All photos by Janis Nicolay of Pinecone Camp.
Rosie Daykin's cookbook, Butter Baked Goods, published by Random House, photographed by Janis Nicolay,
was released this past week. We thought it was a perfect time to share
the Butter's Shaped Cookies recipe, to help get you in a spooky mood for
Halloween.
Start by pulling out your cookie cutters and get baking. Butter Baked Goods gets their cutters from Copper Gifts, where you can also custom design your own.
Butter's Shaped Cookies
(from Butter Baked Goods, published by Random House)
makes about 24 cookies, using a 3 1/2-inch cutter
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature
3/4 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons pure vanilla
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
2. Onto a large piece of parchment paper, sift together the flour and baking powder. Set aside.
3.
In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and
sugars on medium to high speed until light and fluffy. Scrape down the
sides of the bowl. Add the vanilla and mix to combine. Scrape down the
sides of the bowl again.
4. Turn the mixer to low and add the dry ingredients and mix until fully combined.
5.
Shape the dough into a large disk, about 1 inch thick, and wrap in
plastic wrap. Chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
6.
Divide the disk in two, and place half the dough on a lightly floured
work surface. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch
thick.
7.
Use the cookie cutter of your choice to cut out about 12 cookies.
Carefully transfer to the prepared cookie sheets and place about 1/2
inch apart. You may have to combine the dough scraps and re-roll the
dough to cut out enough cookies. Avoid doing this too many times, as the
cookies will become tough with over-handling.
8. Use a rolling pin to roll out the second disk of dough to about 1/4 inch think and repeat step 7.
9. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned around the edges.
10.
Remove from the oven and allow cookies to cool for about 10 minutes on
the sheets, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Royal Icing - makes 4 cups, enough to coat about 24 cookies
4 cups icing sugar
1/4 cup meringue powder
6 to 8 tablespoons water
1.
In a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, combine the icing
sugar and meringue powder. Mix on medium speed until the meringue powder
is evenly distributed throughout the icing sugar.
2. Turn the mixer to low and slowly add the water, little by little, until the icing reaches the desired consistency.
3. Once the water is incorporated, beat the mixture on high to create some volume and lightness in the icing.
When
icing cookies, you need two different consistencies of icing. The "dam"
icing should be thick enough to hold it's shape; the "flood" icing
should be loose enough to spread across a cookie without being so thin
that it runs off. Royal icing can become any shade you like just by
adding a drop of food colouring. The combination of meringue powder and
icing sugar gives it a pure white base that means all colours read true
when tinting, so show restraint when you start adding the colouring.
Package them up for all the little monsters in your life!
We're
giving away a copy of the book to one lucky Poppytalk follower,
anywhere in the world. All you have to do is leave a comment. We'll pick a winner on a Monday (Oct. 28/13) —deadline to enter Sun. Oct. 28/13 at 6pm (Pacific)! Good luck!
More info about the book.
Rosie Daykin's cookbook, Butter Baked Goods, published by Random House, photographed by Janis Nicolay
Update: the winner of the book giveaway is Casi Price - please shoot us an email for details!
138 comments:
Julianne
juliannemccahill@comcast.net
Those Halloween cookies are so cute and this cookbook looks great!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!!
Love Halloween desserts and cookies. A great way to get into the Halloween spirit!
I love those, the cookies are so cute! I can't wait for Halloween!
How cute! That book looks delicious!
Oh pick me pick me! I went for high tea at Butter last time I was in Vancouver and it was simply heavenly <3 So making those cookies this weekend!
Looks like a gorgeous cookbook! Thanks for a great giveaway!
Alanna
those are adorable cookies! The pig cracks me up!
Looks like a fantastic cookbook! And would love to have one of those cookies right now.
Thanks for the chance to win this fantastic prize.
I love nostalgic recipes! Those cookies look delicious and the pig pirate is pretty funny. Thanks for the opportunity to win this book!
Everything tastes better with butter!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Will definitely be using this recipe for my halloween cookies this year!
The book looks lovely, it would be a treat to win!
I love Halloween themed desserts and the cookies are so scarily cute :! happy Halloween to all of ya'll and the cookbook is going to definitely be added to my wish list this year!
cute cookies and the book looks great too! happy halloween!
