Recipe: Chocolate almond mummy cookies

Plan a spooky baking session with these cute mummy cookies. Photo / Fresh Media

Cute, delicious and easy to make, these chocolate almond mummy cookies will be a huge hit at Halloween parties.

Get the kids to help make these not-so-scary treats. It doesn’t matter if the cookies don’t look perfect, and kids will have fun making the bandage decorations and sticking the eyes on.

Chocolate almond mummy cookies

Makes 20 cookies

Ingredients

Cookies:

1½ cups plain flour

½ cup almond flour

½ cup baking cocoa

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp baking powder

170g butter, softened

1¼ cups caster sugar

1 large egg

½ tsp vanilla essence

Buttercream icing:

115g butter, room temperature

2 cups icing sugar

1½ Tbsp cream

½ tsp vanilla essence

candy eyes

Method

1. Combine the flour, almond flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder in a medium bowl.
2. Beat the butter and caster sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, for 4 to 5 minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Reduce the mixer speed to medium-low and beat in the flour mixture until combined.
3. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm enough to roll out.
4. Preheat the oven to 175C. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface until about 0.5cm thick. Cut out shapes using a round cookie cutter. Arrange them about 3cm apart on the trays.
5. Gather the dough scraps and roll out very thin. Cut into 3mm wide strips. Arrange the dough strips on the shapes to look like bandages and trim as needed. Refrigerate until firm, about 15 minutes.
6. Bake the cookies for 15 to 20 minutes until the edges are firm. Let cool completely.
7. Butter icing: in a large bowl, beat butter until light and fluffy. Slowly mix in the icing sugar, about ½ cup at a time. Mix in cream and vanilla and combine well.
8. Pipe the icing lines over the cookies to look like bandages. Use tiny icing dabs to stick on the candy eyes. Allow the icing to harden before serving or storing the cookies.

– fresh.co.nz