Follow our Halloween cookies recipe to make these spooky (but rather cute) skeleton gingerbread biscuits…
Ingredients
- plain flour 300g, plus extra for dusting
- bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp
- ground ginger 2 tsp
- ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp
- butter 125g
- soft dark brown or dark muscovado sugar 100g
- golden syrup 2 tbsp
- black treacle 2 tbsp
- royal icing 100g
- black edible food colour pen or black writing icing to decorate, (optional)
Method
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Step 1
Heat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Mix the flour, bicarb, ground ginger and ground cinnamon in a bowl.
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Step 2
Put the butter, sugar, syrup and treacle in a pan and heat gently until melted. Pour into the flour mix and combine to a dough (if it feels too stiff, add a drop of water to help bring it together).
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Step 3
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured worksurface to about ½cm thick. Cut into biscuits using a gingerbread man cutter, then gather up the off cuts, reroll and keep cutting until you have used up all the dough.
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Step 4
Lay onto two baking-paper-lined baking sheets and cook for 12-14 minutes until dark golden brown. Cool completely.
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Step 5
To decorate, put the royal icing in a bowl and mix in enough water (about 1-2 tbsp) until the texture resembles toothpaste.
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Step 6
Use a piping bag with a very thin nozzle to pipe skeleton outlines on the biscuits. Leave to set, then add faces with an edible food colour pen or writing icing, if you like.
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Step 7
These will keep for 3-4 days in an airtight container. If transporting to a party, put sheets of baking paper between the biscuit layers to keep the icing from being damaged.
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Nutritional Information
- Kcals 101
- Fat 3.6g
- Saturates 2.2g
- Carbs 16g
- Sugars 8.2g
- Fibre 0.5g
- Protein 1.1g
- Salt 0.2g
