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250g plain flour
125g softened butter
125g caster sugar
1 free range organic egg (room temp.)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon baking powder
icing sugar, to dust your workplace
fondant icing in Halloween colours :
white; black; orange; brown and green
edible black marker
ike every year we bake cookies for Halloween, and this time it will be Jack Skellington cookies, from the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. We skip the discussion of whether the film is for Halloween or Christmas. We just love scary but cute Jack and we want to stick him on our cookies! We use our familiar cookies for this, so download the recipe and make the dough.
How to make our Jack Skellington cookies!
Fetch the dough from the fridge and place baking paper on the baking tray
Knead tte dough briefly.
Roll the dough to 1 cm.
Cut out circles.
Poace the cookies on the baking tray.
Put in the fridge for 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 175°C
Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes.
Let the cookies cool on a wire rack
Terwijl we wachten steken we de rolfondant uit
Knead the white fondant until soft.
Roll it out thinly.
Cut out circles.
Cut the eyes from black.
Stick the white circles on top of the cookies with a drop of water
Stick the eyes on the cookies.
Draw the nose and eyes with the marker.
We have a little leftover dough.
So we bake some pumpkins!
Cut out the pumpkins
Bake for 10-12 minutes.
Cool 5 mins. on the tray.
Then on the wire rack.
Roll green strings of fondant.
Roll out orange fondant icing for the pumpkin and brown for the stem
Stick the icing on the cookies with a drop of water.
Give the pumpkins a face or don't ;))
Happy Halloween!