Looking for some Halloween fun? Try making these easy scary skeleton cookies!
Ingredients:
- 3 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg
- 2 sticks butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 packages vanilla sugar (or replace with 1 tsp lemon extract)
- white fondant
- black icing
- candy eyes
- a sprinkling of icing sugar for rolling out of fondant
Instructions:
Mix butter, sugar, egg, vanilla and vanilla sugar. Alternate adding a cup of flour and a tsp baking powder until the final cup flour. Then mix with hands until dough is formed.
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Roll out on floured surface and cut out cookies.
Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes.
Roll out fondant on a thin sprinkling of icing sugar. Using same cookie cutter, cut out fondant and place on top of warm cookie.
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Bake another 2 minutes at 300 degrees so that fondant sticks to cookie.
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Decorate using black icing and candy eyes!
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Package your cookies in plastic bags if you’d like or just enjoy!
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!