Spooky Cookie

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:02:55 GMT

Step 1

In a large bowl whisk together softened butter and sugar until well combined. Add eggs and whisk for another 3 minutes or until combined.

Step 2

Add sifted flour, baking powder and salt to the butter mixture. Using the spatula mix until just blended, then add milk chocolate chips and chopped hazelnuts and use your hands to mix them into the dough.

Step 3

Divide the dough into 15 equal parts and form each into a ball. (1 ball approximately 40g)

Step 4

Transfer them to the baking tray lined with parchment.

Step 5

Cover the cookie dough balls with the cling film and freeze for at least 1 hour and up to overnight.

Step 6

Preheat oven to 180C

Step 7

Place 4-5 cookie balls onto another baking tray lined with parchment and bake cookies in batches for 8-10 minutes, or until slightly firm from the outside and still soft in the centre.

Step 8

I decorated half of the cookies with spiders and another half with spooky eyes. For decorating cookies with spiders, gently press chocolate candies into the cookie straight after you take out the tray from the oven. Choose small chocolate candy balls and if needed you can cut them in half too. Use a smaller ball for the spider's head and a bigger one for the body. Then let the cookies cool completely, and place them into the fridge while you melt the chocolate.

Step 9

Break the white chocolate into small chunks and place them into the small bowl and melt in the microwave in short 10 seconds bursts, stirring constantly every 10 seconds. When melted add 10ml sunflower oil and mix until combined. Transfer to the piping bag.

Step 10

Repeat with the milk chocolate. Let the chocolate cool slightly before decorating.

Step 11

Cut the edge of the piping bag(very small) and drow the spider's legs on the chilled cookies using milk chocolate, and the spider web using white chocolate.

Step 12

Decorate the rest of the cookies with white chocolate, and pipe slim lines randomly over the cookie, making sure to leave the middle space bare for the eyes. In the middle pipe two dots and fix the eyes.

Step 13

Place the cookies into the fridge to firm for 10 minutes and enjoy!

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