Learn to ice | Dracula Halloween iced biscuits

The spookiest time of the year is fast approaching so we're making Halloween iced biscuits using our chocolate biscuit recipe. You can make these for Halloween parties, as place settings at a special Halloween dinner or as edible trick or treat gifts.

Make your own dracula halloween iced biscuits
First start baking chocolate biscuits using our very easy to make chocolate biscuit recipe, which includes a handy guide for rolling and cutting your dough. We use a special cutter for our Halloween characters, but you can make one of your own by drawing a template and cutting around the dough, we do this occasionally with our bespoke orders, which can sometimes be very funny shapes!
Preparing the icing...
Once your chocolate dracula biscuits have come out of the oven and cooled down, now the fun can really begin.

You will need to make a batch of line icing to create the detail and flood icing to create the main colours.
Line icing top tip:
Your line icing will need to be the consistency of toothpaste

Flood icing top tip:
Your flood icing needs to be a slightly looser constancy, more like a thick custard

Mix a white and black colour for your line icing and white, red and black for your flood icing. We use professional paste colours as liquid food colouring tends to alter the texture of the royal icing too much.

Step 1: Draw the outline on your biscuits. This creates the 'walls' so that your flood icing wont escape. Let this dry for around 10 minutes at room temperature.

Step 2: Flood the face area with the white flood icing, then fill the middle of the jacket with the white- this will create his jacket. Fill the hairline and the jacket with black icing, using a cocktail stick to reach the narrow areas. Use the nozzle of the squeeze bottle to move the icing into place and be careful not to 'over fill' the biscuit with the flood icing. Lastly, using your red flood icing fill the cape area.

Step 3: Place the biscuits onto a baking sheet and put back into the oven set to the lowest temperature it can go (usually around 50°C) for 40 minutes. **Don't worry, the biscuits will not bake any further, the low heat dries the icing and creates that glossy, professional look!**

Step 4: When the biscuits come out of the oven, you will need to let them cool for around half an hour.

Step 5: Use the black line icing to outline and give more definition the cloak, shirt and hairline. The will cover up any areas where the black and white flood icing have bled into each other. Don't forget to add some eyes, a mouth and eyebrows using the black line icing. You can also add some hands, a pocket and those all-important fangs using your white line icing.

Step 6: Let the biscuits dry for around 10 minuets before they can be packed into cellophane bags to be used as gifts.

Don't feel like you need to stick to our designs... you can get creative with different colours, shapes and sizes using our easy techniques to create your own array spooky characters.
If you're in a rush, or don't fancy making the biscuits, you can buy our Halloween big biscuit card online, and check out our whole collection of Halloween edible gifts if you dare!