The ‘Let’s Make Fun Halloween Cookies’ baking box contains all the products you need to design and make these fang-tastic cookies. It contains 8 coloured edible ink pens, a pack of spooky eyes, white sugarpaste icing and 4 fun shaped cutters. You can use your own biscuit recipe or choose the option to buy our Sattina vanilla biscuit mix which just requires a little butter and water added!

You will need:

Edibles:

Vanilla Biscuit Mix By Sattina
Smooth Jam Without Seeds

Equipment:

Let’s Make Fun Halloween Cookies’ Baking Box – Optional Biscuit Mix
Non-Stick Rolling Pin 6 Inch
Small Non-Stick Baking Tray By Wilton
Wilton Single Tier Cooling Rack

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Making The Cookies

We used the Sattina vanilla biscuit mix – it’s super easy, just add water and butter and mix well. When a dough is forming, use your hands to knead it until the dough is nice and smooth. Place in a plastic bag and leave in the fridge for 30 minutes. Roll the dough out on a little flour to approximately 5mm thickness and cut out the cookie shapes. Place onto a greased baking sheet and cook at 170’C, checking after 15 minutes. The cookies should look golden brown. Leave the cookies to cool then decorate with the white icing and writing pens.

Handy Hint!

The butter can be added at room temperature or, if using straight from the fridge it can be grated into the biscuit mix.

Covering In White Icing

Spread a thin covering of your favourite jam over the biscuits and roll out the white icing on a work surface sprinkled with a little icing sugar to stop the icing sticking. Use the cutters to cut out as many shapes as you need to decorate the cookies, then carefully lift each shape up with a small palette knife and position carefully on the jam covered biscuits. Leave the icing covered cookies for a couple of hours or preferably overnight before decorating so that the icing sets firmer and the pens glide smoothly without ‘digging in’.

Handy Hint!
It’s easier if you use a brush to smear the jam onto the cookie for attaching the icing – use a jam without any seeds, or lemon curd is a great alternative. Leave a small gap around the edge of the biscuit so the jam does not ooze out!

                                       .Creating Your Designs

While you are waiting for the icing to set, get creative designing how you want to decorate your biscuits. The best way to do this is to draw around the cutters in pencil onto some paper, then use some coloured pencils or pens (preferably the same colours as the icing pens) to draw your own designs.

Decorating The Biscuits

Now comes the really fun bit! When the icing has set, take the designs you have created on paper and copy them onto the iced cookies with the coloured icing pens. You can draw the eyes on but as a finishing touch, attach the edible icing eyes to really make them stand out. Here are our designs, but we love seeing what you are up to so don’t forget to send us your creations on social media!

Handy Hint:
To attach the edible icing eyes onto the icing, make a sticky glue by mixing a few drops of water into a little white sugarpaste.

Happy Baking!
The Cake Craft Creative Team

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