Halloween Biscuits
Makes approx. 30 biscuits.
Based on the black pepper ‘pepernotjes’ biscuits from Holland, perfect for using with either of our Halloween Cookie Cutters.
Ingredients
For the biscuits
- 125g butter
- 50g icing sugar
- ¼tsp salt
- ¼tsp ground black pepper
- ¼tsp ground mixed spice
- 1 small egg yolk
- 165g plain flour
For the decoration
- 100g sifted icing sugar
- lemon juice
- water
Instructions
For the biscuits
- Beat the butter, sugar, salt, pepper and mixed spice together until combined. Mix in the egg yolk.
- Mix in the flour by hand and bring the dough together in a ball, kneading lightly. Wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate overnight.
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4.
- Roll the dough out to 3mm thick. Stamp out the biscuits with a cookie cutter and put onto a greased baking sheet.
- Bake for 8 minutes then leave to cool.
For the decoration
- Put the icing sugar into a bowl and add some lemon juice and enough water so that, when scooped up on the tines of a fork, it drops in a slow but steady stream.
- Drizzle on to the biscuits.
- To appeal to the little ones you could decorate with coloured icing as shown in our picture.