Description
These Ghost Sugar Cookies are a delightful treat perfect for Halloween or themed parties. Featuring soft, classic sugar cookies cut into spooky ghost shapes, they are decorated with smooth white icing and detailed with black buttercream icing eyes and mouths. The recipe is beginner-friendly and yields three dozen festive cookies, making them fantastic for sharing with family and friends.
Ingredients
Roll-Out Cookie Ingredients
- Roll-out cookie dough, quantity as per recipe instructions
White Cookie Icing Ingredients
- White cookie icing, 9 oz. (Note: product may be out of stock; alternatively, use homemade white royal icing or white cookie icing from a similar brand)
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- Buttercream frosting, quantity as per recipe instructions
- Black gel food coloring, 1 oz.
Instructions
- Bake cookies: Prepare the cookie dough following the specified recipe instructions. Roll the dough out to 1/8 inch thickness and use a ghost-shaped cookie cutter to cut out the cookies. Place the cookies on a baking sheet, bake them until done, then allow to cool completely.
- Outline and fill cookies: Using white cookie icing, carefully outline and then fill in each cookie according to the package instructions for the icing. Let the icing set completely, which usually takes about 1 to 2 hours, to ensure a smooth, firm surface.
- Tint icing: Prepare the vanilla buttercream frosting as per the recipe instructions. Tint approximately 1 cup of the buttercream frosting with black gel food coloring until the color is deep and even.
- Decorate cookies: Fill a decorating bag fitted with tip size 3 with the black tinted buttercream. Pipe small eyes and mouths on each cookie to give the ghost faces their character.
Notes
- For best results, chill the dough before rolling to make cutting easier and prevent spreading in the oven.
- If white cookie icing is unavailable, royal icing made with egg whites or meringue powder can be used as a substitute.
- Allow icing to dry fully between steps to avoid colors running.
- Store decorated cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 110
- Sugar: 12g
- Sodium: 80mg
- Fat: 4g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1.5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 17g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 10mg