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Want to bake Halloween treats that are cute and tasty but not full of nasties? Make these mummy cookies, courtesy of Sevenhills Wholefoods

Sevenhills Wholefoods Black Forest Mummy Cookies
Sevenhills Wholefoods Black Forest Mummy Cookies

Black Forest Mummy Cookies
Takes: 40 minutes
Makes: 6

Ingredients:
50g Sevenhills coconut oil
50g Sevenhills coconut sugar
60g brown sugar
32g plain flour
½ egg
28g Sevenhills Cacao powder
4g honey
30g dark choc
⅔ tsp bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
42g choc chips
18g maraschino cherries
For the icing:
50g Royal icing sugar
5ml milk
Decorative edible eyes

Method:
Prepare two medium-sized baking trays with baking parchment and preheat oven to 180°C.

Sieve the dry ingredients together, except the sugar, in a mixing bowl and combine.

Melt the chocolate, coconut oil and honey together and let it cool.

Meanwhile combine the egg and sugar and whisk or mix until it grows in volume (should thicken). Add all of the cooled wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and combine. Once dough is formed add the chopped cherries and chocolate chips to the cookie dough.

Then make even-sized balls (golf ball-sized) and put them on a baking tray with space between them, ideally 4 per medium-sized baking tray, and fridge for 20 minutes before baking.

Bake for 10-12 minutes, do not flatten leave to bake as balls. Leave to cool.

To make the icing, mix 50g Royal icing sugar and 5ml of milk.

Once the icing is smooth and the cookies are cool pour into an icing bag and pipe over the cookies, leaving a space in the middle to put the eyes, put two dots of icing here to act as a glue and place on the edible eyes.

Recipe courtesy of Sevenhills, the brand which promises “all organic, vegan certified and ethically and responsibly sourced” products. See sevenhillswholefoods.com


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