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Halloween spiced shortbread cookie sandwiches

Name: Halloween spiced shortbread cookie sandwiches recipe
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 200g unsalted butter, softened; 1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped; 110g pure icing sugar, plus extra, to dust; 250g plain flour, plus extra, to dust; 2 egg yolks; 2 tsp mixed spice; 40.00 ml caster sugar; 2 tsp ground cinnamon; Nutella, to spread

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by delicious. team

delicious. team

Oct 10, 2024

Halloween baking doesn't get much sweeter than these spiced shortbread cookie sandwiches. Crumbly biscuit layers topped with sugar and cinnamon are filled with decadent swirls of rich, chocolately Nutella which oozes out after one delicious bite. Insanely addictive and scarily good, these easy Halloween cookies will be hard to beat.

Recipe note: You’ll need a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter.

200g unsalted butter, softened
1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped
110g pure icing sugar, plus extra, to dust
250g plain flour, plus extra, to dust
2 egg yolks
2 tsp mixed spice
2 tbs caster sugar
2 tsp ground cinnamon
Nutella, to spread

Method

1.

For the shortbread, in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, vanilla seeds and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add flour, yolks, mixed spice and a pinch of fine salt. Mix on low speed for 2 minutes, or until a dough forms. Shape into a 20cm disc, enclose in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 30 minutes to rest.
2.

Line 3 baking trays with baking paper. Roll pastry out between 2 sheets of lightly floured baking paper to just under 1cm thick. Using a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter, cut pumpkin-shaped rounds, re-rolling scraps. Place on prepared trays, leaving a 3cm gap between each. Chill for 20 minutes, then cut out eyes and mouth from half the biscuits.
3.

Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Bake shortbread for 20 minutes, or until light golden. Combine caster sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Straight from the oven, sprinkle the cookies with cut-out eyes and mouth with cinnamon sugar. Cool on trays.
4.

Spread a generous amount of Nutella on the cooled biscuits with no eyes and mouth, then sandwich with cinnamon-sugar-sprinkled shortbreads on top. Serve.