Halloween Flood Cookies

It took us two days to finish these cookies but you can manage it to do them at the same day at home!
On the first day we made the dough by first creaming the butter and add the sugar. We added the egg and vanilla we mixed before and after that the combined dry ingredients. To prevent over mixing we used a wooden spoon to moisture the mixture. We rolled out the dough until it had a thickness of 4 millimetres. Then we cut out different shapes of Halloween figures with cookie cutters and put them all together on a baking sheet. Something with the baking time on the recipe must be wrong or something with our ovens because it took about 20 minutes to bake our cookies. Just make sure to have a look at them regularly after 7 minutes to prevent over baking. The cookies are ready when the bottom is golden brown!

We had to continue this lab on the next day because the cookies had to be cooled down before we could flood them. So when you try them at home let them cool and start with the flood icing.
The flood icing is made out of corn syrup, hot water and icing sugar. Before we could flood the cookies we had to make a border out of the same mixture so we added so much icing sugar that it stayed in its position. We put this icing all around the borders of every cookie to prevent the flood icing of flooding away, with the help of a piping bag. After that we added just a little bit of water to turn the border-mixture into flood icing. The great thing of flooding is that you can add any food colour you can think of to the flood icing. I fell in love with flooding cookies, it was just so much fun, looks great and is very easy. We used again a piping bag to put some of the flooding mixture on to the cookies and then used a toothpick to spread the flood icing all over the cookie to the border so there was no undone point anymore. Then it is your time to be creative and create the greatest cookie you have ever seen. Remember that the layer of flood icing should be dry when it is not supposed to mix with the next one.

Tip: To make stripes on your cookie use a toothpick and pull it slowly through your design.