• Make the cookies as per the recipe in the ingredients section above.

For the pumpkin cookies

• Take a third of the fondant icing, place in a bowl and add a few drops of orange food colouring to it. Knead the icing with your hands until it starts to change colour. If the colour isn’t as dark as you would like just add a couple more drops of the food colouring.
• Once you have the colour you are looking for, roll out the icing between two sheets of greaseproof / baking parchment paper to about ¼ cm thick and cut out the pumpkin shapes using the cookie cutter.
• Using a pastry brush, dab a little water on the back of the icing and place the icing on top of the pumpkin shaped biscuit.
• Use a sharp knife and make vertical slightly curved lines down each side of the pumpkin to make an indentation of the pumpkin lines.
• Decorate the face with black colour writing icing and add a green stalk with some green colour writing icing.

For the black cat cookies

• For the icing follow the same instructions as above, but use black food colouring.
• Once you have stuck the icing to the biscuit, add a couple of edible eyes to the face area of the cat.

For the ghost cookies

• Roll out the white fondant icing and cut out the ghost shape using the cutters. Stick to the ghost shaped biscuit with water as above.
• Using black colour writing icing, make a couple of round shapes for the eyes and a slightly oval shape underneath for the mouth.

For the Boo! cookies

• Ice the biscuit with white fondant as above and use red colour writing icing to write the word “Boo!” on the biscuit.