Recipe: Yummy Crunchy Halloween Cookies (No Cookie Cutter Needed!)

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Cute and easy decorated Halloween cookies that DON'T require a cookie cutter!!! I have been wanting to make Halloween cookies for way longer than is culturally acceptable this year. I make these every year for our annual cookie open house. You can cook Crunchy Halloween Cookies (No Cookie Cutter Needed!) using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Crunchy Halloween Cookies (No Cookie Cutter Needed!)

1. It's of Kabocha squash.
2. It's of Cake flour.
3. It's of Unsalted margarine (or unsalted butter).
4. It's of Sugar.
5. It's of Granulated sugar (for decoration, as desired).

We then prepare cookie trays to take to shut ins and freeze the rest to enjoy all year long. Cookie cutters make it easy to cut cookie dough into fun shapes, but they're not always around when you're baking cookies. Don't worry if you don't have any cookie cutters (or the right one), because there are plenty of other things that you can use instead. Feel free to use any cutter you fancy.

Crunchy Halloween Cookies (No Cookie Cutter Needed!) instructions

1. Combine the room-temperature margarine and sugar, and whisk until it has a white, mayonnaise-like consistency..
2. Add the sifted cake flour and mashed kabocha and mix. Don't worry if it's still soft and sticky..
3. Wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Wrap to whatever thickness you like. I rolled it in a 5 cm thick log..
4. When it has hardened, sprinkle granulated sugar on top, roll to coat, and cut in about 5 mm slices..
5. Arrange on a baking pan, and reshape the dough..
6. Draw on the faces. This time I used a straw to poke the eyes and mouth, and a toothpick to make the lines of the pumpkin..
7. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 360°F/180°C for 15 minutes. Once they're fragrant and crunchy, they're complete..
8. For extra-scary cookies, I tried making Munch's "The Scream!".

We will be making some more of these to share out on Halloween and ghost, bat and witch's hat are waiting at the ready. Feel free to decorate these with some icing if you want to! These are the ultimate Halloween cookie, combining everyone's favorites: spooky mummies and sweet candy corn. Plus all you'll need is a simple triangle cookie cutter and some food coloring. Get decorating tips from Java Cupcake here.