Maple and Cinnamon Halloween Cookies
Baking / Sweet Treats
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Ingredients
- 2 cups unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 cups maple sugar
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp pure maple syrup (preferably amber syrup for its rich taste)
- 4 cups plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Method
- Beat together the butter and sugar in a large bowl, preferably using an electric mixer, until the mixture is light and fluffy, and pale in colour then beat in the eggs, vanilla extract and maple syrup.
- Sift together the flour, cinnamon and baking powder in a separate bowl. Stir the flour into the butter mixture and bring together until the mixture is well combined and comes away from the sides of the bowl.
- Turn onto a floured work surface and knead into a ball, divide the dough into two portions, wrap in cling film and leave to chill in the fridge for at least one hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4 and line two baking trays with grease-proof paper.
- Roll the dough out to a 0.5cm/¼-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface, it’s best to roll out one portion of the dough at a time, leaving the remainder in the fridge.
- Cut shapes out with your chosen Halloween cutters and place onto the baking tray, leaving a gap between them in case they spread a little then place in the fridge for 20 minutes or freezer for 5 minutes.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until slightly golden around the edges. Leave on the tray to cool slightly and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Once the cookies are cool, it’s time for the icing. For the ghosts, roll out white fondant icing to a 0.25cm/⅛-inch thickness, cut out the shapes using the same cookie cutter used for the cookies.
- Damp one side of the icing with a dot of water and stick onto the cookies, you can do the same with orange fondant icing for the pumpkins, and black for the bats and cats.
- Decorate with scary eyeballs and red food colouring for fangs.
Appease the trick-or-treaters with these spooktacular Halloween cookies, naturally sweetened with cinnamon, maple sugar and pure maple syrup!
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