Hallowe’en is one of my favourite holidays of the year. If only for the opportunity to dress up in a ghoulish outfit and eat Halloween themed food and drink. I don’t even need to go trick or treating, in fact I’ve never done so. Just the food and costumes will do me fine. And it’s food like the following Goblin Pies that really excites me.

My little Goblins!

I absolutely loved making these pies and cutting out the various faces for them. The first lot I made had more demure looking expressions but then I recalled seeing a picture of the Pumpkins at the start of Nigella’s Hallowe’en chapter in Feast and cut out more sinister looking ones. Use a sharp paring knife and whatever you can find to cut out the various parts (cutters tend to be a bit too big for these pies so I used clean pen lids for the eyes etc). And don’t you think the one in the picture above in the middle row second from left looks like a Mummy laughing?

More demure Goblin faces

These taste exactly and I do mean exactly like party pies but perhaps the best ones you’ve ever had. And if you mince the meat yourself you’ll know what exactly is in the meat pie. My friend Carbon Debit is currently in Romania and she told me that in the supermarket they’ll mince the meat freshly for you, you just choose the meat you want minced and they’ll do the rest.

But getting more wicked…

As for me, I’m counting down the days until Hallowe’en for we’re holding our first Hallowe’en party! Let the gruesome games begin muahahahaaaaaa…