Frankenstein Cookie Sandwich

- Recipe by Shane Smith -

This is something fun to do with the kids over Halloween break. They take 35 minutes to prepare and around 12 minutes to bake and are simply spooktacular!

INGREDIENTS

250g butter, room temp

55g caster sugar

300g plain flour

45g cornflour

40g unsweetened cocoa powder

380g butter, room temp

380g icing sugar

1tbsp milk

Dash of peppermint essence

Green food colouring

30 sugar eyes

METHOD

To make the biscuits, place the butter and caster sugar into a bowl and mix until soft and pale in colour.

To this add the remaining biscuit ingredients and mix to form a soft dough.

Wrap and chill for 20 minutes.

Preheat your oven to 160C/140C fan and line two baking trays with parchment.

Once the dough is rested, roll out on a floured work surface to a thickness of ½cm.

Using a 3” round cutter, cut out 30 biscuits.

Place 15 on each tray and bake for 12 minutes.

Remove and allow to cool.

For the peppermint buttercream, add all the ingredients to a mixer and mix for five minutes until soft and pipeable. Place the buttercream into a piping bag and pipe this buttercream onto the base of 15 biscuits and sandwich with the other biscuit.

Finish by adding a pair of sugar eyes. If you cannot pick up sugar eyes, you can make them buy sticking a small chocolate chip button into a piece of white fondant icing.

ABOUT THE CHEF

Shane Smith from Lavey runs his own Online Cookery School and you can check out a list of his classes below or online at: www.chefshanesmith.ie

Gift vouchers also available.

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