Halloween Cookies You Must Try
Halloween cookies recipe coming your way! I always loved Halloween. But the past 10 years have confirmed my theory – I need to move to the USA to be able to fully embrace this.
In the meanwhile, though, I will have to make it work with what I have – no kids treat or tricking, no decorations, no scary masks.
Last year I had a post about Halloween Movies I love which I am trying to go through again this year, and it includes one of my absolute favourite movies ever. While you try and figure out which one that is, I have baked Halloween cookies. I read a post on Sophia’s blog about creating a care package and she includes biscuits, so I guess you could attempt these if you feel brave!
These Halloween cookies are not the easiest, to be fair, very time-consuming… but the end result is just too good not to try your hand at them at least once in your life. They are definitely not perfect, but I believe as a first attempt, they could have gone much worst.
Start by using this recipe for the sugar cookies, minus chocolate chips (or not!?). Cut with a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter, then bake as per instructions.
For the royal icing
- 910g icing sugar
- 55g of meringue powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 170ml water
Prepare the royal icing: measure the water and add to this the vanilla essence and mix well. Then pour all the sugar in the bowl of your standing mixer and add the meringue powder and mix by hand with a spoon.
Stick to the flat beater and add the water gradually, then start stirring until it reaches the consistency of honey. You may need more or less water, so please do take the water content as an indication.
When the consistency is similar to the one of honey, we increase the speed and let it become more compact and smooth. At this point, we divide in as many bowls as the many colors you will need for your cookies with food coloring of your choice.
We had a lot of fun to color and fill each cookie, a bit less while waiting for it to dry out… Still, It is really worth it! Pumpkins were, alas, the most difficult and time-consuming ones, but also the most beautiful in my opinion: prepare the orange, green and black royal icing in three pastry bags with small nozzles and, using a food marker, draw the lines of a pumpkin on each one of the cookies.
Begin by filling out the segments, every other one to start with. Leave it to dry, then fill the other segments left and spread the royal icing with the help of a toothpick and leave to dry overnight. Add the eyes, mouth, and stem the next day, remembering to allow it to dry overnight again. A handful of these will take a couple of days, so make sure you have plenty of friends, kids, and family members around, the ones you will definitely have around when it’s time to eat.
I used piping bottles instead, from Amazon on here.
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I am always down for some Halloween cookie recipes! Halloween is my absolute favorite time of the year. I look forward to it November-September. I can’t wait to eat all the Halloween themed foods and watch all the spooky movies!
Thank you Jackie x
These cookies look amazing, so good and I wouldn’t have even have thought that they were your first attempt! x
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We were as surprised as you are Lucy, trust me! x
Great recipe! I’d love to try these out this Halloween, I always really enjoy decorating cookies and I’m so excited for this Halloween! Thanks for sharing x
Thank you x
I don’t make my own cookies enough — and these ones are so great for Halloween! I like having themed food during a particular holiday/season as it makes it a special treat. Thanks for sharing these — I had forgotten how useful royal icing is for decorating!
Thank you Molly – hope you enjoy making them x
I absolutely love making cookies when it gets cooler! Definitely going to try and make these vegan!
I’m sure if you use something like vegan butter, and omit the egg white powder, you should be fine!
Oh wow!!!!!! Look at the Jack-o-lantern cookies. They look so lovely. I would like to bake them this Halloween. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Fadima, hope you’ll have fun!
I love love love sugar cookies this time of year! They are so soft, sweet, and so much fun to decorate!
Thank you Jennifer x
Cookies are such a great way to create themed food for Hallow’een parties or events. These look delicious too!
Thank you Eleanor x
Pass me the pumpkins, I am READY for Halloween, oh yes I am! These cookies look so great. I’ve seen lots of crafty/creative/baking bits for Halloween in stores this year which I love!
Rosie
Thank you Rosie x
These cookies look so fantastic. I love cookies so much! I need to try this. Now I’m excited for Halloween. I’m sure my whole family’s gonna love this lol. Thank you for sharing! x
Have fun making these x
These look adorable! And perfect for Halloween. I’m not much for baking anymore but I do love decorating cupcakes and cookies! Well don’t for your first attempt these look incredible!
Thank you Vourneen – they were fun to make!
These sounds delicious! I can’t wait for Halloween as it means all of the treats xx
Yes to all of the treats!
Halloween is underrated here in the UK. These are cool cookies.
Thank you Jamie!
Ohh these look great! I’d have never known they were your first attempt. I think you’re right though, they definitely look like they’d be hard to recreate. I’m not a fan of icing at all (I’m weird) so I don’t think these would be for me, but I know my husband & my daughter would be ALL OVER these! It’d be a great activity to do with her actually, although I’m sure they wouldn’t look anywhere near as good as these ones. Haha.
Claire.X
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Ohhhh, I am sure your girl would do a great job, Claire xx