloween, no costumes
LOL, I think Asians fake tan more than white people. Cos we look so SICK when we’re pale! Love the vampire cookie pops, you are one talented girl!
I love the picture of you in the Red riding hood costume! And those cookies are just perfect, so cool!
These are great! I love the fangs. I wish I were better at thinking of costumes ideas. Some years, I come up with a good one, and other years, I’m hopeless!
These look so cool, I thought you’d used a mold to make them!
Oh & I lurve costume parties
Oh wow, you are amazing, Lorraine! Your vampire pops are perfect, I never would have guessed they’re free-form! I’m totally inspired now.
Made these last night to share at work today. I was worried they didn’t look as good as yours but once you add the teeth it all somehow works. I had to make some adjustments…I didn’t need any almond meal as I blended in a tupperware handmixer it wasn’t as smooth. I couldn’t find wiltons melts so I melted white chocolate and added Robertsons choc powdered colouring. I couldn’t be bothered making black royal icing at short notice so I used an black icing pen from the supermarket. Also mine didn’t seem as glossy red as yours so for extra glam I added some edible red glitter petal dust. thanks for the inspiration.
Great photos!
That red is very dramatic and realistic.
SSG xxx
Love the costume!! The lips go so well with it haha
oh wait, or a trick?
I have to say I am quite partial to white tim tams so thiswould work a treat on me
they look brilliant. I’ll bet your guests loved them
Those photos of you are adorable! Love those pops. The tour you went on looks amazing. Smoked salmon is one of my all time favorite foods, I would have enjoyed a tour of that smokehouse & the eats
xo
Sweet Lips
I love dressing up for parties and get very excited when invitations ask guests to do so.
We have a freaks and geeks party to go to and the only problem is deciding on only one costume!
My daughter would love this! We’re having a family reunion,looks like this is worth a try.
I love dress up parties! The blender looks scarily like blood. Love these cookie pops! I’ll have to throw a party using these fabulous recipes
Heidi xo
i initially thought u were going to be Red Riding Hood…then i saw those fangs >.<
lorraine, these cookie pops are amazing…i’m off out for halloween tonight…it’s my favourite celebration of the whole year. how exciting you are coming to bali. i know of lots of lovely little places for you to check out while you are here and i think your #1 destination might just be Divine Wonderland cafe…a lovely little alice in wonderland inspired cafe in Oberoi. just email me if you need any more suggestions…
this is clever and eerie and slightly macabre and i love it. however, i’d no doubt end up with red splotches all over my kitchen, clothes, and self.
Maybe one day, you will do a cookbook JUST FOR HALLOWEEN, or something called JUST CAMPY.
Really, you could do it.
Love tim tam pops, they’re just so beautifully creamy and decadent that you wouldn’t guess how easy they were to make! I always look forward to your Halloween posts, and these vampire cookie pops don’t disappoint. That photo of you holding the pop to your face is priceless!
I love the picture of the food processer. Are you sure it was only red food colouring??
They are so awesome, will be making those next year!
Hi there Lorraine … I’m trying this recipe out experimentally before my event and it isn’t working for me.
the mix is very moist so i have added extra almond meal and they are not sticking around the stick. I have put them in the fridge.
Then the red wilton chocolate isn’t melting very melty. I have to ‘put’ it onto the lips using a knife. Eventually the lip starts to fall apart.
This isn’t working for me
Please help me!!! Please,please
xLydia
Hi Lydia-They should definitely harden up in the fridge so just shape them and then put them in the fridge to firm up and then insert the sticks into them
Oh that is strange re the Wilton red chocolate, perhaps add a table of butter to liquify it more? It hasn’t seized has it?
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