7 liquorice Recipes

butter, softened and room temperature, golden caster sugar, self raising flour, cocoa , not drinking chocolate, eggs, beaten, baking powder, vanilla extract, milk, chocolate chips, drops or 4 oz chopped chocolate, paper cupcake liners , cases preferably brown (optional), softened butter, icing sugar, cocoa, vanilla extract, milk, liquorice allsorts, sweets (liquorice catherine wheels, shoe strings, boot laces etc for the legs.) or candy, for the eyes and the mouth (liquorice catherine wheels, shoe strings, boot laces etc for the legs.)

mice, dark chocolate, broken into pieces, sour cream, chocolate cookie crumbs, chocolate cookie crumbs, icing sugar, silver (balls for eyes) decorations, sliceded almonds, a dozen 5cm lengths red or black liquorice, note you can change these up by using all white chocolate and vanilla cookie crumbs or peanutbutter chips and peanutbutter cookie crumbs

granulated sugar (white ), soft liquorice candies (i used salty ones, but you can use your favourite kind)

stoned muscatel raisins, dried figs, sliced, cinnamon, a nutmeg, grated, blades mace, liquorice stick, brandy, a little more than 1/2 cups (140 milliliters) madeira wine, saffron, leaves of 24 carat gold leaf *see note, note: ensure that you only use food-grade 24 carat gold .

chocolate cupcakes, chocolate frosting (canned ), chocolate sprinkles (jimmies), bassetts liquorice allsorts , will be used for eyes, so look for ones that when cut have a center, black licorice (the thin string kind)