Skull Cracked

Skulls are the workhorse shape of Halloween baking, but a plain one gets dull by the second tray. This cutter goes for the fractured version, a cranium split across by a break, which gives the finished biscuit rather more to say for itself than the usual grinning outline. Pressed into rolled dough it leaves a shape that takes decoration well, whether that means royal icing worked along the fracture, a dusting of cocoa, or nothing at all if you would rather let the silhouette do the talking. It has an obvious October use, but it is equally at home at a pirate-themed birthday, a horror film night, or in a kitchen that simply leans macabre all year round. A single-file download, so there is nothing to sift through. Print it and get the dough out of the fridge.