Orange pumpkin face cookies

Name: Orange pumpkin face cookies
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 140 grams butter, softened; 175 grams plain flour; 50 grams icing sugar; 1 medium finely grated zest orange; 100 grams mascarpone; 1 teaspoon icing sugar; 25 grams plain chocolate (55% cocoa solids is fine), melted; 1 Tbsp about orange juice

Orange pumpkin face cookies takes about 55 minutes from beginning to end. One serving contains 220 calories, 2g of protein, and 14g of fat. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of icing sugar, flour, orange juice, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. Users who liked this recipe also liked Make-a-Face Pumpkin Cookies, Pumpkin-Face Ice Cream Sandwiches, and Smiley Face Cookies.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to fan 160C/ conventional 180C/gas

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Put the butter in a bowl and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth.

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Butter

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Bowl

Add the flour, icing sugar and orange zest and beat together to make a softish dough. Knead into a ball and wrap in cling film. Chill for 1 hour.

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Powdered Sugar

Orange Zest

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Wrap

Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of about 3mm.

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Dough

Roll

Cut 24 circles with a 7.5 cm round plain cutter.

Put them on a couple of baking sheets.

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Using a small sharp knife, cut out Halloween faces on 12 of the circles. Gather up the spare biscuit dough and press into pumpkin stem shapes, trimming with a sharp knife. Press to the top of each biscuit with a knife to join. Make lines on the face biscuits with the back of a roundbladed knife, to look like the markings on a pumpkin.

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Biscuits

Pumpkin

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Bake all the biscuits for about 15 minutes until pale golden. Leave to set for a while, then cool completely on a wire rack.

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Biscuits

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Mix the glaze ingredients to make a smooth, runny icing, adding a bit more juice if needed, then set aside. For the filling, beat the mascarpone with the icing sugar, then stir in the cooled melted chocolate.

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Mascarpone

Chocolate

Glaze

Icing

Juice

Spread the filling over the cooled plain biscuits, then press the face ones on top do this just before you want to eat them, otherwise they go soft.

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Biscuits

Spread

Brush with the glaze, using a clean paint brush or pastry brush. Eat the same day.

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Glaze

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Servings:

140grams

butter, softened 175grams

plain flour 50grams

icing sugar 1medium

finely grated zest orange 100grams

mascarpone 1teaspoon

icing sugar 25grams

plain chocolate (55% cocoa solids is fine), melted 1Tbsp

about orange juice

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Madeira, Prosecco

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