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Halloween Bat Biscuits

They're so spooky - but oh so cute! The kids will get a real kick out of these super easy cupcakes! - by Amy Sinclair
  • 24 Oct 2018
Halloween Bat Biscuits
Prep: 45 Minutes - Cook: 10 Minutes - Easy - Serves 24
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Looking for a Halloween sweet treat? These amazing bat biscuits are as adorable as they are easy!

Ingredients

125g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature

¾ cup caster sugar

1 egg

1 ¼ cups self-raising flour

¼ cup cocoa powder

1 cup Betty Crocker Vanilla Frosting

Orange food colouring gel

2 x 137g packets Original Oreo Cookies

Candy eyes

Method

  1. Grease and line two large oven trays with baking paper.

  2. Beat butter and sugar in small bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Transfer to a large bowl. Stir in combined sifted flour and cocoa until combined.

  3. Roll level tablespoons of mixture into balls. Place 5cm apart on prepared trays. Flatten slightly with fingertips.

  4. Cook in a moderate oven (180C), swapping trays halfway, for about 10 minutes, or until firm to touch. Remove from oven. Cool on trays.

  5. Tint frosting orange with colouring. Spoon (don’t spread) 1 heaped teaspoon frosting in the centre of each biscuit. 

  6. Cut Oreo cookies in half. Position cookies in frosting for ‘bat wings’ as pictured. Position candy eyes in front of ‘bat wings’. Serve.

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