Pumpkins, witches, bats and ghosts … what are the Halloween cookies more fun to prepare? many forms theme to celebrate a sweet Description Halloween cookies are a nice idea and fun to celebrate in joy the night of witches. Pumpkins, witches, bats and ghosts … green light to the imagination with this sweet recipe to make cookies shaped really scary. Your menu of Halloween will succeed to take all by the throat! Ingredients For the cookies flour 00 250 g Cocoa powder 30 g icing sugar 100 g butter 200 g lightly salted egg yolks 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 2 To decorate Royal Icing 100 g 300 g white sugar paste food colors black, orange and purple taste Information Difficulty Medium Preparation time 90 minutes Cooking time: 12 minutes Total time 102 minutes Yield 10 cookies baking in the oven method Category Halloween Recipes Preparation Sift the flour and cocoa and a fountain on a work surface. Place in the center of the cold butter cut into small cubes and start working until the ingredients will be "blasted". Add the icing sugar and, after mixing, add the egg yolks and vanilla essence, working together until dough is smooth and homogeneous. Wrap in plastic wrap and put it in the fridge to rest for at least 1 hour. After the interval, pick up the pastry, cut it into pieces, knead to soften it up and roll it out into a sheet high 1 2 cm. Then with the molds suitable ricavatevi the shapes chosen, otherwise intagliatevi of cardboard cutouts and with the tip of the knife Follow it the contours. Move the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 160 C for 12 minutes. I recommend to be careful because the pastry chocolate is known much less when it tends to burn. Meanwhile, divide the dough into 4 parts sugar and coloratene 3 with food coloring, leaving a white. Do the same thing with the glaze and pour in cartoccetti paper. Once the cookies are cool, go to the decoration: roll the sugar paste color chosen according to goggetto be decorated, carved the shape you need to decorate and poggiatela directly on the cookie using a little royal icing as glue. Repeat for all the cookies of different shapes and colors. Then, with the remaining royal icing, made the details of the subjects (eyes, mouth, etc …) Before incartarli or serve them, let them dry completely, once wrapped, the cookies last for two weeks.
