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Annabel Karmel's Bat & Ghost Cookies for Halloween

• Annabel Karmel

Published: October 20, 2023 at 4:32 PM

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Makes 18

A little work

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 50 mins

plus cooling and decorating time

Deliciously dark Halloween biscuit inspiration from the UK's bestselling children's food expert: dangle them in the window at trick-or-treat time – and gobble up afterwards

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These spicy, gingery biscuits are guaranteed to creep children out at Halloween tea – in a fun way of course! You can serve them on a plate or, like in our picture, bake them with a hole at the top and string them up to dangle at the window for passing trick-or-treaters to see.

You'll need Halloween cookie cutters, which you can usually pick up for about £5 (like these ones, £5.99 for 7 shapes, including a bat and a ghost). The ingredients also include egg white powder, which you should be able to find in packets at all good supermarkets

Ingredients

For the biscuits

• 225g plain flour
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1½ tsp ground ginger
• ½ tsp mixed spice
• 50g unsalted butter
• 100g dark brown sugar
• 100g golden syrup
• 1 tbsp milk

For the icing

• 8g dried egg white

• 250g icing sugar

  sifted

• black food colouring

• black and red writing icing

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Method

• step 1

  Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and spices.

• step 2

  Heat the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a small pan until dissolved, stirring frequently, then allow to cool for 5 minutes. Stir the syrup mixture and the milk into the dry ingredients and form into a dough. Cover with plastic film and chill for 30 minutes

• step 3

  Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4/Fan 160°C. Lightly grease two baking sheets.

• step 4

  Roll out the dough to about 3mm thick. Cut out Halloween shapes with cookie cutters. Use a straw to make a hole, if you want to string them up as decorations

• step 5

  Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until lightly browned, and then cool on a wire rack

• step 6

  For the icing, mix the egg white to a smooth paste with a little warm water according to the packet instructions. Gradually whisk in the sifted icing sugar. Divide the icing into 2 bowls and use the black food colouring to colour 1 bowl of icing black. Spoon the icing onto 1 side of every biscuit– making some white and some black. You may need to thin the icing out a little with water

• step 7

  Once the icing has hardened, draw on decorative features with the black and red writing icing

Pic: Annabel Karmel

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