Easy Halloween Cookie Recipe for Children

Easy Children’s Halloween Milk Free Oat & Raisin Mummy Cookie Recipe.

Makes approx. 36 Ruddy Yummy Milk Free Cookies.

For the Icing:

200g icing sugar

Cooled (but warm) boiled water

Smarties or something smaller for the eyes.

Ingredients:

270g Milk Free Vitalite (Butter replacement) (at room temperature)

160g caster Sugar

160g soft dark brown sugar

2 Eggs

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

380g plain flour

¾ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

110g porridge oats

220g raisins

You will also need:

Scales, hand mixer, 2 mixing bowls, cup, fork, spatula, wooden spoon, sieve, greaseproof paper, 2 baking trays & a wire rack (to cool cookies on)

Method:

Preheat oven to 170°C (325 °F) Gas mark 3.

Using your hand mixer, add the butter and sugars in a mixing bowl and whisk until light and fluffy.

Add your two eggs and vanilla essence in a cup and whisk with your fork until combined.

Gradually add your egg combo to your butter and sugar mix, while continuing to whisk with hand mixer. Use your spatula to scrape the mixture from the side of your bowl.

In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda, and cinnamon, add the oats and mix well.

Add your oats mix to the Butter mixture and beat until very well mixed. Once you are happy, then add your raisins and stir until evenly combined.

Here comes the messy bit! - Now use your clean hands!!

Roll small amounts of your cookie dough into balls, just bigger than a golf ball size and place six onto a greaseproof paper covered baking tray - space equally out, then flatten slightly, so they are about a centimetre thick.

Bake in the centre of your oven for approximately 12 minutes. (You may have to adjust cooking times slightly, depending on your oven)

When your Cookies are ready, they should be soft to the touch, but not wet and starting to turn a golden colour.

Once you are happy that they are cooked through, take out of the oven, slide the greaseproof paper over to the wire rack and allow the Cookies to cool.

Throw your next batch into the oven and by the time the next lot are cooked, the first lot should be cool enough to test one or two with a nice cup of coffee - behind the kids back of course!

Once your Cookies have cooled down, presuming you haven’t eaten them all yet, mix the icing sugar with the cooled boiled (but still warm) water, slowly, mixing all the time until you get a thick paste.

On the back of a spoon, drizzle the icing back and forth across the Cookies, to form the bandages shape, add two coloured smarties, or such like for eyes and try to leave them alone long to set!

There you have it, a very simple, blooming delicious Oat & Raisin Mummy Halloween Cookies that you will all love eating. – So make sure you make enough for everyone!

Enjoy!