How to Decorate Premade Halloween Sugar Cookies

Create spooky, kooky Halloween cookies all your little goblins can enjoy. Save time by purchasing premade Halloween sugar cookies for decorating. Spend an afternoon with the family creating festive treats for trick-or-treaters. Encourage your goblins to create original designs. Demonstrate different techniques for frosting and designing Halloween sugar cookies. Use your imagination for this sweet treat!

Things You'll Need

• Cut-out sugar cookies
• Colored frosting
• Wooden craft sticks
• Candy corn
• Thin licorice
• Coconut
• Food coloring
• Jelly beans
• Sprinkles and small candies
• Round sugar cookies
• Toothpicks
• Thin, black icing
• Dipping chocolate

Instructions

1. Decorate cut-out cookies. Use colored frosting to decorate cut-out cookies of pumpkins, ghosts, cats, spiders and bats. Consider wooden craft sticks if children are applying the frosting. Purchase candy corn, thin licorice, dyed coconut, jelly beans, sprinkles and other small candies to adorn your cut-out cookies.

2. Make sandwich cookies. Use orange "stuffing," or frosting for the center. Put two Halloween sugar cookies together, forming a sandwich. Try using the premade slice-and-bake cookies. Roll the sides of the cookie in Halloween sprinkles or candy corn.

3. Decorate spider web cookies. Frost premade, round sugar cookies with white or orange icing. Use thin, black icing to draw a circle around the edge of the cookie. Continue making smaller circles until you reach the center. Using a toothpick, draw a straight line from the cookie's center to the edge. Repeat this process seven times to complete the web. Consider using premade round cookies for pumpkins as well. Frost the cookies with orange icing, drawing the face with thin black icing.

4. Write a message on the cookies. Frost premade Halloween sugar cookies with orange or black frosting. Write a letter on each cookie to compose a message. Try something like "Happy Halloween" or "Trick-or-Treat." Line the cookies on a tray so the message shows for everyone to read.

5. Try making sandwich cookies. Dip the cookies in chocolate. Place a Halloween candy on the front of the dipped cookie or add sprinkles. Use thin, white icing to draw a Halloween design on the cookie. Be creative!