FoodCoop Recipes
Mummy Decorated Spiced Cookies
These gingery biscuits are super-fun to decorate – we’ve used green, orange and purple sweets for the eyes.
Cook
40 minutes
Serves
12
Ingredients
85g Co-op unsalted butter, at room temperature
100g Fairtrade granulated sugar
1 tbsp treacle
1 Co-op British free range egg
150g Co-op plain white flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ tsp Co-op ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground clove
¼ tsp Co-op ginger
To decorate
20g Fairtrade icing sugar, to dust
120g Co-op ready rolled white icing
24 round jelly sweets, for the eyes
10g Fairtrade dark chocolate, melted
Method
Beat the butter and granulated sugar until soft and creamy
Add the treacle and egg and beat again until smooth
Tip in the dry ingredients and mix until you have a soft dough
Cover and chill for at least an hour, or until the dough is quite firm
Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas 4
Line 2 baking trays with greaseproof paper
Divide the dough into 12, then roll into balls
Spread out evenly on the trays, pressing each one down slightly to flatten it
Bake for 18-22 mins, until the cookies are cracked on top and dark brown at the edges
Allow to cool for 5 mins on the trays
To decorate, dust your work surface with icing sugar and roll the fondant into a long rectangle
Cut the fondant into thin strips, no more than ½ cm wide
While the cookies are still warm, decorate with the strips to resemble mummy bandages, tucking the ends under the bottoms of the cookies
For the eyes, stick 2 sweets to each biscuit using a dot of melted chocolate. Add a dot of melted chocolate on the sweets for the pupils
Nutrition
Energy | Fat | Saturates | Sugars | Salt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1038kJ / 246kcal (12%) | 7.1g | 4.2g | 30g | 0.17g |
Medium · 10% | High · 21% | High · 33% | Low · 3% |
Approx. per serving. % of adult’s reference intake. Carbohydrates per serving: 43g.