Love the blog and would love to win some treats and the cookbook!
Ooh that cookbook looks so gorgeous. I'd love to win it!
Oh and interesting to see you spread the flood icing with a spatula - I never would have thought of that!
Butter is the best food ever! And a book with the title Butter has to be the most awesome of cook books.
Beautiful cookbook!! Would love to win!
I love the idea of a crime scene cookie. There are so many amazing ways it could be used. Like "Break-dancer" cookies, "Bigfoot" cookies, "figure skater" cookies. The possibilities are endless.
Yummmmm! Count me in!
Great recipe for any holiday adaptation.
Julie.brouillette@gmail.com
LOVE these cookies!
What a fun book! I heart butter :)
Would love to be able to make these cookies.
I'd love a book!
These are so cute! Holiday baking is always so fun.
What a beautiful looking cookbook! Gorgeous photography.
Love baking cookies! Thanks for the giveaway!
I'd love to win this! I don't have a cookie cookbook!
Will be doing some Halloween baking with my family this weekend. This recipe looks like something we'll try!
I would love a new sweets cookbook! Love well frosted cookies. :)
Love the cookies! Will definitely try this recipe!! ...and yes I would so love to win this cookbook!! :)
Can't wait to try this cookie recipe! Just started following your blog. I love that you have a recipe for Nanaimo Bar Cupcakes. YUMMY! My husband used to live in Canada and does not ever stop talking about Namaimo Bars!
My kids have great memories of making sugar cookies with Their Grandma when she would come to visit at Christmas.
Thanks for the chance to win.
My kids have great memories of making sugar cookies with Their Grandma when she would come to visit at Christmas.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Yum All Hallows' eve cookies
Mmmmmmmmm...cooookies.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love cakes! Yes please!
These cookies are so cute! Feel in love with them when I first saw them.
This cookbook looks awesome! Thanks for the giveaway! mer[dot]marty[at]yahoo[dot]com
Amazing!
I'd love to bake some myself...
What a great giveaway! I'm inspires to host a halloween cookie decorating party
Ooohh, I love cookie cutters! These are fabulous.
xxx ♥nic
This Cookbook looks brilliant I am always looking for new baking ideas & this book looks full of them
Thanks you so much for the giveaway! Happy halloween!
Looks fab!
Ashleigh (@ashlallan)
Those cookies look too good to eat. I love the idea of custom made cookie cutters. The books sounds great and I'm sure it's full of butter goodness.
These cookies are amazingly crafted! I love Halloween and all things that go bump in night! I'd love to win this package and bring the cookies to the disadvantaged elementary school where I work.
This cookbook looks so beautiful. I love to bake and I love being inspired by other creative bakers. Thanks for this giveaway opportunity.
Love the cookies and just makes me want to get in the kitchen baking
looks like a really lovely cook book & I'd love to win it for my daughter so she could bake lovely things for her boys as they grow up
Wow looks so yummy
Fantastic give away, will make great Hallowe'en treats.
such great looking cookies!! the recipe looks simple and easy to use during any occasion
fall is clearly cookie season. I teach a baking class to a group of people at a supportive housing organization, and so am always looking for new ideas!
The cookie cutters are so cute!
What a beautiful cookbook! And those cookies are adorable. :) Thanks for the giveaway!
Love cookery books, and this one looks scrummy. Fingers crossed.
the all look nice, the dead body out line has given me a great idea to do these for my halloween party
i've loved watching the little sneak peek previews of this book while it was being created and now it's finally here! I'd love a copy for sure!
what a lovely book for all the keen bakers among'st us, it will make someone very happy x
This is a great giveaway! Would love to bake from this book with my daughter.
I live in the neighbourhood and it is a lovely little bakery! Congrats on the book!
This looks like a lovely book - the sort that I'd treasure for years.
Those cookies look amazing!
This book looks amazing! Sign me up!
I haven't made butter cookies forever... this puts me in the baking mood!
This book looks really lovely
This cookbook looks gorgeous!
Everything in the basket is so cute and delicious, I'm excited that there is now a cookbook !
