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Kransekage Mummies

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Kransekage Mummies – a fusion of traditional Danish baking with Halloween! Kransekage Mummies are made with ground almonds and taste just like marzipan but baked and these have a delicious coating of dark chocolate underneath!

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Having never celebrated Halloween as a child (as it was just something our American cousins did), when I had my own children I soon made up for lost time. Indeed our front window gets turned into a Halloween grotto every year and until recently both of my children went out trick or treating, now it’s just my daughter who loves putting on her spooky make-up, fake blood and black nail varnish.

I think the appeal of Halloween to me is that it’s fun, there are no presents to buy or lavish meals to plan like Christmas. It’s also a time to have fun and get creative in the kitchen with your kids and with this in mind I came up with the idea of Kransekage Mummies. They are simple enough for a child to put together with the help of an adult and are so delicious, like marzipan in cake form – no style over substance here!

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Kransekage are usually served in Denmark and other parts of Scandinavia at big celebrations in the form of concentric rings made into a tower and decorated with miniature crackers and flags. Indeed we had 2 of these at our wedding, my husband said they looked like Madonna’s bra!

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If you’re not having a big celebration though there’s no need to miss out. Kransekage can be made into individual pieces and for extra yummy indulgence dipped in plain chocolate. The white stripes of icing that usually adorn Kransekage are what gave me the idea to take this to the next level and fashion them into white bandages. With a few tweaks to the shape a Kransekage Mummies were born! Let you kids have fun icing the stripes to make individual characters – they don’t need to look perfect!

More Halloween Recipes

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For more Halloween recipe inspiration do check out the following recipes:

  • Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes
  • Chocolate Pear Ghosts
  • Halloween Chocolate Apples
  • Spooky Yogurt Scrolls
  • Mexican Pumpkin Patch Halloween Rolls
  • Halloween Smoothie Bowl – fun pumpkin design
  • Halloween Cheesecake Brownies
  • Halloween Bark
  • Halloween Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Pies
  • Skeleton Hand Halloween Cake

Happy Halloween!

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Kransekage Mummies

Kransekage Mummies are like marzipan in cake form - just divine!
Course Snack, teatime
Cuisine Danish
Keyword almonds, baking, Halloween
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 12
Author Camilla Hawkins

Ingredients

  • 200 g Ground almonds
  • 200 g Icing sugar
  • 1 ½ Medium egg whites approx
  • Base:
  • 100 g Plain Chocolate
  • Icing:
  • 220 g Icing sugar
  • 1 Egg white

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 200°C.
  • Line a baking tray with baking paper.
  • Mix sieved icing sugar and ground almonds together thoroughly.
  • Add enough of the egg white to form a firm dough.
  • Transfer dough to a work surface dusted with icing sugar and divide into two halves.
  • Roll half dough out (with your hands) into a 2cm diameter sausage shape and divide into 6 equal lengths. Repeat with the other half.
  • Place the dough sections on the paper lined baking tray and flatten, rounding off the ends and pinching in one end to form a head shape with your hands.
  • Bake on the lowest oven shelf for 10 minutes until just golden.
  • Allow to cool for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
  • Once cool, melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water.
  • Use a pastry brush to paint the chocolate on to the base of each mummy.
  • Put the mummies chocolate side down onto a fresh sheet of baking parchment or leave to set bottom up.
  • Next make the icing by mixing the egg white and 220g icing sugar.
  • Pipe wide stripes in a zig zag to make a bandage effect on the mummies.
  • Then using the remainder of the molten chocolate, pipe eyes on the mummies.
  • Allow the mummies to set and then transfer to an airtight container.

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  1. Amy Treasure

    27/10/2019 at 8:25 pm

    These are amazing and I love that green hand prop!

    I feel the same about Halloween, it’s so much fun thanks to no stress of presents and not having to slave over a meal all day!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      27/10/2019 at 9:04 pm

      Thanks Amy, yes I’m all for fun and no stress:-)

      Reply
  2. Kavey

    07/11/2015 at 9:37 am

    So many of Halloween recipes look too tricky to make, my decoration skills aren’t up to much, but these look so doable!

    Reply
    • Camilla

      07/11/2015 at 12:25 pm

      Thanks Kavey;-)

      Reply
  3. Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy

    03/11/2015 at 1:00 pm

    How fun are these?! They look really great Camilla, and I bet kids just love them.

    Reply
    • Camilla

      03/11/2015 at 4:37 pm

      Thanks Dannii – the grown-ups are pretty keen too:-)

      Reply
  4. Paul Wilson

    01/11/2015 at 12:01 am

    Lovely.

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