Recipe: Hair Do Cookies
Here is the recipe for making Big Cook Little Cook's Hair Do Cookies.
- 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
- 225g butter, softened and cut into cubes
- 110g caster sugar
- 275g plain flour
- A handful of your favourite berries, for extra decoration
- A colourful selection of icing pens, you can get these at supermarkets or online
- A handful of edible icing eyes, optional, you can get these at supermarkets or online
- Weighing scales
- Mixing bowl
- Wooden spoon
- Round cookie cutter
- Rolling pin
- Greaseproof paper
- Baking tray
Method
Makes approx 8 cookies
Ask your grown-up helper to preheat the oven to 190°C (170 fan oven) / gas mark 5
In a large mixing bowl, add the butter and sugar. Beat together until it is light and fluffy. Add the flour and mix together using clean hands. Rub it between your fingers until the mixture starts to resemble bread crumbs.
Pour in the cocoa powder. This will make your biscuits taste chocolatey! Start to press the dough together so it forms a solid ball.
On a clean floured surface, gently roll out the dough until it is about as thick as a pound coin. Add extra flour to your rolling pin if it’s sticky!
Using a round cookie cutter, cut out as many cookies as you can. Make sure to re-roll any ‘off cuts’ to get more cookies! If you don’t have a round cookie cutter, you could carefully cut around the bottom of a mug.
Place the cookies onto a lined baking tray and bake for 20 minutes. Ask your grown-up helper for help to do this, because the oven is hot, hot, hot!
Leave your cookies until they are cool to touch.
Now it’s time to decorate! Use different colour icing pens to give each cookie a funky hair style. You could add some crazy curls or some long fancy waves. If you don’t have any icing pens, you can make icing by using icing sugar and a splash of water.
Finally, add some icing eyes and a face using icing pens. For a final funky decoration, you can use berries, like raspberries or blueberries to be cool hair accessories.