Halloween 2014: Sugar Cookies


*Bunneh baking for fun; not for sale*

Sugar cookie cutouts: a classic! I have loads of cookie cutters but just don’t get around to using them very often. Holidays are the perfect motivator to pull them out. I used a sugar cookie recipe from my Betty Crocker Big Book of Cookies book, and I think it’s going to be my official sugar cookie recipe from now on. Nom nom nom…

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Some classic shapes. I didn’t like the small bats… they came out looking more like bow ties than bats. Spooky bow ties?

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My gingerdead man cookie cutter! It didn’t do as well on sugar cookie dough as it does on gingerbread, but I still enjoyed the few that I made.

Now for a full confession: I was making these on a work night and already running late on the whole project, so I didn’t have time to make my own royal icing for these. I used Betty Crocker cookie icing from the store. It’s not bad, but it’s not my favorite. It does dry fairly quickly, though, and has great colors.

IMG_6725I used some of my candy eyeballs to make some silly ghost faces, too. I think next year I’ll make sure I have time to make my own icing, so I can use different decorating tips as well. That way I can get in some better detail, and actually do the jack-o-lantern faces. 🙂 Despite not being the greatest decorating, they were super tasty.

This was just night one of my Halloween Week O’ Baking! More posts to come…

 

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