Try out this delicious recipe for spooky themed cookies, perfect for any mysterious visitors you might be expecting at your door this Halloween night.

100g butter

115g caster sugar

1 egg

2 tsp vanilla extract

250g plain white flour

For the icing:

McKinney’s rollout icing

Orange & black icing colour

Icing sugar

1 Preheat oven to 190°C (170°C for fan oven). Beat the butter and sugar together with an electric whisk.

2 Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat again.

3 Beat in the flour at a low speed to mix, then form into a ball of dough with your hands.

4 Dust your work surface with flour and roll out the dough to approximately ½ cm thick.

5 Cut out shapes using Halloween cookie cutters. Lift carefully on to a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes until golden.

6 Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the tray.

7 Break off some of the white McKinney’s rollout icing and knead until it softens.

8 Dust work surface with icing sugar. Roll the white icing out to a thin layer and cut out the same shapes you used for the biscuits.

9 Lift off the work surface carefully. Put a few tiny dots of water on the back and then stick on to your cookies.

10 Tear off two more pieces of icing and colour one piece orange for the pumpkins and the other black for the bats. To colour the icing, put a small amount of colour into the white icing and knead until it is well combined. (You may want to wear gloves when doing this.) Add more colour if necessary.

11 Use the black and white icing to make eyeballs, mummies, spiders etc.

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