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    Home » Halloween » Halloween Treats

    Easy Halloween Cookies Recipe - Swamp Monster Shortbread

    Oct 28, 2019 · 2 Comments

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    These fun and easy swamp monster shortbread Halloween cookies make a great spooky treat - perfect for kids Halloween party food!

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    This week I've teamed up with HARIBO to bring you another fun and easy Halloween recipe. These delicious swamp monster cookies are quick to whip up and perfect for a spooky Halloween treat the whole family will love!

    Swamp monster cookies topped with green icing and halloween sweets on a dark backgrond

    A few days ago we received very exciting box in the post. Everything about it, from the outside, to the spooky noises it made as we opened it, to the creepy cobwebs, pretend eyeballs and delicious haul of Halloween themed HARIBO sweets inside, made for the most fun parcel we've received in some time! 

    Haribo Share the scare treat box

    HARIBO challenged me to use their fun Halloween themed treats to 'share the scare' this month, so I picked out my favourites and got to work in the kitchen, creating a new creepy recipe to celebrate the spooky season!

    Haribo trick or treat sweet packets with swamp monster themed cookies on a dark background

    I made the base of my Halloween cookies from my basic shortbread recipe - this super simple shortbread has only four ingredients but it tastes amazing, though I say so myself!

    Green swamp monster Halloween shortbread cookies

    My Halloween cookies were topped with a simple glacé icing coloured a lovely bright green with a few drops of gel food colouring.

    I finished them off with candy eyeballs and trick or treat themed sweets from HARIBO - these yummy Halloween themed sweets come in a range of spooky shapes, from maggots to spiders, frogs and bats to pumpkins so they were the perfect finishing touch for my swampy Halloween cookies!

    Swamp monster cookies and candy eyeballs on a dark Halloween backdrop

    Swamp Monster Halloween Cookies

    Ingredients (makes 20):

    • 250g butter
    • 125g sugar
    • 375g plain flour
    • 2 tsp vanilla extract

    To decorate: 

    • 200g icing sugar
    • green gel food colouring
    • 6 small bags Haribo trick or treat sweets
    • handful edible candy eyeballs

    Method:

    Preheat oven to 160°C (Gas mark 2/325°F). 

    Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.

    Place the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl, then whisk together until pale and fluffy. 

    Sieve in the flour, then add the vanilla extract.  Whisk again until the mixture comes together in a dough.

    Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to around 1cm thick.  Cut circles from the dough (I used the fluted side of my cookie cutter), then carefully transfer them to the baking trays.

    Bake for around 15 minutes until golden.

    Once cooked, leave the shortbread rounds to cool on the baking trays for a few minutes then transfer to a cooling rack to finish cooling.

    Shortbread cookies on a cooling rack

    When the shortbread cookies are completely cool, make the icing:

    Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl then add 25ml water. Stir well until the sugar has dissolved, then add gel food colouring and stir until the icing is completely green. Add a little more water if needed to get the correct consistency of icing - it should be runny enough to spread but not too drippy!

    Drop a small spoonful of icing onto each shortbread cookie and spread to the edges with the back of the spoon. Don't worry if the icing drips down the side - this will just add to the swampy effect!

    Topping shortbread cookies with green icing on a cooling rack

    Working quickly, decorate the cookies with HARIBO trick or treat sweets and edible candy eyeballs, pressing them gently into the top of the icing to hold them in place.

    Topping our swamp monster Halloween cookies with haribo trick or treat sweets and candy eyeballs

    Once you've decorated all of the cookies, leave the icing to dry and set.

    Swamp monster theme Halloween cookies setting on a cooling rack

    Once the icing has completely dried, you can store the cookies in an airtight container, layered with baking paper to separate them, until ready to serve.

    Enjoy!

    Inside our Haribo share the scare treat box - a selection of yummy Halloween treats

    We're really looking forward to Halloween night when we'll share some more of our yummy Haribo sweets with our local trick-or-treaters!

    For more details about the awesome HARIBO Halloween range, visit www.haribo.co.uk.

    Share the Scare logo_with HARIBO

    Are you celebrating Halloween this year? You can share your own spooky ideas on social media by using the hashtag #HariboShareTheScare on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.

    If you enjoyed this recipe, you might also like these fun monster themed treats too:

    Easy Monster Pops

    Awesome Halloween monster pops - super easy Halloween recipe for kids to make

    Swamp Monster Giant Chocolate Buttons

    Easy Swamp Monster Giant Chocolate Buttons Recipe - fun 3 ingredient Halloween treat for kids from Eats Amazing UK

    Halloween Monster Tea Cakes

    Halloween dessert idea - monster tea cakes on a glass cake stand with dark background

    Monster Apple Donuts

    Fun Monster themed apple donuts for Halloween - healthy snack idea for kids

    For more fun and easy Halloween food ideas, head over to the Halloween recipes section here on the Eats Amazing blog or pop over and follow my Halloween Pinterest boards for lots more fun ideas from around the web; Halloween Food, Healthy Halloween Food or Halloween Fun.

    Grace

    Disclosure: This recipe and blog post was commissioned by HARIBO.  I received a selection of Halloween themed HARIBO sweets to use in my recipe and was compensated for my time and the cost of ingredients, however all opinions expressed in this post are my own. 

    Lots of green swamp monster themed Halloween cookies from above on a dark backdrop
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    Swamp Monster Shortbread Halloween Cookies

    These fun and easy swamp monster shortbread cookies make a great Halloween treat the whole family will love! Perfect for Halloween party food or treats!
    Prep Time15 minutes mins
    Cook Time15 minutes mins
    Total Time30 minutes mins
    Course: Dessert, Party Food
    Cuisine: British, Halloween
    Servings: 20 cookies
    Author: Grace Hall

    Ingredients

    For the shortbread cookies:

    • 250 g butter
    • 125 g sugar
    • 375 g plain flour
    • 2 tsp vanilla extract

    To decorate:

    • 200 g icing sugar
    • green gel food colouring
    • 6 small bags Haribo trick or treat sweets
    • handful edible candy eyeballs

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 160°C (Gas mark 2/325°F). Line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
    • Place the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl, then whisk together until pale and fluffy.
    • Sieve in the flour, then add the vanilla extract.  Whisk again until the mixture comes together in a dough.
    • Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to around 1cm thick.  Cut circles from the dough (I used the fluted side of my cookie cutter), then carefully transfer them to the baking trays.
    • Bake for around 15 minutes until golden.
    • Once cooked, leave the shortbread rounds to cool on the baking trays for a few minutes then transfer to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
    • When the shortbread cookies are completely cool, make the icing:
    • Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl then add 25ml water. Stir well until the sugar has dissolved, then add gel food colouring and stir until the icing is completely green. Add a little more water if needed to get the correct consistency of icing - it should be runny enough to spread but not too drippy!
    • Drop a small spoonful of icing onto each shortbread cookie and spread to the edges with the back of the spoon. Don't worry if the icing drips down the side - this will just add to the swampy effect!
    • Working quickly, decorate the cookies with Haribo trick or treat sweets and edible candy eyeballs, pressing them gently into the top of the icing to hold them in place.
    • Once you've decorated all of the cookies, leave the icing to dry and set.

    Notes

    Once the icing has completely dried, you can store the cookies in an airtight container, layered with baking paper to separate them, until ready to serve.

    Love this spooky Halloween recipe? Why not save it to Pinterest so you can easily find it again! 

    Fun and easy Halloween cookies recipe - these yummy swamp monster shortbread cookies are perfect for Halloween party food for kids

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    1. bob says

      November 04, 2019 at 12:22 am

      cool idea and its sounds nice as

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