Brain Cookies With Blood Glaze
Recipe: #28350
October 03, 2017
"A great Halloween cookie"
Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (58.4 g)
- Calories 229.5
- Total Fat - 8.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 5 g
- Cholesterol - 37.7 mg
- Sodium - 83.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 37.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.5 g
- Sugars - 25.1 g
- Protein - 2.4 g
- Calcium - 9.3 mg
- Iron - 0.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 2
Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
Step 3
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
Step 4
Into a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
Step 5
Alternating with the eggs, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating well after the each addition.
Step 6
Fold in the nuts, vanilla, and red and blue food coloring, being careful not to overmix the dough.
Step 7
Place the dough in batches in a potato grinder and push the dough out onto the prepared baking sheets in long tubes of dough.
Step 8
With your fingers, loosely pat and arrange the dough strands into clumps resembling brains, pushing to form 2 hemispheres and shaping into a walnut-like shape.
Step 9
Bake until golden brown on the bottom, 12 to 14 minutes.
Step 10
Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Step 11
To make the blood glaze: in a small bowl, combine the icing sugar with the food coloring to make a thick glaze, whisking together.
Step 12
Drizzle the "blood" onto the cookies and serve either warm or at room temperature.
Tips
No special items needed.