Friday the 13th Halloween Cigarettes
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 2 minutes
- 50g/1.7ozs grissini bread sticks
- 75g/2.7ozs white chocolate
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
- 20g/0.7ozs Red or orange chocolate melts or royal icing
- 4 tablespoons white sugar
- A couple of drops of black food colouring
- Ashtray style plate (avoid using a used ashtray as it won't be clean enough)
Step 1 - Break the breadsticks in various lengths - some I halved, some I broke into three or four pieces. Line two baking trays with parchment. Melt the chocolate in a microwave on 50% power until melted. Stir in the coconut oil and mix until smooth. Dip the grissini darker side up (grissini has a pale and a dark side but the dark side is what we want as it's the colour of cigarette filters) in the chocolate leaving a section undipped for the filter at the top. Make sure to scrape the chocolate off the bottom of the stick just on the side of the bowl. Place darker side up on the lined baking tray. Allow to set (I pop the tray in the fridge or freezer).
Step 2 - Then melt the red and orange chocolate or tint the royal icing. Place the sugar in a ziplock bag and add 2 drops of black food colouring. Massage to distribute and then place in a small bowl. Dip the tips in the orange chocolate or icing and then dip the very tip in the ash sugar. Place back on the trays and allow to set. Then place in a bowl or ashtray plate in various sizes with the ash sugar at the bottom and sprinkled on top.
Make these ahead of time and store in an airtight container between layers of parchment in the freezer for up to a month.