What do you mean that's an inappropriate name for a children's recipe? Prude. Introducing our new chef "mini man"...Ingredients
2oz softened butter
black food colouring
1oz icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
3oz plain flour
star cookie cutters
silver decorative balls and silver sparkle dust (available from cake decorating stores)
Method
Mix the butter, icing sugar and dye and vanilla in a bowl. Grimace at the weird black sludge and remember when you used to delight in making recipes that involved delicate herbs, spices and "drizzling". If using a small baby in this recipe, remove bowl from mini man's head and wipe clean with a damp cloth. Explain to little one that mini man does not go in the bowl.
Having scraped the black sludge off them both, put it into the flour and mix again. It should form a dough. If it doesn't then add more flour or water depending. Roll out the dough on a board and then cut out stars. Put on a greased baking tray and press on some silver balls. Bake at about 180 for about ten mins. When done, dust them with the sparkly dust. You will have a black star cookie with silver sparkles and balls. And that's what makes it spacey....
