Gingerbread Graveyard Dessert that's a nice ending to a Halloween dinner. Decorate these cemetery desserts with homemade tombstone cookies. A delicious and easy-to-make Halloween dessert with chocolate mousse.
Gingerbread Graveyard Dessert
You may think that this dessert is a bit tricky, but you can score most of it in the supermarket and a good baking supply shop. You only need to bake the cookies yourself, but they are also ready within half an hour. And then you can dig your graves. Well, figuratively, then.
Tips
- Speculaas spices: A typical Dutch spice. You can easily make it yourself with this speculaas spice mix recipe.
- Zombie hands and sugar roses: Are for sale in (online) cooking stores. These are from Wilton.
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Ingredients
Tombstone gingerbread cookies
- 1 stick butter, room temperature
- ¼ cup dark brown sugar
- 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon speculaas spice mix
Halloween dessert
- 7 oz. chocolate mousse
- 8 tablespoons Chocolate sprinkles
- 1 box decoration kit zombie hand, Wilton
- 8 sugar decoration roses, Wilton
- 4 Tombstone gingerbread cookies, (made above)
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Instructions
Tombstone gingerbread cookies
- Preheat the oven to
320 °F or 290 °F - Cover a baking tray with baking paper.
- Beat the butter with the sugar until it is soft and creamy (2 minutes).1 stick butter, ¼ cup dark brown sugar
- Stir in the flour and speculaas spices and mix for 1 minute.1¼ cup all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon speculaas spice mix
- Wrap the dough in plastic foil and let it rest for 30 minutes in the fridge (that way, the dough will stick less).
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of approximately ¼ inch (0.5 cm) and use a tombstone cookie cutter to cut out shapes from the dough. If you don't have one, cut the shapes out of the dough with a sharp knife. Make a text on the tombstone with a satay stick, such as R.I.P.
- Put the cookies on the baking tray.
- Bake the cookies in the oven for 12 minutes.
- Allow cooling on a rack.
Halloween dessert
- Spoon the chocolate mousse into four glasses.7 oz. chocolate mousse
- Top the mousse with dark brown chocolate sprinkles.8 tablespoons Chocolate sprinkles
- Take the zombie's hand and stick it in the middle of the mousse.1 box decoration kit zombie hand
- Add the tombstone cookie to the back of the glass.4 Tombstone gingerbread cookies
- Dress the tombstone with red roses.8 sugar decoration roses
Notes
Once the Halloween Desserts are decorated, they don't keep very long (several hours). Store in a fridge.
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