Haunted House Cookies
Haunted House Cookies
Who’s getting things in order for Halloween?! Me! I love this holiday. I think it’s because of all the sweets. No wait – it’s because of all the costumes! Or maybe it’s because all the kids are super excited. I think it’s all of the above.
If you plan to have a Halloween party these cookies would be a fun addition to the sweet packed holiday. I mean who doesn’t like a good haunted house cookie right?!
Just be sure you have the house cookie cutter and all of the correct food colors for this project and you are good to go. Oh wait! Don’t use just any food coloring. Be sure to use the Gel Food Colors. They won’t mess up your recipe by being to watery. I’ve had that happen before when I first started making cookies like this. My favorite are the AmeriColor Student Soft Gel Paste Food Colors. They always have a great deal on Amazon and are constantly on the best seller list too. These are the only food colors I use now a days.
Because these haunted house cookies take some time to make we also make some plain circle cookies with the same colors to decorate the table.
Haunted House Cookies
Ingredients
- Cookie Ingredients:
- 5 C flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 C soft unsalted butter
- 2 C granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- House cookie cutter
- Icing Ingredients:
- 2 egg whites
- 1 C powder sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- Grey brown, orange & black gel food coloring
Instructions
- Cookie Directions:
- - Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
- -Add all 4 eggs at one time...Continue to mix. -Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
- -Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
- -Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
- -Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- -Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
- -Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
- -Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- -Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
- - Put flour out on the wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter.
- -Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using your cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
- -Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- -Using a metal spatula move the cut cookie to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
- -Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookie are thoroughly baked.
- -Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely. (About 10
- minutes).
- Icing Directions:
- -Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring)
- -If icing is not stiff enough add 1/4 C powder sugar.
- - Leave icing in large bowl. Take out 5 bowls, put 3/4 of the icing in the first bowl, add several drops of grey gel food coloring. Mix well.
- -Divide the remaining icing into four equal amounts. Put each in a separate bowl.
- -In the second bowl add several drops of black gel food coloring, mix well.
- -In the third bowl of icing add several drops of brown gel food coloring, mix well.
- -In the fourth bowl of icing add several drops of orange gel food coloring, mix well.
- -The fifth bowl of icing remains white.
- -Spoon each of these different colored icings into individual frosting bags with a #5 tips.... twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.
- Basic Icing Directions:
- -First step for each of the house is to outline it in grey. Allow 30 seconds for the outlining to dry.
- *- Add water to some of the base icing mix (1 tsp) and mix it in. Use this grey icing to fill in the cookie. -Leave some of the grey icing in the pastry bag for use later.
- -Using a butter knife to spread it from the outlined part inwards to the center.
- Haunted House:
- -With the black icing outline the roof of the house.
- -Outline the window in white, allow this ti dry for 30 seconds then fill it in with the black icing.
- -Allow the black icing of the window to dry then add white lines to make window sills.
- -Add two small white dots in the lower corner of the window for the white of their eyes. Now add two tiny black dots for the eyes.
- -Next to the window,draw then outline a flying ghost then fill the ghost body in with more white icing. Add two tiny black eyes and a dot for a mouth.
- -Outline the door in brown, fill in with a lighter brown allowing for this to partially dry for 30 seconds then add the 3 stripes on the door. You can build a sign across the door from the lower right side of the door to the upper left side . Outline then fill the sign in brown. After 30+ seconds print the words KEEP OUT on the sign in black letters.
- -Add three pumpkins , two pumpkins in orange with a brown stem on one side of the house and one on the other side of the house is a pumpkin in orange with brown stem with two black eyes and a small half smile. Outline each pumpkin in orange then fill them in. The stems, outline in brown icing then fill them in as well.
Nutrition facts are provided as a courtesy.
