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New Forest–Style Halloween Skeleton Sugar Cookies

New Forest–Style Halloween Skeleton Sugar Cookies

40 min prep · 10 min cook · Easy · 12 servings
🎃 Halloween
Dark cocoa cookies dressed with crisp white-chocolate bones make a spooky-cute treat for Halloween parties and trick-or-treat bags.

Ingredients
170 g unsalted butter, softened→
150 g caster sugar→
1 large egg→
1 teaspoon vanilla extract→make it yourself
300 g plain flour→
30 g unsweetened cocoa powder→
1/2 teaspoon baking powder→
1/4 teaspoon salt→
120 g white chocolate, finely chopped→
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Method
1
Beat the softened butter and caster sugar until creamy.
2
Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
3
Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl.
4
Stir the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until a dough forms.
5
Shape the dough into a flat disc.
6
Wrap the dough and chill it for 30 minutes.
7
Heat the oven to 175°C (350°F).
8
Line two baking trays with baking paper.
9
Roll the dough to about 6 mm thick on a lightly floured surface.
10
Cut out 12 skeleton shapes with a cookie cutter.
11
Place the cookies on the prepared trays.
12
Bake the cookies for 9–11 minutes.
13
Cool the cookies completely on a wire rack.
14
Melt the white chocolate in short microwave bursts, stirring between each burst.
15
Pipe a skull and simple bone shapes onto each cookie with the melted chocolate.
16
Leave the cookies until the chocolate has set.

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