Halloween Bat Cookies

Steps

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  1. In a bowl mix all free-flowing ingredients for the dough: sieved wheat flour, caster sugar, vanillin and salt. Whisk everything until smooth.
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  2. Then add lemon juice into dry mixture.
  
  
  
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  3. Chop cold butter into small pieces and add into the mixture.
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  4. Mix all ingredients with stand mixer to get small crumbs. Then continue kneading the dough with your hands to make it soft and smooth. Dont knead for long, 5 minutes will be enough. Put the dough into the plastic bag or wrap it with a cling film and place it into the fridge for 30 minutes.
  
  
  
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  5. Roll cooled dough into the crust 3-4 mm thick on the working surface strewed with flour. Cut rounds out of the dough with plunger cutter or a glass.
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  6. Cut a stencil of a bat out of the hard paper. Place the stencil on a round and strew it with the mixture of cocoa and cinnamon. Remove the stencil carefully.
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  7. Form all сookies this way. Place them on the baking sheet covered with baking paper at short intervals.
  
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  8. Bake the сookies at the medium stage of the oven pre-heated at 400 °F for about 8 minutes.
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  9. Cool down our сookies and serve to some tea or juice. Bon appetit!