![]() Nothing can worry Vampire Cookie when there's a glass of grape juice in his hand. You think that lions are not romantic, don't you? You will change your mind after seeing this one with its gorgeous mane and elegantly held glass of grape juice! (+1000 points for Grape Juice Jellies) Insouciant King With his pale face and smug posture, he likes to relax with a nice glass of grape juice and ponder the meaning of life. He wasn't even bothered by the heat of the oven and only escaped because his sister Alchemist Cookie dragged him outside. Unlike the other Cookies, he does nothing but relax and enjoy life. It was difficult for Vampire Cookie to wake up at first, due to the 10% of strong grape juice it contained. And with that special grape juice, she made Vampire Cookie. So, she stored them in oak barrels and let it age for a long, long time. The Witch, busy from baking several Cookies at once, had forgotten to use her favorite high quality grapes. 4.2 Birthday Cookie's 3rd Anniversary Celebration.Draw a blood trick down from one of the bites with the jam, if desired. Use a toothpick and poke two small holes (like a vampire bite) in the top of each cookie.īake for 10-12 minutes, until cookies are set.Ĭool for about 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.ĭip a toothpick in some extra red jam and re-insert in the “bite” holes you made before baking to emphasize them, if not already red. ![]() Press edges down lightly, pinching the edges onto the cookie sheet. Place rounds on a baking sheet, put a teaspoon of jam on each of them and cover with another round of dough. Use a cookie cutter to cut out 2-inch rounds. Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface until it is about 1/8-inch thick. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.ĭivide dough in half and keep the portion you are not using in the refrigerator. Beat in egg and extracts.Īdd flour and salt to the bowl and mix them into the butter-sugar mixture at low speed until dough is just combined. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. These cookies are also good for those who are fans of the vampire genre in general, Halloween or not, so you might consider baking a batch for someone who is a fan of the Twilight book series, HBO’s True Blood or even Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Īpprox 1/2 cup red jam (raspberry/strawberry) They are at their best the day they are made, as the jam tends to make the cookies a bit softer after being stored for a day or two. When you take a bite and expose the jam, they really do look like they’re bleeding! They are baked at a slightly cooler temperature than some cookies, so they don’t really brown during baking. The have a slightly crisp edge and a soft, chewy center. The cookies have a light vanilla and butter flavor to them, and are the perfect color to really set off the red of the filling. Don’t choose one with big chunks of fruit in it, as it will be a bit difficult to work with. Any red jam or preserves will work for these. I used a toothpick dipped in jam to draw the blood trickle from one of the holes after the cookies cooled. Even though the cookies spread slightly in the oven, the holes stay in place. I made the bite marks by poking two holes in the dough with a toothpick before baking. These are not sandwich cookies, but are made by sandwiching filling between two rounds of uncooked dough and pressing the edges together to seal the filling inside. The cookie dough needs to be made at least an hour in advance of baking, because it needs to be chilled and rolled out. I finished them off with a little vampire bite on top. I opted for a very simple butter cookie dough that bakes up to be a pale cream color (thanks to the use of real butter, even though shortening would have turned out a whiter cookie) and filled each of the cookies up with bright red raspberry jam. Like the cupcakes, I wanted the cookies to be a pale white color and filled with something bright red. This year, I wanted to start a little collection of vampire Halloween goodies and opted to try my hand at making vampire cookies. I did this last Halloween by creating Vampire Cupcakes – cupcakes filled with a blood-red cherry pie filling that “bled” when you bit into them. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I think it’s fun to go over-the-top where ever possible and really take decorations as far as they can go. They may have faces of ghosts or vampires painted on top with colored icing, but that really doesn’t do much to set them apart from non-holiday cupcakes. Every year I see lots of Halloween cupcakes and cakes that are rather boring in their decorations.
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