Make your own fossil cookies
How do you turn your kitchen into a dino-crafting laboratory? By making these delicious fossil cookies, of course! You won’t need much to make them, but you should ask a grown-up to help you.
Ingredients needed:
115g butter
55g caster sugar
150g plain flour
25g cornflour
A few drops of vanilla extract
Icing sugar
Equipment needed:
Oven – set to 180°C (160°C fan)
A lined baking tray/sheet
Sieve
A bowl and wooden spoon or a food mixer
Cookie cutters or a blunt knife
Clean dinosaur toys or toy fossils
A wire rack
1. Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract in a bowl or mixer until they’re evenly mixed. If you’re using a mixer, ask an adult for help. Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan).
2. Sieve the flour and cornflower into the butter mix, making sure there are no clumps. Then mix until it forms a dough.
3. Roll the dough into a long sausage shape and wrap in cling film. Put this in the fridge to chill for an hour.
4. Once chilled, slice the dough into discs and roll them out so that they’re about 0.5cm thick.
5. Press your dinosaur or fossil toys into the dough, being careful to push down hard enough to leave an outline but not so hard that you poke through.
6. Once chilled, slice the dough into discs and roll them out so that they’re about 0.5cm thick.
7. Place your cookies onto a lined baking tray and then into the oven for ten minutes or until they start to turn light golden brown.
8. Remove from the oven and carefully place them on a wire rack to cool. Once they’ve cooled down, you can dust them with icing sugar and then enjoy!
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