Cookies for Halloween - in itself is an excellent decoration in honor of the holiday, because it is possible not to pay attention to dainties in the form of a pumpkin, spiders and fingers of a witch?
Cookies "Fingers" for Halloween - recipe
Cookies in the form of witch fingers managed to become a star of thematic recipes a few years ago. If you decide to repeat this simple, but certainly spectacular recipe, then our master class will come to the rescue.
Ingredients:
- butter - 220 g;
- powdered sugar - 1 item;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 2 ¾ items;
- baking powder - 5 g;
- almonds - ¾ st .;
- green food color - if desired;
- red food gel - if desired.
Preparation
Knead the standard dough for the biscuit by combining the top five ingredients together. After whipping the dough, wrap it with a film and let it cool for half an hour. After a lapse of time, the com test can be colored with a green food color.
When the dough is colored, divide it into small portions and roll into a bar. The more uneven he will be, the better.
One of the edges of the block add a blanched almond, which is designed to mimic a nail.
With your finger, press lightly into the center of the cookie, simulating the expansion at the joint site.
With a toothpick, draw in place the supposed fold of the finger fold.
If desired, under the almond "nail" you can drop a little gel food coloring to give a kind of sucking from under the nail plate of blood.
Bake the scary cookies for Halloween at 160 degrees 20-25 minutes.
Sweet Halloween Pumpkin Cookie
If you do not know how and how to draw the desired patterns on Halloween cookies, you can use conventional food markers or a simpler and more common alternative - sugar icing, which can be bought in the form of a powder in any confectionery department, and tinted with food coloring before setting off on the biscuit .
Using the recipe described above, mix the usual sugar dough and refrigerate it. Roll out a layer of dough, and with the help of cutting in the form of a pumpkin, cut out the figures themselves. Bake pumpkins at 190 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are lightly bruised.
Prepare the sugar icing by following the instructions on the package to it. Two-thirds of the glaze is colored with orange food coloring, and the remaining third - green. Spread the glaze in confectionery bags and make a tiny hole on them.
Orange glaze outline the pumpkin segments on the sides and in the center.
The side parts of the pumpkin immediately fill with glaze, leave for about half an hour to dry, and then fill and the middle segment on the pumpkin.
Using a green glaze draw a stem on the pumpkin and add leaflets.
Ginger biscuits for Halloween
Classic ginger men are relevant not only for the New Year and Christmas, especially if you decorate them with nice chocolate spiders.
Use the first recipe for sugar cookies from this article, but in the mixing phase, add a third of a teaspoon of ground ginger.
Cooled dough roll out and cut out the figures of little men. Bake them for 12-14 minutes at 190 degrees. About a couple of minutes before the readiness, put on top of the dough, at the base of the figures, small chocolate "droplets". After the chocolate has melted, mix it with a toothpick.
With the help of melted chocolate glaze draw the legs of spiders.
Glaze from white chocolate, draw frightened faces on the heads of ginger males.