Happy Halloween! Autumn is a fantastic time of year for baking. The cold, wet days outside the window and the warm, delicious smell of baked treats filling up your kitchen. Why wait for Christmas Gingerbread? Enjoy baking now with my Homemade Halloween cinnamon biscuits to make with toddlers.
Halloween is coming and it's a great
time of year for babies and toddlers. There is so much to explore! Halloween offers
young children the chance to learn about big, scary things in a safe way. There
is also new language to explore and lots of bright, vibrant colours. My
homemade Halloween cinnamon biscuits to make with toddlers are another great
way to celebrate the spooky season. So let’s get stuck in!
What do I need to make the biscuits?
I came up with recipe for these Halloween cinnamon biscuits when I was actually trying to bake gingerbread with my toddler. I realised we had run out of some of the ingredients!
Instead of giving up, I improvised with demerara sugar and cinnamon. And you know? They are delicious! The perfect spiced biscuit for this time of year. You are going to need your basic ingredients like butter, golden syrup, plain flour and bicarb. But most importantly you need your Halloween themed cookie cutters!
Equipment
- Halloween Cookie Cutters
- Baking Paper
- Baking Tray
I bought these Halloween cutters
from Amazon and they are brilliant. I have made several batches of Halloween
biscuits, plus my son has enjoyed using them for playdough too! If you don’t
have time to buy cutters, why not draw some basic Halloween shapes on baking
paper and use it like a paper pattern? Just place the paper shape on top of the
dough and cut around it. Voila! Halloween cinnamon biscuits!
Ingredients:
- 75g butter
- 3 1/2tbsp golden syrup
- 60g demerara sugar
- 175g plain flour
- 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 3 tsp ground cinnamon
Instructions:
- Stir the mixture until the sugar dissolves.
- Add the plain flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda to
bowl and mix together.
- Pour in the wet ingredients into the dry, and mix together until they form a dough.
- Make a ball of dough using your hands and cover the ball with cling film.
- Once the ball of dough is relatively cool, pop it in the
fridge for 30 minutes.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out the now cold dough until it is the desired thickness
- Now use your Halloween cookie cutters to cut out the shapes!
- Bake your biscuits at 170°C for 10 to12min or until the biscuits are golden brown.
- Leave the biscuits to cool and then decorate using my perfect icing recipe!
Are you ready to decorate?
The perfect icing recipe:
- 3 tbsp of warm water (cooled boiled water)
- ½ tsp food colouring
- Sieve the icing sugar into a small bowl.
- Gradually add the water and keep stirring.
- Once the sugar and water mixture is a smooth consistency, you can add the food colouring.
How to decorate your biscuits
I loved making these Halloween cinnamon biscuits with my toddler. I split the icing into a few small bowls so we could decorate with multiple colours. The classic Halloween colours are fun to use – black, orange, purple and green.
My toddler loved scooping the icing and blobbing it onto the biscuits. Sprinkles are his absolute favourite though! And if you can find them, some baking aisles have kits with candy eyes and ears to make little faces on your biscuits too.
What other Halloween activities do you have planned?
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