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Halloween biscuits

Plain flour 225 g


Butter/margarine 150 g
Sugar 125 g
Vanilla 1 tsp
Cold water 15 mls
Boiled sweets
Method

1. To make the dough sieve the flour into a bowl.


2. Rub in the butter so that the mix looks like breadcrumbs.
3. Stir in the sugar.
4. Add the vanilla and water and combine into a dough working just long enough to
create a smooth dough.
5. Roll out the biscuit dough to a thickness of 3 mm and using either a large plain
round cutter cut out some circular shapes.
Cut out a triangle from both the top and bottom of the circles to make a pumpkin
shape and then cut out eyes, nose and mouth, (as shown).

6. Crush the boiled sweets, you may need to put them into a small plastic bag and use
a rolling
7. pin to crush them into small pieces.
Put a piece of silicone paper onto a baking tray and then place the dough shapes on
top, then fill the eyes, nose and mouth with crushed sweets.
8. Bake in the centre of the oven for 25 minutes until golden brown and the crushed
sweets have melted to fill in the eyes.
Caution. Leave biscuits to cool on the tray as the sweets are hot when molten.
Chocolate coconut spider- web biscuits

Butter softened 120 g


Caster sugar 120 g
Plain flour 150 g
Cocoa powder 30 g
Milk 30 ml
Coconut 50 g
Dark chocolate 50 g
Icing sugar 200 g
Lemon juice 15 ml
Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 175°C and line a baking tray with silicone paper.
2. In a round bottomed bowl beat the butter and sugar together.
3. Sieve the cocoa powder and flour together.
4. Add the flour, coconut and milk and mix well until you form a dough.
5. Turn out on to a lightly floured surface and roll out to a thickness of 3 mm.
6. Using a 7 cm round cutter cut the dough and place onto the baking sheets.
7. Bake of 15 – 20 minutes or until golden brown and crisp. Lift onto a wire rack and
leave to cool.

To decorate.

8. Mix the icing sugar with the lemon juice and a little water to create a thick paste.
9. Melt the chocolate and place into a piping bag.
10. One biscuit at a time spread the top with the icing so that it is evenly covered then
using the chocolate start and the middle and make a chocolate spiral stopping at the
edge of the biscuit.
11. Take a knife, place the point on the outside of the biscuit and pull through the
chocolate and icing stopping at the centre of the spiral. Repeat six times.
12. Repeat until all the biscuits are iced.
13. Let the icing set.
14. Taking the chocolate, pipe eight legs and make a chocolate ball in the middle to
look like a spider.

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