Juliet Sear serve up delicious vampire bite cookies with candied pears for Halloween on this morning.

The ingredients for the cookies are: 25g cocoa powder, ¼ tsp fine sea salt, 160g self raising flour, 125g unsalted butter, softened, 75g light brown sugar, 75g golden caster sugar, 1 medium egg, 1 tsp vanilla extract and 150g dark chocolate chips or chopped chocolate.

For the filling: 100g unsalted butter, softened, 200g sifted icing sugar, ½ tsp vanilla extract, Red food colouring and Mini and large marshmallows.

See recipes by Juliet in her book titled: Botanical Baking: Contemporary baking and cake decorating with edible flowers and herbs AVAILABLE FROM Amazon now.