Halloween is the perfect opportunity in our flat to get our craft on. There seem to be unlimited numbers of activities, games and crafts that are centred around Halloween and it would be mad not to celebrate the holiday in style with Luke.
We’ve started to get excited about Halloween now that October has arrived. I can’t wait to do some pumpkin carving – you’d think by now I’d be able to do a decent job, but nope, I still suck at it! Luke doesn’t seem to mind all that much though and enjoys making a mess and squelching around all the seeds and stringy flesh…you know, making everything orange. So I’m looking forward to doing that together in a few weeks.
For now, as it’s only the beginning of October, I thought we’d kick things off with some baking.
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Luke and I pondered for a little while and decided to make some biscuits as we had already ordered some really cool Halloween cookie cutters and we needed to test them out!
We have made shortbread a few times before. We especially love making lemon and lime flavoured shortbread during Spring time. Shortbread is such an easy recipe to follow and a perfect one for children to help make as everything is taste safe.
Decorating Halloween Biscuits
We used our fool proof shortbread recipe that you can find below and decorated using some icing tube pens and a few of the biscuits got the good old Halloween sprinkles treatment!
If you don’t fancy purchasing a new set of cookie cutters to make spooky biscuits, you could always use that classic gingerbread man Christmas cutter and make mummies!
Our biscuits tasted lush and Luke really couldn’t wait for them to cool down enough so we could decorate them. Icing tube pens are a bit tricky at first but he managed to get the hang of them fairly quickly and squeezing all that icing out is really good for children’s fine motor skills.
Halloween Shortbread Biscuit Recipe
If you fancy making these at home this Halloween, here’s the recipe you will need to follow to make shortbread.
- 175g plain flour
- A pinch of salt
- 55g caster sugar
- 115g butter
- Some chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 150°C/300°F/Gas Mark 2
- Grease a baking tray or use parchment paper
- Cream together sugar and butter
- Add flour and salt and stir. You will need to get messy and use your hands! Add some chocolate chips to the dough.
- Roll out the dough onto a floured surface to the desired thickness
- Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes and then place on your baking tray in the middle shelf of the oven
I’m looking forward to getting more creative with Halloween as the month of October progresses. In the mean time, here are some other Halloween craft ideas for you to try your hands at. My favourite Halloween craft to date is the toilet roll bats!
More Halloween Craft Ideas:
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They look great ahd i love chocolate chips through shortbread
I shall try this recipe as have always used the recipe out of the bero book
Looks easy to make.
These look great! we love making cookies! #ThatFridayLinky
They look fantastic! Have bookmarked this page and will give these a go this weekend!
These look so yummy! Thanks for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday and sorry for the late commenting
what a tasty treat
wow, gotta make us some of this!!
They look delicious
looks fantastic
This looks so simple yet such a fab thing to do with the kids. I’ve got a week off for half-term and I’ve promised to do some baking with the kids. Bookmarked this to come back to, thank you!
That’s great, we will probably be making the again during half term too. I hope you all enjoy them. 🙂
These look great. I’ve never made short bread before. I think my kids eould love these.
It’s really easy and fun for kids to make. It’s just like play dough 🙂
These look really good. I’m impressed. It’s my first year with Jamie at school on Halloween. It will be strange not having him home but hopefully we will make up for that in half term. I love your craft ideas as well
Aw, that’s so sweet of you, thank you 🙂
I love the icing on these, I always find my icing never looks like its meant to x
i find my icing often looks like Luke’s done it, so getting the “perfect” picture was interesting!
These look absolutely brilliant! What a fabulous activity to do with the kids in preparation for Halloween, and not too scary either! I’m definitely pinning these to try with my kids.
These are great, Finlay would love to do something like this. We are doing a lot of Halloween bits and bobs atm!
What a wonderful Halloween activity to get the children involved in, plus you get to eat them afterwards
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What fun. It is hard to get a buttery tasting shortbread with just enough butter to taste good but no so much that the biscuits run all over the tray. The girls really enjoy the shape cutting and decorating.
Looking forward to Halloween. Thanks for the ideas on this blog. Biscuits look delicious!
I Think I’ll have a go at these
These look delicious. I think my nephew would love helping with them.
Love these. Something for the kids to decorate. I did witches hats in shortbread last year for them to decorate. Great ideas
they look very yummy
Oh these are so adorable – I honestly don’t think I’d be able to nibble on those hehe x
Sounds so delicious – I know there is a long wait till next halloween but I think I will try it !