Spooky Sugar Cookies / Halloween Cookies
Halloween cookies are specially prepared for Halloween season. Making creepy creature shaped cookies and pumpkin shape cookies with decoration makes the celebration very special. Halloween cookies are very easy to prepare and fun to decorate. This recipe is a must try one with kids.
Ingredients for Halloween Cookies
Cookie Dough
All purpose flour – 1.5 cups
Butter – 1/2 cup (softened)
Sugar – 3/4 cup
Egg – 1
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Icing
Icing sugar – 2 cups
Milk – 6 tsp + needed
Directions
Prepare Dough
Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing until well mixed.
Crack the egg and vanilla extract and beat again.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt.
Add half of the sifted flour into the mixing bowl.
Start mixing the flour and add the remaining flour.
Knead the dough until smooth.
Cover the dough with plastic wrap or a bowl.
Keep the dough in refrigerator for at least 1 hour or until firm to roll.
Pre-heat the oven into 350°F (180°C)
Make Cookies
Roll half of the dough into 1 inch thick round.
Use cookie cutter, cut out the shapes.
Place the cookie dough in a buttered pan.
Bake the cookies for 8 – 10 minutes.
Let the cookies completely cool down.
Prepare Icing & Decorate (Optional)
Add 4 tsp milk in a mixing bowl.
Little by little add icing sugar and mix well.
Thick base icing ready.
Piping
This icing is perfect for piping.
Fill the icing in a ziplock cover.
Cut the edge and fill over the cookie.
Add gel color and base icing in a small bowl and make different color icing.
Let the icing on cookie dry completely.
Floating
Add very little amount of milk to the thick icing.
Mix well and make floating consistency icing.
If needed add color gel and float the icing over the cookie.
Let the icing to dry completely.
Halloween cookies ready.
Keep the cookies in an airtight container.
These cookies does have more than one week of self life.
Notes
Decorate the cookies according to your wish.
Store bought sprinkle icing is easy to decorate.
Thick icing have lots of sugar and it forms thick layer.
Floating layer is easy to decorate and shinny with less sugar.
You may add any flavors (almond essence) to the icing.
If you’re going to add essence, limit the milk amount according to that.
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Prepare Cookies
Ingredients 
Take butter in a mixing bowl 
Add sugar 
Mix with spoon 
Crack and add an egg 
Mix well again 
Pour Vanilla essence 
Sift baking powder 
Now add salt in flour 
Add half of flour and mix 
Now add remaining flour and mix thoroughly 
Use hand to knead dough 
Dough ready – keep in refrigerator for 1 hour 
Halloween press 
Place dough in cookie sheet/smooth surface 
Now roll the dough 
Rolled dough 
Thickness of the rolled dough 
Press and make shape 
Place cookie in sheet 
Cut different shapes 
Place all in cookie sheet 
Roll remaining dough again and cut 
Keep 350 degree F in oven 
Pre-heat 
Cookie sheet is ready to keep inside oven 
Keep it inside oven 
Set timer to 8 minutes 
Cookies are done now, take it out 
Halloween cookies
Decorate Cookies
Icing Ingredients 
Food color 
Pour milk in mixing bowl 
Add sugar and mix well 
Sugar icing ready 
Pack it in ziplock bag and cut small opening 
Place cookie in rack 
Apply icing 
Add color and mix well 
Use color to decorate 
Decorated ghost cookie 
Now decorate pumpkin 
Decorated pumpkin 
You can apply icing directly as well 
Halloween cookies reaady 
