Halloween Cut-Out Cookies

These sweet, tender and cute Halloween Cut-Out Cookies will be your kids and family's favourite year after year! This recipe is my CUT-OUT COOKIE recipe with a Halloween touch. 😉

About These Halloween Cut-Out Cookies

• This cookie recipe is easy to make, delicious, and versatile for any occasion.
• One beautiful fact about cut-out cookies is that you can make any shape out of them. From all kinds of Christmas Cookies to any other shape that your heart desires.
• These cookies are coated with a smooth Royal Icing. I have the Royal Icing recipe in my Carrot Cake, but I will share it here also. Royal icing can tint in any colour and leaves your hands open to turn your cookies into a treat for any birthday or occasion.

• Any cut-out cookie dough requires chilling time. Chilling time firms up the dough and helps the cookies keep their shape when baking in the oven. I highly recommend freezing the cut cookies for another ten minutes before baking to guarantee the perfect shape.
• In this post, I am sharing two Halloween designs, the Ghost and the Witch Hat. The way you would like to decorate them is totally up to you, and it will be a great opportunity for you to let your creation go free. 🙂

How To Make These Cookies

• This recipe uses room-temperature butter (not too soft, though). Leave the butter at room temperature before starting to bake.
• Mix the butter, powdered sugar, cornstarch, and salt until smooth and silky.
• Add the egg yolk and vanilla extract.
• Add the flour in two or three passes and mix well after each. You would have a soft and smooth dough in the end.
• Shape the dough into a disc, cling wrap, and chill for one hour.
• Lightly flour a clean surface and roll out the dough. For easier rolling, place the dough between two pieces of wax paper.
• Once the dough is ¼ of an inch thick, use your favourite cookie cutter to cut the dough. Make a half-inch hole in the center of half of the cookies.
• Place the raw cookies on a lined baking sheet in the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes.
• In the meantime, preheat the oven to 325F. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes or until the edges look set. Do not overbake them, as it makes them dry and brown.

• Let them cool down for a few minutes, then transfer them to the cooling rack to cool down fully.
• If you are dusting or icing them, dust or ice them first, then assemble them with the filling.
• Dip the cookie with a hole in the middle in the icing and place it on a rack for the icing to set.
• Place about one teaspoon of the filling on the cookie with no hole, and place the iced or dusted cookie over it. Let the cookies set for 15 minutes before serving.

Royal Icing

• The ingredients you need to make royal icing include Powdered sugar, water, Meringue Powder, vanilla extract, and Cream of Tartar if your Meringue Powder does not have it as one of the ingredients.
• Meringue powder is a substitute for egg white, and it is a stabilizer.
• Sift the powdered sugar in your mixing bowl and set aside.
• In a measuring cup, whisk the water, meringue powder, vanilla extract, and cream of Tartar, if using.
• Using the paddle attachment, add the wet ingredients to the powdered sugar.
• Once the ingredients are combined, turn the mixer on high for about a minute.
• Icing these cookies requires two kinds of consistency. The stiff icing is used to make the border around the cookie's edges, and the runner consistency is used for the flooding to cover the cookie's surface.
• Do the ribbon test to see if the icing is ready. Dip a spoon into the icing and lift it. If the icing drops into the bowl and the ribbon takes 3 to 4 minutes to disappear, the icing is ready to use for the Bordering. If the ribbon disappears into the bowl right away, the icing is ready for Flooding.
• Let the icing set for an hour or so, depending on the icing consistency and your kitchen temperature.
• For the ghost's eyes, melt some chocolate in the microwave or over the double boiler. Place a dot of the melted chocolate on the cookie for the eyes and the mouth, then use the tip of a small spoon to drag the chocolate down to create that ghost look!

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