Cobweb Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 4 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 24 mins

Ingredients

• 5 1/2 ounces plain flour
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 4 ounces butter (cut into small pieces)
• 2 ounces caster sugar
• 2 tablespoons milk

Recipe

• 1 line a cookie sheet/ baking tray with baking/parchment paper.
• 2 sift the flour, cocoa together and add the small pieces of butter and using clean fingers ( or a pastry cutter) rub it completely into the flour/cocoa mixture so that looks like fine crumbs.
• 3 then add the sugar and milk and stir together with a fork so that it begins to form a dough. use clean hands to make your dough into a ball.
• 4 wrap your dough in cling film/ plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
• 5 pre-heat your oven to 350°f (180°c).
• 6 remove your dough from the fridge and sprinkle a little flour onto your clean working surface. roll out your dough until it is about 1/4 inch ( 5 mm) thick, then use your jar lid or cookie cutter to make circles, which you can then place on your cooking sheet / tray.
• 7 bake for 10-12 minutes, then leave them on the tray for another 5 minutes so that they will be firm up enough to remove, after this carefully transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely before adding the glaze/ icing.
• 8 now draw a spiral of icing onto each cookie and while it is still wet, drag a cocktail stick out from the centre of the cookie to the outside ed"ge to make a spider's web effect.