Scarily simple pumpkin pies!

Pumpkin pies

Ingredients:

• Plain or wholemeal flour
• Water
• Orange veg (use pumpkin for real effect!)
• Optional: Cream cheese or porridge for “blob of cream”
• Bun tray
• Cookie cutter

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven 180c (350F)
2. Mix 3 heaped tablespoons of flour with some water to create your dough, roll out in to a thin circle
3. use a cookie cutter slightly larger than the base of your bun tray and place your dough in to the bun tray like a dish
4. (If you can, place some pie beads or marbles in to stop it rising) bake for 5 mins
5. While it cooks, cut your veg in to a circle the size of the base of your pie, microwave in a small bowl of water for 1 minute. (you could alternatively mash your veg)
6. Place your veg in to your pie dish and bake for a further 5 mins.
7. Done! For final touches use a blob of cream cheese or cooked porridge for that “dollop of cream” that pumpkin pie traditionally has.

Sundae!

Summer is here! Time to keep those hammies cooled, hydrated, and full of healthy foods!

Sundae

Ingredients:

• Soft fruits (I chose banana and strawberry)
• Natural yoghurt (optional)
• Slice of cucumber
• Millet or crushed cereal, for sprinkles
• Optional: mealworm ‘spoon’

Method:

1. Scoop the insides out of the cucumber to create a bowl
2. Mush your fruits (and yoghurt if using) till they are nicely blended and place a spoonful on your bowl
3. Add your ‘sprinkles’
4. Add your ‘spoon’ if you want
5. Place in freezer for 30 mins until nicely chilled (not frozen completely) and give to your hams!

‘Hammy dogers’ (Jammy Dogers)

Now if you don’t know what a Jammy Doger is, it’s two biscuits with jam in the middle, and the top biscuit has a loveheart shape cut out of it. But since jam is too sugary for hamsters here is a healthier alternative.

Hammy Doger

Ingredients:

• Plain flour
• Unsweetened cereal of your choice (cheerios, cornflakes, bran flakes)
• Strawberry (substitute with another red fruit if needed)
• Smooth peanut butter

Method:

1. Heat the oven to 180c (350f)
2. Crush your chosen cereal in to tiny crumbs
3. mix 1 part flour to 1 part cereal
4. Add a little water until it forms dough (mix it)
5. Roll out over some flour and cut in to small circles (using a cutter or anything tubular)
6. (For the heart shaped ones, I used a straw to cut the shapes out)
7. Bake in the oven until they are hard on the outside
8. While they bake, mush your red fruits in to a pulp
9. When the biscuits are cooked, add peanut butter across the whole biscuit and a blob of strawberry just in the middle
10. Sandwich 2 together, and when cool feed to your ham!

Pancakes!

Hamster Pancakes

Ingredients:

• plain flour
• water
• egg
• fruit/veg of choice

Method:

1. Mix 1 egg with 2/3 cup of flour and 2/3 cup of water
2. heat a frying/pancake pan and lightly grease with a bit of olive oil (very lightly)
3. Use a teaspoon to put small blobs on (about 2/3 tsp is good amount)
4. cook and flip until they start to go golden
5. Let cool and add sliced fruit of your choice (I chose banana and carrot because we had no strawberries)

For the rest of the batter: Your turn!

Add a pinch of salt, sugar, some vanilla extract, tbsp baking powder and a drizzle of oil to have human pancake batter!

Cake!

Hamster Cake!

What you will need:

• Plain or wholemeal flour
• Water
• Fruit for flavour (I chose banana, baby food is another option)
• Extra toppings such as hamster safe chocolate drops
• Mealworm candle! (optional)

Method:

1. Mix the flour and water to make a thick dough
2. Add the mushed banana or fruits of your choice (make sure they are safe first)
3. Press in to small bun case
4. Optional: Frosting (flour and water dough with food colouring pressed on top)
5. Add your mealworm candle!
6. Bake on high (180c) until hard on the outside