My Favorite Halloween Sugar Cookies

I love Halloween parties, and I love making finger foods and desserts. These Halloween Sugar Cookies are the best!

Halloween Treats are so fun to make. I don’t make treats for the trick-or-treaters because wrapped candy works best for us. But we always have soup and sweets available for our neighborhood friends, and we love sharing these Halloween Sugar Cookies with them.

The Best Halloween Sugar Cookies

I thought making some Halloween sugar cookies might be fun, too! So, I returned to my traditional way of decorating cookies with my decorating tips and royal icing!

I’m not sure what it is about sugar cookies—oh wait, it’s probably the sugar! But these are my favorite cookies of all time.

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Fun and Decorative Halloween Cookies

You might have noticed I had to highlight my pink and orange fall theme with my cookies, too. I know they are unexpected, but aren’t they fun?

How to Make Halloween Sugar Cookies

Do you know what the trick is to bake cookies? It’s simple.

If you want them to cook evenly, you need to ensure that every cookie is the same thickness. How do you do that? With this rolling pin! Do you see the little ledge on the outside? That is what makes sure your dough is all the same width!

I have many pumpkin-shaped cookie cutters, so I picked three, made some dough, and cut out a lot of pumpkin cookies.

Here is a quick tip: I always bake my cookies less than the suggested time. I don’t like brown edges, so I watch them carefully! My recipe called for ten minutes, but I cooked mine for around 8 minutes.

Of course, every oven varies, so just be sure to watch the first batch closely. Your oven may get hotter as time goes on, so keep that in mind, too.

How to Decorate Halloween Sugar Cookies

Before I get into the details of cookie decorating, I do want to remind you that I am not a trained or professional cookie decorator. I have probably decorated sugar cookies less than ten times and I usually just wing it. Hehe.

I like to decorate sugar cookies in two different ways: with buttercream frosting and royal icing. I wanted some detail in the decorating, so I used Royal Icing.

How to Mix the Icing for Royal Icing Cookies

Ideally, you want two types of icing consistency to decorate your cookies. The first is called Flood Icing. This is what I call the base coat. There is a trick you can use to get the right consistency to use the flood icing for the outline and to fill in the outline with icing. It’s called the 10-second rule.

Once your icing is mixed, take a sharp knife, cut about an inch down, and then count how many seconds it takes for the icing to come together and the “cut” to disappear. For the right “flood icing,” the “slice” in the icing should disappear in ten seconds. The consistency of the frosting is determined by the amount of water added to the Royal Icing mix.

The second consistency is what I call decorative icing. This is the icing you will pipe top to decorate the top of the Royal Icing cookies. I used the icing for the dots, the outline and curly accent, and the leaves in the photo above.

Just so you know, when I was mixing the icing, I used five tablespoons of water for the decorative icing and three more tablespoons for the flood icing. This is only a guideline for you to use. I mixed the decorative icing first and then removed it from the bowl. Next, I added more water to make the flood icing.

How to Use Flood Icing

It’s very easy to use flood icing because it only takes two steps. The first step is to pipe an outline around the outside edge of the cookie.

The second step is to apply more pressure to fill inside the outline.

Here are more photos of the flood icing. To make polka dots, add dots of flood icing of a different color immediately on top of the flood icing (before it dries).

Next, let the flood icing dry, then add the decorative icing.

I had some fun decorating with both the pink and orange icing!

And obviously, these are not perfect, which is fine by me because they still taste good.

Serving the Halloween Sugar Cookies

I love setting the cookies out on a table so my guests can grab one throughout the evening. They are so delicious but almost too cute to eat!

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