Monster Cookies

Name: Monster Cookies
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: North America, American
Ingredients: 0.5 cup unsalted butter; 0.5 cup superfine caster sugar; 1 egg (beaten); 1 tsp vanilla extract; 2 cups all-purpose flour; 3.5 cups powdered sugar; water; green and black Food coloring; 0.5 cup red Fondant (cut into thin sticks)

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45 min.

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These monster cookies are a vivid, fun take on a traditional sugar cookie.

This is such a fun thing to serve to children, and it's even more fun to make them together! Give them some frosting and let them make their own monster cookies!

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Ingredients

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For the cookies: ½ cup unsalted butter; ½ cup superfine caster sugar; 1 egg (beaten); 1 tsp vanilla extract; 2 cups all-purpose flour

To decorate: 3 ½ cups powdered sugar; water; green and black Food coloring; ½ cup red Fondant (cut into thin sticks)

How healthy are the main ingredients?

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Preparation steps

For the biscuits: heat the oven to 375°F. Line a large baking tray with non-stick baking paper.

Beat the butter and sugar together in a bowl until soft and light.

Beat in the egg and vanilla extract, a little at a time, until blended.

Stir in the flour and mix to a dough.

Roll out the dough out on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 1/2". Using a cookie cutter or card template, cut frankenstein shapes out of the dough and place on the baking tray.

Bake for 8-10 minutes until cooked through. Cool on the baking tray for 5 minutes, then place on a wire rack to cool completely.

To decorate: sift the icing sugar into a bowl and beat in just enough water to give a thick consistency. the mixture should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.

Put half the mixture into another bowl and stir in a little green food colouring.

Stir the black food colouring into the remaining icing. Cover until ready to use.

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Spread the green icing over the cookies and leave to set.

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Put the black icing into a piping bag and pipe the hair, eyes, nose, mouth and bolts onto the biscuits. Pipe around the outline of the cookies.

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Arrange the red fondant sticks on top, as in the photo, and leave to set.