Alien Monster Cookies
Makes approximately 18 cookies. You can buy good quality food colouring and decorative edible eyes from quality supermarkets and specialist cake and baking suppliers.
Ingredients
For the cookies
- 225 gr Self-raising Flour
- 150 gr Golden Caster Sugar
- 50 gr Salted Jersey Butter softened
- 1 large free-range Egg beaten
- 2 teaspoons quality Vanilla Extract
- A few drops Food Colouring
For Filling
- 100 gr Buttercream
- Edible decorations
Equipment
- Baking trays
- Silicon baking mats
Instructions
For the Cookies
- Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Add the beaten egg, food colouring, and the vanilla extract and stir in. Sift the self-raising flour and strawberry powder into the bowl and mix together thoroughly.
- Spread onto some cling film and wrap tightly into a cylinder, inside a sheet of silver foil. Chill for at least two hours in the refrigerator.
- Preheat your oven to 375 F / 190 C / Gas Mark 5 and line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper or silicon baking mats. Unwrap the cookie mix and slice into rounds into half a centimetre or the thickness of a pound coin. Space out on to the trays and place into the oven.
- Bake for around eight minutes, until they are firm on the edges and just slightly soft in the very centre if you press them. If you prefer a slightly firmer cookie leave in the oven for a couple of extra minutes.
- Remove from the oven and leave on the tray for a couple of minutes to set. Transfer to a wire rack to thoroughly cool.
To Decorate
- When cool sandwich two cookies together with butter icing and add the icing eyes.
Notes
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