Halloween Sugar Cookies with Eggless Royal Icing

No tricks, just treats!!!!! Happy Halloween

Halloween is an annual feast usually celebrated on October 31 which includes activities like trick-or-treats, costume parties, carving pumpkins, playing and telling scary & horror stories.

To treat this Halloween holiday I made these Sugar Cookies. These cookies are full of flavor, fun to decorate and make a spooktacular display at Halloween parties!!! For this Halloween themed cookies I decorated them as pumpkins, ghosts, black cats.

I enjoyed and had so much fun decorating these Halloween cookies. Isn’t there are scary and cute :)

Ingredients

Sugar Cookies - Nearly 2 dozens cookies

All purpose flour – 2 ½ cups

Unsalted Butter – 1 cup

Superfine Sugar – 1 cup

Egg – 1 no

Egg yolk – 1 no

Vanilla extract – 2 tsps

Salt a pinch

Preparation

• In a large mixing bowl take butter,sugar,salt and mix well until light and fluffy.
• Add the egg yolk and beat until fully integrated.
• Mix in the whole egg, vanilla extract. Mix well.
• Add the flour and mix until combined.
• Divide the dough into three parts and wrap in plastic wrap.
• Store in fridge at least 2 hours and upto 2 days until firm.
• Preheat oven to 350 F. On the floured surface, roll the dough to ¼ inch thick, sprinkling with additional flour or powdered sugar as needed to prevent sticking.
• Use cookies cutters to cut into shapes and place on parchment paper.

• Bake until cookies appear light golden brown on the edges about 10-12 minutes.
• Cool them before decorating.

Eggless Royal Icing

Ingredients:

Icing Sugar – ½ cup

Cornstarch – 1 ½ tsp

Lemon juice – 1 tsp

Food coloring gels – very little

Milk – 2 tsps

Preparation

• In a mixing bowl, sift the sugar, cornstarch together.
• Add lemon juice and milk and mix well until thick paste.
• Divide the Icing into different bowls and add the colors accordingly.
• Keep for 10 minutes.

• We can adjust the icing accordingly based on our requirement. If thin icing is required add a bit of milk or for thick icing add more icing sugar.
• Keep the icing in piping bags or ziplock bags and use them for decorating cookies.

Sending these cookies to Halloween Fiesta hosted by Vardhini, Food Palette Series - Rainbow colors hosted by Akheela , Decorating Challenge - Royal Icing and to my event CC-Festive Food