Easy Halloween cookies

Get the kids excited for Halloween with these spooky bat and spider cookies. Total with ‘compressed flies’ made from chocolate chips, they’ll be a huge hit.

STEP 1

Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4, and line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment. Beat the butter and sugars together with an electrical whisk till light and fluffy. Include the vanilla and egg and beat once again to combine. Stir in the flour and baking powder with a wooden spoon till you have a stiff dough, then fold in the chocolate chips.

STEP 2 Divide the dough into 20 pieces and roll into balls. Organize on

the ready baking sheets, well spaced out so there’s area for spreading(you may require to bake them in batches ). Press the tops of the cookies down really a little using the palm of your hand or the bottom of a glass. Bake the cookies for 10-12 mins till golden around the edges, then delegate cool on the baking sheets for 10 minutes. Transfer to cake rack and leave to cool completely.

STEP 3 To make the spider cookies, lay 10 of the cooled cookies out in front of you. Spoon the melted chocolate into a piping bag and the royal icing into another, then snip off completions using scissors. Pipeline a dot of royal icing onto the back of 2 Maltesers, and organize these onto among the cookies to create the head and body of the spider. Repeat with the remaining nine cookies and the rest of the Maltesers. Pipe 8 spider legs around the bodies of the spiders utilizing the chocolate. Pipe 2 small dots of royal icing onto the heads to create eyes, then pipe extremely little dots of chocolate over the eyes to create students. If you like, decorate the bodies with the royal icing.

STEP 4 To make the bat cookies, lay the remaining 10 cookies out in front of you. Different the cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, and thoroughly scrape the cream filling off the chocolate cookie pieces. Cut the chocolate cookie pieces into semicircles utilizing a little serrated knife. Stick a caramel-filled chocolate onto the middle of each cooled cookie utilizing the royal icing, then utilize a bit more to stick a chocolate cookie semicircle on either side of the chocolates to make the bat wings. Pipe eyes onto the chocolates using the royal icing and melted chocolate.