Halloween cookies

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Ingredients

• For glaze:
• icing sugar - 50 g
• orange juice - 1 tbsp l.
• For filling:
• mascarpone - 100 g
• chocolate - 25 g
• icing sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
• For the test:
• butter - 140 g
• grated zest of 1 small orange
• flour - 175 g
• sugar - 50 g

Directions

1. Heat the oil to room temperature and beat with a wooden spoon. Add flour, sugar and orange peel. Knead the dough, roll it into a ball, wrap it in foil and refrigerate for 1 hour.
2. Prepare the filling. Melt the chocolate. Beat mascarpone with powdered sugar, add chocolate, stir.
3. On a floured surface, roll out the dough into a layer approximately 3 mm thick. Cut 24 circles with a diameter of 7.5 cm. Lay them out on the parchment.
4. With a small sharp knife, cut out the triangular "eyes", "nose" and "mouth" on 12 circles.
5. Smear circles without a pattern with filling, put “muzzles” on top and press. Make pumpkin "tails" from the remains of the dough and stick them to the "muzzles". Draw with a knife the rays diverging from the top. Put all circles in an oven preheated to 160 ° C for 15 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
6. Mix the icing sugar with the orange juice and coat the cookies with the mixture.