Halloween Cookies Past Times Butter Baked Goods + Cookbook Giveaway!

All photos yesteryear Janis Nicolay of Pinecone Camp.

Rosie Daykin's cookbook, Butter Baked Goods, published yesteryear Random House, photographed yesteryear Janis Nicolay, was released this yesteryear week. We idea it was a perfect fourth dimension to portion the Butter's Shaped Cookies recipe, to aid larn yous inwards a spooky mood for Halloween.

Start yesteryear pulling out your cookie cutters together with larn baking. Butter Baked Goods gets their cutters from Copper Gifts, where you tin also custom blueprint your own.

Butter's Shaped Cookies

(from Butter Baked Goods, published yesteryear Random House)

makes virtually 24 cookies, using a three 1/2-inch cutter

three cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature

3/4 loving cup icing sugar

1/2 loving cup granulated sugar

2 tablespoons pure vanilla

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets alongside parchment newspaper together with laid aside.

2. Onto a large slice of parchment paper, sift together the flour together with baking powder. Set aside.

3. In a stand upwardly mixer fitted alongside a paddle attachment, cream the butter together with sugars on medium to high speed until low-cal together with fluffy. Scrape downward the sides of the bowl. Add the vanilla together with mix to combine. Scrape downward the sides of the bowl again.

4. Turn the mixer to depression together with add together the dry out ingredients together with mix until fully combined.

5. Shape the dough into a large disk, virtually 1 inch thick, and wind inwards plastic wrap. Chill inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree an hour.

6. Divide the disk inwards two, together with house one-half the dough on a lightly floured move surface. Use a rolling pivot to curlicue out the dough to virtually 1/4 inch thick.

7. Use the cookie cutter of your pick to cutting out virtually 12 cookies. Carefully transfer to the prepared cookie sheets together with house virtually 1/2 inch apart. You may accept to combine the dough scraps together with re-roll the dough to cutting out plenty cookies. Avoid doing this likewise many times, equally the cookies volition move tough alongside over-handling.

8. Use a rolling pivot to curlicue out the 2nd disk of dough to virtually 1/4 inch yell back together with repeat pace 7.

9. Bake inwards the preheated oven for fifteen minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned approximately the edges.

10. Remove from the oven together with allow cookies to cool for virtually 10 minutes on the sheets, thence transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Royal Icing - makes four cups, plenty to coat virtually 24 cookies

four cups icing sugar

1/4 loving cup meringue powder

half dozen to 8 tablespoons water

1. In a stand upwardly mixer fitted alongside a whisk attachment, combine the icing carbohydrate together with meringue powder. Mix on medium speed until the meringue pulverization is evenly distributed throughout the icing sugar.

2. Turn the mixer to depression together with slow add together the water, footling yesteryear little, until the icing reaches the desired consistency.

3. Once the H2O is incorporated, crunch the mixture on high to create some majority together with lightness inwards the icing.

When icing cookies, yous take away 2 dissimilar consistencies of icing. The "dam" icing should live thick plenty to concur it's shape; the "flood" icing should live loose plenty to spread across a cookie without existence thence sparse that it runs off. Royal icing tin move whatever shade yous similar simply yesteryear adding a drib of nutrient colouring. The combination of meringue pulverization together with icing carbohydrate gives it a pure white base of operations that way all colours read truthful when tinting, thence present restraint when yous get-go adding the colouring.

Package them upwardly for all the footling monsters inwards your life!

We're giving away a re-create of the majority to i lucky follower, anywhere inwards the world. All yous accept to practise is exit a comment. We'll pick a winner on a Mon (Oct. 28/13) —deadline to larn into Sun. Oct. 28/13 at 6pm (Pacific)! Good luck!

More information virtually the book.

Rosie Daykin's cookbook, Butter Baked Goods, published yesteryear Random House, photographed yesteryear Janis Nicolay

Update: the winner of the majority giveaway is Casi Price - delight shoot us an electronic mail for details!