Creepy Cookies

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180ºC/gas mark 4. Cut two squares of parchment paper to fit on top of two large flat baking trays.

2. Whisk the butter, muscovado sugar and caster sugar together until the mixture starts to look fluffy and the colour has become lighter.

3. Place a sieve over a large bowl and put the cream of tartar, bread soda and flour into it. Gently tap the side of the sieve with a spoon and let all the ingredients fall through. Add these to the butter mixture and stir them together with a wooden spoon until completely mixed.

4. Stir in the milk.

5. The aim is to make 20 cookies so when you sandwich them together, you will have ten creepy little monsters. I find it is easiest to divide the dough into two then make ten little balls from each part.

6. Put ten balls onto each of your prepared trays. Press them down slightly. The dough will spread as it bakes so leave a gap between each cookie on the tray.

7. Bake the cookies for about ten minutes until they are golden. Once they are cool enough to handle place them onto a wire rack to cool completely.

8. While they are cooling ask an adult to help you to heat the cream in a saucepan over a low heat. Heat it until it is shivering on top then carefully take it off the heat and stir in the little pieces of chocolate until they melt into the warm cream. Sit the saucepan aside to let the chocolate mixture cool and firm up.

9. Once the cookies and the chocolate are cold, spoon about a teaspoonful of the chocolate icing onto ten of the cookies. Pop the other ten cookies on top to make cookie sandwiches.

10. Make twenty of the mini marshmallows into eyes and stick these onto the top of each cookie sandwich with some of the melted chocolate. Ask an adult to help you to cut some of the marshmallows into triangles and then press them into the chocolate filling to look like teeth.