Tombstones and Castles Sesame Cookies for Halloween
- 50 grams Butter
- 150 grams Flour
- 40 grams Powdered Sugar
- 4 tbsp Ground black sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp Heavy Cream
- 1 dash Vanilla Extract
- 10 grams Chocolate (for writing)
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 1/2 bar white chocolate (For the castle)
- Combine ingredients from the butter to the ground sesame, and mix together in a food processor until smooth.
- Add cream, egg yolk and vanilla extract.
- Keep stirring while pulsing until the dough lumps like the photo.
- Roll into a ball and flatten the dough wrapped in plastic wrap and put in the freezer for 30 minutes.
- Tomb Roll out the wrapped dough to about 7~8 mm and cut out the shape of a tomb with a knife.
- Mark the inside of the tomb with the knife as well.
- Press the flat end of the knife into the inside to make a dip.
- It should look like this, so there's an outline around the edge of the tombstone that's slightly higher than the middle.
- Line a sheet pan with parchment paper and lay the cookies.
- Here's a cool way to alter the design.
- The eyes and nose were shaped using the tip and end of a bamboo skewer or toothpick.
- Next cut out this shape...
- Just like before, make an shallow indentation, and poke four holes to the cross.
- Castle Here's our castle image.
- Flatten the dough to 4 mm thick on top of an oven sheet.
- For the window frames, roof and arch, add dough to create a 3D effect.
- Create the impression of stone with your knife.
- The pointed end is so we can place it into a cake later.
- Create tiles on the triangular roof.
- Gate Flatten the dough to 5 mm thick, and cut it to this shape.
- Add another layer of dough on top of the arch.
- Stick it securely.
- Create the stone texture using your knife again.
- Adding some cracks will make it look like a ruin.
- Columns: Make 4 square shaped cookies for the corners of.
- Each one is 7 cm tall and 3 cm wide, and 5 mm thick.
- Add dough on top, and create a stone texture.
- It will be used like this.
- Here are all the parts laid out on the oven sheet.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 150C (300F).
- Done.
- The color is a little weak, but it will change after cooling.
- Make an icing tube with your oven paper, put in melted chocolate, then write on the arch and tombstones.
- Because the castle is so big, it will crack easily.
- To prevent cracking, spread melted white chocolate on the back.
- All that's left is to decorate your castle to your heart's content.
butter, flour, powdered sugar, ground black sesame seeds, heavy cream, vanilla, chocolate, egg, white chocolate
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/169259-tombstones-and-castles-sesame-cookies-for-halloween (may not work)