Spider Web Cookies

Ingredients (For cookies):

375mL flour

300mL cocoa powder

3mL salt

185mL margarine

300mL sugar

1 egg

3mL vanilla

Ingredients (For royal icing):

250g icing sugar

2mL cream of tartar

15mL whip powder

50mL water

Method:

1) In a large bowl, sift together flour, cocoa, and salt. Set mixture aside.

2) Use an electric mixer to cream the margarine and sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg & 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 an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes.

5) Cool completely on wire racks.

6) To make royal icing, whip together the icing ingredients in a mdedium bowl.

7) To make the cobweb design, begin by icing cookie with white royal icing. To 50mL of the icing sugar, add 30mL melted chocolate chips or use black icing paste.

8) Pipe out a spiral of back icing starting from the center to the edges of the cookies.

9) Draw a bamboo skewer, a toothpick, or use the tip or a sharp knife and drag it from the center to each point of the cookie, then from the inner curves back to the center.

*Words in bolded & Italic forms are what I used.