Well, Halloween is just around the corner, so now's a great time to post our recipe for decorated sugar cookies!
These are great to serve guests at your halloween party, or as a weekend activity for kids, or even to hand out to your favorite Treat or Treaters. Decorated sugar cookies are easy to make, and can be a lot of fun!
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Decorated Sugar Cookies
Halloween is coming up, so it’s a great time to make some Decorated Sugar Cookies. Licorice flavoured bat cookies are especially fun, this time of year!
Servings 10 People
Equipment
Parchment Paper
2 Baking Sheets
Cookie Cutters
Ingredients
Cookie Ingredients
- 2 cups butter softened
- 2 1/3 cups granulated sugar
- 5 eggs
- 4 egg yolks – Reserve egg whites for icing!
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract*
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 7 cups all purpose flour
Icing Ingredients
- 4 egg whites
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 4-6 cups powdered/confectioner’s sugar
Instructions
Cookies
- In a stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar until smooth and fluffy. Add in eggs and egg whites, a little at a time, beating well between each addition. Add vanilla extract, and mix until well incorporated and smooth.
- Mix remaining 3 ingredients together, carefully stir into wet ingredients until fully incorporated.
- Wrap dough in plastic film, chill for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F, grease cookie sheets.
- On a floured counter, roll cookie dough out to about 1/4″ thick (can be up to 1/2″ thick if you prefer a thicker cookie).
- Use cookie cutters to cut out whatever shapes you’d like, place cookies 2″ apart on greased cookie sheets.
- Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes, or until bottoms look lightly golden.
- Allow cookies to cool on cookie sheets for at least 5 minutes before moving. Cookies need to cool completely before decorating.
Royal Icing
- In clean stand mixer, whip egg whites until foamy.
- Add lemon juice, whip for another minute. Slowly add powdered sugar until cookie icing reaches desired consistency.
- You will want a thicker frosting for piping details and borders. If you’re wanting to “flow” the icing within piped borders, icing can be thinned with a little lemon juice or water.
Notes
* 2 tsp Anise extract can be substituted for a fun variation. I especially like using anise (black licorice flavor) for doing cookies that will be shaped/decorated like black cats or bats.
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