Hallowe’en Gingerbread Mummies and Skeletons

Name: Hallowe’en Gingerbread Mummies and Skeletons
Yield: Makes 25–30 biscuits
Ingredients: ½ tsp fine salt; 140 g/4¾ oz chilled unsalted butter, diced; 100 g/3½ oz soft dark brown sugar; 300 g/11 oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting; ½ tsp ground allspice; 1 egg, beaten; 50 g/2 oz black treacle; 50 g/2 oz golden syrup; 2 tsp ground cinnamo; 2 tsp ground ginger; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; ½ tsp mixed spice; icing sugar, for dusting; 300 g/11 oz ready-made white fondant icing; white icing pen; edible eyes; 200 g/7 oz icing sugar

Preparation info

Makes
25–30
biscuits

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Real Food Kids Will Love

By Annabel Karmel

Published 2018

About

Little ghosts and ghouls can help their mummies make these frightfully tasty treats!

Ingredients

140 g/4¾ oz chilled unsalted butter, diced
100 g/3½

Bread

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4 and line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment.

Put the butter, sugar, flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda in a food processor and blitz until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Whisk the egg, black treacle, syrup and salt in a bowl.