Scary Skull Biscuits
These Spooky Skull Sandwich Cookies are a fun and festive treat for any Halloween gathering. The buttery shortbread cookies are filled with your choice of raspberry jam, lemon curd, or chocolate spread, and decorated with colorful icing to create eerie faces. Perfect for adding a touch of whimsy to your holiday celebrations!
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 200g unsalted butter , very soft
- 140g golden caster sugar
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 300g plain flour , plus extra for rolling
- 100g raspberry jam (or use lemon curd or chocolate spread)
- 140g icing sugar , sifted
- food colourings (optional)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line 2 large baking sheets with baking parchment. Put the butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and ¼ tsp salt into a large bowl and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Stir in the flour to make a stiff dough, then shape into 2 discs, cover with cling film and chill for 10 mins.
- With plenty of extra flour on the work surface and rolling pin, roll a batch of dough to the thickness of a £1 coin. Stamp out as many 7cm rounds as you can. In half of the rounds, stamp out 2 eye sockets with an apple corer, then use well-floured fingers to pinch the jaw shapes. Lift onto the baking sheets. Bake for 15 mins or until pale golden, then cool for 2 mins before lifting onto a wire rack.
- Sandwich the cold biscuits together with the jam. Mix the icing sugar with 4 tsp water until smooth, divide into 3, then colour as you like. Put into piping bags, snip off the tips, then pipe spooky patterns and faces onto the skulls.
Cook Time
15M
Prep Time
PT20M
Yield
Makes 16 sandwiched or 32 single biscuits
Nutrition
- Calories: 249 calories
- Fat Content: 11 grams fat
- Saturated Fat Content: 7 grams saturated fat
- Carbohydrate Content: 38 grams carbohydrates
- Sugar Content: 24 grams sugar
- Fiber Content: 1 grams fiber
- Protein Content: 2 grams protein
- Sodium Content: 0.01 milligram of sodium
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