Chocolate Skull Cookies Recipe For Halloween

Chocolate Skull Cookies Recipe For Halloween. Hello friends. So how are you today?

Do you also fancy making some of these chocolate skull cookies for Halloween? So scary, aren’t they?

Halloween is the perfect excuse to bake spooky treats, and this Chocolate Skull Cookies Recipe is a frightfully delicious idea for your holiday table.

These rich, chocolaty cookies are shaped like creepy skulls, making them a fun and festive addition to any Halloween party.

Perfect for kids, adults, and cookie lovers alike, Chocolate Skull Cookies are easy to make with simple ingredients and a skull-shaped cookie cutters.

Whether you’re hosting a haunted house, classroom celebration, or a spooky movie night, these Halloween skull cookies will wow your guests.

Get ready to bake, decorate, and enjoy the ultimate Halloween treat!

How To Make Chocolate Skull Cookies:

How To Make Chocolate Skull Cookies. Skull-shaped cookies add a creepy touch to dessert tables.

Table Of Contents:

• Firstly, Chocolate Skull Cookies Recipe Ingredients.
• Secondly, Chocolate Skull Cookies Recipe Method.
• Thirdly, Other Recipe Ideas.

Preparation time: 1 hour plus chilling, cooling and setting
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Makes: 16

Ingredients:

• 125g (4 ½ oz) Lightly salted butter, softened
• 125g (4 ½ oz) Caster sugar
• 1 Medium egg, beaten
• 225g (8oz) Plain flour
• 1 sachet / 25g (1oz) Dr. Oetker Fine Dark Cocoa Powder
• 1 sachet /5g (1 tsp) Dr. Oetker Baking Powder
• 6g (10ml/2 level tsp) Ground cinnamon

To Decorate:

• Dr. Oetker Ready to Roll Regal-Ice Coloured
• Icing sugar to dust
• 15ml (1 tbsp) Clear honey
• Dr. Oetker White Designer Icing
• Dr. Oetker Writing Icing Brights

Chocolate Skull Cookies Recipe Method:

Decorate skull cookies with icing for extra spooky detail.

1. Firstly, line 2 large baking trays with baking parchment. In a bowl, beat the butter and caster sugar together until soft and creamy. Whisk in the egg.
2. Sift the flour, Cocoa, Baking Powder and cinnamon on top and stir well. Using your hands, bring the mixture together to form a firm dough. Turn on to a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and pliable.
3. Roll out the dough to 1/2 cm (1/4inch) thick. Using an 8cm (3 inch) long skull-shaped cutter, cut out 16 skull shapes, re-rolling the dough as necessary. Arrange on the baking trays, prick with a fork and chill for 30 minutes. (If you do not have a skull cutter then a gingerbread man cutter or circular cutter can be used).
4. Ten minutes before baking, preheat the oven to 180ºC (160ºC fan oven, 350ºF, gas 4). Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes until firm. Leave to cool on the baking trays for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
5. To decorate, using the Red, Green, Yellow and Blue Ready to Roll Icing, and working on each colour separately, knead gently to make pliable. Dust the work surface lightly with icing sugar then roll out each colour to the thickness of a £1 coin. Using the same skull cutter, stamp out 4 skull shapes from each colour, re-rolling the trimmings as necessary. Once you have 16 icing skulls, gather up and keep the coloured trimmings for decoration.

Brush The Top’s:

1. Brush the top of each cookie lightly with honey and carefully stick the skulls on top, smoothing them in place with your fingers to ensure a neat fit.
2. Knead the Black Icing as above, and then roll out thinly. Cut out 16 pairs of eyes using a small round cutter, and then use either a small heart-shaped cutter or another small round cutter, stamp out 16 shapes for the nose. Re-roll the trimmings and cut out 16 small oblongs for the mouths.
3. Secure the shapes on top of each cookie using a little water. Roll out the Ready to Roll Colour trimmings and cut out shapes to decorate the top of the skulls – we used half flower-shapes topped with smaller flower shapes, finished with a dot of Black Ready to Roll Icing.
4. Pipe dots and swirls to decorate your cookies using the Designer Icing and Writing Icing. Leave to dry for about 30 minutes before serving.

Tip:

• If you fancy a more daring Mexican flavour to liven up your Halloween celebrations, replace the ground cinnamon with 3-6g (5-10ml/1-2 tsp) chilli powder to taste.
• Or if you prefer something more fruity, leave out the spice altogether and add 5ml (1 tsp) Dr Oetker Valencian Orange Natural Extract for a zesty note.

Halloween Chocolate Skull Cookies look scary but taste sweet.

Chocolate Skull Cookies are Instagram-worthy Halloween desserts.

So what do you think of this Chocolate Skull Cookies Recipe? Do you also fancy making some? Because I know my kids would love them.

Chocolate Skull Cookies Recipe. Recipe and image courtesy of Dr Oetker.

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