Recipe: Yummy Simple Kabocha Cookies for Halloween

Simple Kabocha Cookies for Halloween. Great recipe for Simple Kabocha Cookies for Halloween. I received a lot of kabocha so I tried making cookies. And since it was Halloween, I made them in pumpkin shapes with a cute smile.

I had some leftover okara, so I went ahead and added it into the dough. My kids had a great time cutting them out! A healthy macrobiotic kabocha cookies without. You can have Simple Kabocha Cookies for Halloween using 4 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Simple Kabocha Cookies for Halloween

1. You need of Kabocha squash (net weight).
2. You need of Sugar.
3. You need of Vegetable oil.
4. Prepare of Cake flour.

Great recipe for Kabocha Squash Cookies for Halloween. I made these for Halloween this year. Make the cookie dough as firm and thick as you like. You can adjust the firmness by tweaking the amounts of water and flour used.

Simple Kabocha Cookies for Halloween instructions

1. Microwave kabocha and remove the skin. If you have approximately 40 g, that's generally fine. Don't throw away the skin, since you'll be using a bit of it later on..
2. Preheat your oven to 340°F/170°C. Add sugar and vegetable oil to the bowl with the kabocha and mix. You don't have to mix it that thoroughly..
3. Add the flour and keep on mixing..
4. Once it looks like this, you've finished your dough..
5. The pumpkin shape. Shape into an oval ball..
6. Press them down a little..
7. Here we'll use the kabocha skins. Cut them into triangles and stick them in the heads. If you can't quite stick them in, it's okay to place them under the dough..
8. Make a smile for the face. I recommend using chopsticks for the eyes and a spoon for the mouth..
9. Once you've made your shapes bake in the oven at 340°F/170°C for 15 minutes..
10. And they're done!.
11. I made pumpkins and smiley faces. For the pumpkins I just use a spoon, no faces. I really like the lines..
12. This cookie is more soft than crunchy. It's not that sweet, so add more sugar if desired..
13. I also tried making these using sweet potato. These were also delicious..
14. You can make these with any leftover boiled kabocha as well. Put boiled kabocha leftovers to good use..

Feel free to adjust the amount of oil and syrup. Line a baking sheet with foil and cut the squash in half lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds and stringy insides and then cut each half into three wedges, making sure that each slice is uniform. This recipe uses a combination of different spices that are commonly found in Halloween recipes, but also in French Canadian cooking. We like to add cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and cardamons in various things like meat pies and meatballs!