How to Decorate Halloween Cookies

Halloween is the time when you can really go out of your way decorating things. Your house, car, food, kids or anything else you can think of are all open for some spooky modifications.
Baking and decorating these festive treats can liven up any family activity or children's Halloween party.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• assorted candies
• colored frostings
• sugar cookie dough
• Groceries
• Cookie sheets
• Halloween Baking Supplies
• Rolling Pins
• Cookie Cutters

1. Find your favorite sugar cookie recipe and make the dough as directed.

2. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin.

3. 

   Cut out cookies with Halloween cookie cutters: pumpkins, witches, ghosts, bats, broomsticks and so forth. If you do not have Halloween cookie cutters, use a basic round cutter to make cookies that can be decorated as pumpkins or faces.

4. Bake the cookies as directed and let cool.

5. 

   Decorate the cookies using colored frosting, candy corn (great for a jack-o'-lantern face), thin licorice strings, jelly beans, shredded coconut or an assortment of cake-decorating candies.

Tips & Warnings

• Buy refrigerated sugar cookie dough instead of making it from scratch.
• Instead of sugar cookies, use Rice Krispies treats molded into balls and decorated, or decorate popcorn balls.

[pieceofscrap]

on 10/29/2009 Love the popcorn ball idea! I can't wait to try it.

[fefifofum]

on 10/23/2008 great article

[huanton]

on 10/19/2008 Great article. 5 stars!

[iamageniuster]

on 10/17/2008 Good stuff. 5 stars!

[Alisiane]

on 10/11/2008 We're planning to go all out this Halloween now that my little girl is older and is really ( and I mean REALLY) into Halloween. I need all the help I can get and these cookie tips will really help. Thanks!