Stage 1 – Making the Sugar Cookie Dough
Beat the butter and the sugar into the mixing bowl and ensure the mixture is consistent.
Next add the egg and vanilla extract (optional) into the mixing bowl and mix thoroughly.
Add the remaining dry ingredients (baking soda and rice flour) into mixing bowl and make sure the mixture is evenly distributed.
For the best results, refrigerate the dough for at least a couple of hours, preferably overnight.
Stage 2 – Baking the Sugar Cookies
Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan/ gas 4).
Sprinkle your surface with flour and rolling pin with about 10g of flour and roll out the dough to about ½ cm thickness.
Cut out shapes in the dough using your Halloween cookie cutters.
Transfer the shaped cookies onto baking tray/s keeping them at least 2 ½ cm apart.
Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Check to see if the cookies are fully cooked by placing a wooden pick/ cake tester into the middle of each. If they come out clean, then you are good to go onto the next step!
Let the cookies cool in the baking tray for about 5 minutes and then transfer them to a cooling rack and leave them until they are fully cooled.
Stage 3 – Decorating the Sugar Cookies
Melt a bar of chocolate of your choice in a microwave safe bowl. (I melted my favourite chocolate bar, Ombar Coco M’lk bar for about 30 seconds.)
Make a bowl of royal icing. Mix the egg whites, icing sugar, lemon juice and vanilla extract (optional) to make a consistent royal icing.
Dip half of your cookies in the bowl of melted chocolate.
Dip half of your cookies in the bowl of royal icing.
Let the sugar cookies cool at room temperature for about 15 minutes.
Next, enjoy!
