Halloween skeleton biscuits
Halloween skeleton biscuits are the perfect spooky Halloween treat. Kids will enjoy making the dough, rolling and cutting out the shapes and decorating the skeletons.
Halloween skeleton biscuits are a great spooky bake for kids to make. We just used our simple sugar cookie recipe with a little cocoa powder added for colour and to make the bones stand out. This biscuit recipe is a favourite of mine because as well as being simple it don’t spread in the oven so your skeleton shaped biscuit will survive baking.
How can kids help to make skeleton biscuits?
Kids will enjoy measuring and mixing everything together to make the dough. Once you’ve done that they can enjoy rolling and cutting out the shapes which is a favourite task for children and toddlers. If your kids have a steady hand they can also help to decorate the skeletons by piping out some icing.
We used our icing piper thing to make the lines, but if you don’t have one you can make diy ones using a small freezer bag. Simply put the icing in, seal it and cut a tiny hole in the corner to pipe your lines.
Other great Halloween bakes
Discover more fun Halloween treats you can make with your kids.
Monster cookies
Halloween brownies
Halloween spider cookies
Halloween monster biscuits
Spider web biscuits
Halloween monster cupcakes
Useful equipment
You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these
Digital scales
Freestanding mixer
Mixing bowl
Hand held mixer
Wooden spoons
Spatula
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Cutters
Rolling pin
Wire rack
Food colour
Difficulty: Easy
Time: 45 minutes plus 10 minutes baking plus decorating
Serves: 2 dozen +
Ingredients
200g (7/8 cup) unsalted butter, softened
280g (1 ¼ cups) caster sugar
¼ tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
350g (3 cups) plain/all-purpose flour
A pinch of salt
½ tsp cream of tartar
50g cocoa powder
To decorate
Icing sugar
how to make skeleton biscuits
Preheat the oven to 170C/160C Fan /325F and line several baking trays with baking paper.
Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract
Get your kids to help measure out the butter (200g), sugar (280g) and vanilla extract (1/4 tsp) and pop them in a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Cream them together until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Add the egg
Crack the egg in a small bowl and add to your mixture. Mix everything together. If you need to, use a spatula to scrape unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl.
Add the dry ingredients
Measure the flour (350g), salt, cream of tartar (1/2 tsp) and cocoa (50g) and add to the butter/sugar mixture. Mix everything together so it comes together into a ball of soft dough.
Make the skeleton biscuits
Dust your work surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until it is about ½ a cm thick.
Use a man shaped cutter to cut shapes out and place them on your baking trays.
Bake the skeleton biscuits
Pop the cookies in the oven for around 10 minutes. They’re ready when the edges are starting to turn a little golden.
Leave them to cool on the baking trays for a minute or two before removing them and placing them on a wire rack to cool completely.
Decorate the skeleton biscuits
In a small bowl, mix some icing sugar (around 2-3 tbsp) with a few tsp of water. You want it to be runny enough that you can pipe your skeleton but not too runny or it’ll just smudge. Put the icing in an icing piper or a small freezer/zip lock bag. Cut a tiny hole in one corner and pipe your skeleton designs.
Enjoy!
Halloween skeleton biscuits
Ingredients
- 200 g (7/8 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 280 g (1 ¼ cups) caster sugar
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 350 g (3 cups) plain/all-purpose flour
- A pinch of salt
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- 50 g cocoa powder
To decorate
- Icing sugar
Instructions
Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract
- Measure out the butter, sugar and vanilla extract and pop them in a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Cream them together until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Add the egg
- Crack the egg in a small bowl and add to your mixture. Mix everything together. If you need to, use a spatula to scrape unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl.
Add the dry ingredients
- Measure the flour, salt, cream of tartar and cocoa and add to the butter/sugar mixture. Mix everything together so it comes together into a ball of soft dough.
Make the skeleton biscuits
- Dust your work surface with a little flour and roll out your dough until it is about ½ a cm thick.
- Use a man shaped cutter to cut shapes out and place them on your baking trays.
Bake the skeleton cookies
- Pop the cookies in the oven for around 10 minutes. They’re ready when the edges are starting to turn a little golden.
- Leave them to cool on the baking trays for a minute or two before removing them and placing them on a wire rack to cool completely.
Decorate the skeleton cookies
- In a small bowl, mix some icing sugar (around 2-3 tbsp) with a few tsp of water. You want it to be runny enough that you can pipe your skeleton but not too runny or it'll just smudge. Put the icing in an icing piper or a small freezer/zip lock bag. Cut a tiny hole in one corner and pipe your skeleton designs.
- Enjoy!
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