Halloween Sugar Cookies
Happy Halloween!!!! It’s already almost midnight here and we’ve only had two ToT’ers. TWO!? Le sigh. 🙁 And I bought 3 largish boxes of candy to share. Perhaps it’s the rain that’s so heavy that the gutters look like a river going down the street that’s the issue?
But that doesn’t stop me celebrating, no siree! I made you decorated sugar cookies. Now you can tell why my blog has been quiet lately, huh? Because boy, I forgot just how much effort goes into decorating sugar cookies. *insert blushing smilie, heh*
And you know what? I baked these bad boys late at night then left them to cool and stored away. The next morning, a lot of them had been devoured. How many times do I have to remind my family NOT to eat things either…
a). before I’ve even had the chance to decorate them,
b). after I’ve decorated them but not have a chance to photograph them.
Gah! Gah! Gahhhh! I know a lot of you that blog will know exactly where I’m coming from! 😉
I made sandwiched sugar cookies filled with buttercream. Which need 2 to sandwich together obviously. And then the family eat 1 of the set of 2 and leave me with 1 part of a lonesome cookie that couldn’t be sandwiched with his better half. Poor fella, I felt sorry for him. What did I do about this catastrophe? I ate him, of course!
Frankenstein’s Monster, Skull n’ Crossbones, and a Jack o’ Lantern. All happily matched with their other uneaten sides.
Sandwiched with coloured yummy buttercream and both sides decorated with royal icing [and chocolate sprinkles for Frankenstein’s monster].
Mr & Mrs Jack o’ Lantern. Mrs complete with fake lashes and mascara. And of course, the Mr with a confused look on his face, like most men. (sorry if you’re a man reading this, but you know it’s true!)
Then there were the friendly ghost, the sparkly glitzy witches hat (because witches can have a fashion sense too), the bubbling cauldron and the sparkling black arched kitty.
Don’t you just want to hug this friendly ghost with that smiley face?
The arched black cat that can be seen from space with all that black sanding sugar and of course a touch of black edible glitter too. 🙂
I did intend on breaking these up into different posts but since they took me a few days to complete all of them, I though with it being halloween n’ all today that I’d combine them all into one halloweenie sugar rush. 🙂
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 😀 Time to go watch a scary movie if the giant man-baby will let me. He doesn’t like horror movies. Shh, don’t tell him I told you that!
Sugar Cookie Recipe
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 10-15 mins
Yield: 12 cookies
Ingredients:
- 125g unsalted butter
- 125g granulated sugar
- 1 medium egg, beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 250g plain (all-purpose) flour
Directions:
- In a bowl or electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the beaten egg and vanilla extract, stir well.
- Sift the flour into a separate bowl and add half the flour to the mixture and mix it in. Add the remaining flour and mix until just incorporated. Do not over mix.
- Knead the ingredients together to make a soft dough, divide it into half, then wrap both halves in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30-45 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 180℃/350℉/Gas Mark 4 and line two baking trays with parchment paper.
- Remove half the dough from the fridge and roll it out onto a lightly floured surface to approx. 3mm thick.
- Cut out your shapes and transfer to the baking trays and bake for 10-15 minutes until light golden brown.
- Repeat with the second half of the cookie dough and allow to cool.
- Decorate as desired.
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Those cookies are so cute, Lisa!! Sad you only had two TOTers but at least you have tons of candy leftover 🙂 Happy Halloween!!
Always a bonus. It’s mine all mine! *cackles*
These cookies are beautiful! You are so talented!
I’d love one of those sandwich cookies!
Aww that’s awful having so few TOTers…..I live in apartment and have had none if that makes you feel better!!! These cookies are so cute, the decoration is great. I’ve made sugar cookies before but the recipe was slightly different….may just have to give this one a go…Happy Halloween!!! 🙂
So so adorable my friend and perfect for the delicious occasion 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Adorable – well done!
Love these!!!! so cute and perfectly decorated! LOVE!
You are so talented, these are gorgeous Lisa! I think I need to make sugar cookies. Yum!
Your Halloween cookies are so darned cute!!! I stink at icing, so admire your hard work even more!!!!
My favorite is the ghost! It’s too adorable for words!
Oh my goodness, these are ridiculously cute! I can’t believe I didn’t make anything for halloween this year! Oh well, there is always next year 🙂