Easy Chocolate Halloween cookies

Every year I bake some cookies for our Halloween party with my friends. Even young children can make these super easy chocolate Halloween cookies – just ask an adult or older sibling to help with the baking and chocolate melting.

You’ll need:

• I sheet shortcrust pastry, ready-rolled
• ½ block white chocolate
• ½ block white chocolate
•  ½ block  dark chocolate
• 2 -4 tbsp double cream

How to make the cookies:

1. Unroll the pastry on a flat surface.
2. Using Halloween cookie cutters, stamp out shapes –  ghosts, pumpkins, witches, hats, bats etc. Put these onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (or onto a silicon baking sheet).
3. Ask an adult to put the tray in a preheated oven and bake the cookies (at about 190C degrees) for about 10-12 minutes until the edges start browning.
4. Ask an adult to take out the baking tray and let the cookies cool.
5. Meanwhile, melt some white chocolate in a pan, and dark chocolate in another small pan. Add some double cream to them so they are smooth and silky (but should be still thick!).
6. Ask an adult to spoon the chocolate into a small, shallow container, then dip one side of the cookies into the chocolate and put them onto a wire rack (glazed side facing upwards).
7. Do the same with the white chocolate. You can even use them together, if you want to create interesting patterns.
8. Put the cookies onto a plate, then in the fridge for their surface to harden.
9. Decorate them further to your liking!