Zombie Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

5 from 1 vote

Zombie Chocolate Shortbread Cookies are a chocolate shortbread cut out like a gingerbread man and then 'chopped' up to create a zombie effect and covered in red white chocolate ganache ‘blood’.

Prep Time30

Cook Time30

Total Time1

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: Cookies

Calories: 202kcal

Author: Emma Burton

Ingredients

1 Cup Butter, Softened (220g)
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract (Optional)
¾ Cup Icing Sugar (90g)
¼ Cup Cornflour (30g)
1 Cup All-Purpose Flour (125g)
½ Cup Cocoa (50g)

White Chocolate Ganache;

½ Cup White Chocolate (90g)
¼ Cup Cream or milk

Blood White Chocolate Ganache;

¾ Cups White Chocolate (135g)
¼ Cup Cream or milk
Few drops of red food colouring paste

Metric - US Conventional

Instructions

First make the chocolate shortbread men.
Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F) and line a baking tray with baking paper.
Cream the butter and icing sugar together until it is light and fluffy.
Add in the vanilla extract if you are using this.
Add the cornflour, flour and cocoa and mix until a stiff dough forms.
Roll out the dough to a 2 cm thickness and take a gingerbread man cookie cutter and cut out our little shortbread men.
Then I took a small flower shaped cookie cutter and began cutting into each shortbread man to simulate teeth. So on some men I cut off a leg, others were arms, some I took out chunks of their sides, heads, hands. Remember zombies have been eaten or at least bitten so each one is different. Let your zombie imagination run wild here!
Prick each one with a fork and bake for 25-30 minutes.
Allow these to cool completely while making the white chocolate ganache.
Heat the cream or milk until nearly boiling and pour over the white chocolate and mix until smooth and glossy. Set aside to cool.
Repeat with the red white chocolate ganache and add in the red food colouring a drop or two at a time until you have a blood red. Set side to cool.
Now place the white chocolate ganache in a reusable bag and snip the very tip off the end. Decorate each zombie man with x's for eyes and on their hands and feet (just to make them stand out) and a horizontal line with vertical lines running through to give a 'dead' look to the mouths.
Next take the red, white chocolate ganache for the blood splatters. You want to cover each bite mark on every zombie man and the excess chopped off limbs with dripping blood and then you can go crazy. Flick blood splatters on some, have blood pouring from another zombies mouth! You can do whatever you like.

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Notes

It's best to use red food colouring gel not liquid as the liquid will thin the ganache too much.

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