Halloween Sugar Cookie Recipe
Puffy Sugar Cookies for Home or School Trick-or-Treat Parties
Sep 5, 2009
Don't let Halloween slip by without making a batch or two of Halloween sugar cookies. Kids have a blast helping mix up and roll out the cookie dough and then decorating the cookies with a Halloween theme. Sugar cookies are a great treat for school Halloween parties (unless school policies dicate no sweet treats in the classroom). And, it's hard to beat these sugar cookies for a home Halloween party. Portable snacks are nice when answering the door and giving goodies to trick-or-treaters.
There are many different recipes for sugar cookies, and the various cookies have different textures. This fun Southern cookie recipe produces the puffier and fatter sugar cookies (similar to Food Lion or Wal-Mart sugar cookies) versus the thin and cripsy sugar cookies. This makes the cookie dough easier to work with and decorate with frosting, since the cookies are sturdier. Since this is a kid friendly cookie dough, it's not near as frustrating as more delicate sugar cookie recipes. And, they do fast wonderful.
Halloween Sugar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 cup margarine or butter (2 sticks)
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3 ½ cups plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
Directions:
- Put margarine/butter out to soften. It’s much easier to mix the cookies if the margarine/butter isn’t rock hard.
- Mix the softened margarine/butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
- Add the flour and baking powder and mix well.
- Chill the dough for a couple of hours. It’s too sticky to roll out when it’s warm and just mixed up.
- Take a 1/4 to 1/2 cup of flour (plain or self rising) and sprinkle it on the area where you’ll roll out the dough. You can also use a combination of flour and powdered sugar – half and half. This is to prevent the dough from sticking to the counter or mat.
- Put a little flour in your hand (1 TBS or so) and rub the outside of the rolling pen. If you don’t have a rolling pen, you can use a tall glass with straight sides. Just roll smaller amounts of dough at a time, because a glass is not near as long as a rolling pen. You’ll also need to sprinkle a little more flour on top of the dough as it’s rolled, since glass won’t hold the flour like a wooden rolling pen.
- Take about half the dough out of the bowl and stick the rest back in the refrigerator to keep it chilled. Roll with the rolling pen or glass going up and down and side to side to make a big circle with a thickness of 1/4 inch.
- Use Halloween shaped cookie cutters or a biscuit cutter (to make pumpkin or jack-o-lantern shapes) to cut out cookies. If you don’t have cookie cutters or a biscuit cutter, a glass will do. A thin edged drinking glass works best.
- While mixing up and cutting out cookies, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Place the cookies on a lightly greased or Pam sprayed cookie sheet. Use your fingers to brush off any excess flour that may be on top of the cookie from the rolling.
- Bake for 10 to 15 minutes. The cookies should be set and very lightly browned at the edges but still light colored.
- Cool sugar cookies before decorating.
Halloween Sugar Cookies are great with Southern Buttercream Frosting which is easy to make up. Just add food coloring to match the holiday theme of the cookies. For example, add orange to the icing and make pumpkin shaped cookies.
More Halloween Fun:
Spooky Hands - These popcorn treats are so easy to make that pre-schoolers can help put them together. Halloween spooky hands are cute too.
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds - Enjoy the seeds from your jack-o-lantern roasted with a little salt. Makes a tasty and nutritious snack during the Halloween season.
Homemade Popcorn Balls - A classic Halloween treat. Popcorn balls are easy and fun to make.
Halloween Fog - Impress your spooky little guests with dry ice fog. Your house will be a hit on Halloween night.
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