Description
Create festive and spooky face Halloween sugar cookies perfect for celebrating the season. These colorful cookies are made from a classic roll-out dough, tinted with vibrant pink, sky blue, and violet gel food colorings, baked to golden perfection, and decorated with black icing and sanding sugar to add eerie facial features that delight all ages.
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- Roll-Out Cookie Dough, amount as needed per recipe
Food Coloring
- Pink Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz
- Sky Blue Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz
- Violet Gel Food Coloring (mix of pink and violet), 1 oz
Decoration
- Black Sanding Sugar, 3.25 oz
- Black Ready-to-Use Icing Tube, 4.25 oz
Instructions
- Prepare Dough and Bake: Follow your roll-out cookie dough recipe directions to prepare the dough. Divide the dough evenly into three portions. Tint one portion pink, one sky blue, and one violet by combining pink and violet gel food colorings. Roll out each colored portion and cut shapes using a round cookie cutter. Bake the cookies according to your recipe’s baking time and temperature, then allow them to cool completely.
- Decorate Cookies: Using tip 3 on the black ready-to-use icing tube, carefully pipe spooky facial features onto each cookie. Once the icing is piped, sprinkle black sanding sugar over the faces to add texture and enhance the spooky effect. Shake off any excess sanding sugar to leave a clean, decorated finish.
Notes
- Ensure cookies are completely cooled before decorating to prevent icing from melting.
- Violet icing can be created by blending pink and violet gel food colorings to achieve the desired shade.
- Use a piping tip #3 for detailed line work on facial features.
- Excess sanding sugar can be gently tapped off to avoid clumping on the icing.
- Store decorated cookies in an airtight container to keep them fresh.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie (approx. 30g)
- Calories: 120 kcal
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 90 mg
- Fat: 5 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 17 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 10 mg
