Halloween is JUST around the corner. I can’t believe it! My friend Rachel brought us some delicious and adorable Halloween cookies this week. I wanted to share them with you because she offered a really great tip for frosting Halloween cookies!
I find each year when we make Halloween sugar cookies, I choose good-tasting frosting over beautiful frosting. I would just rather eat a sugar cookie with homemade buttercream or cream cheese frosting than with that totally-beautiful-but-not-quite-as-tasty royal icing. The problem? I rarely can spread the frosting on the cookie but make it still look like the cute shape that we cut the cookie out with!
Thanks to Rachel I can have the best of both worlds! When she dropped her cookies, I couldn’t help but notice that, even with the frosting, they still looked like the shapes they were supposed to be. Here’s Rachel’s secret: she pipes the icing around the edge of the cookie, then uses an offset spatula to spread the frosting to the center. So simple! I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of it before and I am so glad she figured it out! It’s a different look than royal icing, but it’s still super cute and much more delicious.
A cookie nabber arrives on the photo shoot…
For the cookies pictured here, Rachel used these recipes from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe. This particular frosting is a whipped cream cheese frosting, which tasted great and also had a bit of a sheen to it, which was really pretty. A few quick notes from Rachel on the recipe:
- Refrigerate the dough for 30-60 minutes after mixing it together but before rolling it out.
- Roll the cookies out thickly, thicker than you think you should. This particular recipe makes for a fluffy, thick sugar cookie.
- Sprinkle a bit of white decorating sugar crystals on top of the frosting for extra pizazz!
“Are you looking for the cookie nabber? I think he went that way. I had nothing to do with it.”
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What a cutie! Great tip on the frosting.
brilliant and so easy. Thanks for the tip. cute icing face, too!
He so darn serious about his cookieness….
This is like a really scary Halloween photo! A two eyed, cute nosed flying purple people eater? That is definitely purple people drool!
Can’t wait to try this!
The cookies look good and all, but that adorable baby boy is what really makes me love this post. So cute!!