Unconventional candy corn sugar cookies for a spooky Halloween party
I haven’t been decorating cookies much lately to take time to rest, but when I stumbled upon a Pinterest post I had to give it a try.
In 2017, The Sprinkle Factory created some fun unconventionally decorated sugar cookies for Halloween. I fell in love with the simplistic design and color palette. I can’t take credit for the design; however, I got the creative urge to get out my mixer and give it a whirl.
Your favorite sugar cookie recipe
Stand mixer
Rolling Pin with thickness guides
Baking sheets
Cooling racks
Flat Spatula
Favorite Royal Icing Recipe
Rubber spatulas
5 Piping bags
Piping bag ties or twist bag ties
Paper Towels
Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe.
Roll out the dough 5/8” thick using rolling pin guides.
Cut out candy corn shapes
Place cut outs on baking sheet
Bake according to the recipe directions.
Remove from baking sheet and allowing to cool throughly on cooling rack.
While cookies are cooling, make 20 second royal icing (piping detail consistency)
Remove about 1/2 C of each into 2 bowls
Bowl #1 – Mix coal black and load into piping bag with coupler and #2 tip
Bowl #2 – Mix neon green with 1 drop lemon yellow and a very small tap of leaf green. (If your color isn’t as green as you would like, keep adding a tap of green until you reach the proper hue) Load into piping bag with coupler and #2 icing tip.
With the remaining royal icing in the mixer, Add more water (tsp. at a time) to make 10 sec icing (Flooding consistency)
Separate 3/4 C white icing into a piping bag. Remaining icing into 3 bowls – equal amounts
Mix bowl #1 neon green using 3 drops lemon yellow and 1 drop leaf green
Load into piping bag and secure shut
Mix bowl #2 electric purple
Load into piping bag and secure shut
Mix bowl #3 coal black
Load into piping bag and secure shut
Cut off a very small amount at the end of each piping bag.
On cool cookies, flood all the bottoms in a color block of black or electric purple- use a cookie scribe to help move the icing around. Allow to crust over – about 10 mins
Next, flood the middle block neon green – allow to crust over – about 10 mins
Last, flood the tops – black bottoms flood white tops – electric purple bottoms flood black tops
Allow cookies to set up overnight or use a dehydrator for faster drying time.
Once the cookies have all been flooded and dry use the 20 second icing to pipe details.
Use neon green and black to one between the color blocks.
Use black to add stitches and “x”’s
Allow details to throughly dry another 8 hours before stacking or packaging
Need a good no spread sugar cookies recipe? Try this one: Vanilla 2.0 by Lilaloa
Royal icing recipes? No problem! Try this: Royal Icing Recipe with Meringue Powder by Lilaloa
To get proper consistency icing for your project, use a knife to draw a line in your icing after it is mixed. Count how many seconds it takes for the line to disappear. My suggestion calls for a 20 sec (details) and a 10 sec (flood) consistency. If the icing is to stiff add water (tsp. at a time) to thin it to the proper flow.
See my video at the top for help.
Make some spooky treats for you Halloween party! Get creative and change the colors or even make standard color candy corn.
Have fun and don’t forget to feed yourself!
Much Love,
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