Halloween cookies offer a super culinary and craft project for children and adults alike. Try these four basic, but boo-tiful Halloween cookie decorating tricks, and your trick-or-treaters will beg for more. These Halloween cookie crafts are simple enough for very young children to do, as long as adults supervise.
Decorated Halloween cookies are super for classroom parties, Halloween get-togethers, costume parties or even your own Halloween party menu. Try these easy Halloween cookie tips for making cookie bats, cats, spiders, pumpkins, and other favorites for your trick-or-treaters.
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Super-Basic Trick or Treat Cookies
Before you can begin decorating your Halloween cookies, of course, you must
bake them. You might choose to make fancy Halloween cut-out cookies in holiday
shapes (such as bats, cats, pumpkins or other Halloween objects) or simple
round ones.
Before you begin decorating, be sure to bake your Halloween cookies thoroughly,
and allow them to cool completely.
Basic Bats
The simplest round sugar cookies can become batty in a flash. The easiest way
to decorate Halloween bat cookies is to create a basic bat stencil. Grab a
sheet of plain clean paper. Fold it in half, and cut out a basic bat outline.
Be sure to make arcs at the top.
Unsure how to create a bat shape? Look at free online clip-art bats online.
Download your choice of clip-art, resize it to fit your cookies, and cut it out
to make your stencil. (Halloween clip-art sites offer plenty of other designs,
besides bat, so you can take your pick for stencil-making and Halloween cookie
decorating.)
Begin decorating your baked and cooled Halloween cookies by glazing them with a
clear or white icing. Let cookies stand until glaze has nearly hardened.
Place your cut-out bat or other Halloween stencil on top of one trick or treat
cookie. Add chocolate sprinkles to fill the cut-out pattern. Carefully remove
the stencil.
Repeat this step (with the chocolate sprinkles) until all Halloween cookies
have been decorated. Let cookies stand individually on a counter or flat
surface until the decorating designs have set.
Kooky Kitty Cats
Black cat cookies are a certain treat for Halloween gatherings, and these are
easy to decorate.
Frost your baked and cooled Halloween cookies with dark chocolate frosting. Use
white chocolate chips to add kitty facial features, making the cat's pointy
ears, eyes, nose and mouth. Place a few coconut flakes on both cheeks to make
the Halloween cat's whiskers.
If you are extra crafty, you might roll the edges of your Halloween cookies in
white coconut flakes, while the frosting is still sticky, to add a kitty fur
edge.
Spider Surprises
Creepy crawly spiders are a perennial Halloween favorite for cookie decorators,
and they are incredibly easy to make.
Frost your baked and cooled Halloween cookies with chocolate frosting. While
the frosting is still sticky, affix eight short strands of black licorice to
each cookie to form the spindly spider legs.
Stick a few tiny licorice snips onto the spider's body, if you wish, to make
eyes. Watch your trick-or-treaters snatch up those creepy spider cookies.
Pretty Perky Pumpkins
Halloween jack-o-lantern cookies may be the easiest decorating project of all,
but these are also the most popular.
Frost your baked and cooled Halloween cookies with orange frosting. You can
purchase orange flavored frosting, or create your own with food coloring.
(Remember, red and yellow may be mixed to create orange.)
Use chocolate chips or bits to form facial features, as you decorate your
Halloween cookie pumpkins.
Make your own Halloween cookie decorating fun!
Trick-or-treaters will cheer, not "Boo," at these creative creepy
Halloween cookies. The process is as fun as the product, of course, as children
of all ages will enjoy decorating Halloween cookies and then eating them
together.
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