Brain Cookies With Blood Glaze

Total Time: 52 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 cup very finely chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup pecans
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 5 drops red food coloring
• 9 drops blue food coloring
• 2 cups icing sugar
• 35 drops red food coloring

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
• 3 in a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
• 4 into a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
• 5 alternating with the eggs, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating well after the each addition.
• 6 fold in the nuts, vanilla, and red and blue food coloring, being careful not to overmix the dough.
• 7 place the dough in batches in a potato grinder and push the dough out the prepared baking sheets in long tubes of dough.
• 8 with your fingers, loosely pat and arrange the dough strands into clumps resembling brains, pushing to form 2 hemispheres and shaping into a walnut-like shape.
• 9 bake until golden brown on the bottom, 12 to 14 minutes.
• 10 remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
• 11 to make the blood glaze: in a small bowl, combine the icing sugar with the food coloring to make a thick glaze, whisking together.
• 12 drizzle the "blood" the cookies and serve either warm or at room temperature.