What You Will Need

Cookies

• 113g cold unsalted butter, cubed
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 large egg
• ¼ cup corn starch
• ½ cup Dutch processed cocoa powder
• 1 ¼ – 2 cups plain flour

Icing

• 1 egg white
• ½ teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 ½ cup icing sugar
• pearl balls to decorate

How To Make it

Cookies

Step One: in an bench mixer, beat together butter, oil, sugar, vanilla and salt until smooth.

Step Two: Add egg and mix until just combined.

Step Three: Mix in cornflour, cocoa powder and 1¼ cups of flour.

Step Four: continue to add flour until ingredients form a dough ball and it move cleanly away from the sides of the bowl. 

Step Five: Preheat oven to 180°C and line baking trays with baking paper.

Step Six: Roll out dough between 2 sheets of baking paper until the dough is about 1cm thick.

Step Seven: Cut out shapes and place on the baking trays.

Step Eight: Bake for 9-12 minutes or until cookies look dry on the surface, feel firm around the edges and are set in the centre.

Step Nine: Allow cookies to cool completely on baking trays.

Icing

Step One: Using electric beater whisk egg white and lemon juice together.

Step Two: Gradually add icing sugar and beat until smooth. If icing is too runny to pipe and small amounts of icing sugar until it reaches the right consistency.

Step Three: Decorate cookies to look like mummys using icing and pearl balls.