Recipe: Halloween Shortbread Biscuits
Halloween is the perfect opportunity to get our craft on. There seem to be unlimited numbers of activities, games and crafts that are centered 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:
Lukeosaurus And Me
Rachael is a 31 year old mum to 10 year old Luke and 5 year old Oscar. She lives in England and writes about family life, crafts, recipes, parenting wins(and fails), as well as travel, days out, fashion and living the frugal lifestyle.
58 Comments
Ashleigh Allan
They look great ahd i love chocolate chips through shortbread
Lukeosaurus And Me
It’s so tasty, isn’t it?
fiona waterworth
I shall try this recipe as have always used the recipe out of the bero book
Lukeosaurus And Me
I hope you enjoy it!
claire woods
Looks easy to make.
Lukeosaurus And Me
It’s really easy, perfect for kids 🙂
Jo - Pickle & Poppet
These look great! we love making cookies!
Lukeosaurus And Me
Aw thank you! 🙂
sarah m
They look fantastic! Have bookmarked this page and will give these a go this weekend!
Lukeosaurus And Me
Hope you enjoyed them!
Lisa (mummascribbles)
These look so yummy! Thanks for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday and sorry for the late commenting
Lukeosaurus And Me
Thanks, lovely 🙂
Chris Andrews
what a tasty treat
Lukeosaurus And Me
Thanks 🙂
Ruth Harwood
wow, gotta make us some of this!!
Lukeosaurus And Me
Hope you enjoy.
Jo McPherson
They look delicious
michelle o'neill
looks fantastic
Clare
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!
Lukeosaurus And Me
That’s great, we will probably be making the again during half term too. I hope you all enjoy them. 🙂
Lukeosaurus And Me
Aw I hope that you made these! Luke loves baking during the holidays.
Claire @ The ladybirds' adventures
These look great. I’ve never made short bread before. I think my kids eould love these.
Lukeosaurus And Me
It’s really easy and fun for kids to make. It’s just like play dough 🙂
Suzy McCullough
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
Lukeosaurus And Me
Aw, that’s so sweet of you, thank you 🙂
Rhian Westbury
I love the icing on these, I always find my icing never looks like its meant to x
Lukeosaurus And Me
i find my icing often looks like Luke’s done it, so getting the “perfect” picture was interesting!
Cal at Family Makes
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.
Heidi Brown
These are great, Finlay would love to do something like this. We are doing a lot of Halloween bits and bobs atm!
Sarah | What The Kids Wore
What a wonderful Halloween activity to get the children involved in, plus you get to eat them afterwards
Susan B
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.
Rachel Craig
Looking forward to Halloween. Thanks for the ideas on this blog. Biscuits look delicious!
Kev Cannon
I Think I’ll have a go at these
Adrian Bold
These look delicious. I think my nephew would love helping with them.
Carly Belsey
Love these. Something for the kids to decorate. I did witches hats in shortbread last year for them to decorate. Great ideas
paula cheadle
they look very yummy
Natalie Crossan
Oh these are so adorable – I honestly don’t think I’d be able to nibble on those hehe x
ISABELA
Sounds so delicious – I know there is a long wait till next halloween but I think I will try it !
Lukeosaurus And Me
They’re glorious – can’t wait to make more 🙂
Micaela Levachyov
I was just wondering what I could do to start celebrating the season and these look perfect!
Lukeosaurus And Me
I hope they put you in the mood for Halloween.
Sarah Bailey
OK now these sound like they would be right up my street. What a cute, delicious and slightly spooky way to enjoy a Halloween cookie!
Lukeosaurus And Me
You’ll probably be able to decorate them a bit better than we could!
Elizabeth
These look super! 🙂 My kids would love it, I think, if I made them a batch of these today!
Lukeosaurus And Me
Oh, lucky kids! 😉
Rhian Westbury
Chocolate chip shortbread is one of my favourite things to eat so I really should get round to making some more x
Lukeosaurus And Me
It’s so yummy, isn’t it?
Louise
These look tasty and are such good alternatives to sweets on Halloween. Looks like I’ll be doing some baking throughout October! x
Tanya
This post is just everything I love in one hit, I love shortbread, chocolate and Halloween. I love that it doesn’t take a lot of work and that you have the fun and creative freedom to decorate them. Yours look great
Kara
These look fabulous, I can see these sneaking into the kids lunchboxes
Louise
Mmm, these look SO good! I love shortbread biscuits 🙂
Louise x
Laura
These look nommy, I do love shortbread but haven’t yet tried to make a GF version so this has inspired me to give it a whirl.
Kaz | Ickle Pickles Life and Travels
Oh these are so cute, I want to make some with Pickle! Kaz
Lukeosaurus And Me
They’re sweet, aren’t they? 😀
Jen
These look so much fun! I love shortbread so any excuse!
Naomi Oikonomou
This is great, I’ve been looking for a recipe to use. We normally do gingerbread, but it gets a bit sickly after a while. #KidsandKreativity
Rachel Evans
I love the scary face on the ghost. I’m thinking of making some halloween biscuits as well and was looking for decorating ideas.
Kerry
We make Halloween cookies as I have a fab pumpkin and ghost cutter, not added choc chips before but sounds like a great idea! Thanks for linking up with #KidsandKreativity. Reall hope to see you again next time x