What a giveaway! That book looks so nice. Have a nice week-end. Caroline Douny (caro_douny@hotmail.com)
What lovely cookies!
I love the way you piped the spider web on these cookies it looks so awesome!! These are perfect for Halloween parties!! ^^D
Would absolutely love this!!
Crime scene - love it!
Looks like an amazing book, good luck everyone
Great giveaway! Halloween is just starting to take off a bit more in the UK, nothing like US though (is it the same in Canada?)
theashtonalternative - Halloween has always been pretty big here - since I can remember anyway- we've always gone out trick or treating.
These are so clever! I am going home from work to bake!
I would love to win a copy of this book!! Can't wait to start baking.
(megan.vb.jones@gmail.com)
This book looks totally divine - I would be thrilled to win. My fingers and toes are firmly crossed!!
milliet@xtra.co.nz
I love baking and this beautiful book would sit pride of place on my cookbook shelf.
Thank you ever so much for such a generous giveaway!
Kath
moose.marine@xtra.co.nz
My wife is totally mad about baking.....I'm one lucky husband and would love to give her this lovely looking book for Christmas - I know she would just love it.
Grant Thomas
grant.thomas1@xtra.co.nz
I LOVE to bake all sorts of treats and one can never have too many sources of inspiration. Please do count me in for the prize draw.
eddie_waterpolo1@hotmail.com (Eddie)
I never knew about that trick! The book looks amazing!
ShMann23@yahoo.com
All I have to say is yum! great giveaway.
Oh how I miss Vancouver. She is one multi-talnted lady. Would love her book and to visit her bakery some day.
Thanks for the opportunity
Those cookies are making me hungry!
One can never have too many cookbooks!
Thank you for this opportunity. I love, love, love baking new recipes that include butter.
O my goodness! Those are so adorable!
I love the piggy haha
Spinning his eyes
looks amazing! mmmm
Cute cookies! The little ghost cracks me up.
What a beautiful cover! If I was judging the book by it, it looks like something I'd love!
Fab competition. Please enter me.
Hee hee! I love that I eat butter and gluten products!
Seriously though, this cookbook looks amazing - I'd love to sink my teeth into some of those delicious desserts!
Lisa
I'd love this book!
I'd love this book!
awww, such gorgeous photos!
These look awesome. Thanks for the chance
I'm just getting into baking, and this book looks great.
Your cookies are amazing! and I love the washi tape on the little bags, such a fab idea!
Looks like a great book.
these cookies are so cute. my little angel woud absolutely love them. im thinking of making some with her for halloween. thanks for the great comp x x ;) x x
Not sure what's cuter -- the cookies or the wrappers! Love the Halloween spirit!
Not sure what I love more -- the cookies or the adorable wrappers!! Love the Halloween spirit!
That book looks fabulous!
This looks like a lovely book - Twitter: @WeeWillWilk
lovely book, will be lovely to have to do baking with my girls
Lush!!!
Fantastic cookies!!
would love to win
I am making a grave cake on sunday for my cake club, going to make some of these to add to it!
I'm a BIG CSI fan so the Crime Scene cookies would be brilliant for me.
wow this book looks brill
Looks amazing
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Looks great! I'm never able to bake good biscuits!
I Love the cookies , I am going to make some of the witches hats, and the ghosts.
Wow lovely giveaway!
Great book! I'm always looking for new recipes!! :)
I love baking and am usually quite successful when making cakes but don't have so much success with cookies - would love to have a copy of this recipe book.
Would love a copy of this book to add to my kitchen collection!
ooh coooookkkiiiiiessss :)
would love to win :)
hei I will be so happy if I win the book!
love
Natascha (xxnataschaxx@live.de)
I <3 a good recipe book & <3 to bake! This would be perfect to add to my kitchen collection... Placed at the front if course.
that book does look amazing. Thanks for the giveaway x
This looks a lovely book, would love to enter please :) xx
Those cookies look so delicious!
the kids would love this
making me hungry!!
Baked them this weekend, and just finished the last one... Delicious!
Wow the cookies look fabulous - one for my christmas list :)
i bake cakes every week but biscuits less often. This really makes me want to bake them more often.
The book looks brilliant with lots if different recipes that you don't usually see.
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