Fancy Spider Web Cookies♥

Ingredients:

- Flour (375ml)
- Cocoa Powder  (300ml)
- Salt (2 ml)
- Sugar (300ml)
- Margarine (185ml)
- 1 Egg
- Vanilla Extract (3ml)


Method:
1) In a large bowl, sift together flour, cocoa, salt. Set mixture aside.
2) Use an electric mixer to cream the margarine and sugar until fluffy. Beat the egg and vanilla. Add flour mixture; mix on low speed until thoroughly combined. Divide the dough in half; wrap in plastic wrap. Chill for 10 minutes in the freezer.
3) Heat oven to 350°F or 180°C. Roll the dough out between two pieces of wax paper until about 5mm thick. Cut out a tracer for the web shape from scale paper. Cut out each cookie.
4) Place cookies on a ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
5) Cool completley on wire racks.

Royal Icing+Design:


Ingredients:

- Icing Sugar (250ml)
- Cream of Tartar (2ml)
- Whip Powder (15ml)
- Water (50ml)


Method:

1) Whip together the icing ingredients in a medium bowl.
2) To make the cobweb design, begin by icing cookie with white royal icing. To 50ml of the icing sugar, add 30 ml melted chocolate chips or use black icing paste.
3) Pipe out a spiral of black icing starting from the center to the edges of the cookies.
4) Get a bamboo skewer or use the tip of a sharp knife and drag it from the center to each point of the cookie, then from the inner curves back to the center.