Bat Cookies

As it is wet, windy and miserable and the kids are climbing the walls - as well as my husband. We thought we would try some home baking and as Halloween is approaching - how about some cool BAT COOKIES.

Ingredients for the cookies:
100g/4oz Caster Sugar
100g/4oz softened butter plus more for greasing the tray
1 egg, beaten
2 drops vanilla essence
225g/8oz plain flour, plus more for dusting

Ingredients for the icing:
200g/7oz icing sugar
Black food colouring
Orange food colouring

Here is how to make them
1. Preheat oven to 190c/375F/Gas Mark 5. Put sugar and butter in large mixing bowl and beat together until creamy.
2. Add egg and vanilla essence and keep beating until mixture is smooth. Now stir in flour, a little at a time until you have a smooth dough
3. Dust chopping board and rolling pin with a little flour and roll dough out until its about 1/4 inch thick, dust with more flour if it sticks to the board.
4. Butter a baking tray. Then use a cookie cutter to cut out cookies. Put cookies on tray.
5. Bake for 10 minutes, transfer to wire rack to cool
6. To make the icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add a tablespoon of water, mix.
7. Take 3 tablespoons of the icing, add a few drops of orange food colouring to make it bright orange. Add black food colouring to the rest of the icing.
8. Spread the black icing over the cookies, put the orange icing in a piping bag, draw lines down the wings and make little dots for eyes.

Makes 10-12 cool cookies - Enjoy

Use the same recipe for christmas time to make christmas tree cookies!!!