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125g butter (room temperature)
125g fine sugar
1 free-range organic egg (small)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
300g (Zeeland) flour + extra
1 teaspoon baking powder
A pinch of salt
Icing sugar
Fondant icing, in various colours
A few chocolate buttons
Edible marker, black
We bake cozy pickup trucks for our little monsters, but we also make some for Halloween. Those are, of course, a bit less cozy (but still fun), and the cookies all taste just as good.
Here is how to make our autumn cookies
First make the dough from the recipe on the PDF
Here is how to make our autumn cookies
First make the dough from the recipe on the PDF
Wen the dough is ready ...
you wrap it up ...
you put it in the refrigerator and ...
unwrap it after chilling for 1 hour.
Knead the dough briefly by hand
Cover a baking tray with waxed paper, place the biscuits on top and place in the fridge for about 30 minutes
Then preheat the oven to 170°C
Then preheat the oven to 170°C
Slide the baking tray into the oven.
Bake the biscuits for 12-15 minutes.
After cooling briefly on the tray
You move them to a wire rack.
While the biscuits cool completely, you already cut out the fondant
Of course you use orange fondant for the pumpkins
Sprinkle your workspace with icing sugar and have some water and a brush handy
Of course you use orange fondant for the pumpkins
Sprinkle your workspace with icing sugar and have some water and a brush handy
Roll out the fondant thinly.
Cut pumpkins out of fondant.
Stick the pumpkins on the biscuits.
Melt the chocolate buttons.
TIP! Because the cut-out fondant rests on a thin layer of icing sugar, you can stick the fondant onto the biscuits by brushing a few drops of water onto the back of the fondant
Brush a drop of chocolate onto the stems.
3 buttons would have been enough!
Allow the chocolate to set.
Make black pickup trucks for Halloween and coloured cars for autumn
Cut out cars and stick them on.
Cut out car windows and -tires.
Stick the windows onto the cars.
Then cut headlights and taillights.
Draw scary faces on some pumpkins.
Also place pumpkins onto the Autumn pickups.
Happy Autumn and wishing you a scary Halloween in advance!