I don't know why I just used the word "cookies". To me they're biscuits. It's the British in me I suppose.
Anyway, spider biscuits/cookies... I made these for Hallowe'en. I found the recipe here when I was browsing for Hallowe'en themed bakes last week and their cuteness appealed to me.
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I didn't have any golden caster sugar left so I used ordinary caster sugar and I misread the recipe by only adding 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract when it's meant to be 1 tablespoon, so the flavour was a little underwhelming (although still perfectly edible.) At least I know that was my own doing rather than the recipe itself.
I also used two giant chocolate buttons sandwiches together for the spiders' bodies instead of minstrels and little edible pearls for eyes as I didn't have any silver balls.
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And I didn't chill the dough for 2 hours before rolling out, I shoved it in the freezer for half an hour instead. I bet you're starting to think I didn't read the recipe at all!
And I didn't chill the dough for 2 hours before rolling out, I shoved it in the freezer for half an hour instead. I bet you're starting to think I didn't read the recipe at all!
The last thing to note is that this recipe makes a lot of biscuits, I think I had about 50 biscuits in total. It tested my patience drawing that many spider legs, but it was definitely worth it in the end as they had a lot of character and charm. Everybody seemed to enjoy them which is always the main thing.