Halloween shortbread biscuits ("sablés" in french :)

 Halloween is approaching and I just found some really spooky biscuit stamps that I knew that would drive crazy my kids, especially my son, who is fond of Frankestein :)

I found it as a good excuse to test a recipe on shortbread biscuits that in french they call them "sablés". 

I cannot describe enough the excitement at home when they discovered the stamps! 

I can only tell you that we ended baking late at night, on top of a really busy day.... 
I was not in my best of mood, knowing that they will be tired for school the next day, but my... they had so much fun that eventually I thought, what the hell! I could make an exception :)))) 
Here it goes... and hope that you will have as fun as we had making them!



Ingredients
250gr flour
125gr sugar
125gr butter
1 egg
a grain of salt
some cocoa powder (optionally, if you want them darker; it's the case here)

Procedure

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees of Celsius and fan.
Mix well the flour and the cocoa powder if it's your case.
Whisk well the sugar with the egg and the vanilla, add the flour and the soften butter and make a nice moisture dough with smooth gestures.
Wrap it in a film and leave in the fridge, for an hour or so or even better overnight.
Flatten the dough and using your favorite cookie stamps form the biscuits.
Put them in an oven tray on a parchment paper quite close as they won't grow much.
Bake for 10 min.
Once cooled down, store them in a metallic box for biscuits/cookies or just share with your dear ones around you :)
Of course, if you have more time, you can always decorate them using your imagination...