Skeleton biscuits
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- plus 1 hr chilling
- Easy
- Serves 14
Ingredients
- 200g unsalted butter
- 100g caster sugar
- 265g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 30g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp black food colouring
For the decoration
- 80g icing sugar
Method
- STEP 1
Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat together with a whisk or electric beaters until smooth and fluffy. Tip in the plain flour, cocoa powder and food colouring, and mix again. Chill for 30 mins – this will make the dough easier to roll out. Lightly flour the work surface and roll out the dough until 1cm thick.
- STEP 2
Cut out the biscuits using a person-shaped cutter, and arrange on 2-3 large baking trays. Reroll the excess dough and repeat. Chill the dough cut-outs for 30 mins.
- STEP 3
Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and bake for 18-21 mins, until hardening around the edges. Leave to cool fully.
- STEP 4
Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and gradually pour in 1-1½ tbsp water, mixing constantly, to get a thick paste. Put the icing in a piping bag, snip a little off the end to make a small hole, and pipe bone shapes and a skull onto the biscuits so they look like skeletons. Leave to set. Will keep for up to a week in an airtight container.
