Halloween Monster Cookies

Halloween treats
Happy National Baking Week everybody!!!!!!! Today I have been busy baking a tasty but scary halloween treat. MONSTER COOKIES AHHHHH!!!!. With it being national baking week, I have decided to bake a different treat each day, while adding a small halloween twist, as it is only a week and two days away.

Baking is such a fun and relaxing hobby, and when there is an event or a Holiday coming up, it gives you an excuse to go all out. Baking is great for the family to get involved and for children to be creative, or if  you have nothing to do, it's great fun to do with friends or just by yourself, and its very easy to do. SO LETS GET STARTED :D
Tools   
Ingredients.

• 125g butter, softened.                        
• 100g light brown soft sugar.  
• 125g caster sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 225g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 200g chocolate chips.         

What you need to do

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4
2. Cream butter and sugars, once creamed, combine in the egg and vanilla.
3. Sift in the flour and salt, then the chocolate chips.
4. Roll into walnut size balls, for a more homemade look, or roll into a long, thick sausage shape and slice to make neater looking cookies.
5. Place on ungreased baking paper. If you want to have the real Millies experience then bake for just 7 minutes, till the cookies are just setting - the cookies will be really doughy and delicious. Otherwise cook for 10 minutes until just golden round the edges.
6. Take out of the oven and leave to harden for a minute before transferring to a wire cooling rack. These are great warm, and they also store well, if they don't all get eaten straight away!

Decorating. 

You can decorate anyway you want too, be creative.
For my monster cookies, I used sweets and some butter cream icing to create the look.
Butter cream icing75g butter175g icing sugar Mix them together in a bowl, till creamy and soft. If you want to add a colour, just add a few drops of colouring and mix in and then pipe onto the cookies.
This is the finished look-

These are so easy to bake and you can use any cookie recipe. This is a fun activity to do with the children for halloween, youcan make the cookies as scary as you want, use as many sweet and treat possible. Delicious and fun, give it a try.
Don't for get if you are struggling to find a costume for halloween, check out my last blog for a few creative ideas.