Halloween biscuits

Hello everyone,

Hope your all well, so here is the first blog post for my halloween series.....halloween biscuits! YUM!

To make these you will need to first go over to my blog post on DIY edible sprinkles.......done? Good! Now lets get onto the ingredients:

For the biscuit you will need:

•4oz butter

•4oz sugar

•10oz plain flour plus extra for dusting

•1tsp vanilla extract

•1 egg

•halloween cutters, im using a bat cutter and a round cutter for a pumpkin

For the decoration you will need:

•ready to roll icing (fondant) 

•purple, yellow, orange and green food colouring 

•DIY sugar sprinkles again see my blog post on this

•the same halloween cutters you used for your biscuits 

•a little bit of water for the glue and a pastry brush 

So lets get started for the biscuits pre heat your oven to gas mark 4.

Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, add your egg and vanilla extract beat well.

Gradually add your flour until your mix forms into dough you may not need all the flour, if your dough is too sticky add a bit more flour until its firm enough to handle.

 

Place onto a lightly floured surface and knead for a few seconds until pliable, wrap in cling film and place into the fridge for 20 mins.....perfect time to clean up;)

Roll your dough out on a lightly floured surface to about 1/4 inch thick and cut out your halloween shapes, place them onto a greased baking tray and bake for aprox 15 mins until lighly golden! Then leave to cool completely:)

Now for the fun part!!!!!

Colour your fondant into your chosen colours, lets work on the pumpkin first, lightly cover your board in icing sugar and roll out your orange fondant and use the same cutter you used for your biscuit and cut the fondant with it, stick it on your biscuit with some water!

Lightly brush over the orange fonant with water, roll out your yellow fondant and cut two small circles for the eyes i used the bottom of a piping nozzle for this and stick them onto your biscuits

Using a knife (be careful) cut out a semi circle for the mouth and cut some teeth out and stick your mouth onto your pumpkin! Add a small piece of green to the top of your pumpkin:) 

Finally spinkle your DIY sugar over the top and tap of the excess, it will stick because we lightly brushed the orange fondant with water if its dried up brush some more water on the orange fondant avoiding the eyes and mouth! And tardar we have a pumpkin......

 

Now for the bat same process roll out the purple fondant, cut it with the bat cutter, stick onto biscuit with water! Brush the purple fondant with water and roll out two small balls for the eyes and stick them on, the nozzle was too big for the bats eyes!

Finally sprinkle the DIY sugar onto your bat and we are done:) hope you guys enjoyed the first post for my halloween series! Stay tuned for many more!

Have your tried these? Any requests? 

Happy baking!

Xxx