Description
These Jack Skellington Cookies are a fun and spooky treat perfect for Halloween or any Nightmare Before Christmas fan. The buttery cookies are filled with black cherry jam and decorated with a simple icing to create Jack’s iconic face.
Ingredients
for the cookies
- 200g of dairy-free block butter (cold and cubed)
- 100g of caster sugar
- 300g of all purpose / plain flour
- Ice-water (if needed)
for the filling
- 50g of black cherry jam (homemade or shop bought)
for the icing
- 200g of icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Black food gel
- Dairy-free milk
Instructions
- Method (cookies) Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Sift in the flour, mix into a thick dough. If it’s too thick, you can add in a teaspoon of ice-water. You can combine by hand on a clean worktop or in a food processor. Transfer the dough into plastic wrap or baking paper and chill in the fridge for at least 40 minutes -1 hour to firm up.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C fan and line a baking tray with grease-proof paper.
- Roll out the chilled dough to approximately 1 – ½ cm thickness on a heavily floured work surface. Cut into rounds using a circle cookie cutter. Place the shapes on the lined baking tray. To half of the cookies, chomp out the eyes and nose shapes.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
- Method (icing) In a bowl, mix icing sugar and vanilla. Add dairy-free milk gradually until the icing reaches a thin, toothpaste-like consistency. Dip the top of the cookies with the face on into the icing, allowing excess to drip off. Let it dry.
- Color some icing with black food gel, transfer to a piping bag, and pipe on the mouth and details.
- Method (filling) Spread or pipe black cherry filling on cookies without faces and sandwich with iced cookies. Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 12g
- Sodium: 80mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 25g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 20mg
