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Easy Halloween Cookies Recipe

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These Easy Halloween Cookies are a fun and festive treat perfect for Halloween celebrations. Featuring classic buttery sugar cookies mixed with chocolate chips and creatively decorated as spooky spiders and bats using Maltesers, chocolate sandwich cookies, caramel-filled chocolates, melted chocolate, and royal icing, these cookies are both delicious and visually delightful for kids and adults alike.

Ingredients

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Cookie Dough

  • 150g butter, softened
  • 50g caster sugar
  • 100g light brown soft sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 250g plain flour
  • ¼ tsp baking powder
  • 100g milk or dark chocolate chips

Decorations

  • 60g dark chocolate, melted
  • 60g royal icing sugar, mixed with 2 tsp water
  • 20 Maltesers
  • 5 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies
  • 10 caramel-filled chocolates

Instructions

  1. Prepare Oven and Dough: Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan)/Gas Mark 4 and line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Using an electric whisk, beat the butter and both sugars together until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and egg, then beat again to combine thoroughly.
  2. Mix Dry Ingredients: Stir the plain flour and baking powder into the wet mixture using a wooden spoon until you form a stiff dough. Gently fold in the chocolate chips, ensuring even distribution without overmixing.
  3. Shape and Bake Cookies: Divide the dough into 20 equal pieces and roll each into a ball. Place the balls spaced well apart on the prepared baking sheets. Slightly press down the top of each cookie with your palm or the bottom of a glass to flatten. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes until the edges turn golden.
  4. Cool Cookies: Remove the cookies from the oven and leave them to cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes to firm up. Then transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely before decorating.
  5. Make Spider Cookies: Arrange 10 cooled cookies on a surface. Fill one piping bag with melted dark chocolate and another with royal icing. Attach Maltesers using a dot of royal icing to represent the spider’s head and body on each cookie. Using melted chocolate, pipe eight legs around the Maltesers. Use royal icing to dot eyes on the spider heads, then add tiny melted chocolate dots for pupils. Optionally, decorate spider bodies with royal icing for added detail.
  6. Make Bat Cookies: Use the remaining 10 cookies. Gently separate the cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies and scrape off the cream filling carefully. Cut the chocolate cookie halves into semicircles with a serrated knife to form bat wings. Affix a caramel-filled chocolate in the middle of each cookie with royal icing, then stick a chocolate cookie semicircle on each side as wings. Pipe eyes onto the caramel chocolates using royal icing and melted chocolate for pupils to complete the bats.

Notes

  • Ensure cookies are completely cool before decorating to prevent melting the decorations.
  • You can substitute the chocolate chips for nuts or dried fruits if preferred.
  • Royal icing consistency may be adjusted with more or less water for easier piping.
  • Baking times can vary slightly depending on your oven; watch for golden edges as a sign of doneness.
  • Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

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