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Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble…home-made creepy cookies will be just the thing for your Halloween party table. Our set of four cutters includes a pumpkin, a bat, a witch and a ghost Ref 11618 £1.99
Try this recipe which is based on the black ‘pepernotjes’ biscuits
from Holland:
Ingredients (makes aprox 30)
for the biscuits
125g butter
50g icing sugar
¼tsp salt
¼tsp ground black pepper
¼tsp ground mixed spice
1 small egg yolk
165g plain flour
for the decoration
100g sifted icing sugar
lemon juice
water
Method
Beat the butter, sugar, salt, pepper and mixed spice together until combined.
Mix in the egg yolk.
Mix in the flour by hand and bring the dough together in a ball, kneading
lightly. Wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate overnight.
Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4.
Roll the dough out to 3mm thick. Stamp out the biscuits with a cookie cutter
and put onto a greased baking sheet.
Bake for 8 minutes then leave to cool.
Decoration
Put the icing sugar into a bowl and add some lemon juice and enough water
so that, when scooped up on the tines of a fork, it drops in a slow but
steamy stream.
Drizzle on to the biscuits.
To appeal to the little ones you could decorate with coloured icing as shown
in our pictures.
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