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Oliver and his dad are wizard at cooking. Click on one of Oliver's favourite recipes - or send us your ideas! We'll choose the best and add them to Oliver's recipe list.

 

Bat and lettuce sandwich

Bat & Lettuce sandwich

(Ollie’s favourite lunch)

Ingredients:
mouldy bread
beetle butter
bat wings
limp lettuce

Cut the mouldy bread into two slices and spread both slices with beetle butter.

Then add three crispy bat wings and some limp lettuce.

Leave to rot for a few days. Yum yum!

Cockroach cake

Cockraoch cake

(Mr. Moon's speciality)

Ingredients:
flea flour
eagle eggs
beetle butter
snake sugar
muddy milk
crispy cockroaches
 

Mr. Moon’s rhyming recipe:

In goes the butter and the sugar too,
slosh in the mud-milk, and mix the goo.
Smash your eagle eggs - one, two, three.
Sieve in some flour of the finest flea.
Next add the cockroaches – tip them in.
Now you’re ready for the baking tin.
Cook over dragon-flames for an hour or so,
allow to cool… then off you go!

Snake blood mints

from The Stephensons

I think oliver might like to try snake blood mints.

1. Buy some mints.
2. Take out the inside of mint.
3. Pour snake blood in the case of the mint.

Oliver's coleslaw

from Steve and Dee

Coleslaw, tomato ketchup, cheese, pasta, bubble juice, potato, snot, and fanta

Chocolate mug slugs

Cockraoch cake

from Isrin

Ingredients

20 oz chocolate
50 juicy slugs
10 litres slug juice

1) Melt the chocolate and let it cool.
2) Ask an adult to cut the slugs into two with a knife.
3) Pour the chocolate, slug juice and slugs into a bowl.
4) Mix well and pour into mugs.

Cat muffins

from Noah

Ingredients

cat butter
meow flour
cat biscuits crushed
fishy water

Mix well and bake in the oven.
Decorate with cat tails and whiskers.
When you eat cat muffins they go meooowww.
Yummy!

Snail and slug sandwiches

from Ahmad

Ingredients

mouldy bread
bogey butter
5 snails
6 slugs

1 Cut the mouldy bread in half and take off the crust.
2 Spread the bogey butter on the mouldy bread.
3 Keep the snails and slugs alive and take the shells off the snails. Squeeze the blood out of 1 snail and 1 slug.
4 Put the snails and slugs in the bread with the blood and shut the bread up.
5 Now get a nice drink of bat blood and that's it.

Cobweb candyfloss

from Hannah

Two giant cobwebs,
a clean stick,
as many spiders as you like,
some eatable flowers,
three layers of snakes skin.

Hope you like it!

Bubbly bat-blood drink

from Rosie

Ingredients
a bat
bubble potion

Cut your bat in half and squeeze the blood into a cup. Pour the bubble potion into the same cup and mix well.

Enjoy!

Snake skin sausage rolls

from Hannah

Boil ten layers of snake skin.
One bats blood sausage.
Fry snakes skin.
Put sausage in snakes skin.

Invisibility potion

from Rea and Prithu

You will need:
Bat powder
5 slugs
3 snails
10 wasps
12 hairy bugs

1. First you will have to crush the slugs and then put them in one by one and mix them together slowly.

2. Next you have to take off the snails shells and throw their bodies in your pot. Once you have done that you have to add the bat powder. Mix them together.

3. You then will need to tip in the 10 wasps. Once you have, you will need to cut the 12 hairy bugs in half.

4. You have to squeeze the blood from them and chuck them in all dry and soggy.

5. Now you will have to mix it together for 5 minutes.

Now your potion is ready to be invisible!

Beetle blood shake

from Zuzu

Ingredients:
Beetles
Vampire blood
Hot slime

Instructions:
First crush the beetles in half then get your vampire blood and pour it into your ghost glass, then pour in your hot green slime water. Whisk all the ingredients until it froths .

Yummy! Ollie's favourite shake.

Slug sandwich

from Hattie

I think you should try a slug sandwich with beetle blood slugs and seaweed.

Spider web sandwich with beetle puree

from Isaiah

Ingredients:
Spider web
3 beetles
blackberry bread
toad butter

Method:
1. Spread toad butter on blackberry bread

2. Crush the beetles finely

3. Cover the crushed beetles with the spider web and place it on the blackberry bread.

Spider and batwing salad

from L Dedlow (South Africa)

My idea for a recipe is: Spider and Batwing Salad, with snake blood sauce.

 

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