Description
Colorful sugar cookies decorated like Frankenstein, mummies, and monsters — spooky, silly, and sweet for any Halloween bash!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Gel food coloring (green, orange, purple, black)
- Royal icing (white and colored)
- Candy eyes and small decorations for details
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy; add egg and vanilla, mixing well.
- Stir in flour to form a soft dough; chill for 30 minutes.
- Roll out dough and cut into rectangles for monster faces.
- Bake for 10–12 minutes or until edges are lightly golden.
- Cool completely, then frost each cookie with colored icing bases.
- Pipe hair, stitches, and mummy wraps using white and black icing.
- Add candy eyes and small fondant pieces for a fun, spooky finish.
Notes
- Ensure the butter is softened for easier mixing.
- Chilling the dough helps in easier rolling and cutting.
- Use different colors of gel food coloring for a variety of monster faces.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10–12 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 20mg