Halloween Cookies
Decorations convey the theme for any special occasion. If you're hosing a Halloween party, one of the most important things to decorate is the food. Sugar cookies are an easy food to decorate, and there are countless ways you can decorate them for Halloween.
Instructions
1. Cut out your sugar cookies using cutters in Halloween-related shapes: pumpkins, ghosts, cats, spiders and bats. See Resources for examples of Halloween shapes.
2. Frost your cookies with Halloween-color frostings. Orange-and-black is the traditional Halloween color scheme, but also consider yellow brown, red and green.
3. Sprinkle Halloween-color or Halloween-shape sprinkles atop your frosted sugar cookies. You can purchase standard sprinkles in orange, black and white, or Halloween-themed sprinkles in the shapes of pumpkins, cats, spiders, bats and ghosts.
4. Press candy corn into the frosting atop your cookies. For more variety, buy a candy corn variety pack that includes pumpkin-shaped pieces.
5. Create spider-web sugar cookies with thin lines of gel icing atop frosted cookies. Simply draw a circle of gel icing around the outline of the cookie, then draw a circle inside that circle and so on until you have created circles to the center of your cookie. Use a toothpick to draw lines from the center of the cookie to the edge, which will pull the gel icing to create the effect of a spider web.
6. Draw faces on pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies by first frosting the cookie with orange frosting, then using gel icing to draw eyes, a nose and a mouth. Do the same to draw features onto sugar cookies in cat, ghost, bat and other shapes.
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