A fun tip for these biscuits, is to use the cookie cutters of your choice.
Ingredients
300 g | Butter, chopped (Main) |
1 cup | Caster sugar |
3 Tbsp | Cocoa powder |
3 cups | Flour (Main) |
1 tsp | Vanilla essence/extract |
3 cups | Icing sugar |
1 Tbsp | Butter |
1 splash | Water, hot |
1 to decorate | Silver balls |
1 to decorate | Chocolate hail |
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- Place butter, sugar, flour and cocoa in a food processor and pulse until mixture resembles crumbs. Add vanilla and pulse until mixture comes together.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and quickly knead. Wrap it in plastic cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 180C. Roll dough out into a large rectangle approximately 3mm thick. Cut out monkey shapes using a medium-sized gingerbread person cookie cutter.
- Place shapes on a cold baking tray and bake for 10 minutes until brown and firm. Place shapes on a wire rack to cool.
- Mix together icing sugar, cocoa, butter and enough hot water to make a firm icing. Spread a thin layer over each monkey. Place silver balls for eyes and then sprinkle with chocolate hail.