Halloween Biscuits Recipe

First up, line 2 large baking trays with greaseproof paper. Put your butter, sugar and Orange Extract into a bowl and cream together until smooth. Sieve over your flour and Cocoa Powder and mix together to form a smooth dough, if your dough is very firm add a tsp milk to soften it slightly.

Roll your dough out on a surface lightly dusted with flour to a thickness of approx. 1/2cm. Using a round cutter 7cm diameter cut out the dough and place onto your lined baking tray. Re-roll your dough as necessary. Pop your biscuits dough in the fridge and leave to chill for 30 minutes.

10 minutes before baking pre-heat your oven to 180°C/ 160°C Fan/Gas Mark 4. Once your biscuits have chilled pop them in the oven to bake for about 15 minutes. They will be slightly soft but they will firm up as they cool. Leave to cool on the baking tray for 15 minutes and then pop on a wire rack to cool completely.

Once your biscuits have cooled it’s time to get creative and decorate them! Put your egg white powder in a bowl and re-hydrate following the instructions on pack.

Pour in the Vanilla Extract and a ¼ of the icing sugar, whisk together to combine and add some more icing sugar, keep adding the icing sugar until you get a lovely smooth icing that is not too thick to flood your biscuits, you might not need to add all the icing sugar.

Pop the icing in a piping bag and cut a small hole in the end. Pipe a circle round the edge of a biscuit and then flood the centre of the biscuit with the icing, use a cocktail stick to help spread the icing if needed. Leave to one side to allow the icing to set. Repeat for each biscuit.

Once your flooded icing has set, use the decorating icings to get creative and create different spooky designs on your biscuits. Leave your biscuits to set, the decorating icing will not set solid so don’t stack your biscuits as you may smudge the decoration. Now tuck in or wrap up your biscuits for the perfect trick or treat gift!