Monster Cookies

Decoration

You’ll need smarties with melted chocolate and black writing icing, or edible eyes for the decoration. I’ve also used some white macaroni rods (truly sprinkles), which I have snapped to make different-sized teeth. These are edible, but I wouldn’t recommend them for very young children as they are quite hard, like the old fashioned sugar balls.

Step 1

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees fan, 200 conventional/gas 6, and line a couple of baking sheets with baking parchment or greaseproof paper.

Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla in a stand mixer with the paddle beater on medium speed until pale and fluffy, or this can be done by hand in a bowl with a wooden spoon.

Reduce the speed, and beat in the egg until combined. 

Tip in the flour and baking powder and mix on slow until combined and you have a sticky dough.

Step 2

Split the dough into bowls and tint with some strong food colouring gel, I have used green, orange and purple.

Drop in the chocolate chunks and mix on slow just to distribute a bit. 

Grab a large walnut size bit of dough with a few chocolate chunks in and roll this into a ball, It’s pretty sticky. A good tip is to dampen your hands first, this helps to roll it without sticking too much.

Step 3

Line the balls up on the trays. They will flatten and spread into a large disc so allow plenty of space, I just put 6 balls on each tray. 

Bake for approx 10-12 minutes, pressing down gently to help flatten with a spatula about half way through.

Bake until the cookies are lightly golden around the edges but are still a bit squidgy in the center.