Halloween Sugar Cookie Recipe
Halloween Sugar Cookies are soft cream cheese sugar cookies with frosting, candy eyes, sprinkles, and cute pumpkin and ghost decorations.
Servings: 24
Ingredients
Cookie
- ¾ cup butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
Frosting
- ⅓ cup butter, softened
- 4 ½ cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- orange food coloring
Topping
- Orange decorating gel, green M&Ms, candy eyes, orange sugar sprinkles
Instructions
Cookie
- Preheat oven to 375°F
- Cream butter, cream cheese, sugars, egg, and almond in a large bowl (or Kitchen-Aid) until fluffy.
- In a separate medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture. Stir until soft dough forms.
- Roll out and cut with a cookie cutter. Thin dough will make crunchy cookies. If you want a soft dough, it needs to be about ⅜ in. {NOTE: Try not to handle the dough too much}
- Bake for 8-10 minutes on greased pan. Let cool.
Frost and decorate
- Make frosting by mixing all ingredients with a hand mixer. If too thick, add a tad more milk.
- Frost the cookies with orange frosting.
- Use the decorating gel to add texture to the pumpkins. Sprinkle with orange sugar sprinkles then add an M&M for the green stem and place on the candy eyes.
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Nutrition
Calories: 293kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 157mg | Potassium: 46mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 33g | Vitamin A: 397IU | Calcium: 22mg | Iron: 1mg