Orange pumpkin face cookies

Orange pumpkin face cookies

Great fun biscuits for trick or treaters - make a day or two ahead, then fill in before your spooky guests arrive

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Makes 12

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Takes 45-55 minutes, plus 1 hour chilling

Freezable

Freeze without the filling

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to fan 160C/ conventional 180C/gas 4. Put the butter in a bowl and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Add the flour, icing sugar and orange zest and beat together to make a softish dough. Knead into a ball and wrap in cling film. Chill for 1 hour.
  2. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of about 3mm. Cut 24 circles with a 7.5 cm round plain cutter. Put them on a couple of baking sheets.
  3. Using a small sharp knife, cut out Hallowe'en faces on 12 of the circles. Gather up the spare biscuit dough and press into pumpkin stem shapes, trimming with a sharp knife. Press to the top of each biscuit with a knife to join. Make lines on the face biscuits with the back of a roundbladed knife, to look like the markings on a pumpkin. Bake all the biscuits for about 15 minutes until pale golden. Leave to set for a while, then cool completely on a wire rack.
  4. Mix the glaze ingredients to make a smooth, runny icing, adding a bit more juice if needed, then set aside. For the filling, beat the mascarpone with the icing sugar, then stir in the cooled melted chocolate.
  5. Spread the filling over the cooled plain biscuits, then press the 'face' ones on top - do this just before you want to eat them, otherwise they go soft. Brush with the glaze, using a clean paint brush or pastry brush. Eat the same day.

Per cookie

219 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 22g, fat 14 g, saturated fat 9g, fibre 1g, sugar 10g, salt 0.25 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2003.

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    05 November 2007

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    05 October 2008

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    I loved this recipe. I changed the toppings to different sprinkles and used melted chocolate on some (to give it a crunch)

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    31 October 2008

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    i thought these were yummy me and children enjoyed making them. I am eating one as we speak

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    01 November 2009

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    Disappointed with the result. The picture looks great and my biscuits looked great before going into the oven but expanded in the oven, so the facial features and pumpkin lines "smoothed" out and lost somewhat. Also, the biscuits need to be totally cooled - otherwise the mascarpone mixture warms up and becomes very runny. Lastly, the overall biscuit is very rich as it is essentially a double layer butter biscuit and mascarpone. I'm going to try and convert the remaining mixture into some sort of "blondie" by adding more flour and some egg into the biscuit mixture!

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    23 October 2010

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    4 stars

    Did this with my five year old niece so I simplified and left out the mascarpone filling. Just a single layer cookie brushed with some glaze was perfect. If you want your pumpkin lines to stay, cut them deep into the cookie. Edge of the cookie cutter works well.

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Makes 12

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Takes 45-55 minutes, plus 1 hour chilling

Freezable

Freeze without the filling

Make ahead

Ingredients

  • 140g butter , softened
  • 175g plain flour
  • 50g icing sugar
  • finely grated zest 1 medium orange

FOR THE FILLING

  • 100g mascarpone
  • 1 tsp icing sugar
  • 25g plain chocolate (55% cocoa solids is fine), melted

FOR THE GLAZE

  • 50g icing sugar
  • about 1 tbsp orange juice
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Per cookie

219 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 22g, fat 14 g, saturated fat 9g, fibre 1g, sugar 10g, salt 0.25 g

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