
Easy Halloween Sugar Cookies
2 hr 15 min
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3 tablespoons meringue powder
4 cups powdered sugar (confectioners' sugar)
5 tablespoons warm water
1 cups granulated sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
3-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Brown Icing Color
Lemon Yellow Icing Color
Kelly Green Icing Color
Red-Red Icing Color
Christmas Red Icing Color
Black Icing Color
White Nonpareils
White sparkling sugar
6-Cell Holiday Sprinkles
Jumbo nonpareils
Cookie Pan
Cooling Grid
10pc cookie cutter set
Tint Icing. Combine Brown and Lemon Yellow icing colors to get brown color shown. Combine Christmas Red and Red-Red to get red color shown.
Tint ¼ cup icing black
Tint ½ cup Kelly green
Tint ½ cup oz. red using color combination provided
Tint 1 cup brown using color combination provided.
Reserve remaining icing white.
Thin Icing. Thin black, green, brown, red, and ½ cup of white icing to a count of 20.
Reserve ¼ cup full strength white icing.
Decorate cookies. Prepare 5 decorating bags with tip 3. Fill bags separately with thinned icing. Outline and flood cookies as follows:
Gingerbread man and woman: Outline and flood with brown icing.
Bell: Outline and flood with red icing.
Stocking: Outline and flood toe area with red icing
Candy cane: outline and flood in every other stripe with red icing.
Snowman: Outline and flood in body of snowman with white icing.
Trees: outline and flood in with green icing. Immediately sprinkle with red, white and green jimmies or with white nonpareils.
Reserve remaining thinned icing.
After for 4 hours, finish decorating the stocking and snowman cookies as follows:
Stocking: Using thinned white icing in bag with tip 3, outline and flood top of stocking. Sprinkle with white sparkling sugar while icing is wet.
Snowman: Using thinned black icing, outline and flood brim of hat area. Let set 20-30 minutes. Outline and flood body of hat.
Let stocking and snowman cookies dry for 8 hours or overnight.
Total time includes drying time
2 hr 15 min
45 min
3 hr 10 min
2 hr 15 min
45 min
3 hr 10 min
2 hr 15 min
45 min
3 hr 10 min