How to Cook Appetizing Frosted Cookies Halloween Ghosts

Frosted Cookies Halloween Ghosts. Great recipe for Frosted Cookies Halloween Ghosts. I adapted the cookie recipe from one in a cookbook called "DIA Collection's Frosted Cookie Decoration Recipe." I think that this only needs black icing instead of several colors, which simplifies the recipe. Celebrate Halloween by making shaped cookies with your kids.

These cookies are so cute and easy to make. I used one of my favorite homemade sugar cookie and frosting recipes, but you could definitely use store-bought cookie dough and canned frosting to get the same look. Line cookie sheets with waxed paper. You can have Frosted Cookies Halloween Ghosts using 14 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Frosted Cookies Halloween Ghosts

1. Prepare of For the cookies:.
2. It's of Cake flour.
3. It's of Granulated sugar.
4. You need of Unsalted butter.
5. It's of Vanilla extract.
6. Prepare of Egg.
7. You need of For the icing:.
8. You need of Powdered sugar.
9. It's of Dried egg white powder.
10. It's of Water.
11. It's of Black food coloring.
12. You need of Decorations:.
13. You need of Silver dragées.
14. Prepare of Star shaped sugar decorations.

Holding cookie with tongs, dip entire top and side of each cookie into melted coating, letting excess drip off. Lay flat, coated side up, on waxed paper-lined cookie sheets. All you need for these ghost cookies is a cookie cutter in the shape of a tulip and then turn it upside-down - if you don't have that one, you can easily freehand the ghost shapes. These are great giveaways for trick-or-treaters and a nice alternative to all the candy.

Frosted Cookies Halloween Ghosts step by step

1. For the cookies:.
2. Cream the unsalted butter. Add granulated sugar, vanilla extract and egg to the butter and mix well..
3. Add cake flour in several batches, stirring well after each addition, then knead by hand..
4. Divide the kneaded cookie dough into 5 to 6 pieces. Chill the dough for at least an hour in the refrigerator..
5. Roll the dough out about 5mm thick, and cut out with a cookie cutter. Rolling the cookie dough out thinly will make the cookies easier to ice and better looking..
6. Bake in a 340°F/170°C oven for about 10 minutes..
7. For the icing:.
8. Mix the dried egg white powder and water and let sit for 30 minutes..
9. In the meantime, sift the powdered sugar. Add the sifted powdered sugar to the egg white liquid, and mix until shiny..
10. Put the icing in a piping bag, and draw an outline around the edges of each cookie. Make the icing outlines really really thin. Wait until the outlines have totally dried..
11. Add water to the remaining icing to soften..
12. Pipe in the softened icing inside the outlines to fill them in. Wait until the icing has dried thoroughly..
13. Mix the black food coloring in the icing. Add a tiny bit of water to the icing, so that's it's a consistency that's easy to draw with..
14. Draw the faces on, with the piping bag held perpendicular to the cookie surface..
15. Apply the decorations:.
16. Stick on the decorations before the icing dries..
17. Here's how the cookies look..
18. A close up view..

Use a ghost cookie cutter, or you can use a small knife to cut the dough into freeform ghost shapes, as shown. From eyeballs to ghosts, these ideas transform sugar cookies into the spooky and kooky. These decorated Halloween sugar cookies are an easy treat for any haunted bash. From eyeballs to bubbling cauldrons, these ideas transform sugars cookies into the spooky and kooky. View Recipe this link opens in a new tab.