Spooky Gluten-Free and Vegan Biscuits

Bean

5 from 1 vote

Prep Time 1

Cook Time 15

Resting time 3

Total Time 4 15

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American, European

Servings 15 Biscuits

1 Medium mixing bowl
Rolling Pin
5 Halloween biscuit cutters Optional - you can have simple circle biscuits and draw the spooky characters on with the icing :)
Oven tray with baking paper
4 Small bowls to mix the coloured icing
4 Spoons
4 Piping bags with small nozzle Optional - you can decorate with any utensil you have at home but piping bags surely helps!

150 gr Rice flour or gluten-free flour Almond and coconut also works. Just keep in mind that they might make the dough a bit more crumbly!
100 gr Vegetable butter
50 gr Cane sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract
half Lemon zest from a medium lemon

200 gr Icing sugar
2½ tbsp Cold water Quantity may vary depending on desired consistency
2 drops Orange food colouring I suggest using gel food colouring - inspect the ingredients and make sure they're vegan!
2 drops Black food colouring
2 drops Green food colouring
1 drop Lemon juice Optional

In a medium bowl combine the flour, the sugar and the lemon zest. Mix well.
Add the butter. If you're using vegetable butter derived from oils, make sure it's cold and not too soft to avoid the dough melting before you can shape the biscuits! Once all the ingredients are well combined, form a ball. Warp it in foil or plastic wrap and leave to rest in the freezer for 10 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 160℃ on a static setting. Once the 10 minutes have passed the dough should be hard enough to hold shape but soft enough to roll it out. Dust a bit of gluten-free flour on your worktop and roll the dough out to form a sheet of 5mm circa in thickness. You can choose to have it thicker if you want, just keep in mind that it'll take a bit longer to cook! With your spooky Halloween cutters, cut out your shapes and lay them on your baking tray. If you don't have cookie cutters you can just cut the dough into circles and then create your characters with the icing :) Cook for 12-15 minutes until lightly tanned. Keep the biscuits in check as they might cook faster or slower, depending on the oven you're using.

Once the biscuits are fully cooked, leave to cool down for at least 30 minutes. In the meantime, let's make the icing!
In 4 different bowls add equal parts of icing sugar. Starting with the first one, add a little water at a time until you reach a thick but malleable consistency. Then add 2 drops of food colouring to each. I used a gel-based black, orange and green food colouring leaving the 4th bowl colourless for a white colour. Feel free to choose any colour you like that matches your shapes and spooky ideas!
When the biscuits are fully cooled down you can start decorating. I prefer using a piping bag but if the icing is liquidy enough you can even use a spoon and a toothpick for the details. Don't worry about being neat and perfect, if there's anything that you want to change or the icing sets too soon, it can be easily melted with a little water and shaped into place while it's still wet. This is your time to be creative, experiment and channel your inner witch!
When your haunting creations are ready, leave them to set for a couple of hours, to make sure that it hardens well all the way to the core.
Once everything is nice and dry, the spooky gluten-free and vegan biscuits are ready to be enjoyed!
Store in an airtight container and consume within 2 days.